Top 100 Quotes About Hardships
#1. Shields Green was not one to shrink from hardships or dangers. He was a man of few words, and his speech was singularly broken; but his courage and self-respect made him quite a dignified character.
Frederick Douglass
#2. Individuals who have learned to endure and persevere through the storms of hardships are those who can dance in the rain during a storm.
Ellen J. Barrier
#3. Maybe someday, if I succeed at something, I'll stop saying, "It isn't fair" about everything else.
Lois Lowry
#4. Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength.
Arnold Schwarzenegger
#5. I encourage anyone who has gone through hardships to look back through their life's chapters and see what can be turned into a book. For you never know what heartache God, one day, can turn into a redemptive story.
Jolina Petersheim
#6. I thought of all the hardships and people that I had lost in the past few days alone, but, most of all, I thought of how I didn't regret any of it.
Shannon A. Thompson
#7. He had many hardships and adventures before he got back. The Wild was still the Wild, and there were many other things in it in those days beside goblins; but he was well guided and well guarded - the wizard was with him, and Beorn for much of the way - and he was never in great danger again.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#8. If you avoid all of life's abrasions you will never be polished enough to shine.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#9. It makes one a better person to have had hardships and to have overcome hardships and not to blame anybody else for your mistakes.
Maureen Forrester
#10. Luxuries unfit us for returning to hardships easily endured before.
Mary Mapes Dodge
#11. The heart of a Christian, who believes and feels, cannot pass the hardships and deprivations of the poor without helping them.
Louis Guanella
#12. Or maybe it was her father's pragmatic dictum -- "You are no better than anyone else, and no one is better than you"-- that disposed her to see the hardships of her life as a fate shared by everyone, her good fortunes as an unearned blessing.
Margot Lee Shetterly
#13. What shall I say further? Shall I not stop short and leave to your imaginations to portray the tragic deeds of war? Is it not enough that I here leave it even to unexperience to fancy the hardships, the anxieties, the dangers, even of the best life of a soldier?
Deborah Sampson
#14. I think it's my personality to overcome things, learn from them and become stronger, both personally and professionally. To be honest, I welcome those hardships.
Hope Solo
#15. Documentary filmmaking has all the challenges and hardships of narrative filmmaking without any of the infrastructure or support. That's both a blessing and a curse.
Brian Lindstrom
#16. I belong to a nation which over the past centuries has experienced many hardships and reverses. The world reacted with silence or with mere sympathy when Polish frontiers were crossed by invading armies and the sovereign state had to succumb to brutal force.
Lech Walesa
#17. Through spiritual maturity you will see new ways to avoid unnecessary suffering; wiser ways to endure unavoidable hardships with grace, and opportunities to turn your pain into lessons of service and healing for others.
Bryant McGill
#18. Frequent discontent must proceed from frequent hardships.
Samuel Johnson
#19. Murder! Sex! Violence! Hardships! Mayhem! Struggle! Love! Camaraderie!...what's not to like?
Larry Landgraf
#20. I believe that we live in a time of fractured families where maybe fathers aren't getting enough time to see their kids because life's complications and hardships get in the way of those things.
Clive Owen
#21. We will revel in hardships and welcome strangeness.
Dan Simmons
#22. We each must do a better job of choosing which hardships are best for our future, not just for the company's.
Bill Jensen
#23. We are the whole life that we have lived, its highs and lows, its fortunes and its hardships; we are the sum of the ghosts that haunt us ...
Yasmina Khadra
#24. God does not make the way smooth for those He loves. He sends hardships to try them. Those that God loves the best are those who suffer the worst.
Philippa Gregory
#25. Hardship is only easy to endure when it is someone else's!
Stephen Richards
#26. If you are a senior executive, you need to embrace each individual's right to choose his or her own hardships - and you must talk about that openly, candidly.
Bill Jensen
#27. When you have endure the worse situations, you build the courage and confidence to cope with any other situations.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#28. Love is our steady guide on this road full of hardships.
Rumi
#29. A friend is someone who will always be there for you, in good and hard times.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#30. When people are facing real hardships in their lives, they have no time to invent imaginary ones.
Marty Rubin
#31. You normally have to be bashed about a bit by life to see the point of daffodils, sunsets and uneventful nice days.
Alain De Botton
#32. There was no escaping what I had become, the nothing girl...again.
Aubrey Moore
#33. Patience will benefit you in every hour, every time and every opportunity. It helps you to overcome your opponent, howsoever strong he may be. It will help you in times of distress and hardships, in battles and in war and peace.
Abd Al-Karim Qasim
#34. This might sound masochistic or narcissistic, I don't know, but when I'm not playing the game, the validations I feel about life are always through the hardships. I relate more to sadness, in a lot of ways, when I'm not playing.
Abby Wambach
#35. Many battles have been fought and won by soldiers nourished on beer, and the King does not believe that coffee-drinking soldiers can be relied upon to endure hardships in case of another war.
Frederick The Great
#36. Love is no hot-house flower,
but a wild plant, born of a wet night,
born of an hour of sunshine; sprung
from wild seed, blown along the road
by a
wild wind.
John Galsworthy
#38. Life is like a rose, peeping through the hardships of life to bloom with color.
Stephanie
#39. since the hardships of life is what has made me strong, instead of living with regrets--I'm thankful for what went wrong
Jason Frisby
#40. I'm trying to raise the awareness of the troops that, when they deploy and go to war, it's not just them at war - it's also their family. Their family is having to go through all the hardships and the stresses.
Chris Kyle
#41. I love hearing stories about, you know, people who are overcoming challenges in their life. And when you experience hardships, you can either fold or rally, and just by a paradigm shift in your belief system.
Brooke Burns
#42. We each must select the best hardships for our best future.
Bill Jensen
#43. Hardships make us strong. Problems give birth to wisdom. Sorrows cultivate compassion. Those who have suffered the most will become the happiest.
Daisaku Ikeda
#44. A great character needs trials to overcome - experiences to give them depth, to make them vulnerable, relatable, and likable. Good characters need hardships to make them strong. The idea makes sense, but it still sucks if you're the heroine.
Kelly Oram
#45. You might as well appeal against a thunderstorm as against these terrible hardships of war. War is cruelty, there is no use trying to reform it; the crueler it is, the sooner it will be over.
William T. Sherman
#46. Give me the child. Through dangers untold and hardships unnumbered, I have fought my way here to the castle beyond the Goblin City to take back the child you have stolen. For my will is as strong as yours, and my kingdom is as great.
You have no power over me
A.C.H. Smith
#47. One knew in advance that life in New York would not be easy, but there were cheap rents in cold-water lofts without heat, and the excitement of being here made up for those hardships. I didn't move to New York to make a fortune.
David Byrne
#48. The earth should not be injured. The earth should not be destroyed. As often as the elements, the elements of the world are violated by ill treatment, so God will cleanse them thru the sufferings, thru the hardships of mankind.
Hildegard Of Bingen
#49. Face it; life's gonna chew you up and spit you out. If you're lucky you'll get stuck to the bottom of someone's shoe and be carried far, far away from it all.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#50. If I could just capture each memory in a bottle the maybe you people would understand how much I've suffered, how much I've been through, but most importantly how far I have come.
Tommy Tran
#51. We live through our hardships not to achieve our dreams but to gift our dreams to ourself.
Harshada Pathare
#52. Through dangers untold and hardships unnumbered I have fought my way here to the castle beyond the Goblin City to take back the child you have stolen, for my will is as strong as yours and my kingdom as great. You have no power over me!
Jim Henson
#53. "Face the brutes." That is a lesson for all life-face the terrible, face it boldly. Like the monkeys, the hardships of life fall back when we cease to flee before them.
Swami Vivekananda
#54. Hardships are quickly forgotten. Intense heat, bitter cold, rain and snow, fatigue,and luckless hunting fade quickly into memories of great fellowship, thoughts of beautiful country, pleasant camps, and happy campfires.
Fred Bear
#55. Just as storms change the landscape of the earth, our hardships change the landscape of the heart.
Yasmin Mogahed
#56. When I started, I faced a lot of hardships. People used to call me a Rafi clone because I used to sing my favourite singer's songs. Then 'Sa Re Ga Ma Pa' happened. It gave me a good break.
Sonu Nigam
#57. The moment you tell someone else is the moment you become a whiner and the world's smallest violin starts to play. The truth is, we all have problems; we all go through hardships and pain, and my pain is paradise compared to a lot of people's and I really have no right to whine at all.
J.A. Redmerski
#58. Some days punch us in the gut so hard it seems we can feel the whole universe gasp with despair.
Curtis Tyrone Jones
#59. Love is like going snorkeling ... You go along looking at pretty fish and cool plants until a wave rolls you over a coral reef ... then the sharks come.
Julie Wright
#60. She was an object lesson on the essential luck, whatever hardships may come their way, of those born able to make things.
Diana Athill
#61. Financial hardships were rough on us, even though Mom had a good job at G.M.
Ryan White
#62. It seemed to suggest various kinds: hardships, anxieties, and the suffering born of the indifference that comes from having already suffered a lot.
Fernando Pessoa
#64. Who after wine, talks of wars hardships or of poverty.
Horace
#65. Sometimes you have to put yourself in other people's shoes to really understand the hardships of their souls.
Kellie Elmore
#66. There are no rest stops on the road of life. Otherwise they'd be congested with traffic.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#67. Sit with me, and I'll not be alone.
Hold my hand, and I'll not feel alone.
Cry with me, and I'll no longer suffer alone.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#69. Know thy neighbor as thyself. That is, comprehend his hardships and understand his position, deal with his faults as gently as with your own. Do not judge him where you do not judge yourself...this is the meaning of the word LOVE.
Pearl S. Buck
#70. Count your blessings, my father always said. It shames you, to count yours by the hardships of other people.
Anna Quindlen
#72. People like to wear blinders, so they don't have to cope with the bad things in life.
Katie Hamstead
#73. In times like these, who had either the leisure or the inclination to indulge in a touch of elegance?
Yu Hua
#74. It's disgraceful how these humans blame the gods. They say their tribulations come from us, when they themselves, through their own foolishness, bring hardships which are not decreed by Fate.
Homer
#75. I am certain that, however great the hardships and the trials which loom ahead, our America will endure and the cause of human freedom will triumph.
Cordell Hull
#76. Don't judge too harshly, for if your weaknesses were to be placed under your footsteps, most likely you would stumble and fall as well.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#77. Don't let the burdens and hardships of this life
distract you or discourage you, but keep your eyes firmly fixed on what God has promised
at the end of our journey: heaven itself.
Billy Graham
#78. Americans are like a rich father who wishes he knew how to give his son the hardships that made him rich.
Robert Frost
#79. Some parts of life are lived in the shadows where the only sunlight you feel is the light you pray for.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#80. Under every layer of pain, another layer of recovery lies in wait, the sweet, forever surprising truth of endurance.
Carrie Snyder
#81. Instead, we must learn how to make friends with our hardships and challenges. They are there to help us; they are natural opportunities for deeper understanding and transformation, bringing us more joy and peace as we learn to work with them.
Thich Nhat Hanh
#82. Without your downs, without your hardships, I don't think you appreciate the ups as much,
Michelle Wie
#83. I want to get enough [money] to take off the hardships of life and leave me free to follow the ideas that interest me the most.
Alexander Bell
#84. I think it's always wrong of writers to make too much of the pains of their labors, because most people have much worse jobs and suffer such indignities and hardships.
Richard Flanagan
#85. Have you considered that some of your greatest heartaches and hardships might actually be the best things that ever happened to you in the long run?
Tim Hiller
#86. We can either see our circumstances as a set of random cruelties and then allow those hardships to turn us into bitter victims; or we can recognize the fact that, though we may never comprehend why hard things happen, they do, and when they do, we can reach for a larger purpose beyond the pain.
Amy Purdy
#87. For most Olympic athletes, their training is their hardest challenge and where they push themselves to the limit. For Paralympians, training and competition is an escape from the hardships and struggles of their everyday life. That is the difference.
Giles Duley
#88. There are a countless variety of hardships in any life," Kedean answered," ... only the most basic of which can be solved with mansions, gold pieces, and titles of nobility.
Anihyr Moonstar
#89. People who don't marry miss both the pelting hardships of marriage and its warm rewards.
Ada Calhoun
#90. There's a way of dealing with hardships that are healthier than going out. That's what I've learned.
Lindsay Lohan
#91. I'm from an Indian family of professionals, and my parents had to go through hardships themselves to send me to IIT-Mumbai.
Romesh Wadhwani
#92. I believe it is the flaws that make us interesting, our backgrounds, the hardships.
Jane Green
#93. People stagger, but they pick up a tattered thread and wind it back onto a spool.
Donia Bijan
#94. Just because a person successfully steers a voyage through hell doesn't mean he ever wants to sail that route again.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#95. Pause and remember - Every person is going through difficult hardships and growth. Let's be more conscious of this by being more patient, compassionate and understanding.
Jennifer Young
#97. Hardships are arbitrary, Locke. You never know which particular quality in yourself or a fellow is going to get you past them.
Scott Lynch
#100. Hardships and handicaps can ... stimulate our energy to survive them. You'll find if you study the lives of people who've accomplished things, it's often been done with the help of great willpower in overcoming this and that.
Beatrice Wood
