Quotes About Hardship

Like herbs in a pestle, life steadily ground out the essence of those who did not have access to comforts.

Somehow Messies have a hard time coming to the realization that some jobs we must do are unpleasant and tiring. It is difficult for us to accept that giving away stuff will hurt us, but that it is okay to be hurt. Optimistically, like children, we feel that if a job is hard, we really can't be expected to do it.

Now, go shovel some shit.

Just when you're getting the hang of life, it knocks your legs out from under you and stoops your back. It makes you ache and muddies your head...

There's a lot that is awful. That's the struggle of getting old. To make sure you don't let what's hard...obscure the beauty.

Why do people...we...why do we drag around like life is so awful?' Why did they forget that there was so much to love? He took off his glasses and rubbed his eyes. 'I guess...because there's a lot that is awful. That's the struggle of getting old. To make sure you don't let what's hard or painful or whatever obscure the beauty.

Leaving was easy. It was everything else that was so damned hard.

Maybe the truth was, it shouldn't be so easy to be amazing. Then everything would be. It's the things you fight for and struggle with before earning that have the greatest worth. When something's difficult to come by, you'll do that much more to make sure it's even harder--if not impossible--to lose.

It's the things you fight for and struggle with before earning that have the greatest worth.

But this, too, wasn't true. Leaving was easy. It was everything else that was so dammed hard.

It's the things you fight for and struggle with before earning that have the greatest worth.

the truth was, it shouldn't be easy to be amazing. Then everything would be. It's the things you fight for and struggle with before earning that have the greatest worth. When something's difficult to come by, you'll do that much more to make sure it's even harder—if not impossible—to lose.

And then thee are days when sleeping is the hardest. The fight of muscle against world becomes so constant, that surrendering to slumber doesn't promise nearly enough relief. These re times when hands feel nothing but empty.

There are freaky talking mannequins in the Salem Witch Museum that recite the Lord's Prayer and while they do resemble shrunken apples they nevertheless help the visitor understand how hard it must have been for the condemned to say the line about forgiving those who trespass against us.

Of course! Easily or not at all. People were mad to be knocking themselves out over difficulties because they thought difficulty was a sign of the right thing.

joined Kibbutz Sdot Yam, married, and had two children. His first wife died of cancer about ten years ago and he has married again. He says, "I ask myself in what ways my life has not been typical. For a Jew from Eastern Europe it has been completely typical—war, death of mother, death of father, death of sister, four years in disguise among the Germans, death of wife, death of son. Thirty years of hard work, planting and harvesting in the kibbutz. Nothing exceptional.

If success were easy, everyone would do it. It takes effort. That fact works to your advantage because it keeps lazy people out of the game.

If reassurances could dull pain, nobody would ever go to the trouble of pressing grapes.

First we crawl. Later we crawl on broken glass.

But when, in spite of weakness and disappointments, we set to work in earnest, and persevere steadily, we often find, that, though obliged continually to tack, we make more way than others who have the assistance of wind and tide; and, in truth, there can be no greater satisfaction than to keep pace with others or outstrip them in the race.

I have so much to endure! Have men before me ever been so wretched?

Le difficoltà crescono quanto più ci si avvicina alla meta. Seminare non è faticoso quanto raccogliere.

There is the authority of position and the authority of knowledge - 'Authority flows from the one who knows.' But sharing in hardship confers upon a leader something quite rare - moral authority.

He thocht weill he wes worth na seyle, That mycht of nane anoyis feyle; And als for till escheve gret thingis, And hard trawalyis, and barganyngis, That suld ger his price dowblyt be. Quharfor, in all hys lyve tyme, he Wes in gret payn, ec gret trawaill; And neuir wald for myscheiff faill, Bot dryve the thing rycht to the end, And tak the vre that God wald send.