Quotes About Hardship

Humans don't mind hardship, in fact they thrive on it; what they mind is not feeling necessary. Modern society has perfected the art of making people not feel necessary. It's time for that to end.

Recent studies of something called "social resilience" have identified resource sharing and egalitarian wealth distribution as major components of a society's ability to recover from hardship.

If all you do at work is hope to survive, your day can't be much fun. We're all working too hard. Putting in more hours than we'd like, nervous about the future, uncertain about our roles and our goals. We work too hard to hope for mere survival. Our goal must be to thrive and prosper, not just get by.

Success comes from doing the hard part. When the hard part is all you've got, you're more likely to do it. And this is precisely why it's difficult to focus. Because focusing means acknowledging that you just signed up for the hard part.

Short-term pain has more impact on most people than long-term benefits do, which is why it's so important for you to amplify the long-term benefits of not quitting. You need to remind yourself of life at the other end of the Dip because it's easier to overcome the pain of yet another unsuccessful cold call if the reality of a successful sales career is more concrete.

Alas, there isn't a pain-free way to achieve your goals.

It's always hard part that makes value

You can't achieve anything in life without a small amount of sacrifice

Suffering builds character." He said that if you are always lolling around and being pampered and life is too easy, then you turn into a spineless wimp, but if you encounter suffering, you learn to face challenges and you get stronger. It sounds like something a grandparent might say, doesn't it?

To call it a "setback" is like calling the Expulsion from Eden a minor misunderstanding.

It's not just that life is cruel, but that in the very process of our birth we submit to life's cruelty

She'd rouse me out of bed all hours of the night and I'd wait in the hall. They were mostly soldiers and sailors and merchant mariners, or businessmen down on convention. This is one lousy life, Mamma said, but I'm doing the best I can with what Ive got. I wish I could afford to send you to some kind of business school so you could learn to type.—She never did but I never blamed her. For one thing, she only turned the nicest ones over to me, the businessmen.

Its not living the gospel thats hard. Its life thats hard...How often do we make the mistake of talking to our youth about how hard it is...Shouldn't we instead be focusing on the doctrine of joy...? p 106

Perhaps it is meant to be hard. Perhaps there are some things so previous that one can only be tested when one is asked to give them up.

La pobreza no te hace fuerte ni te da lecciones de perseverancia. No, la pobreza sólo te enseña a ser pobre.

Poverty doesn't give you strength or teach you lessons about perseverance. No poverty only teaches you how to be poor.

It sucks to be poor, and it sucks to feel that you somehow deserve to be poor.

My parents sold blood for money to buy food. Poverty was our spirit animal.

In the end, life makes victims of us all.

This is so unfair to you. (Ryssa) Life isn't about being fair. It's not about justice. It's all about endurance and how much we can suffer through. (Acheron)

Where are we going? (Astrid) Up Shit Creek sans the paddles. (Zarek)

But sooner or later, no matter who you are, life uses everyone as its whipping boy.

Life has a way of breaking even the strongest among us.

How many demons and people are enslaved here? (Jericho) Define slavery. (Asmodeus) Kept against their will. (Jericho) Good definition. Counting me? (Asmodeus) Why not? (Jericho) Probably a couple of million…you know it's really hard to count to a million, plus they're always dying and new ones are coming in. I tried to count once, but it got really depressing so I stopped. The constant adding and subtracting. Not my forte, really. (Asmodeus)