Quotes About Hardship

It seemed like a joke, how much all these dudes looked alike, like living was so hard it just erased your features, rubbed out anything distinctive.

An adventure is somebody else slogging through the mud and snow while suffering from trench foot, ringworm, dysentery and starvation being chased by people with their hearts set on murder or more. I have been there. I have done that, playing both parts. I do not recommend it. Be content with a nice farm or shop. Make lots of babies and bring them up to be good people.

those who do the world's work most dearly pay the price of the world's pain.

There were few comforts to console them during this endless labor. Masters fed their slaves as little as possible, because food cost money. Children usually didn't have real clothes. Instead, they wore rough, itchy sacks with holes cut out for their heads and arms. Harriet

But my love had no intentions: it knew the future. All one could do was try to make the future less hard, to break the future gently when it came.

Lurching from cataclysm to disaster and from misfortune to calamity

A child born in hell," the white-haired prisoner said. "A child forged by suffering. Hardened by pain." He shook his head sadly at Bruce. "Not a child of privilege.

The finger descends, admonitory now. "You children today smirk and turn up your nose when I say old coats and old shoes. But what you don't know—and you better thank God you don't know—is that when you're cold, you'll take whatever coat you can get, and praise Jesus for it.

I don't say it was hard, because everybody got it hard, some way.

Suffering is a part of every life. Rain falls upon every life. All people encounter tragedy. Everybody struggles through hardship—not just Christians. But for the believer, for the child of God, whatever comes into our life first comes through the grid of God's plan and purpose for our lives. There are no accidents in the life of the believer.

Sometimes it was as effortless as breathing. Sometimes it was as hard as living.

The skinny kid from Detroit's

The contours of all our virtues are shaped by adversity.

I joked and laughed about things that made other less wounded hearts weep, and I'd learned to harden myself against loss and death.

I did know from experience that despair and humiliation haunt the poor.

Ask any man with a long-enough experience of prisons, and he'll tell you that all it takes to harden a man's heart is a system of justice.

He was permanently exhausted and beset by all the torments, terrible and trivial, that poverty endures.

I looked at the people, then, and I saw how busy they were—how much industry and energy described their lives. Occasional sudden glimpses inside the huts revealed the astonishing cleanliness of that poverty: the spotless floors, and glistening metal pots in neat, tapering towers.

Every kind of illness, disability, and hardship paraded there, stood at the doorways of restaurants and shops, or approached people on the street with professionally plaintive cries. Like the first sight of the slums from the windows of the bus, that glimpse of the suffering street brought a hot shame to my healthy face.

Nothing, my old friend. Only, is it not true that some of our strength comes from suffering? That suffering hardship makes us stronger? That those of us who have never known a real hardship, and true suffering, cannot have the same strength as others, who have suffered much? And if that is true, does that not mean that your argument is the same thing as saying that we have to be weak to suffer, and we have to suffer to be strong, so we have to be weak to be strong?

John Glenn's father, known as Herschel, was mostly deaf from injuries in World War I. To help out at home, young Glenn sold rhubarb all over town from the family garden.

I was definitely born under an evil star. I have just been thrown out of the inn where I was staying, naked as a worm.

The worm of paranoia begins to eat into even the hardest adversary.

Worm or beetle - drought or tempest - on a farmer's land may fall, Each is loaded full o' ruin, but a mortgage beats 'em all.