Quotes About Hardship

A test of what is real is that it is hard and rough. Joys are found in it, not pleasure. What is pleasant belongs to dreams.

As I often tell my students, the person you'll have the hardest time opening to and truly loving without reserve is yourself. Once you can do that, you can love the whole universe unconditionally.

I'll tell you, Champ, that a man has enough trouble in the world without asking for it.

Gratitude gets us through the hard stuff...Gratitude always leaves us looking at God and away from dread.

Pits have no easy exits.

Life pulls us down.

But the men—hungry, greedy, tired of planting in dry soil—had been forced to leave the village in order to send food-money home.

The sweat of hard work is not to be displayed. It is much more graceful to appear favored by the gods.

Every creature needs luck, and he is very ungrateful who ascribes his success to his merit and naught else. All the merit in the world will not save a man against bad luck. The theory of success is written by successful men who would be wiser if they boasted less.…

Self-pity in its early stages is as snug as a feather mattress. Only when it hardens does it become uncomfortable.

You can only become great at something you are willing to sacrifice for

Preparation is rarely easy and never beautiful.

I washed walls, polished door knobs and the tiny window. The scales and stench of defeat floated into the pail's dirty water.

Harlem Hopscotch One foot down, then hop! It's hot. Good things for the ones that's got. Another jump, now to the left. Everybody for hisself. In the air, now both feet down. Since you black, don't stick around. Food is gone, the rent is due, Curse and cry and then jump two. All the people out of work, Hold for three, then twist and jerk. Cross the line, they count you out. That's what hopping's all about. Both feet flat, the game is done. They think I lost. I think I won.

Self-pity in its early stage is as snug as a feather mattress. Only when it hardens does it become uncomfortable. Curly

He was a simple man who had no inferiority complex about his lack of education and, even more amazing, no superiority complex since he had succeeded despite that lack. He would say often, I been to school three years in my life. In Slaten, Texas, times was hard, and I had to help my daddy on the farm. No recriminations lay hidden under the plain statement, nor was there boasting when he said, If I'm living a little better now, it's because I treats everybody right.

He was a simple man who had no inferiority complex about his lack of education and, even more amazing, no superiority complex because he had succeeded despite that lack. He would say often, I been to school three years in my life. In Slaten, Texas, times was hard, and I had to help my daddy on the farm. No recriminations lay hidden under the plain statement, nor was there boasting when he said, If I'm living a little better now, it's because I treats everybody right.

Self-pity in its early stage is as snug as a feather mattress. Only when it hardens does it become uncomfortable.

To become wondrously successful and to sustain that success in any profession, one must be willing to relinquish many pleasures and be ready to postpone gratification.

Then they would face another day of trying to earn enough for the whole year with the heavy knowledge that they were going to end the season as they started it. Without the money or credit necessary to sustain a family for three months.

Los atardeceres revelaban la dureza de la vida de los negros en el Sur, que a primeras horas de la mañana había quedado suavizada por los dones de la naturaleza: el amodorramiento, el olvido y la tenue luz del quinqué.

This is hard... Never said it would be easy. Nothing good ever is.' -- Josie & Ash

Nothing good is ever easy. Or worth it.

Nothing worth having is ever easy. And you don't get things without fighting for them.