Quotes About Hardship

Oh! how heavily the weight of slavery pressed upon me then. I must toil day after day, endure abuse and taunts and scoffs, sleep on the hard ground, live on the coarsest fare, and not only this, but live the slave of a blood-seeking wretch, of whom I must stand henceforth in continued fear and dread.

with a scrap of bacon on her

Alas, it is the dear-bought privilege of the unfortunate to be tedious!

Rage -- that old familiar friend that got him through the hardest of times.

There is no success without hardship.

To fill the jugs we kneel on jagged rock and force them underwater, using the muscle mechanics you'd use drowning a hippo. We

Poverty was crushing all the feeling they had. It was intolerable to be together this way, and yet they tolerated it.

Cómo no iban a apodersarse los deliriros de grandeza de un campesino del Banato si de pronto, a los veintiún años, con sólo mover unas figuritas sobre un tablero de madera, ganaba más en una semana que su pueblo entero en todo un año de talar bosques y realizar las tareas más duras?

Tüm dünya yerle bir olurken, insan?n kendisi için çal??mas? bir suç.

Our goal can only be reached through a vehicle of a pain, in which we must fervently believe, and upon which we must vigorously act. There is no other route to success.

It is in the thick of calamity that one gets hardened to the truth - in other words, to silence.

People assumed that I would have everything handed to me, but that couldn't be further from the truth. I was on my own just doing the grind.

When ill luck begins, it does not come in sprinkles, but in showers.

Real life's nasty. It's cruel. It doesn't care about heroes and happy endings and the way things should be. In real life, bad things happen. People die. Fights are lost. Evil often wins.

It is a dreadful truth that the state of having to depend solely on God is what we all dread most.... It is good of Him to force us; but dear me, how hard to feel that it is good at the time.

The truth is I've got the land on my back, an' it's drivin' me. Land is a hard driver.

The truth is, what I learned this year is that life is hard...Good people die for no reason. Little kids get sick. The people that are supposed to love you end up leaving.

Life could be cruel enough these days without the truth making it worse.

The truth is, the world isn't easy for any of us. It never has been and it never will be.

Whatever the truth is, I don't see how it will help me get food on the table.

Also, I'm angry. I know life is hard, I think everyone knows that in their hearts, but why does it have to be cruel, as well? Why does it have to bite?

Because, sometimes, things happen to people and they're not equipped to deal with them.

With patience and calm, persistence and stoicism, good handwriting and careful labeling, they would meet persecution, indignity, and hardship head-on.

I felt like he was another one who'd never had a shot at anything but thug life in the first place. He'd never known his father and had dropped out of school in the sixth grade