Quotes About Hardship

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If I were told that I had to spend decades being a furry growth on a rock in the woods, I believe I would lose the will to go on. Lichens don't. Like virtually all living things, they will suffer any hardship, endure any insult, for a moment's additional existence. Life, in short, just wants to be. But - and here's an interesting point - for the most part it doesn't want to be much.

Boys normally attended the school for seven or eight years, beginning at the age of seven. The schoolday was long and characterized by an extreme devotion to tedium. Pupils sat on hard wooden benches from six in the morning to five or six in the evening, with only two short pauses for refreshment, six days a week.

Kisumu has the distinction of being the poorest city in Kenya. Almost half the people live on fifty cents a day or less.

Between December 1606 and February 1625, Virginia received 7,289 immigrants and buried 6,040 of them. Most barely had time to settle in. All but 500 of the 3,500 immigrants who arrived in the three years 1619–1621 were dead by the end of the period. To go to Virginia was effectively to commit suicide.

Cressbrook Mill was operated mostly by orphans who were treated worse than abysmally.

We know we have to face hard truths and take strong steps, but we have not done so; instead, we have drifted. And that drifting has eroded our resources, fractured our economy, and shaken our confidence.

People get distracted by worries and sadness, and have to struggle to see anything else. They have to work hard to hold on to beauty, to hold fast to dreams and words

Well the deputy walks on hard nails and the preacher rides a mount, But nothing really matters much it's doom alone that counts.

The word freedom lost much of its strength when one's back was weighted down with fieldwork.

The only easy day was yesterday

But a soldier ought not to dwell too long on such matters. His life is full of hardship and he must take his pleasure where he can. Though he may take time to reflect upon the cruelties that he sees, place him among his comrades and it is almost impossible for his spirits not to rise. Strange

Her father left school to join the navy in World War II and worked as a tool grinder and machine specialist at a knitting factory for twenty years—till it was bought by outsiders who closed it down. He lost his pension.

Es un hecho cruelmente triste que algunas personas desaparezcan de tu vida cuando estás pasando por un infierno y cuando más las necesitas.

Hard, sharp, ticks. I hate them. Measuring thought, infinite space, by cogs and wheels. Can you understand? Someone, somewhere, can you understand me a little, love me a little? For all my despair, for all my ideals, for all that — I love life. But it is hard, and I have so much — so very much to learn.

Endure, endure, and the syllables harden like stoic white sheets struck with rigor mortis on the clothesline of winter.

Si estás dispuesto a hacer solo lo que sea fácil, la vida será dura. Pero si estás dispuesto a hacer lo que sea duro, la vida será fácil

Hardship can humble you, but it cannot break you unless you let it. Your instinct for survival will see you through if you're attuned to its frequency. Instinct will find a temporary stopgap without ever taking its sights off your larger goals. There's no greater way to hone your instincts than to overcome adversity.

There is no water, so things are bad. If there were water, it would be better. But there is no water.

You dream too much, child. Our kind, we make our way with strong backs and closed mouths.

The situation was different in the jungle. Every inch of ground had to be earned, and was done so through much exertion with the blade.

Explorers like to pretend that they are a select breed of people with iron nerve and an ability to endure terrible hardship.

Like the child she was, fallen hard as she had, she was as yet too stunned to lament.

Young, gifted, and destitute...