Quotes About Hardship

Do what you will, the heart hardens and the soul shrinks in upon itself.

Težina, neophodnost i vrednost su tri me?usobno povezana pojma: teško je samo ono što je neophodno, samo ono što je teško ima vrednost.

This is not a romance — I have too often faced the music of life to the tune of hardship to waste time in snivelling and gushing over fancies and dreams [author's introduction]

Poverty is not a disgrace, but it's terribly inconvenient

Don't get me wrong - I love London, and still have an apartment there. But it is also a hard city and it wears you down.

Struggling to stay in the middle class, and I love that. That's me and my dad and my family.

You can see the people who thought they could come to London, bend over and pick gold off the streets. They're all lying on benches in Trafalgar Square with hernias and cans of Special Brew.

All great things worth having require great sacrifice worth giving.

It's true that: No pain, no gain. The harder one works, the better the results. I have worked very hard to have you and I promise to retain you forever.

Our choice, it seems, is whether we will let our past and present sufferings be sufficient to soften and break us, or whether we will resist and harden ourselves so even more suffering is required.

Even victories take their toll on a man.

The success you are enjoying today is the result of the price you have paid in the past.

For every difficulty that supposedly stops a person from succeeding, there are thousands who have had it a lot worse and have succeeded anyway. So can you.

Henry: That's it. Wanda: That's what? Henry: I'm broke. Can't buy another drink. Wanda: You mean you don't have any money? Henry: No money, no job, no rent. Hey, I'm back to normal.

Secrets are destructive; the truth, even when hard to hear and harder to bear, is better. Char listened, learned, considered, and eventually found a form of grace.

Nothing is ever easy.

Brewing was often viewed as an appropriate activity for widows, who found it hard to farm land.

The reward for toil had been more toil. If you dug the best ditches, they gave you a bigger shovel.

So I had to learn. All my life. The hard way. And the hard way's pretty hard, but not so hard as the easy way. I learned.

There's always the dwarf bread.

the damned had been given that insight which makes hardship so easy to bear — the absolute and certain knowledge that things could be worse.

They slept because they were exhausted and weak and because most human beings can learn to endure almost anything, even the cries of the tormented. It was not that their hearts had hardened; it was because they could do nothing about it, and powerlessness leads to its own form of serenity.

sometimes it's easier to search for treasure than to find it, because finding it forces you to make decisions about what to do with it, and it makes you fear the reality of how hard it may be to keep it without becoming a slave to it!

What a wretched thing it was to be born poor and not to have any one to do anything for you and not to be able to do so very much for yourself!