Quotes About Hardship

When my Mexican-born grandfather, Rafael, immigrated to work in the mines of the American Southwest, where he eventually settled with his young bride to raise 15 kids, he did it to give his children a better life.

You reap what you sow, and sometimes the soil can be very dry, and sometimes it will bring a lot of rain.

Tell me to stop, Aby, and I will...It will be the hardest thing I'll ever do, but if you don't want this, now would be the time to tell me.

There are many days when all the awful things that happen make you sick at heart, when the path before you is so steep you can't bear to look. Not even love can rescue a person from that.

Some of the worst places I've ever lived in were fear, pain, and shame. The cost of living was so high, your only choice was a slow death.

Forgiveness is always hard, but we must always try to leave room for reasonable attempts at reconciliation to occur.

Everything happens to me. I've never had a streak of luck in my life.

We must thoroughly clear away all ideas among our cadres of winning easy victories through good luck, without hard and bitter struggle, without sweat and blood.

In New York you've got to have all the luck.

It taught me to keep on keeping on, no matter how hard the going may be, a lesson I needed to learn before I could succeed in anything.

Be sure that your definite purpose is constructive; that its attainment will bring hardship and misery to no one; that it will bring you peace and prosperity, then apply, to the limit of your understanding, the principle of self-suggestion for the speedy attainment of this purpose.

He recalled, too, his mistake in having stopped only three feet from gold, "but," he said, "that experience was a blessing in disguise. It taught me to keep on keeping on, no matter how hard the going may be, a lesson I needed to learn before I could succeed in anything.

Remember, too, that all who succeed in life get off to a bad start, and pass through many heartbreaking struggles before they "arrive.

He had no money to begin with. He had but little education. He had no influence. But he did have initiative, faith, and the will to win.

Remember, too, that all who succeed in life get off to a bad start, and pass through many heartbreaking struggles before they arrive.

It is a well-known fact that Henry Ford began his business career under the handicap of poverty, illiteracy, and ignorance. It is an equally well-known fact that, within the inconceivably short period of ten years, Mr. Ford mastered these three handicaps, and that within twenty-five years he made himself one of the richest men in America.

When the going is hardest, just keep on keeping on, and you'll get there sooner than someone who finds the going easy.

WHY MEN SELDOM SUCCEED BEFORE FORTY

Quick riches are more dangerous than poverty.

Many, like the great Roman statesman Cato the Censor, looked at comfort, almost any form of comfort, as a road to waste.1 He did not like it when we had it too easy, as he worried about the weakening of the will. And the softening he feared was not just at the personal level: an entire society can fall ill.

by persons squeezed by life.

His losses were mounting

Contrary to popular belief, these small, seemingly harmless stressors do not strengthen you; they can amputate part of your self.

It is better to lump all your pain into a brief period rather than have it spread out over a longer one.