Quotes About Hardship

eaten in debt, we have been waited on in debt. Yes, many a time I knew those servants hadn't been paid. That's why they left, they weren't dismissed. And all the time I partook of the whole; yet I must admit, with shame at times. But' – he now looked along the length of the old building – 'I am now earning my living, and it has got to keep me and pay a man. And I can sleep easy at nights.

And I have to tell you, as tough as farming is, the idea of farming when you're losing money year after year... that's not life even, that's like death. That's eternal damnation.

Hard work can sometimes substitute for natural ability, but natural ability almost never makes up for not being willing to do the work.

Neither one is any way to grow up.

The hard work is the lion's share of the battle. Hard work can sometimes substitute for natural ability, but natural ability almost never makes up for not being willing to do the work.

The war is always going badly.

Everything in this place was livid and lurid and living, and when he loved her and hurt her all at once she lived, too, higher and harder than she had thought she could.

He does everything a Marshal does but twice as hard, twice as dirty, and without the soft and cushioning arms of the government to wipe his tears. The

And he'd grown as a cactus grows, bitter and prickly and tough enough to survive what came his way.

War is cruelty, and none can make it gentle.

no one ever became excellent in any exercise whatsoever without beginning from his childhood to endure heat, cold, hunger, thirst, and other discomforts; wherefore those men are entirely deceived who think to be able, at their ease and with all the comforts of the world, to attain an honorable rank. It is not by sleeping but by waking and studying continually that progress is made. [on Luca Della Robbia]

Era avvezzo a tutto lui, agli scapaccioni, alle pedate, ai colpi di manico di badile, o di cinghia da basto, a vedersi ingiuriato e beffato da tutti, a dormire sui sassi, colle braccia e la schiena rotta da quattordici ore di lavoro; anche a digiunare era avvezzo, allorché il padrone lo puniva levandogli il pane o la minestra.

Whenever you stand firmly in the midst of a hardship, holding and expressing the love that you are, you will witness illusions falling away. Through being the love that you are, you are empowered to transcend your sufferings.

It's also not unknown for junior co-pilots of prime low fares carriers to sleep overnight in cars between duties.

grief is the hardest cross to bear.

The truth is hard only if you make it so. If you make it hard, it will make your life hard.

Waking up from a good dream to face the harsh morning daylight may not seem like a reason to celebrate. But trust me, it is because once you let go of all the hokey stories of eternal bliss, you find that the reality of marriage is far richer and more rewarding than you ever could have guessed. Hard yes. Frustrating, yes. But full of its own powerful, quiet enhancements just the same, and that's better than any fairy tale. (on 8 things no one tells you about marriage)

You can't plow a field simply by turning it over in your mind.

That which comes easily departs easily. That which comes of struggle remains.

A child is born to a welfare case/ Where the rats run around like they own the place/ The room is chilly, the building is old/ That's how it goes/ A doctor's found on his welfare rounds/ And he comes and he leaves on the double

Throughout history, the desert has been a place of trial, penance, and hard-won revelation. God lives in the desert. But Satan does, too.

Blues ain't nothin' but a po' man's heart disease.

There's a curious thing about pain or hardship. In the beginning, it's an enemy, it's something that you don't want to face or think about or deal with. Yet with time it becomes almost a friend. If you've lost someone you love very much, in the beginning you can't bear it, but as the years go by, the pain of losing them is what reminds you so vividly of them — that they were alive.

Thank God for dirty dishes, they have a tale to tell; while others may go hungry, we're eating very well.