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Quotes About Hardship

Necessitous men are not free men.
~ Franklin D. Roosevelt
It is the first duty of every man not to be poor.
~ George Bernard Shaw
Housework's the hardest work in the world. That's why men won't do it.
~ Edna Ferber
Whatever day Makes man a slave, takes half his worth away.
~ Homer
Do you know what is more hard to bear than the reverses of fortune? It is the baseness, the hideous ingratitude, of man.
~ Napoleon Bonaparte
"He sido un hombre afortunado en la vida, nada me ha sido facil." "I've been a fortunate man in life, nothing has come easy"
~ Sigmund Freud
The story of a poor man's life is written on his body, in a sharp pen.
~ Aravind Adiga
Poverty is no disgrace to a man, but it is confoundedly inconvenient.
~ Sydney Smith
Affliction is a treasure, and scarce any man hath enough of it.
~ John Donne
There's many witty men whose brains can't fill their bellies.
~ Benjamin Franklin
As they say, when a man begins to have bad luck, even clabber can break his head.
~ Jacques Roumain
Calamity is man's true touchstone.
~ John William Fletcher
A man is the sum of his misfortunes.
~ William Faulkner
Everybody goes through some tough times in their life, no matter what you do. Man, I've had my tough times.
~ David Ortiz
Taxes are paid in the sweat of every man who labors.
~ Franklin D. Roosevelt
Hard work is rewarding beyond gold. Sweating is living.
~ Terri Guillemets
Pray on the shadowy hillside of hardship and on the sunny hillside of happiness.
~ Terri Guillemets
Life is not an arrangement of flowers or a walk in the park
~ Thabiso Monkoe
The more difficult is your journey, the sweeter the destination
~ Thabiso Monkoe
A man must break his back to earn his day of leisure.
~ The Beatles
He who seeks wealth sacrifices his own pleasure, and, like him who carries burdens for others, bears the load of anxiety.
~ The Hitopadesa
Your Hardship is a test of friends and friendship
~ the omani shed
Good things don't come easy. If you get it cheap, you will lose it quick. -Okiki Michael
~ The Post
Let us talk sense to the American people. Let us tell them the truth, that there are not gains without pains.
~ Theodor Wiesengrund Adorno