Quotes About Hardship

Nowadays we are all of us so hard up that the only pleasant things to pay are compliments. They're the only things we can pay.

And when wind and winter harden All the loveless land, It will whisper of the garden, You will understand.

The Master said, "What a worthy man was Yan Hui! Living in a narrow alley, subsisting upon meager bits of rice and water—other people could not have borne such hardship, and yet it never spoiled Hui's joy. What a worthy man was Hui!" (Analects 6.11)

The toughest role is real life.

Hard weather, says the old man. So let it be. Wrap me in the weathers of the earth, I will be hard and hard. My face will wash rain like the stones.

I dont think you havin a bad day, Professor. I think you havin a bad life.

Lost ye way in the dark, said the old man. He stirred the fire, standing slender tusks of bone up out of the ashes. The kid didn't answer. The old man swung his head back and forth. The way of the transgressor is hard. God made this world, but he didnt make it to suit everbody, did he? I don't believe he much had me in mind.

It is not my experience that life's difficulties make people more charitable.

In the grueling light that passed for day...

Where all was burnt to ash before them no fires were to be had and the nights were long and dark and cold beyond anything they'd yet encountered. Cold to crack the stones. To take your life.

Other than a light beading of sweat on his forehead there was little evidence that his labors had cost him anything at all.

I just meant I'd seen things I'd as soon not of. I know it. There's hard lessons in this world. What's the hardest? I don't know . Maybe it's just that when things are gone they're gone. They aint comin back.

I could tell you why—and you stit wouldn't know. That's all right. You can set and ast a bunch of idjit questions. But not knowin a thing ain't never made it not so. Well, I'm a old man and I've seen some hard times, so I don't reckon Brushy Mountain'll be the worst place I was ever in.

The old man swung his head back and forth. The way of the transgressor is hard. God made this world but he didn't make it to suit everybody, did he? I don't believe he much had me in mind. Aye, said the old man. But where does a man come by his notions. What world's he seen that he liked better?

You care if I say somethin. Say it. Why don't we do what we said and just trade like he wasnt here. Damn if you aint awful hard on a man. Callin on him to follow his own advice. It's hell aint it.

It is not my experience that life's difficulties make people more charitable.

It's a cruel world, don't you think?

You remember what I said, way way way back at the start of Hiccup's adventures, how this would be the story of becoming a Hero the Hard Way? Now you can begin to see exactly how hard the way has been.

However bad things seem to be, they can always get worse!

Do not think that just because I have the soul of a soldier, and cannot speak soft words, that it was not hard for me, or that because I left, I did not love.

the erroneous notion that if one choice, one plan, was hard and the other was easy, doing the hard thing was inherently better—worthier, more upstanding.

But for herself, nothing but this dreary endurance—till the children grew up.

The farmers who were hiring Lincoln complained that he was lazy, "awful lazy." He admitted it. "My father taught me to work," he said, "but he never taught me to love it.

To be a poor man is hard, but to be a poor race in a land of dollars is the very bottom of hardships.