Quotes About Hardship

Yehuda Köves was sweating and out of breath as

Sienna had endured no shortage of challenges in her life, and although she had trained herself to rely on intellect to overcome hardship, her current predicament had shaken her on a deeply emotional level.

You grew up poor, honey. Poor people don't have good luck.

You carry the pain and you also carry the reward.

One misconception about highly successful cultures is that they are happy, lighthearted places. This is mostly not the case. They are energized and engaged, but at their core their members are oriented less around achieving happiness than around solving hard problems together. This task involves many moments of high-candor feedback, uncomfortable truth-telling, when they confront the gap between where the group is, and where it ought to be.

Misfortunes seldom come alone.

But as abused prosperity is oftentimes made the very means of our greatest adversity, so it was with me

In trouble to be troubled, Is to have your trouble doubled.

abused prosperity is oftentimes made the very means of our greatest adversity

Never any young adventurer's misfortunes, I believe, began sooner, or continued longer than mine.

Cowboying is all I've done my whole life.

I grew up in a family struggling for work.

"Brothers, our toil and hardship, we worked night and day in order not to be a burden to anyone while we preached the gospel of God to you."

"Others were saying, 'We are mortgaging our fields, our vineyards and our homes to get grain during the famine.'"

Sometimes I wish I had a terrible childhood, so that at least I'd have an excuse.

"The real test is not whether you avoid this failure, because you won't. It's whether you let it harden or shame you into inaction, or whether you learn from it; whether you choose to persevere."

The world isn't sunshine and rainbows. It'll beat you down if you let it, and nothing hits harder than life.

Nothing in the world is more common than unsuccessful people with talent.

I'm convinced that about half of what separates successful entrepreneurs from the non successful entrepreneurs is pure perseverance. It is so hard, you pour so much of your life into this thing, there are such rough moments in time, that most people give up. I don't blame them, it's really tough.

I know a lot of people who are struggling musicians; it's a hard life, and I've risked being that. The rewards are tremendous now that I've made it, I thank God every day. But I put it all on the line for it.

For all the cruelty and hardship of our world, we are not mere prisoners of fate. Our actions matter, and can bend history in the direction of justice.

No gains without pains.

Four specters haunt the poor - old age, accident, sickness and unemployment

And now I'm old and going--I'm sure I can't tell where; One comfort is, this world's so hard, I can't be worse off there