Quotes About Hardship

Lessons that come easy are not lessons at all. They are gracious acts of luck. Yet lessons learned the hard way are lessons never forgotten.

I wish to preach, not the doctrine of ignoble ease, but the doctrine of the strenuous life.

There has never yet been a man in our history who led a life of ease whose name is worth remembering.

Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.

I hated every minute of training, but I said, Don't quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.

Life would be perfect if: Some girls had mute buttons; Some guys had edit buttons; Hard times had fast forward buttons; And Good times had pause buttons.

Life is very short and for many is very hard but in the end of it all you will think back to all the good times as you forget the bad ones that have always plagued you.

The road to success is not straight. It's bumpy, it's hard, it's complicated, but it's WORTH IT.

There is no easy shortcut to anywhere worth going. You must be willing to make sacrifices. It's a process!

Some people get jealous of the accomplishments you have made, unaware of all the struggles and pain it took to get to the pebbled path called success.

Experience is a cruel teacher...it gives you test before presenting the lesson.

Nothing in this life comes easy, sometimes we try so hard to succeed and still fail but remember anything worth having is worth fighting for. What you put in is what you get out . Practice makes perfect!

Losing is a learning experience. It teaches you humility. It teaches you to work harder. It's also a powerful motivator.

One half of life is luck, and the other half is discipline and that's the important half for without discipline, you would not know what to do with luck.

Haters teach you to be grateful for the people you love, hard times teach to you be grateful for the times that are good, and God, well God teaches you everything you need to know.

What comes easy, won't always last, and what will last, won't always come easy..

Hardship, in forcing us to exercise greater patience and forbearance in daily life, actually makes us stronger and more robust. From the daily experience of hardship comes a greater capacity to accept difficulties without losing our sense of inner calm. Of course, I do not advocate seeking out hardship as a way of life, but merely wish to suggest that, if you relate to it constructively, it can bring greater inner strength and fortitude.

If you are willing to do only whats easy, life will be hard. But if you are willing to do whats hard, life will be easy.

Without struggle, there is no progress.

My parents were working class folks. My dad was a bartender for most of his life, my mom was a maid and a cashier and a stock clerk at WalMart. We were not people of financial means in terms of significant financial means. I always told them, 'I didn't always have what I wanted. I always had what I needed.' My parents always provided that.

My dad was a bartender. My mom was a cashier, a maid and a stock clerk at K-Mart. They never made it big. They were never rich. And yet they were successful. Because just a few decades removed from hopelessness, they made possible for us all the things that had been impossible for them.

My mother was one of seven girls whose parents went to bed hungry so their children wouldn't. My father lost his mother when he was nine. He left school and went to work for the next 70 years. They emigrated to America with little more than the hope of a better life.

Whose memories are these? Who speaks to her of this gentle time that she is too young to have known herself? There was hardship then, certainly, but not hearts chained and heavy with fear. Who is it that laughs with aged lightheartedness and suggests that this is still a place of promise?

Joy would not deny the hardship, but would choose to acknowledge and face it no matter what the outcome.