Quotes About Hardship

No great goal was ever easily achieved.

He who would reach the desired goal must, while a boy, suffer and labor much and bear both heat and cold. [Lat., Qui studet optatam cursu coningere metam Multa tulit fecitque puer, sudavit et alsit.]

One's age should be tranquil, as childhood should be playful. Hard work at either extremity of life seems out of place. At midday the sun may burn, and men labor under it; but the morning and evening should be alike calm and cheerful.

In this age, which believes that there is a short cut to everything, the greatest lesson to be learned is that the most difficult way is, in the long run, the easiest.

Recession is when a neighbor loses his job. Depression is when you lose yours.

Everyone has a heart, but a heart that has gone through so much pain can become so warm and loving or become as cold as ice.

Worrying has never solved any problem but with prayers, faith, hope and love, we shall always conquer through hard times.

Love is hard. Life is harder, but a life without loving you is utterly unbearable.

I see it on his face. I hear it when he talks. We look out at the world and we see the same thing: Not Fair. And the only difference between us is Ricky's out there trying to get even. And he knows not trust anybody and he got it straight from me. And he knows not to try and get work, and guess where he got that. He walks around like there's loose boards in the floor, and you know who laid that floor, I did.

It is amazing that the refugees stay sane. First the bombs, perhaps the "battle" around them, their casualties, their naked helplessness; then the flight, leaving behind everything they have worked for all their lives; then the semi-starvation and ugly hardship of the camps or the slums; and as a final cruelty, the killing diseases which only strike at them.

It is an almost overpowering effort to be just, informed, sane and strong when you are worried about a roof over your head, money for food, for the children's shoes, for coal, for a little fun, worried and harassed by the daily unending problem of living. But it is an effort that must be made, for lasting peace is not going to come of itself, nor cheaply, nor due to someone else.

The only aspect of our travels that is interesting to others is disaster.

During all this, Volescu was huddled on the churned up rock, losing his shit, not that I was unsympathetic. I was far less vulnerable in this situation than he was and I wasn't exactly having a great time either.

The man who has the will to undergo all labor may win to any good.

It is not fitting that one man should live in idleness on another's labor, or be rich and live comfortably at the cost of another's hardship

Life is like a shit sandwich. The more bread you've got, the less shit you have to eat.

In trouble to be troubled is to have your trouble doubled.' – The Further Adventures of Robinson Crusoe Daniel Defoe, c. 1659-1661

A barely tolerable world became unbearable.

Marriage was nothing but a primitive form of torture;

It's been hard. Easier was the wrong word. There's nothing easy about freedom. You have to strive. You have to make a plan and stick to it.

Loves conquers all things except poverty and toothache.

It is so easy to have in your hands. It is so easy to feel security from it. It is so easy in ways that cannot be explained. That is what makes it hard...hard on you, hard on me, hard on everyone that comes within miles of it. That is what makes love so easy, it's hard.

I never had a chance to play with dolls like other kids. I started working when I was six years old.

Life is like an adventure, you have to gain experience from it, by not experiencing the real world, there's no meaning to life. Life is like a game, if you dont play the game the right way, you end up playing it the hard way.