Quotes About Hardship

So many mistakes. So many bad choices. So many tragedies and hurts brought to innocent people with the best of intentions or with no intentions at all. It was so hard to be human. It was so hard to be alive.

Why is everything always so hard?" "That's life, as far as I'm aware. Endlessly cruel.

Great achievement is usually born of great sacrifice, and is never the result of selfishness.

Just what do we tax under our current system? Work, that's what. Hard work and productivity. The harder you work, the more you achieve. The more you achieve, the more you're taxed. To make matters worse, under our "progressive" income tax system, the harder you work, the more severe the punishment actually is!

Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering." Hardship is what makes the story of our lives more compelling in the telling. The

lower-income New York

Hate was just a legend And war was never known The people worked together And they lifted many stones. They carried them to the flatlands And they died along the way But they built up with their bare hands What we still can't do today.

Does anybody really think that they didn't get what they had because they didn't have the talent or the strength or the endurance or the commitment?

Men and women in the United States carried a terrific burden

hardship had been part of history for so long it had become a condition of life. There was no expectation things could, or would, be otherwise. You got on with it, and through faith, family and character accommodated as best you could whatever suffering and misfortune was yours.

I think maybe I had a first sense then of the power of story, and realised that time had done what Time sometimes does to hardship, turn it into fairy tale.

It is a cruel jest to say to a bootless man that he ought to lift himself up by his bootstraps. —DR. MARTIN LUTHER KING JR.

Nothing that's worthwhile is ever easy. Remember that.

I was 16 years old, driving to LA, and sleeping in my car, just trying to make it happen.

Es vienk?rši atkl?ju, ka š? pasaule ir p?rlieku smaga, lai taj? b?tu labs," saka Bannijs, tad aizver acis un, izp?tis elpu, sastingst.

There are two pains in life. There is the pain of discipline and the pain of disappointment. If you can handle the pain of discipline, then you'll never have to deal with the pain of disappointment.

With poverty everything becomes frightful.

I understand that people might be poor if they don't have any work, but I don't accept that someone is poor if they've worked really hard.

Because of pressure, there are diamonds.

Life is glorious, but it can be counted on to be cruel.

What my mother believed about cooking is that if you worked hard and prospered, someone else would do it for you.

Success is sweet, but the secret is sweat.

Not a movie to take your children to, nothing to show your ma: the little gougings, the wreck of the way they lived.

Yes, life is hard, but it's not a bad way to pass the time. When all is said and done, I recommend it.