Quotes About Hardship

I mean, its hard to be an actor in the city - trying to make it as an actor - because you waitress all night, you get home really late and you're super tired and your feet hurt.

It was an honor and privilege to arrive to this country 16 years ago with almost no money in my pocket. A lot has happened since then.

Just as the blessings of God are unutterably great, so their acquisition requires much hardship and toil undertaken with hope and faith.

Hope is not defined by the absence of hardship. Rather, hope is found in God's grace in the midst of hardship. Hope is found in his promise to give us a future.

I hope I never get so hard up I have to do advertisements. I've gotten ridiculous offers.

These are hard times. The world hurts. We live in fear and forget to walk with hope. But hope has not forgotten you. So ask it to dinner. It's probably hungry and would appreciate the invitation.

In my stories for children, I sometimes show a hard, harsh, dangerous world. I'm going to show you the way it is, but I'm going to also tell you that there's every reason to hope.

As we look for humor, seek for the eternal perspective, understnd the principle of compensation, and draw near to our Heavenly Father, we can endure heardship and trial.

The world is indeed a cold, hard stone.

It takes a lot of wind to sail a leaky boat.

If you want to shine like sun, first you have to burn like it.

Pressure makes diamonds

If you want a place in the sun, you have got to put up with a few blisters.

What keeps so many people back is simply unwillingness to pay the price, to make the exertion, the effort to sacrifice their ease and comfort.

Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.

Fatigue, discomfort, discouragement are merely symptoms of effort.

The person that works the hardest wins.

The only difference between black coal and a precious diamond is the amount of pressure it endured.

Make the iron hot by striking it.

I began to learn what poverty meant. It was burnt in my heart then that my father had to beg for work and there came the resolve that I would cure that when I got to be a man.

Poverty is when large efforts produce small results. Wealth is when small efforts produce large results.

Without a whole lot of pressure, a diamond is just a piece of coal.

There is no gain without struggle.

Self-knowledge, I guess, is hard. But I think pain is harder, personally. I think to be hopeless is very hard. I think to die without hope or to live without hope is very hard.