Quotes About Hardship

Eat bitter, taste sweet

Good luck is a sham. True success requires sacrifice.

You do the easy thing, the appealing thing, the peaceful thing, mostly it turns sour in the end. But if you take the hard path - ah, that's how you reap the sweet rewards. Duty. Sacrifice. They mean something.

La buena suerte es una farsa. El éxito verdadero requiere sacrificio.

Nothings ever easy!!!!

one grief after another—her brothers, Father, the money, not to mention the war itself—had taken its toll on her and she had allowed herself to be worn down on the grindstone of Mother.

Putting on socks is hard work, said Bink. I'm hungry.

life ain't supposed to be nothing, 'cept maybe tough

No life is easy. It's just a different kind of hard.

I do not judge lives that have seen the kind of hardship I struggle to comprehend.

it's life... In all its granite hardness.

All the same he was depressed and bitter. Life never dealt him a winning hand.

They all looked as Da came in from the street, wearing his meeting suit and a flat miner's cap, perspiring from the walk up the hill. He took a step into the room, then stopped, staring. "Look who's here," Mam said

Lizzie found his equanimity incredible. What kind of people were these miners? Though their lives were brutally hard their spirits seemed unquenchable. By comparison her own life seemed pampered and purposeless.

supply had been cut off and livestock were dying of thirst.

B?rbatul nu avea nici trecut, nici educaÈ›ie, nici familie, dar era inteligent È™i avea bani, iar în vremuri grele, chestiile astea valorau mai mult decât o educaÈ›ie bun?.

Good wood was better than silver, he had liked to say, because it was harder to steal. "We've got nothing left, and no way to make a living," Edgar said. "What on earth are we going to do?

That first day still came about as close to undoing me completely, both physically and mentally, as any day had in almost a week.

They didn't mind so much when I was a dumb logger and got into a hassle; that's excusable, they say, that's a hard-workin' feller blowing off steam, they say. But if you're a gambler, if they know you to get up a back-room game now and then, all you have to do is spit slantwise and you're a goddamned criminal.

Prosperity has no power over adversity.

Pray not for lighter burdens but for stronger backs.

One of the hardest jobs in ministry is keeping your own relationship with God where it needs to be.

You picked a fine time to leave me Lucille, with four hungry children and a crop in the field.

Times of hardship can act as both an indicator, as well as a cure, for our broken relationship with our Creator.