Quotes About Hardship

When life is hard it's easy to focus only on the bad things and forget all about the good things God has given us. But God has blessed every one of us in ways we often overlook.

For the last 40 years of my life I have broken my back, my fingernails, and sometimes my heart, in the practical pursuit of my favourite occupation.

Poverty was the greatest motivating factor in my life.

For those who fight for it life has a flavor the sheltered will never know

Life is nasty, brutish, and short

Life is not easy for any for us.

The greater the difficulty, the greater the glory.

Dignify and glorify common labor. It is at the bottom of life that we must begin, not at the top.

My life has never been easy. It's like all the major events of my life have always been difficult.

An easy life is rarely meaningful and a meaningful life rarely easy.

I've been a fortunate man in life, nothing has come easily.

No idea can succeed except at the expense of sacrifice; no one ever escapes without enduring strain from the struggle of life.

There's always got to be a struggle. What else is there? That's what life is made of. I don't know anything else. If there is, tell me about it.

I would like to say prison life at its very best and worst infinitely sucks.

It's a hard life sometimes and the biggest temptation is to let how hard it is be an excuse to weaken

I've come to accept that the life of a frontrunner is a hard one, that he will suffer more injuries than most men and that many of these injuries will not be accidental.

There are no shortcuts in life - only those we imagine.

Extenuating Circumstances

I like to think that even these people, whose hardships seem to come all at once, might get to experience the same number of joys in their lives as everyone else (and sometimes those feelings of joy pop up smack in the middle of hardship). And on the flip side, people whose lives seem perfect might also be suffering in ways we don't see, or might face hardships down the road." -Ari

But I like to think that even these people, whose hardships seem to come all at once, might get to experience the same number of joys in their lives as every else (and sometimes those feelings of joy pop up smack in the middle of hardship). And on the flip side, people whose lives seem perfect might also be suffering in ways we don't see, or might face hardships down the road." -Ari

The truth is, what I learned this year is that life is hard...Good people die for no reason. Little kids get sick. The people that are supposed to love you end up leaving.

Relationships are hard work. You'll see. After you've been in it with Kavinsky longer, you'll see what I'm talking about." "Oh my God, you're such a know-it-all. The biggest know-it-all I ever met, besides my sister." "Which one?" I can feel a giggle bubbling up inside of me, which I push down. "Both. They're both know-it-alls.

I grew up in the 1930s Great Depression when many families struggled to make ends meet, and in an area where old-fashioned country gospel music was popular. Later, as an adult with a more mature outlook on Christianity, I realized that a lot of that music was rather shallow.

While some people are certainly seeing economic benefits, many others are unemployed, underemployed, without health insurance and struggling to make ends meet.