Quotes About Hardship

Because we were born of old country people in a new land, and, right or wrong, we had not felt equal to those around us, and had had to do a little more than they in everything we did.

your business.

Things were not coming our way.

through his

Thelonious had been born into extreme poverty. His mother and grandmother spent their lives scrubbing floors for a living, and his father, Thelonious, Sr., cobbled together work as an unskilled day laborer in the railroad town of Rocky Mount. His grandfathers had lived a life of debt peonage, share-cropping for ex-slave masters and surviving pretty much from meal to meal.

You've had a good life, haven't you? Despite messing up royally when you were my age. GeeGee laughed. Yes, dear. I have. A very good life. Sometimes a hard one. Life is full of hard things, even when it isn't us who have as you put it, messed up royally. but when we walk with God, life is always good, because He is.

The veterans of the Somme have gone now but while they lived they talked incessantly of the mud of the Somme, mud which permeated everything, clogged rifles, flowed like lava into dugouts and trenches, sucked off boots, drowned wounded men and horses and made movement either impossible or a tremendous physical effort. To fight on the Somme was bad enough; to also fight the mud of the Somme was simply too much.

one who sweats more in training bleeds less in war.' And I liked his line 'high victory is made in those early morning hours when no one's watching and while everyone else is sleeping.

in life in general—you need to pay the price of success before you get all the rewards due to you.

one who sweats more in training bleeds less in war.

The things that feel hardest are also the ones that are most valuable. Keep remembering that doing difficult things that are very important was how the highest achievers and greatest heroes of our civilization embraced their power.

Don't quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.

I hated every minute of training. But I said, 'Don't quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.'" —Muhammad Ali

Si supieseis cuánto trabajo costó, no lo llamaríais ingenio

Odiaba cada minuto de entrenamiento, pero no paraba de repetirme: «No renuncies, sufre ahora y vive el resto de tu vida como un campeón». MUHAMMAD ALI

Es bueno que las cosas sean difíciles. Alcanzar la verdadera grandeza y la materialización del genio que hay en vosotros son deportes duros.

What about fateful turns in your life? Naturalists like Thomas Hardy proposed that some people are simply born under 'a blighted star' like his heroine in Tess of the D'Urbervilles. If so, then no matter what we did, we couldn't improve our lives.

Drudgery means doing an ungrateful task for an ungrateful person – and anyone employed at the bottom of the labour market knows what that means. The

You people are such an infertile lot that paternity seems to hit you much harder than it does others. Look at Random. For years he had disowned his son, and now-I've a feeling he'd risk his life for him.

too long a sacrifice can make a stone of the heart.

Miseries of a birth.

With a soil and climate scarcely equaled in the world," he protested, Mexico "has more poor and starving subjects who are willing and able to work than any country in the world. The rich keep down the poor with a hardness of heart that is incredible.

To survive, he continued to hawk firewood on the St. Louis streets and the time thus spent destroyed any chance of prospering as a farmer: "I regard every load of wood taken, when the services of both myself and team are required on the farm, is a direct loss of more than the value of the load."114

This early experience made Grant tend to view war as a hard-luck saga of talented, professional soldiers betrayed by political opportunists plotting back in Washington.