Quotes About Hardship

Believe me, the reward is not so great without the struggle.

It was a hard time. It was something I would love to erase from my memory.

It takes sacrifice as well as talent.

Everything I have in this world, I owe to the sport of boxing, and I won't ever forget that.

It wasn't always easy getting up at 5 o'clock in the morning to go to the rink. Sometimes I wanted to just go back to sleep.

My dad worked several jobs to pay for my expense in skating.

I wish I could say it's easy, but honestly, to get ready for a big championship is not as easy as it seems.

As blacks, all we got is sports and entertainment. That's the only way out the hood sometimes.

Alcott Louisa May 1832-1888

The more stitches, the less riches.

I don't know, Alexander, sometimes it gets so bad you can't think of nothing better to do than make it worse.

There is a difference between a challenge and a burden. One is something you can carry on your shoulders easily enough—the other is something, a big sack, that bends you double.

Love was like rain; there could be periods of drought when it seemed that love would never return, would never make its presence felt again. In such times, the heart could harden, but then, just as droughts broke, so too could love suddenly appear, and heal just as quickly and completely as rain can heal the parched land.

was particularly hard for women now, when there were so many children left without

They were silent. It was not easy to see a solution to the problem of human need. It was easy to condemn those who stole, who poached wildlife, until you were asked what would you do if your only other option was starvation? That made it harder.

A St. Louis oncology nurse quoted Holocaust survivor and psychiatrist Viktor Frankl to States News Service in 2012: " 'What is to give light must endure burning.' I think people who care for others understand. Caregiving is painful.

The merit of all things lies in their difficulty.

Sleeping on a plank has one advantage - it encourages early rising.

For those who stake their identity on the role of omniscient conqueror, the uncertainty exposed by systems thinking is hard to take.

Like life isn't hard enough, mate. Don't borrow more sorrow.

There's nothing hard about it. But I get praised for the hardest of things I do, and I do some of the hardest of things. Things like waking up in the morning and going to sleep at night, all alone except for when I'm with someone; and it's getting harder and harder.

Like an old gold-panning prospector, you must resign yourself to digging up a lot of sand from which you will later patiently wash out a few minute particles of gold ore.

It's not the tragedies that kill us, it's the messes.

The fulfillment of the cultural mandate involves hard work, and men need to be hard in order to do the work.