Quotes About Hardship

Did you know that there are places in the world where women can just drop the child in the field, and go on with the harvest? What does that suggest to you?" "Third world? Grinding poverty? Gross infant mortality rates?" Bradford guessed.

Hardship in a story is grace; hardship without a story is just pain. Childrearing is the opportunity that you have to love your children in preparation for a harvest, but that means you need to have the harvest in mind.

People don't realize that victory is the child of struggle, that joy blossoms from suffering, and redemption is a product of sacrifice.

Think they work you too hard? Think of poor Ali Sard. He has to mow grass in his uncle's backyard and its quick growing grass and it grows as he mows it the faster he mows it the faster he grows it. And all that his stingy old uncle will pay for his shoving mower around the hay is piffulous pay of two dooklas a day. And Ali can't live on such piffulous pay!

Rap is stress, but it pays great.

Count my own money, see the paper cut fingers?

For example, the "theory of relative deprivation" states that people feel distressed by circumstances only inasmuch as their hardship exceeds that of the people around them.

No one's life is a smooth sail; we all come into stormy weather. But it's this adversity - and more specifically our resilience - that makes us strong and successful.

The important thing in life is not the triumph but the struggle.

Nobody's life is a bed of roses. We all have crosses to bear and we all just do our best.

I seem to think that anything worth having in life has to be painful to attain.

The American dream does not come to those who fall asleep.

In this life you can take poverty, you can take failure, you can take the big things; it's the little griefs that destroy you inside.

There's nothing more noble than a father and mother making an opportunity for their child, knowing that their life is gonna be hard. There's something incredibly heroic about that.

In life, you learn lessons. And sometimes you learn them the hard way. Sometimes you learn them too late.

I feel like I just want to enjoy life and spend time with my daughter who is about to turn two, which is full-time job and the hardest job I've ever had in my life.

It's not just that life is cruel, but that in the very process of our birth we submit to life's cruelty

I worked my way up from nothing to a state of extreme poverty.

It's probably been the worst three months of my life.

Sometimes in life, you will get knocked down.

A free ride is life's most difficult journey.

Life comes to the miners out of their deaths, and death out of their lives

Life's not all beer and skittles

O Life! thou art a galling load, Along a rough, a weary road, To wretches such as I!