Quotes About Hardship

They were four desperate men, made hard by life, cruel by nature, and driven to desperation by imprisonment.

My friend, there is a Hell. It's when a man has a family to support, has his health and is ready to work, and there is no work to do. When he stands with empty hands and sees his children going hungry, his wife without the things to do with. I hope you never have to try it.

It was the kind of a country where if you worked with a man and ate his bread, you bought some of his troubles, too.

Waterways would offer the easiest route across country, but any travel was a hardship. Most who traveled understood why the word "travel" had once been "travail.

I cannot believe in anything else. A man needs heroes. He needs to believe in strength, nobility and courage. Otherwise we become sheep to be herded to the slaughterhouse of death. I believe this. I am a soldier. I try to fight for the right cause. Sometimes it is hard to know.

It was a life that had left him rich in experience, but poor in goods of the world. The experience was the hard-fisted experience of cold winters, dry ranges, and the dusty bitterness

Whenever was it easy for such a man as I? The scars I carry speak of no easy times, lad

were stiff and

Nothing in life is easy.

There is no lake at Camp Green Lake." (p. 3) It immediately sets a mood of hardship and confusion and starts right in with the irony that permeates the novel.

Stanley was still digging.

Nothing in life is easy. But that's no reason to give up.

All too soon Stanley was back out on the lake, sticking his shovel into the dirt. X-Ray was right: the third hole was the hardest.

Stanley raised and lowered one shoulder.

If you take a bad boy and make him dig a hole every day in the hot sun, it will turn him into a good boy.

The scar will remain, but it is better for a man to lose both arms than his soul; and these hard years, instead of being lost, may be made the most precious of your lives, if they teach you to rule yourselves.

During the fifteen minutes that followed, the proud and sensitive girl suffered a shame and pain which she never forgot. To others it might seem a ludicrous or trivial affair, but to her it was a hard experience, for during the twelve years of her life she had been governed by love alone

ridicule is often harder to bear than self-denial.

It's so dreadful to be poor! sighed Meg, looking down at her old dress.

Nobody spoke for a minute; then Meg said in an altered tone, You know the reason Mother proposed not having any presents this Christmas was because it is going to be a hard winter for everyone; and she thinks we ought not to spend money for pleasure, when our men are suffering so in the army. We can't do much, but we can make our little sacrifices, and ought to do it gladly. But I am afraid I don't, and Meg shook her head, as she thought regretfully of all the pretty things she wanted.

There are a good many hard times in this life of ours, but we can always bear them if we ask help n the right way.

If life is often as hard as this, I don't see how we ever shall get through it," added her sister despondently.

As she said, she was 'fond of luxury', and her chief trouble was poverty.

It's so dreadful to be poor! sighed Meg