Quotes About Hardship

I shall have to toil and moil all my days, with only little bits of fun now and then, and get old and ugly and sour, because I'm poor, and can't enjoy my life as other girls do. It's a shame!

It's so dreadful to be poor!

What a trying world it is! said Jo, rumpling up her hair in a fretful sort of way. No sooner do we get out of one trouble than down comes another.

When Mr. March lost his property in trying to help an unfortunate friend, the two oldest girls begged to be allowed to do something toward their own support, at least. Believing that they could not begin too early to cultivate energy, industry, and independence, their parents consented, and both fell to work with the hearty good-will which in spite of all obstacles, is sure to succeed at last.

Six children are huddled into one bed to keep from freezing, for they have no fire. There is nothing to eat over there, and the oldest boy came to tell me they were suffering hunger and cold.

A poor, bare, miserable room it was, with broken windows, no fire, ragged bedclothes, a sick mother, wailing baby, and a group of pale, hungry children cuddled under one old quilt, trying to keep warm.

What men call adventures usually consist of the stoical endurance of appalling daily misery.

were attempts by indebted farmers to lighten their debt load.

It's a hard place this world can be. No wonder a baby cries coming into it. Tears from the very start.

It struck her how eating was a comfort during a hard time because it reminded you that there had been other days, good days, when you'd eaten the same thing.

I'd see that look again when I taught at the community college, always in the eyes of women who'd grown up hard, a distrust of anything spoken softly.

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Aplastamos carbones con las manos desnudas y a veces conseguimos que parezcan diamantes

Os acostumados á desgracia, chegan a contar por súas as que afrixen aos demais.

He saw only that misery could be endured in the midst of misery. But set adjacent to the good fortune of others, it became far, far harder to bear.

And he understood that now, more than ever in his life, there was nothing and no one to cushion him from the hardness of the earth.

All roads, whether long or short, are hard, said Frog. Come, you have begun your journey, and all else necessarily follows from that act. Be of good cheer. The sun is bright. The sky is blue. The world lies before you.

Life is a shit sandwich. The more bread you've got, the less shit you eat.

A key to strengthening spiritual muscles and enduring hardship is finding strength in the Word of God.

Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet.

Difficulty, my brethren, is the nurse of greatness - a harsh nurse, who roughly rocks her foster children into strength and athletic proportion.

It really strikes me how much of your energy in America, especially if you're from a working back-ground, is spent just keeping your head above water. It really saps your grace and your strength.

Hardness shatters; strength endures.

Poverty doesn't give you strength or teach you lessons about perseverance. No, poverty only teaches you how to be poor.