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Quotes About Hardship

I like this life. I like it when it's hard, and I like it better when it's not, but I know you don't get the sweet part without the bitter.
~ Holly Near
Life is very hard, isn't it? It does kill you, after all.
~ Katharine Hepburn
If you would only recognize that life is hard, things would be so much easier for you.
~ Louis D. Brandeis
Poverty ... It is life near the bone, where it is sweetest.
~ Henry David Thoreau
I have in my own fashion learned the lesson that life is effort, unremittingly repeated.
~ Henry James
No one honest has an easy life, and its aching for one that causes the most pain.
~ James Kidd
What a terrible thing life can be.
~ Jeff Lindsay
I have practically no private life. I'm already used to this and ready for it. Yes, sometimes it is hard, but it is the choice I made.
~ Cristiano Ronaldo
Better a long life of toil than a short one of ease.
~ Aesop
I've had a normal life, but I have struggled to get here. It hasn't been handed to me and it hasn't been easy.
~ Ashley Tisdale
A woman has so many parts to her body, life is very hard indeed.
~ Lu Xun
It is a kind of blindness--poverty. We can only grope through life when we are poor, hitting and maiming ourselves against every angle.
~ Ouida
When you think that it's too hard, remember that in the long run, doing the things that will make you successful is a lot easier than being unsuccessful
~ Ray Dalio
Daddy wasn't there for me, so I had to grind every day.
~ Ray Lewis
I'll say one thing about an oil boom; it will teach a kid that Life's a pretty rotten thing as quick as anything I can think of.
~ Robert E. Howard
Hasn't anyone ever told you? Life isn't fair.
~ Stephenie Meyer
Life isn't all beer and skittles.
~ Thomas Hughes
On every side, and at every hour of the day, we came up against the relentless limitations of pioneer life.
~ Anna Howard Shaw
Mama raised a hellraiser why cry, That's just life in the ghetto, do or die.
~ Tupac Shakur
When you think life is tough, it can get a lot tougher.
~ Kate Gosselin
The Lord's way is not hard. Life is hard, not the gospel.
~ Lawrence E. Corbridge
That's the whole story of my life: frustration. It's a chronic disease, and it's incurable.
~ Robert E. Sherwood
Humanity I love you because when you're hard up you pawn your intelligence to buy a drink.
~ e. e. cummings
You think it's normal to get what you want all the time," said Jule. "For things to be easy. But it isn't. Most people don't get what they want, like, ever. They have doors shut in their faces. They have to strive, all the time. They don't live in your magical land of two-seater cars and perfect teeth and traveling to Italy and fur coats.
~ E. Lockhart