Quotes About Hardship

All this could go tomorrow, and I would still know how to function, because I never had nothing before. I went through the struggle - it was a rough life.

To pay the bills, I've liquidated my children's college fund.

there are times when to a poor priest the rule of the Church as regards marriage seems bitter hard and he almost doubts her inscrutable wisdom.

I know what it is to be hungry, and it is very hard when one cannot even pretend it away. -Sara

overcrowding and poverty, that defied description, as

You see, I know what it is to be hungry, and it is very hard when one cannot even PRETEND it away.

Teadvuse piire aga uurigu need, kelle soontes voolab talupojaveri, kellel on rüsajad reied, jämedad sääred, kes taluvad piinu, olgu hingelisi või ihulisi, niisama igapäevaselt, nagu nad söövad leiba ja soola.

Lesson number 1b in Bibwit's carefully planned curriculum: For most of the universe's inhabitants, life is not all gummy wads and tarty tarts; it is a struggle against hardship, unfairness, corruption, abuse, and adversity in all its guises, where even to survive - let alone survive with dignity- is heroic. To soldier through the days in a wake of failure is the corageous act of many. To rule benevolently, a queen should be able to enter into the feelings of those less fortunate than herself.

Hard tasks need hard ways.

I never thought it would be easy to serve God, she said. I just didn't think it would be this hard.

The price we paid was the price men have always paid for achieving a paradise in this life-we went soft, we lost our edge.

Piatra e grea ?i nisipul apas?, dar furia neghiobului e o povar? care le-ntrece.

may your blade chip and shatter

Suferin?a e pre?ul victoriei.

What history touches the woman in the rice paddy driving her water buffalo ahead of her plow while her husband is off somewhere, most likely a conscript, carrying a weapon?

Dovrebbe esistere una scienza dell'infelicità. La gente ha bisogno di tempi difficili e di oppressione per sviluppare i propri muscoli psichici.

Two little mice fell into a bucket of cream. The first mouse quickly gave up and drowned, but the second mouse, he struggled so hard that he eventually churned that cream into butter and he walked out. Amen.

Everyone has his cross to bear.

When one has lived for thirty years in this world and had to fight one's way through it, as I have had to do, one becomes hardened to surprises and doesn't take them too seriously.

I am a typical example of Western Jew. This means I don't have a moment of peace, that nothing has come easily to me, not just the present and the future, but even the past, that thing that each man receives as his birth-right: even that I have to conquer, and perhaps that is the hardest task.

We are not in general a music-loving race. Tranquil peace is the music we love best; our life is hard, we are no longer able, even on occasions when we have tried to shake off the cares of daily life, to rise to anything so high and remote from our usual routine as music.

their position is no easy one, nor should one do them the injustice of regarding it as such.

A lot of people want the crown, but they're not willing to bleed for it.

Starting a company and being a founder is really hard, and most companies fail. You really have to have a deep commitment and belief in it and be willing to see it through many ups and downs.