quotes about Hardship
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posterity who are to reap the blessings will scarcely be able to conceive the hardships and sufferings of their ancestors.
-- Abigail Adams -
Work is hard. Distractions are plentiful. And time is short.
-- Adam Hochschild -
I am moved by the spirit of Angolans and the work UNICEF is doing, but I am saddened by the hardships I have seen, and the fact that a little flexing of financial muscle from rich countries could do so much.
-- Alyssa Milano -
When you're playing somebody who's going through a lot - frustration and hardship - you're just purging all your emotions, and it feels really good to do that.
-- Amanda Seyfried -
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We have to remember that no matter how much hardship we go through in our life, there is always going to be that fragile place in our heart.
-- Angie Martinez -
There are hurdles, there are handicaps, hardships you have to face in life, but you hope for a great future.
-- Anil KapoorSource : Interview With Hannah Pool, www.theguardian.com. February 18, 2009.
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When God is going to do something wonderful, He or She always starts with a hardship; when God is going to do something amazing, He or She starts with an impossibility.
-- Anne Lamott -
As I grew older, I came to feel more responsible for any hardship or trouble my career caused my family.
-- Annette Funicello -
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McCain might have suffered hardships in his life, but what had happened to him had nothing to do with his background or his color; they were convenient excuses now. He had been a psychopath from the start.
-- Anthony Horowitz -
I could do without many things with no hardship-you are not one of them.
-- Ashleigh Brilliant -
Patiently persevere in the face of hardship hoping for a good outcome because you never know how many dead hearts you will bring to life in the process. No hardship lasts forever. There is always an end.
-- Babar Ahmad -
In Kurdistan, theres a lot of hardship - a lot of wars, a lot of bitter and difficult lifestyles. And witnessing all those made me a director.
-- Bahman Ghobadi -
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I remember people who'd had a lot of hardship during the war. They'd thought we'd won.
-- Barbara Castle, Baroness Castle of Blackburn -
The angels minister to God's servants in time of hardship and danger.
-- Billy Graham -
According to the Sutras, evil deeds result in hardships and good deeds result in blessings.
-- Bodhidharma -
At the extremity of hardship comes relief and at the tightening of the chains of trials and tribulations comes ease.
-- Boonaa Mohammed -
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The mayors fund for London will be a streamlined vehicle for getting money from the wealth creating sector to communities across London that are facing hardship and deprivation and are the victims of crime.
-- Boris Johnson -
Well, farmers never have made money. I don't believe we can do much about it. But of course we will have to seem to be doing something; do the best we can and without much hope. The life of the farmer has its compensations but it has always been one of hardship.
-- Calvin Coolidge -
I would have been an archaeologist or something, maybe a historian. There are a lot of things I would have liked to have done differently, but everything that happened to me made me the person I am today. No matter how negative it seemed at the time or whatever hardship it seemed to have been at that time, Im just the sum of all those amazing experiences.
-- Chaka Khan -
There is hardship in everything except eating pancakes.
-- Charles Spurgeon -
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You may go through difficulty, hardship, or trial—but as long as you are anchored to Him, you will have hope.
-- Charles StanleySource : Charles Stanley (2009). “Stanley 2in1 Source of My Strength and Finding Peace”, p.22, Thomas Nelson Inc
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It is not the trials in your life that develop or destroy you, but rather your response to those hardships.
-- Charles Stanley -
I mean, we are tribal by nature, and sometimes success and material wealth can divide and separate - it's not a new philosophy I'm sharing - more than hardship, hardship tends to unify.
-- Colin Farrell -
Life is full of hardships, pimp slaps, and sorrow.
-- CoolioSource : "Song: "The Revolution" ("Gangsta's Paradise")". 1995.
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Even when we have physical hardships, we can be very happy.
-- Dalai Lama -
These reflections made me very sensible of the goodness of Providence to me, and very thankful for my present condition, with all its hardships and misfortunes ; and this part also I cannot but recommend to the reflection of those who are apt, in their misery, to say, Is any affliction like mine? Let them consider how much worse the cases of some people are, and their case might have been, if Providence had thought fit.
-- Daniel Defoe -
I cared not where or how I lived, or what hardships I went through, so I could but gain souls to Christ
-- David BrainerdSource : David Brainerd, Ebenezer Pemberton (1765). “An Account of the Life of the Late Reverend Mr. David Brainerd: Minister of the Gospel, Missionary to the Indians, from the Honourable Society in Scotland, for the Propagation of Christian Knowledge, and Pastor of a Church of Christian Indians in New Jersey. Who Died at Northampton in New-England, October 9, 1747, in the 30th Year of His Age. Chiefly Taken from His Own Diary, and Other Private Writings, Written for His Own Use; and Now Published”, p.123
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The noblest people are those despising wealth , learning , pleasure and life ; esteeming above them poverty , ignorance , hardship and death .
-- Diogenes -
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Great character is forged through hardships.
-- Eiji Yoshikawa -
The talk of sheltering woman from the fierce storms of life is the sheerest mockery, for they beat on her from every point of thecompass, just as they do on man, and with more fatal results, for he has been trained to protect himself, to resist, to conquer.
-- Elizabeth Cady Stanton -
All travellers who had preceded me into the Barren Grounds had relied on the abundant game, and in consequence suffered dreadful hardships; in some cases even starved to death.
-- Ernest Thompson SetonSource : Ernest Thompson Seton (2010). “The Arctic Prairies: A Canoe Journey”, p.3, BoD – Books on Demand
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Art is a spiritual, immaterial respite from the hardships of life.
-- Fernando Botero -
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It really seems as if failure and hardship make more of a human being of folks than success.
-- Gene Stratton-PorterSource : Gene Stratton-Porter (2016). “Gene Stratton-Porter Collection: A Girl of the Limberlost, Freckles, Laddie, The Harvester, A Daughter of the Land, At the Foot of the Rainbow, Her Fatther's Daughter, Michale O'Halloran”, p.1411, Xist Publishing
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The beginning of hardship is like the first taste of bitter food--it seems for a moment unbearable; yet, if there is nothing else to satisfy our hunger, we take another bite and find it possible to go on.
-- George Eliot -
Success makes opportunities and so many of those "opportunities" are actually exemptions - from hardship, from unfriendliness, from struggle.
-- George Saunders -
God allows hardship in our lives so that our beliefs-those handholds of faith in a troubled world-will became more and more real to us and less and less theory.
-- Greg Laurie -
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I no longer scramble blindly through hardship. I no longer emerge from a bad time feeling relieved just to have survived. Instead of despairing, I try to find the lesson within the experience.
-- Halle Berry -
You must always remember this. When hardships come, don't automatically ask God to deliver you from them. Perhaps it would be wiser to ask: What do I have to learn before I am delivered from this problem?
-- Harold Klemp -
Go without a coat when it's cold; find out what cold is. Go hungry; keep your existence lean. Wear away the fat, get down to the lean tissue and see what it's all about. The only time you define your character is when you go without. In times of hardship, you find out what you're made of and what you're capable of. If you're never tested, you'll never define you character.
-- Henry Rollins -
It's disgraceful how these humans blame the gods. They say their tribulations come from us, when they themselves, through their own foolishness, bring hardships which are not decreed by Fate.
-- Homer -
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Poverty leads to hardship and failure.
-- Irwin RedlenerSource : "Barack Obama and America’s Children: Can a Tragedy Refocus a Nation’s Priorities?" by Irwin Redlener, M.D., www.huffingtonpost.com. January 11, 2013.
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There are very few certainties that touch us all in this mortal experience, but one of the absolutes is that we will experience hardship and stress at some point.
-- James Dobson -
It's incredible to see the creativity, beauty and hardships people capture when filmmaking is opened up and shared with the world.
-- Jehane Noujaim -
Fate has never ladled out hardship very evenly, and this frequently trips our often infantile sense of justice.
-- Jim Harrison -
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The greater hardship you endure, the greater the authority God entrusts to you.
-- John Bevere -
Seeking is a necessary preliminary to finding, and one who cannot endure the hardship of inquiry cannot expect to harvest the fruit of knowledge.
-- John of SalisburySource : John of Salisbury (2009). “The Metalogicon: A Twelfth-century Defense of the Verbal and Logical Arts of the Trivium”, p.104, Paul Dry Books
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It is hard to feel individually responsible with respect to the invisible processes of a huge and distant government.
-- John W. Gardner -
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Let me say no danger and no hardship ever makes me wish to get back to that college life again.
-- Joshua ChamberlainSource : Mark Nesbit, Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain (1996). “Through Blood & Fire”, p.24, Stackpole Books
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Spirituality isn't static. It's an evolving optimism that won't let hardship get the best of you.
-- Judith OrloffSource : Judith Orloff (2009). “Emotional Freedom: Liberate Yourself from Negative Emotions and Transform Your Life”, p.43, Harmony
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I have learned that most of us must face some form of challenge in our lives. But without hardship, we wouldn’t learn and grow.
-- Julianne MacLeanSource : Julianne MacLean (2012). “Married by Midnight: Pembroke Palace Novella”, p.96, Julianne MacLean
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The greatest hardship of poverty is that it tends to make men ridiculous.
-- Juvenal -
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I wasn't concerned about the hardships because I always felt I was doing what I had to do, what I wanted to do and what I was destined to do.
-- Katherine Dunham -
The bushes of love are blossomed through the manure of hardship.
-- Kedar Joshi -
Studies have consistently shown that financial hardship is the biggest obstacle to heterosexual marriage, yet the Republican leadership has done precious little to help address the financial hardship faced by American families.
-- Kendrick Meek -
Of all the hardships a person had to face, none was more punishing than the simple act of waiting.
-- Khaled HosseiniSource : Twitter post from Nov 30, 2014
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Education must enable young people to effect what they have recognized to be right, despite hardships, despite dangers, despite inner skepticism, despite boredom, and despite mockery from the world. . . .
-- Kurt Hahn -
It's a fine world, though rich in hardships at times.
-- Larry McMurtrySource : Larry McMurtry (2010). “Lonesome Dove: A Novel”, p.793, Simon and Schuster
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Adventure ... is what might otherwise be called hardship if it were attempted in a different spirit.
-- Laura Miller -
There's a way of dealing with hardships that are healthier than going out. That's what I've learned.
-- Lindsay Lohan -
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Strength does not come from winning. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength.
-- Mahatma Gandhi -
Luxuries unfit us for returning to hardships easily endured before.
-- Mary Mapes DodgeSource : Mary Mapes Dodge (2012). “Hans Brinker”, p.205, Simon and Schuster
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It makes one a better person to have had hardships and to have overcome hardships and not to blame anybody else for your mistakes.
-- Maureen Forrester -
With patience and calm, persistence and stoicism, good handwriting and careful labeling, they would meet persecution, indignity, and hardship head-on.
-- Michael Chabon -
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Without your downs, without your hardships, I don't think you appreciate the ups as much,
-- Michelle Wie -
You deal. You survive. You grow up and you build a career. And you remember these big/little hardships. They make you human.
-- Miley Cyrus -
I realized that I don't like touring. I'll never complain about it because no one wants to hear about a relatively successful musician complain about the hardships of staying in a hotel.
-- Moby -
The oppressed people of Palestine, whether those who dwell in that bloodstained holy land or those who continue to bear the brunt of hardship and displacement worldwide, are all in all the victims of Zionist discrimination and aggression,
-- Mohammad Khatami -
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If you never know hardship, you can't really support people around you.
-- Natalia VodianovaSource : "Natalia Vodianova: My family values". Interview with Britt Collins, www.theguardian.com. March 11, 2011.
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I can take hardship. I can sleep on the cold floor anytime. I can also sleep on a feather bed,
-- Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala -
Never let life's hardships disturb you. No one can avoid problems, not even saints or sages.
-- Nichiren -
The pine stays green in winter... wisdom in hardship.
-- Norman Douglas -
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Human happiness is defined by the hardships and conflicts you have been through. The greater they are, the greater is your happiness.
-- Peter DeunovSource : Peter Deunov (2010). “Love Is All Forgiving: Reflections on Love and Spirituality”, p.113, Health Communications, Inc.
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Next to the defeated politician, the writer is the most vocal and inventive griper on earth. He sees hardship and unfairness wherever he looks. His agent doesn’t love him (enough). The blank sheet of paper is an enemy. The publisher is a cheapskate. The critic is a philistine. The public doesn’t understand him. His wife doesn’t understand him. The bartender doesn’t understand him.
-- Peter MayleSource : FaceBook post by Peter Mayle from May 29, 2011
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The hardship of living in a refugee camp made me psychologically strong.
-- Philip Emeagwali -
Many 'natural' events - like early death, disease, hardship - are neither desirable nor necessary.
-- Phyllis Chesler -
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Wounds and hardships provoke our courage, and when our fortunes are at the lowest, our wits and minds are commonly at the best.
-- Pierre CharronSource : Pierre Charron (1707). “Of wisdom: Three books. Written originally in French, by the Sieur de Charron. With an account of the author. Made English by George Stanhope, ...”, p.149
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In the moment of hardship, we ask why some things happen. In those moments of suffering, questioning prayers that do not ask for explanations but beg the Lord to accompany us are the most useful
-- Pope Francis -
Nature is trying very hard to make us succeed, but nature does not depend on us. We are not the only experiment.
-- R. Buckminster Fuller -
I'm interested in that thing that happens where there's a breaking point for some people and not for others. You go through such hardship, things that are almost impossibly difficult, and there's no sign that it's going to get any better, and that's the point when people quit. But some don't.
-- Robert Redford -
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Don't use the hardships of your past as excuses to deny the possibilities of your future.
-- Robin Sharma -
Love is our steady guide on this road full of hardships.
-- Rumi -
Financial hardships were rough on us, even though Mom had a good job at G.M.
-- Ryan White -
A Court has no right to strain the law because it causes hardship.
-- Samuel Taylor Coleridge -
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We assume that celebrities have it easy and so love to watch them having to endure a bit of hardship.
-- Shirley JonesSource : "Celebrity Big Brother: Producer Interview". FemaleFirst Interview, www.femalefirst.co.uk.
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It has been hard, I know, my daughters, but one word alone wipes out all of the hardships: love.
-- Sophocles -
Something is funny, most of all, because it's true, and because the velocity of insight into this truth exceeds our normal standards. Something is funny because it's outside our accepted boundary of decorum. Something is funny because it defies our expectations. Something is funny because it offers a temporary reprieve from the hardship of seeing the world as it actually is. Something is funny because it is able to suggest gently that even the worst of our circumstances and sins is subject to eventual mercy.
-- Steve Almond -
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When we are broken because of increased hardship, we simply have to trust in the goodness of God.
-- Steve FarrarSource : Steve Farrar (2009). “Battle Ready: Prepare to Be Used by God”, p.113, David C Cook
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Most of us have unhealthy thoughts and emotions that have either developed as a result of trauma or hardships in their childhood, or the way they were raised.
-- Steven SeagalSource : PBS Interview, www.pbs.org.
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Anyone can keep going in an easy situation, but do you have a philosophy which can enable you to meet the worst hardship?
-- Sun Myung MoonSource : "The Way of God's Will" by Sun Myung Moon, (1-6. Suffering, Offering, and Obedience), 1980.
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Nothing will carry you through hardship like a sincere devotion to Christ.
-- T. B. Joshua -
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Usually, there is nothing more pleasing that returning to a place where you have endured hardship.
-- Tahir Shah -
During the financial crisis and bailouts of 2008, it probably occurred to very few average people that we were entering a period of hardship for billionaires.
-- Thomas Frank -
Human behavior in the midst of hardship caught my attention very early on, and my first stories were all pictures, no words.
-- Wally Lamb -
A key to strengthening spiritual muscles and enduring hardship is finding strength in the Word of God.
-- Walter Martin -
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Overcoming hardships and working around and through their obstacles to achieve an education is what I call a true success.
-- Wayne Huizenga -
I am ready to burn out for God. I am ready to endure any hardship, if by any means I might save some. The longing of my heart is to make known my glorious Redeemer to those who have never heard.
-- William Joseph Burns -
Maybe it's the music that enables them to function like that, to always take everything as it comes and never complain about the misery, hardship or injustice.
-- Wim Wenders -
Times of hardship can act as both an indicator, as well as a cure, for our broken relationship with our Creator.
-- Yasmin Mogahed -