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Quotes about Hardship

Great achievement is usually born of great sacrifice, and is never the result of selfishness.
— Napoleon Hill
It was bad, it was bad, it was infinitely bad!
— Virginia Woolf
Friend, never fear dying. Dying is the last, but the least matter that a person has to be anxious about. Fear living, that is a hard battle to fight, a stern discipline to endure, a rough voyage to undergo ! Charles Spurgeon
— Lao Tzu
Bad weather never stopped anyone from reaping a good harvest.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
Your strength doesn't come from winning. It comes from struggles and hardship. Everything that you go through prepares you for the next level.
— Germany Kent
These are the times that try men's souls...yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly; it is dearness only that gives every thing value. Heaven knows how to put a proper price upon its goods.
— Thomas Paine
The hammer shatters glass but forges steel.
— Norman Vincent Peale
Nowadays we are all of us so hard up that the only pleasant things to pay are compliments. They're the only things we can pay.
— Oscar Wilde
And when wind and winter harden All the loveless land, It will whisper of the garden, You will understand.
— Oscar Wilde
Wrap me in the weathers of the earth, I will be hard and hard. My face will turn rain like the stones.
— Cormac McCarthy
In the grueling light that passed for day...
— Cormac McCarthy
I just meant I'd seen things I'd as soon not of. I know it. There's hard lessons in this world. What's the hardest? I don't know . Maybe it's just that when things are gone they're gone. They aint comin back.
— Cormac McCarthy