Quotes about Hardship

Victories that are cheap are cheap. Those only are worth having which come as the result of hard fighting.

The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheaply, we esteem too lightly; 'tis dearness only that gives everything its value.

Other Definitions of Adversity Adversity is the touchstone of virtue.

There is no success like the success of a man who had to persevere in order to receive it. People appreciate the victory when they have to walk it out.

Street cred is hard won and Destiny requires you to pay it forward. God helps you through hard times so you can help someone else.

Let every man, every corporation, and especially let every village, town, and city, every county and State, get out of debt and keep out of debt. It is the debtor that is ruined by hard times.

I don't pity any man who does hard work worth doing. I admire him. I pity the creature who does not work, at whichever end of the social scale he may regard himself as being.

So your desire is to do nothing? Well, you shall not have a week, a day, an hour, free from oppression. You shall not be able to lift anything without agony. Every passing minute will make your muscles crack. What is feather to others will be a rock to you. The simplest things will become difficult. Life will become monstrous about you. To come, to go, to breathe, will be so many terrible tasks for you. Your lungs will feel like a hundred-pound weight.

He had slipped, climbed, rolled, searched, walked, persevered, that is all. Such is the secret of all triumphs.

People who are overwhelmed with troubles never do look back. They know only too well that misfortune follows in their footsteps.

There is one thing sadder than having no money to buy bread; that is having nothing with which to buy medicine.

Here the sons of adversity meet the children of calamity, and here the children of calamity meet the offspring of sin.