Quotes about Hardship

Everything that's worth having is some trouble…

Everything that's worth having is some trouble - Anne Shirley

As a civilised society, we have a duty to support those among us who are vulnerable and in need. When times are hard, that duty should be felt more than ever, not disappear or diminish.

Labor is a blessing, toil is the misery of man.

I do remember how it was to be poor. I do remember that in my early years, we had to grow and raise all of our food, even our animals. And I remember in my early life, we didn't even have electricity. So it was very, very hard times then.

But I had to work ten times as hard to get half the attention.

Into every life there come the painful, despairing days of adversity.

When you are tough on yourself, life is inevitably easy. When you are easy on yourself, life will be inevitably difficult.

Whomever the Lord has adopted and deemed worthy of His fellowship ought to prepare themselves for a hard, toilsome, and unquiet life, crammed with very many and various kinds of evil.

When life is hard it's easy to focus only on the bad things and forget all about the good things God has given us. But God has blessed every one of us in ways we often overlook.

Dignify and glorify common labor. It is at the bottom of life that we must begin, not at the top.

I grew up in the 1930s Great Depression when many families struggled to make ends meet, and in an area where old-fashioned country gospel music was popular. Later, as an adult with a more mature outlook on Christianity, I realized that a lot of that music was rather shallow.