Quotes about Hardship

She shut her eyes and he could see that the lids were trembling. Dear little Dot, life is so damned hard. She was crying upon his shoulder. So damned hard, so damned hard, he repeated aimlessly; it just hurts people and hurts people, until finally it hurts them so that they can't be hurt ever any more. That's the last and worst thing it does. Frantic

Well, I've had a very bad time, Nick, and I'm pretty cynical about everything.

I didn't have any of those good assets to have successful teenage years. It was hard. And what saved me was definitely my whole family. I knew where I was coming from and where I was going to.

Every true Christian is a soldier - of Christ - a hero 'par excellence'! Braver than the bravest - scorning the soft seductions of peace and her oft-repeated warnings against hardship, disease, danger, and death, whom he counts among his bosom friends.

The strain of life is what builds our strength. If there is no strain, there will be no strength.

One is given strength to bear what happens to one, but not the 100 and 1 different things that might happen.

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.

There is no success without sacrifice. If you succeed without sacrifice it is because someone has suffered before you. If you sacrifice without success it is because someone will succeed after.

The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary.

There's a lot of blood, sweat, and guts between dreams and success.

Our examples of enduring hardship are often more powerful than our stories of success and triumph.

The success you are enjoying today is the result of the price you have paid in the past.