Hardship Quotes

Great character is forged through hardships.

Courage is the ability to conquer fear or despair, to be brave or have a quality of mind or temperament that enables you to stand fast in the face of opposition, hardship or danger.

Times of hardship can act as both an indicator, as well as a cure, for our broken relationship with our Creator.

Poverty entails fear and stress and sometimes depression. It means a thousand petty humiliations and hardships.

We are not taught that hardship is the anvil upon which we are beaten into beauty. We are not taught that some of our greatest moments are some of our most difficult.

When I started‚ I faced a lot of hardships. People used to call me a Rafi clone because I used to sing my favourite singer's songs. Then 'Sa Re Ga Ma Pa' happened. It gave me a good break.

When companies offer support and assistance for personal and family hardships, their employees become more loyal and more productive.

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.

It's a fine world, though rich in hardships at times.

The noblest people are those despising wealth, learning, pleasure and life; esteeming above them poverty, ignorance, hardship and death.

I felt compelled to venture forth and explore the true face of the world. Leading a satisfying life of plenty had blinded many of us to the immense hardships beyond our borders.

Of course, it's always bad to lose, of course it's always a hardship when you lose to yesterday's miners or yesterday's tractor drivers. But life is life. It'll surely go on.

The hardships of forced marches are often more painful than the dangers of battle

The good news of the kingdom is not freedom from hardship, suffering, and loss. It is the news of a Redeemer who has come to rescue me from myself.

I can take hardship. I can sleep on the cold floor anytime. I can also sleep on a feather bed.

It is not an easy thing to be a woman and love with the whole heart: which men do not understand -- having many loves, and delighting in danger and war.

Its shocking how many people believe hardships are a punishment from God! Every hardship is good for you-if it brings you closer to Him!

posterity who are to reap the blessings will scarcely be able to conceive the hardships and sufferings of their ancestors.

It really seems as if failure and hardship make more of a human being of folks than success.

The first quality of a soldier is constancy in enduring fatigue and hardship. Courage is only the second. Poverty privation and want are the school of the good soldier.

Luxuries unfit us for returning to hardships easily endured before.

Fire tests gold, suffering tests brave men.

I'm right there, swimming the river of hardships but I know how to swim.

Just as the blessings of God are unutterably great, so their acquisition requires much hardship and toil undertaken with hope and faith.

Human behavior in the midst of hardship caught my attention very early on, and my first stories were all pictures, no words.

Hope is not defined by the absence of hardship. Rather, hope is found in God’s grace in the midst of hardship. Hope is found in his promise to give us a future.

For all the cruelty and hardship of our world, we are not mere prisoners of fate. Our actions matter, and can bend history in the direction of justice.

Without your downs, without your hardships, I don't think you appreciate the ups as much.

The greater hardship you endure, the greater the authority God entrusts to you.

My spirit is too weak--mortality Weighs heavily on me like unwilling sleep, And each imagin'd pinnacle and steep Of godlike hardship tells me I must die Like a sick Eagle looking at the sky.

God tests His people through hardship.

People had no tolerance for your particular hardship unless you knew how to entertain them with it.

The highest form of success comes to the man who does not shrink from danger, from hardship or from bitter toil, and who, out of these, wins the splendid ultimate triumph.

I have learned there is no joy without hardship. There is no pleasure without pain. Would we know the comfort of peace without the distress of war?

The angels minister to God's servants in time of hardship and danger.

A hard life improves the vision.

With patience and calm, persistence and stoicism, good handwriting and careful labeling, they would meet persecution, indignity, and hardship head-on.

If a man cannot understand the beauty of life, it is probably because life never understood the beauty in him.

Don't know how I kept going. You just do. You have to, so you do.

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.

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.

Anyone can keep going in an easy situation, but do you have a philosophy which can enable you to meet the worst hardship?

Most men ebb and flow in wretchedness between the fear of death and the hardship of life; they are unwilling to live, and yet they do not know how to die.

Happiness does not lie in amusement; it would be strange if one were to take trouble and suffer hardship all one's life in order to amuse oneself.

Readers will share in the environs of the author and her characters, be taken into the hardship of a pitiless place and emerge on the other side — wiser, warier and weathered like the landscape.

Success makes opportunities and so many of those "opportunities" are actually exemptions - from hardship, from unfriendliness, from struggle.

At times I experience hardship in trying to find the proper point of balance between traditional things and my own personality.

Seeking is a necessary preliminary to finding, and one who cannot endure the hardship of inquiry cannot expect to harvest the fruit of knowledge.

Braving obstacles and hardships is braver than retreat to tranquility.

What a weary time those years were -- to have the desire and the need to live but not the ability.