#Hardship Quotes

“What freezings I have felt, what dark days seen,What old December's bareness everywhere!”

“The tyrant custom, most grave senators,Hath made the flinty and steel couch of warMy thrice-driven bed of down.”

“I've never been very fully employed either but just think of what it's like, you know, to go home with a mortgage payment you know and kids and everything else. My dad had that happen to him in the early '30s.”

“Too long a sacrifice can make a stone of the heart. O when may it suffice?”

“Winter changes into stone the water of heaven and the heart of man.”

“How remorseless life is!”

“Life's bare as a bone.”

“The hard times make a true friend afraid to ask.”

“Thehighest form of success comes to the man who does not shrink fromdanger, from hardship or from bitter toil, and who, out of these, winsthe splendid ultimate triumph.”

“Love is our steady guide on this road full of hardships.”

“Poverty, Frost, Famine, Rain, Disease, are the beadles and guardsmen that hold us to Common Sense.”

“Nothing that’s worthwhile is ever easy. Remember that.”

“Americans are like a rich father who wishes he knew how to give his son the hardships that made him rich.”

“Hardships drive some people apart. Others, like us, grow even closer.”

“It is poison - rank poison - to knuckle down to care and hardships. They must come to us all, albeit in different shapes, and we may not escape them. It is not possible. But we may swindle them out of half of their puissance with a stiff upper lip.”

“If you think your lot in life has been hard read “Up From Slavery” by Booker T. Washington, and you may see how fortunate you have been.”

“Is it only the mouth and belly which are injured by hunger and thirst? Men's minds are also injured by them.”

“Firstly, do not fear hardship, and secondly, do not fear death.”

“It is true you can be successful without [college], but this is a hard world, a real world, and you want every advantage you can have. I would suggest to people to do all that you can. When I dropped out of school, I had worked in the music industry and had checks cut in my name from record labels and had a record deal on the table, and when I wasn’t successful and Columbia said, ’We’ll call you,’ I had to go back and work a telemarketing job, go back to the real world, and that’s how life is. Life is hard. Take advantage of your opportunities.”

“Life for me ain't been no crystal stair”

“It is sad that today many times people give up in the hard times and never get to enjoy the fruit of all their labor.”

“These feet have walked ten thousand miles working for white folks and another ten thousand keeping up with colored.”

“A family shares hardships and a connected history.”

“There were many times my pants were so thin I could sit on a dime and tell if it was heads or tails.”

“I should have said, 'Follow your blisters.'”

“In those days, there was no money to buy books.”

“He who has always spared himself much will in the end become sickly of so much consideration. Praised be what hardens!”

“One of George Washington's main concerns was to make sure that his soldiers had adequate supplies of meat: A part of the army has been a week without any kind of flesh, and the rest three or four days. Naked and starving as they are, we cannot enough admire the incomparable patience and fidelity of the soldiery, that they have not been ere this excited by their suffering to a general mutiny and dispersion.”

“It isn't so much that hard times are coming; the change observed is mostly soft times going.”

“Life is a succession of afflictions for the heart.”

“It is sad, no doubt, to exhaust one's strength and one's days in cleaving the bosom of this jealous earth, which compels us to wring from it the treasures of its fertility, when a bit of the blackest and coarsest bread is, at the end of the day's work, the sole recompense and the sole profit attaching to so arduous a toil.”

“In summer, intolerable closeness; in winter, unendurable cold. All the floors were rotten. Filth on the floors an inch thick; one could slip and fall.”

“Only old Benjamin professed to remember every detail of his long life and to know that things never had been, nor ever could be much better or much worse--hunger, hardship, and disappointment being, so he said, the unalterable law of life.”

“Even when we have physical hardships, we can be very happy.”

“I was young and not gloomy and there were always strange and comic things that happened in the worst time.”

“It is not just a person's physical constitution, their intellegence, their education, or even their social conditioning that enables them to withstand hardship. Much more significant is their inner development. And while some may be able to survive through sheer willpower, the ones who suffer the least are those who have a high degree of patience and courage in the face of adversity.”

“Life is hard to bear: but do not affect to be so delicate! We are all of us fine sumpter asses and assesses.”

“These times are so hard, and they're getting even harder.”

“Those who don't have a life filled with luxury may have a home filled with compassion, based on their choice to be content and to practice self-discipline. Even when we have physical hardships, we can be very happy.”

“Think they work you too hard? Think of poor Ali Sard. He has to mow grass in his uncle's backyard and its quick growing grass and it grows as he mows it the faster he mows it the faster he grows it. And all that his stingy old uncle will pay for his shoving mower around the hay is piffulous pay of two dooklas a day. And Ali can't live on such piffulous pay!”

“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.”

“My life is one demd horrid grind.”

“The worst of sleeping out of doors is that you wake up so dreadfully early. And when you wake up you have to get up because the ground is so hard you are uncomfortable. And it makes matters worse if there is nothing but apples for breakfast and you have had nothing but apples for supper the night before.”

“A world where everything was easy would be a nursery for babies, but not at all a fit place for men.”

“There is hardship in everything except eating pancakes.”

“The Greek people have gone through some very difficult times and there's still a hard road ahead, but despite those hardships, Greece has continued to be a reliable ally, has shown true compassion to fellow human beings in need. It's an example of the Greek character.”

“If a soldier or labourer complain of the hardship of his lot, set him to do nothing.”

“Life isn't all fricasseed frogs and eel pie.”

“A rain will fall, but the dirt it toughA pot a cook but the food nah nuff.”