Hardship Quotes

Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty. (John F. Kennedy)
Sorrow happens, hardship happens, the hell with it, who never knew the price of happiness, will not be happy. View quote
Yevgeny Yevtushenko
Hope is important because it can make the present moment less difficult to bear. If we believe that tomorrow will be better, we can bear a hardship today. View quote
Nhat Hanh
The pine stays green in winter... wisdom in hardship. View quote
Norman Douglas
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. View quote
Seneca
He'd once told me that the art of getting ahead in New York was based on learning how to express dissatisfaction in an interesting way. The air was full of rage and complaint. People had no tolerance for your particular hardship unless you knew how to entertain them with it. View quote
Don DeLillo
Even cowards can endure hardship; only the brave can endure suspense. View quote
Mignon McLaughlin
I can take hardship. I can sleep on the cold floor anytime. I can also sleep on a feather bed. View quote
Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala
Dignity is as essential to human life as water, food, and oxygen. The stubborn retention of it, even in the face of extreme physical hardship, can hold a man's soul in his body long past the point at which the body should have surrendered it. View quote
Laura Hillenbrand
I remember people who'd had a lot of hardship during the war. They'd thought we'd won. View quote
Barbara Castle
So we need people who will remain steadfast in any hardship and who have a high degree of resistance. (Moshe Sharett)
The hardship of living in a refugee camp made me psychologically strong. View quote
Philip Emeagwali
A key to strengthening spiritual muscles and enduring hardship is finding strength in the Word of God. View quote
Walter Martin
The very greatest things - great thoughts, discoveries, inventions - have usually been nurtured in hardship, often pondered over in sorrow, and at length established with difficulty. View quote
Samuel Smiles
I am convinced that the majority of the religious hierarchy today deplores the hardship inflicted on our people. I am referring not only to the martyrs but of the families who have been dispersed and terrified, who have no resources, and to the four million unemployed who are suffering from the economic chaos of a country which only a year earlier was giving employment to a million foreigners. Those who have chosen to serve God must feel profoundly sad at seeing ridicule poured on the most sacred principles of our religion. View quote
Muhammad Reza Pahlavi
I think any hardship is better than pretending to do what one is paid for, and never really doing it. View quote
George Eliot
Be grateful even for hardship, setbacks, and bad people. Dealing with such obstacles is an essential part of training in the Art of Peace. View quote
Morihei Ueshiba
Hardship is vanishing, but so is style, and the two are more closely connected than the present generation supposes. View quote
E. M. Forster
Anyone can keep going in an easy situation, but do you have a philosophy which can enable you to meet the worst hardship? View quote
Sun Myung Moon
Don't Latin Americans have the right to ask why their elected governments are being opposed and coup leaders supported? Poverty and hardship in large parts of Africa are preventing this from happening. Don't they have the right to ask why their enormous wealth – including minerals – is being looted, despite the fact that they need it more than others? View quote
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
But the prize for courage will surely be awarded most justly to those who best know the difference between hardship and pleasure and yet are never tempted to shrink from danger. (Thucydides)
The universe is cold. Fun is the fire that melts the blocks of hardship and creates a bubbling celebration of life. It is the birth right of every creature, a right no less sacred for having been trampled on since the beginning of time. View quote
Nick Bostrom
Maybe it's the music that enables them to function like that, to always take everything as it comes and never complain about the misery, hardship or injustice. View quote
Wim Wenders
The noblest people are those despising wealth, learning, pleasure and life; esteeming above them poverty, ignorance, hardship and death. View quote
Diogenes of Sinope
I usually give a book 40 pages. If it doesn't grab me by then, adios. With young adult books, you can usually tell by Page 4 if it's worth the time. The author establishes the conflict early, sometimes in the first sentence. The themes of hope, family, friendship and overcoming hardship appeal to most everyone. View quote
Regina Brett