Quotes about Hardship

Nothing in the world is worth having or worth doing unless it means effort, pain, difficulty… I have never in my life envied a human being who led an easy life. I have envied a great many people who led difficult lives and led them well.

Why seekest thou rest when thou art born to labour? Prepare thyself for patience more than for comforts, and for bearing the cross more than for joy.

The Christ speaks: Wherever you are, whatever you do, you will be restless until you turn to God. Does it upset you when a day doesn't go according to your plan? Is there anyone who has everything for which one could wish? No, not one. Kings and popes are not exempt. Disappointment affects everyone. Doldrums corner even the most devout unless they are among the few who are able to endure hardship willingly without complaining.

Great achievement is usually born of great sacrifice, and is never the result of selfishness.

It was bad, it was bad, it was infinitely bad!

Friend, never fear dying. Dying is the last, but the least matter that a person has to be anxious about. Fear living, that is a hard battle to fight, a stern discipline to endure, a rough voyage to undergo ! Charles Spurgeon

Bad weather never stopped anyone from reaping a good harvest.

Your strength doesn't come from winning. It comes from struggles and hardship. Everything that you go through prepares you for the next level.

These are the times that try men's souls...yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly; it is dearness only that gives every thing value. Heaven knows how to put a proper price upon its goods.

The hammer shatters glass but forges steel.

Nowadays we are all of us so hard up that the only pleasant things to pay are compliments. They're the only things we can pay.

And when wind and winter harden All the loveless land, It will whisper of the garden, You will understand.