Quotes about Hardship

There are uses to adversity, and they don't reveal themselves until tested. Whether it's serious illness, financial hardship, or the simple constraint of parents who speak limited English, difficulty can tap unexpected strengths.

A heart that knows sorrow loses the ability to compare. I will just tell you that I have walked a road marked and rutted as your own. I too had every reason to grow bitter. I could have turned my back on the Lord above. But I chose to trust Him. I cannot say that I understand His ways, but this trust has served me well. It has comforted me through hard times, and blessed me with joy when there was goodness about — and with peace when there wasn't.

I feel like the same person, but I feel as if I need to work twice as much now.

It is a sober truth that people who live only to amuse themselves work harder at the task than most people do in earning their daily bread.

Without labor there is neither wealth, nor comfort, nor progress.

All sorrow, hardship, difficulty, struggle, pain, unhappiness, and ultimately death itself can be traced to rebellion against God's love for us.

Hardship often prepares an ordinary person for an extraordinary destiny.

I'm one of the undeserving poor.

A slave lacks incentives; for him it is better to work slowly and badly, since his effort benefits only the master, but free people work hard to save and get ahead,, that is their incentive.

You have come into a hard world. I know of only one easy place in it, and that is the grave.

'Mean to' don't pick no cotton.

Trouble will rain on those who are already wet.