Quotes about Hardship

So your desire is to do nothing? Well, you shall not have a week, a day, an hour, free from oppression. You shall not be able to lift anything without agony. Every passing minute will make your muscles crack. What is feather to others will be a rock to you. The simplest things will become difficult. Life will become monstrous about you. To come, to go, to breathe, will be so many terrible tasks for you. Your lungs will feel like a hundred-pound weight.

He had slipped, climbed, rolled, searched, walked, persevered, that is all. Such is the secret of all triumphs.

People who are overwhelmed with troubles never do look back. They know only too well that misfortune follows in their footsteps.

There is one thing sadder than having no money to buy bread; that is having nothing with which to buy medicine.

I have worked in kitchens since I was 15 years old and never had a break.

Here the sons of adversity meet the children of calamity, and here the children of calamity meet the offspring of sin.

When I was a deacon, the ominous signs of the Great Depression began to appear. Tens of thousands lost their jobs. Money was scarce. Families had to do without. Some young people did not ask their mothers, 'What's for dinner?' because they knew all too well that their cupboards held very little.

Remember anything you want that's valuable requires you to break through short-term pain in order to gain long-term pleasure.

The farmers may be the backbone of the country, but who wants to be a backbone?

Poverty possesses this disease; through want it teaches a man evil.

For a long time, our only mode of travel was an Econoline van. Eleven of us, with nine sleeping in the back on two mattresses.

Every worthwhile accomplishment big or little has its stages of drudgery and triumph a beginning a struggle and a victory.