Quotes about Hardship
A complainer is hard to live with, and very few people know how to respond to the complaints made by a self-rejecting person. The tragedy is that, often, the complaint, once expressed, leads to that which is most feared: further rejection.
- Henri Nouwen
There is great pain and suffering in the world. But the pain hardest to bear is your own.
- Henri Nouwen
Toes are scarce among veteran blubber-room men.
- Herman Melville
The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.
- Aristotle
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
I can easily quote the saying: Misfortunes never come singly.
- Anne Frank
Human lives are hard, even those of health and privilege, and don't make much sense. This is the message of the Book of Job: Any snappy explanation of suffering you come up with will be horseshit.
- Anne Lamott
Alas, there isn't a pain-free way to achieve your goals.
- Seth Godin
To be mundane and poor is the curse of life!
- Oprah Winfrey
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 success of liberty.
- John F. Kennedy
The beginning of hardship is like the first taste of bitter food—it seems for a moment unbearable; yet, if there is nothing else to satisfy our hunger, we take another bite and find it possible to go on.
- George Eliot
Money was always on my mind when I was growing up. So I was always wondering how we were going to afford this and that. Acting seemed to be a shortcut out of the mess.
- Leonardo DiCaprio