Quotes about Hardship

Nobody talks about my contribution to the sport. Nobody talks about the 101 medals I have won in my 20-year career. Nobody talks about the efforts I made to attain those heights.

sometimes it's the fight that makes a thing worth having

Like all living things, love, too, struggles against hardship, and in the process sheds its fatuous skin to expose one composed of more than just a storm of emotion-one of loyalty and divine friendship. And though it may be temporarily blinded by adversity, it never gives in or up, holding tight to lofty ideals that transcend this earth and time- while its counterfeit simply concludes it was mistaken and quickly runs off to find the next real thing.

Though adversity is the fertile soil in which the human spirit best grows, we loathe it still. I do not see how it can be otherwise, for no rational being seeks out pain and misfortune. Still, I cannot help but wonder if it is not somehow wrong to enjoy the fruit but curse the tree.

People always say that no matter how awful things are, there's always someone suffering more. It's true. It's not really helpful, but it's true.

I believe that, for the most part, we don't succeed in spite of our hardships but precisely because of them.

Adversity reminds men of religion.

If you don't pay the price for success, you'll pay the price for failure.

God is good, and I love Him. Right now, God is permitting a very hard thing. Why, I don't know, but I still trust Him.

That's the story of my life; I always get the fuzzy end of the lollipop.

We're taught that if we keep working harder, somehow the money will come. If this was true, all rich people would be bloodshot and gasping for air instead of sailing around on yachts.

Being repulsed continually hardened her.