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There is no success without hardship. -- Sophocles
The pine stays green in winter... wisdom in hardship. -- Norman Douglas
Even cowards can endure hardship; only the brave can endure suspense. -- Mignon McLaughlin
The hardship of living in a refugee camp made me psychologically strong. -- Philip Emeagwali
A key to strengthening spiritual muscles and enduring hardship is finding strength in the Word of God. -- Walter Martin
The very greatest things - great thoughts, discoveries, inventions - have usually been nurtured in hardship, often pondered over in sorrow, and at length established with difficulty. -- Samuel Smiles
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
Hardship makes the world obscure. -- Don DeLillo
Hardship brings people closer together if you share it. -- John Wooden
Hardship often prepares an ordinary person for an extraordinary destiny. -- C. S. Lewis
Hardship is vanishing, but so is style, and the two are more closely connected than the present generation supposes. -- E. M. Forster
I never feel more alive than when I'm in great pain, struggling against insurmountable odds and untold adversity. Hardship? Suffering? Bring it! -- Dean Karnazes
Hardship may dishearten at first, but every hardship passes away. All despair is followed by hope; all darkness is followed by sunshine. -- Rumi
Grace. Loss. Fortune. Hardship. Victory. Sometimes the worst seat is best seat in the house and it comes as a result of leading. -- Dan B. Allender
I think we live in a culture that relentlessly pursues comfort. Ease is related to disease. We shouldn't always be fleeing hardship. Hardship also brings people together. We should welcome it. -- Dan Buettner
It'll be dangerous," Nyssa warned him. "Hardship, monsters, terrible suffering. Possibly none of you will come back alive." "Oh." Suddenly Leo didn't look so excited. Then he remembered everyone was watching. "I mean... Oh, cool! Suffering? I love suffering! Let's do this. -- Rick Riordan
A hard life improves the vision. -- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
God tests His people through hardship. -- John Piper
If you never know hardship, you can't really support people around you. -- Natalia Vodianova
God sometimes does try to the uttermost those whom he wishes to bless. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Sometimes adversity is what you need to face in order to become successful. -- Zig Ziglar
If we believe that tomorrow will be better, we can bear a hardship today -- Nhat Hanh
You don't get character because you're successful; you build character because of the hardships you face. -- Herman Edwards
If a soldier or labourer complain of the hardship of his lot, set him to do nothing. -- Blaise Pascal
People had no tolerance for your particular hardship unless you knew how to entertain them with it. -- Don DeLillo
Sorrow happens, hardship happens, the hell with it, who never knew the price of happiness, will not be happy. -- Yevgeny Yevtushenko
Strength does not come from winning. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength. -- Mahatma Gandhi
I think men, growing up, you have to go through some form of hardship. You've got to harden the metal. -- Ice T
Let me say no danger and no hardship ever makes me wish to get back to that college life again. -- Joshua Chamberlain
At times I experience hardship in trying to find the proper point of balance between traditional things and my own personality. -- Masako, Crown Princess of Japan
A gentleman can withstand hardships; it is only the small man who, when submitted to them, is swept off his feet. -- Confucius
Human behavior in the midst of hardship caught my attention very early on, and my first stories were all pictures, no words. -- Wally Lamb
Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength. -- Arnold Schwarzenegger
No power in society, no hardship in your condition can depress you, keep you down, in knowledge, power, virtue, influence, but by your own consent. -- William Ellery Channing
We have to remember that no matter how much hardship we go through in our life, there is always going to be that fragile place in our heart. -- Angie Martinez
Hope is important because it can make the present moment less difficult to bear. If we believe that tomorrow will be better, we can bear a hardship today. -- Thich Nhat Hanh
Hope is important because it can make the present moment less difficult to bear. If we believe that tomorrow will be better, we can bear a hardship today. -- Thich Nhat Hanh
I mean, we are tribal by nature, and sometimes success and material wealth can divide and separate - it's not a new philosophy I'm sharing - more than hardship, hardship tends to unify. -- Colin Farrell
I will not leave South Africa, nor will I surrender. Only through hardship, sacrifice and militant action can freedom be won. The struggle is my life. I will continue fighting for freedom until the end of my days. -- Nelson Mandela
When faced with a challenge, happy families, like happy people, just add a new chapter to their life story that shows them overcoming the hardship. This skill is particularly important for children, whose identity tends to get locked in during adolescence. -- Bruce Feiler
South Koreans who have seen and praised the mass games should remember the hardship of tearful children. Teachers drive them hard with curses and orders to repeat and repeat. When the children return home in the evening, they can hardly walk. -- Kim Il-sung
It matters not what your individual position is on either war we are currently prosecuting - in Iraq or Afghanistan - certainly we can all agree protesting at military funerals is a cruel and unnecessary hardship on our military families during their most difficult hour. -- Solomon Ortiz
In the modern era, our nation experienced constant hardship and difficulties. The Chinese nation reached the most dangerous period. Since then, countless people with lofty ideals to realise the great revival of the Chinese nation rose to resist and fight, but failed one time after another. -- Xi Jinping
Because God gave you your makeup and superintended every moment of your past, including all the hardship, pain, and struggles, He wants to use your words in a unique manner. No one else can speak through your vocal cords, and, equally important, no one else has your story. -- Charles R. Swindoll
It is poison - rank poison - to knuckle down to care and hardships. They must come to us all, albeit in different shapes, and we may not escape them. It is not possible. But we may swindle them out of half of their puissance with a stiff upper lip. -- Mark Twain
My background is not typical hip-hop. I didn't grow up in the projects. I grew up in a single family home in a middle-class suburb. That doesn't mean I didn't experience hardship, but to me it's not about that, it's about the future and where we are trying to take it. -- Kid Cudi
I'm interested in that thing that happens where there's a breaking point for some people and not for others. You go through such hardship, things that are almost impossibly difficult, and there's no sign that it's going to get any better, and that's the point when people quit. But some don't. -- Robert Redford
Since 1994, lawmakers on both sides of the aisle have considered it politically risky to offer a plan to fix America's broken health care system. The American public, though, has paid the price for this silence as health care costs skyrocketed, millions went uninsured, and millions more grappled with financial insecurity and hardship. -- Ron Wyden
I usually give a book 40 pages. If it doesn't grab me by then, adios. With young adult books, you can usually tell by Page 4 if it's worth the time. The author establishes the conflict early, sometimes in the first sentence. The themes of hope, family, friendship and overcoming hardship appeal to most everyone. -- Regina Brett
Everything is an open book. I don't speak on other people's hardship, but if it happened in my life or something that has been an experience on my particular journey, I'm going to talk about it. That's what my fan base appreciates the most. I'm universal. You can relate to the things I say or that I go through. -- Kevin Hart
Life is a series of punches. It presents a lot of challenges. It presents a lot of hardship, but the people that are able to take those punches and able to move forward are the ones that really do have a lot of success and have a lot of joy in their life and have a lot of stories to tell, too. -- Josh Turner
I am always shocked to discover how many people believe that hardships are a punishment from God! When people face tests or see others facing tests, they assume Allah must be angry with them. SubhannAllah! Remember which people were tested the most: The Prophets! And they were the closest to Allah. Every hardship is good for you-if it brings you closer to Him! -- Yasmin Mogahed
This character matters so much to so many people. I want to get that right. I want to do it justice. I want people to believe in the character and have faith in the character and kids to grow up wanting to be Superman. Or, God forbid, there's people who are going through hardship and wishing that this character would turn up and save them. -- Henry Cavill
Adventure is hardship aesthetically considered -- Barry Targan
Poverty leads to hardship and failure. -- Irwin Redlener
There is hardship in everything except eating pancakes. -- Charles Spurgeon
Everyone has hardship in their life. Everyone has pain. -- Gayle Forman
It is hardship that makes clear who the "fighters" are. -- Marilynne Robinson
To learn patience is not to rebel against every hardship. -- Henri Nouwen
The bushes of love are blossomed through the manure of hardship. -- Kedar Joshi
People can live through hardship, but from hard feelings they perish. -- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Firstly, do not fear hardship, and secondly, do not fear death. -- Mao Zedong
There's nothing like a hardship song to set my toes a-tappin. -- Roseanne Barr
Nothing will carry you through hardship like a sincere devotion to Christ. -- T. B. Joshua
The angels minister to God's servants in time of hardship and danger. -- Billy Graham
The greater hardship you endure, the greater the authority God entrusts to you. -- John Bevere
It was no hardship to me to spend long hours reading and writing. -- Patti Smith
In a world of regret, sacrifice and hardship, laughter and music are medicine. -- Immortal Technique
The greatest hardship of poverty is that it tends to make men ridiculous. -- Juvenal
A Court has no right to strain the law because it causes hardship. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
I could do without many things with no hardship-you are not one of them. -- Ashleigh Brilliant
The hardship, the fighting against vigilance should stop, and terrorism should be fought decisively. -- Alexis Tsipras
Many 'natural' events - like early death, disease, hardship - are neither desirable nor necessary. -- Phyllis Chesler
Not the comfort, but the confrontation and hardship, is the teacher of a great life. -- Debasish Mridha
During times of persistent hardship is when the warrior learns the most about his fortitude. -- Bohdi Sanders
Adventure ... is what might otherwise be called hardship if it were attempted in a different spirit. -- Laura Miller
Usually, there is nothing more pleasing that returning to a place where you have endured hardship. -- Tahir Shah
Our examples of enduring hardship are often more powerful than our stories of success and triumph. -- Mark Dever
I remember people who'd had a lot of hardship during the war. They'd thought we'd won. -- Barbara Castle
I remember people who'd had a lot of hardship during the war. They'd thought we'd won. -- Barbara Castle
Spirituality isn't static. It's an evolving optimism that won't let hardship get the best of you. -- Judith Orloff
The strength and clarity of your vision will lift you out of the depth of any hardship. -- Robin Sharma
The soul gives us resilience - an essential quality since we constantly have to rebound from hardship. -- Wynton Marsalis
When we are broken because of increased hardship, we simply have to trust in the goodness of God. -- Steve Farrar
It really seems as if failure and hardship make more of a human being of folks than success. -- Gene Stratton-Porter
Fate has never ladled out hardship very evenly, and this frequently trips our often infantile sense of justice. -- Jim Harrison
The noblest people are those despising wealth , learning , pleasure and life ; esteeming above them poverty , ignorance , hardship and death . -- Diogenes
Success makes opportunities and so many of those "opportunities" are actually exemptions - from hardship, from unfriendliness, from struggle. -- George Saunders
So we need people who will remain steadfast in any hardship and who have a high degree of resistance. -- Moshe Sharett
Ease and luxury, such as our affluence brings today, do not make for maturity; hardship and struggle however do. -- J. I. Packer
With patience and calm, persistence and stoicism, good handwriting and careful labeling, they would meet persecution, indignity, and hardship head-on. -- Michael Chabon
The greatest things in life all require commitment, sacrifice, some struggle and hardship. It's not easy. But absolutely worth it. -- Robin Sharma
I'm not going to experience the reality of hardship that sometimes my characters live in. I'm very cautious about that. -- Colin Farrell
At the extremity of hardship comes relief and at the tightening of the chains of trials and tribulations comes ease. -- Boonaa Mohammed
As I grew older, I came to feel more responsible for any hardship or trouble my career caused my family. -- Annette Funicello
I can take hardship. I can sleep on the cold floor anytime. I can also sleep on a feather bed. -- Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala
I think any hardship is better than pretending to do what one is paid for, and never really doing it. -- George Eliot
I can take hardship. I can sleep on the cold floor anytime. I can also sleep on a feather bed, -- Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala
What ought one to say then as each hardship comes? I was practicing for this, I was training for this. -- Epictetus
We assume that celebrities have it easy and so love to watch them having to endure a bit of hardship. -- Shirley Jones
Times of hardship can act as both an indicator, as well as a cure, for our broken relationship with our Creator. -- Yasmin Mogahed
You may go through difficulty, hardship, or trialâ??but as long as you are anchored to Him, you will have hope. -- Charles Stanley
In a delightful garden, sowing, planting or digging are not hardship but are done with a zeal and a certain pleasure. -- Martin Luther
Explorers like to pretend that they are a select breed of people with iron nerve and an ability to endure terrible hardship. -- Tahir Shah
I believe that anybody with Mandela's capacity to endure hardship and then forgive is a born leader and example to us all. -- Rory McIlroy
Just as the blessings of God are unutterably great, so their acquisition requires much hardship and toil undertaken with hope and faith. -- Macarius of Egypt
Anyone can keep going in an easy situation, but do you have a philosophy which can enable you to meet the worst hardship? -- Sun Myung Moon
In the mind engaged in struggling with hardship, one always finds something delightful. The sorrow of disappointment arises in the complacency of satisfaction. -- Zicheng Hong
There's a thrill in the midst of the hardship in knowing that I'm making the invisible real. And I'm doing what I want. -- Errollyn Wallen
I have learned that most of us must face some form of challenge in our lives. But without hardship, we wouldn't learn and grow. -- Julianne MacLean
Seeking is a necessary preliminary to finding, and one who cannot endure the hardship of inquiry cannot expect to harvest the fruit of knowledge. -- John of Salisbury
Its shocking how many people believe hardships are a punishment from God! Every hardship is good for you-if it brings you closer to Him! -- Yasmin Mogahed
BE GRATEFUL EVEN for hardship, setbacks, and bad people. Dealing with such obstacles is an essential part of training in the Art of Peace. -- Morihei Ueshiba
In capitalism, profit does not come out of another man's hardship; it comes out of new production of new wealth that's never existed before. -- Andrew Joseph Galambos
During the financial crisis and bailouts of 2008, it probably occurred to very few average people that we were entering a period of hardship for billionaires. -- Thomas Frank
The bond between the United States and Britain has always been strong. It has survived through war and peace, periods of prosperity and economic hardship. -- Louis Susman
Greed is mistaken nobility. Instead of robbing all the pain and hardship from people's lives and rescuing them from danger, greed robs provisions from providers. -- Justin K. McFarlane Beau
The fact that a baby can be born today and condemned to a life of hardship, struggle, and discrimination simply because of sex is enraging. -- Adora Svitak
In war and in peace, in prosperity and times of economic hardship, America has no better friend or more dependable ally than the United Kingdom. -- Louis Susman
Those who were raised in poverty and have been successful to overcome the shame of it, understands the hardship of those who are left behind. -- Ellen J. Barrier

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