Hardship Quotes - Page 15

• Trouble comes looking for you. Lots of times I just stay in the house and enjoy my family. I try to be a father to my child, I'll stay out of trouble if I can, because I have lots to do. Other folks have different hardships. It's hard for a black man to raise a family.

  Snoop Dogg

  Children, Father, Men

  Interview with David Sheff, www.playboy.com. October 7, 2011.

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• We can bring brilliant flowers of victory to bloom in our lives when we weather the hardships of winter and emerge triumphant based on our practice of the Mystic Law. The key to victories lies in how hard we struggle when we are in winter, how wisely we use this time and how meaningful we live each day confident that spring will definitely come.

  Daisaku Ikeda

  Meaningful, Lying, Spring

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• Doing ill to those on whom we have to make our power felt; for pain is a far more sensitive means for that purpose than pleasure: pain always asks concerning the cause, while pleasure is inclined to keep within itself and not look backward.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Pain, Mean, Suffering

  Friedrich Nietzsche “Delphi Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche (Illustrated): Friedrich Nietzsche”, Delphi Classics

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• Examine the life of the best and most productive men and nations, and ask yourselves whether a tree which is to grow proudly skywards can dispense with bad weather and storms. Whether misfortune and opposition, or every kind of hatred, jealousy, stubbornness, distrust, severity, greed, and violence do not belong to the favourable conditions without which a great growth even of virtue is hardly possible?

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Pain, Men, Weather

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• Who can attain to anything great if he does not feel in himself the force and will to inflict great pain?

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Pain, Suffering, Doe

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2012). “The Gay Science”, p.141, Courier Corporation

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• While we can't begin to repay the debt we owe our veterans for their brave service, we can certainly take steps to ease the physical, psychological and financial hardships they may be experiencing.

  Kirsten Gillibrand

  Veterans Day, Financial Hardship, Our Veterans

  "Being a Voice for Our Veterans" by Kirsten Gillibrand, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 8, 2010.

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• It is at least a small comfort to me, as a gay rights and marriage equality advocate, to know that like any marriage, gay and lesbian couples are subject to the same complications and hardships that afflict marriages between heterosexual couples.

  Gene Robinson

  Couple, Gay, Rights

  "First openly gay bishop Gene Robinson announces divorce from husband" by Martin Pengelly, www.theguardian.com. May 4, 2014.

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• When I am in charge of a vessel, I always command; nobody commands but me. I take all the responsibility, all the risks, all the hardships that my office would call upon me to take. I do not steer by any man's compass but my own.

  Michael A. Healy

  Military, Responsibility, Men

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• The Long March The Red Army is not afraid of hardship on the march, the long march. Ten thousand waters and a thousand mountains are nothing. The Five Sierras meander like small waves, the summits of Wumeng pour on the plain like balls of clay. Cliffs under clouds are warm and washed below by the River Gold Sand. Iron chains are cold, reaching over the Tatu River. The far snows of Minshan only make us happy and when the army pushes through, we all laugh. October 1935

  Mao Zedong

  Happiness, Laughter, Army

  Zedong Mao (2008). “The Poems of Mao Zedong”, p.63, Univ of California Press

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• Braving obstacles and hardships is braver than retreat to tranquility.

  Khalil Gibran

  Adversity, Retreat, Obstacles

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• Champions are a rare breed. They see beyond the dangers, the risks, the obstacles, and the hardships.

  Lester Sumrall

  Motivational, Champion, Risk

  Lester Sumrall (1995). “Making of a Champion”, Whitaker Distribution

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• Neither great nor good things were ever attained without loss and hardships. Those that would reap and not labour, must faint with the wind, and perish in disappointments; but an hair of my head shall not fall, without the providence of my Father that is over all.

  William Penn

  Disappointment, Father, Fall

  William Penn (1830). “The Sandy Foundation Shaken; Or, Those ... Doctrines of One God Subsisting in Three Distinct and Separate Persons, the Impossibility of God's Pardoning Sinners Without a Plenary Satisfaction, the Justification of Impure Persons by an Imputative Righteousness, Refuted from the Authority of Scripture Testimonies and Right Reason, Etc”, p.6

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• God allows hardship in our lives so that our beliefs-those handholds of faith in a troubled world-will became more and more real to us and less and less theory.

  Greg Laurie

  Faith, Christian, Real

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• It is with great satisfaction that I have signed into law the Social Security Amendments of 1961. They represent an additional step toward eliminating many of the hardships resulting from old age, disability, or the death of the family wage-earner. A nation's strength lies in the well-being of its people. The Social Security program plays an important part in providing for families, children, and older persons in time of stress, but it cannot remain static. Changes in our population, in our working habits, and in our standard of living require constant revision.

  John F. Kennedy

  Children, Stress, Lying

  "Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1961".

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• ...The silent reminiscence of hardships departed, is sweeter than the presence of delight.

  Herman Melville

  Gratitude, Departed, Delight

  Herman Melville (1863). “Redburn: His First Voyage: Being the Sailor-boy Confessions and Reminiscences O the Son-of-a-gentleman, in the Merchant Service”, p.376

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• 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.

  Richard Paul Evans

  Loyalty, Running, Real

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• All the Hardships. All the Mistakes. All the Rejections. All the Pain. All the times you Questioned why. All of these things have given Birth to the Wisdom and Strength that will Help you Shine your Light on the World, Even in the darkest of Hours.

  Judith Orloff

  Pain, Mistake, Light

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• As to hanging, it is no great hardship. For were it not for that, every cowardly fellow would turn pirate and so unfit the sea, that men of courage must starve.

  Anne Bonny

  Men, Sea, Pirate

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• When we give thanks in all things, we see hardships and adversities in the context of the purpose of life.

  Dallin H. Oaks

  Adversity, Giving, Purpose

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• Humility and ascetic hardship free a man from all sin, for the one cuts out the passions of the soul, the other those of the body. This is what the blessed David indicates when he prays to God, saying, "Look on my humility and my toil, and forgive all my sins" (Ps. 25:18).

  Maximus the Confessor

  Forgiveness, Blessed, Passion

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• I watched them carefully, as always, searching for a sign of mental weakness. But there was none. Every man was coping well with the hardship, each one of them locked into his task. But it is one thing to practice, and quite another to race. And the trouble is, you never know who, on the day, will find it within his soul to give more than he has ever given before. It takes a kind of madness to compete like that, because of the will power and the ego, and his loyalty. And while some men have it, others have yet to find it. And a coach can only use his best judgement as to who those men will be.

  Daniel Topolski

  Loyalty, Men, Race

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• Frequent discontent must proceed from frequent hardships.

  Samuel Johnson

  Misery, Discontent

  Samuel Johnson (1761). “The Rambler: In Four Volumes”, p.120

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• Ours is a kind of struggle designed, I dare say, by Providence to try the patience, fortitude, and virtue of men. None, therefore, who is engaged in it, will suffer himself, I trust, to sink under difficulties, or be discouraged by hardships. If he cannot do as he wishes, he must do what he can.

  George Washington

  Struggle, Men, Suffering

  George Washington, Jared Sparks (1834). “Writings: Being His Correspondence, Addresses, Messages, and Other Papers, Official and Private, Selected and Published from the Original Manuscripts”, p.91

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• The soul gives us resilience - an essential quality since we constantly have to rebound from hardship.

  Wynton Marsalis

  Giving, Soul, Resilience

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• At the extremity of hardship comes relief and at the tightening of the chains of trials and tribulations comes ease.

  Boonaa Mohammed

  Relief, Trials, Ease

  Twitter post from Aug 20, 2015

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