Hardship Quotes - Page 21

• In the U.S and Europe over the last year we've been focused on the prices of gasoline at the pump. While many worry about filling their gas tanks, many others around the world are struggling to fill their stomachs. And it's getting more and more difficult every day.

  Robert Zoellick

  Struggle, Years, Europe

  "Finance meetings focus on banking crisis, food prices". abcnews.go.com.

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• Millions of Americans would still despair in the eight long years of the Depression that lay ahead and many of their individual dreams would be dashed on the rocks of economic hardship. But collectively, the country was in a new place, with a new confidence that the federal government would actively try to solve problems rather than fiddle or cater to the rich. Hope was no longer for Pollyannas; the cynics about the American system were in retreat.

  Jonathan Alter

  Dream, Country, Eight

  Jonathan Alter (2007). “The Defining Moment: FDR's Hundred Days and the Triumph of Hope”, p.306, Simon and Schuster

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• I should like to begin with a philosophical comment. I do not think that when one is speaking of hardships or benefits one can reasonably speak in terms of classes or social groups but only in terms of individuals.

  John James Cowperthwaite

  Philosophical, Thinking, Class

  Official Report of Proceedings of the Hong Kong Legislative Council (p. 135), March 29, 1963.

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• I have spent 11 horrific years in solitary confinement in a 6-square-meter dungeon three floors underground without sunlight or fresh air. But I endured my hardships because I was merely living my convictions.

  Samir Geagea

  Squares, Air, Years

  "Samir, Sitrida Geagea Airborne for Month-Long Recuperation Abroad". Lebanese Forces.com, July 26, 2005.

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• Life is like any other contact sport. You may encounter hardships of one sort or another. Wise people find happiness not in the absence of such hardships, but in their ability to understand them when they occur.

  Sydney Banks

  Sports, Wise, People

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• I consider those persons to be my students who come and meditate with me on a regular basis, who, in spite of the hardships and difficulties on the path of knowledge, still continue to try, and who respect me as I respect them.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Trying, Path

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• 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

  Believe, Punishment, People

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• The important thing is to firmly fix our gaze on our own weaknesses, not run away from them, but to battle them head-on and establish a solid self that nothing can sway. Hardships forge and polish our lives, so that eventually they shine with brilliant fortune and benefit. If left in its raw, unpolished form, even the most magnificent gem will not sparkle. The same applies to our lives.

  Daisaku Ikeda

  Running, Self, Shining

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• In Kurdistan, theres a lot of hardship - a lot of wars, a lot of bitter and difficult lifestyles. And witnessing all those made me a director.

  Bahman Ghobadi

  War, Directors, Bitter

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• How to Be an American Housewife is filled with dreams and love-the kinds that come true and those that don't. Margaret Dilloway is wise and ironic. She has created wonderful characters who never, in spite of hardships, stop finding ways to love each other.

  Luanne Rice

  Wise, Dream, Character

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• To the Pilgrim Mothers, who not only had their full share of the hardships and privations of pioneer life but also had the Pilgrim Fathers to endure.

  Fanny Fern

  Mother, Father, Pioneers

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• Luxuries unfit us for returning to hardships easily endured before.

  Mary Mapes Dodge

  Luxury

  Mary Mapes Dodge (2012). “Hans Brinker”, p.205, Simon and Schuster

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• It really seems as if failure and hardship make more of a human being of folks than success.

  Gene Stratton-Porter

  Success And Failure, Folks, Humans

  Gene Stratton-Porter (2016). “Gene Stratton-Porter Collection: A Girl of the Limberlost, Freckles, Laddie, The Harvester, A Daughter of the Land, At the Foot of the Rainbow, Her Fatther's Daughter, Michale O'Halloran”, p.1411, Xist Publishing

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• Life is full of hardships, pimp slaps, and sorrow.

  Coolio

  Pimp, Sorrow, Life Is

  "Song: "The Revolution" ("Gangsta's Paradise")". 1995.

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• Explorers like to pretend that they are a select breed of people with iron nerve and an ability to endure terrible hardship.

  Tahir Shah

  Iron, People, Nerves

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• When we are broken because of increased hardship, we simply have to trust in the goodness of God.

  Steve Farrar

  Broken, Goodness, Goodness Of God

  Steve Farrar (2009). “Battle Ready: Prepare to Be Used by God”, p.113, David C Cook

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• Well, farmers never have made money. I don't believe we can do much about it. But of course we will have to seem to be doing something; do the best we can and without much hope. The life of the farmer has its compensations but it has always been one of hardship.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Money, Believe, Made

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• The anti-suffragist talk of sheltering women from the fierce storms of life is a lot of cant. I have no patience with it. These storms beat on woman just as fiercely as they do on man, and she is not trained to defend herself against them.

  Susan B. Anthony

  Men, Storm, Fierce

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• Care and labor are as much correlated to human existence as shadow is to light.

  Harriet Beecher Stowe

  Light, Shadow, Care

  Harriet Beecher Stowe, Harriet Beecher STOWE (2016). “Collected Works (Complete and Illustrated Editions: Uncle Tom's Cabin, Queer Little Folks, The Chimney-Corner, ...)”, p.573, Harriet Beecher Stowe

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• It is a conquest when we can lift ourselves above the annoyances of circumstances over which we have no control; but it is a greater victory when we can make those circumstances our helpers,--when we can appreciate the good there is in them. It has often seemed to me as if Life stood beside me, looking me in the face, and saying, "Child, you must learn to like me in the form in which you see me, before I can offer myself to you in any other aspect.

  Lucy Larcom

  Life, Children, Appreciate

  Lucy Larcom (1961). “A New England girlhood”

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• The talk of sheltering woman from the fierce storms of life is the sheerest mockery, for they beat on her from every point of thecompass, just as they do on man, and with more fatal results, for he has been trained to protect himself, to resist, to conquer.

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton

  Men, Storm, Fierce

  Speech before Senate Judiciary Committee, 18 Jan. 1892

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• The goal in raising one's child is to enable him, first, to discover who he wants to be, and then to become a person who can be satisfied with himself and his way of life. Eventually he ought to be able to do in his life whatever seems important, desirable, and worthwhile to him to do; to develop relations with other people that are constructive, satisfying, mutually enriching; and to bear up well under the stresses and hardships he will unavoidably encounter during his life.

  Bruno Bettelheim

  Children, Growing Up, Stress

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• Many battles have been fought and won by soldiers nourished on beer, and the King does not believe that coffee-drinking soldiers can be relied upon to endure hardships in case of another war.

  Frederick The Great

  Kings, War, Drinking

  "Alcohol in the Western World" by Bert L. Vallée, Scientific American, Volume 278, No. 6, pp. 80-85, ru.scribd.com. June 1998.

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• According to our social pyramid, all men who feel displaced racially, culturally, and/or because of economic hardships will turn on those whom they feel they can order and humiliate, usually women, children, and animals--just as they have been ordered and humiliated by those privileged few who are in power. However, this definition does not explain why there are privileged men who behave this way toward women.

  Ana Castillo

  Children, Animal, Men

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• ...the hard work and poverty of my childhoodturned out to be my greatest asset in later years. Nothing could ever seem too hard after that.

  Sue Sanders

  Work, Years, Poverty

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