Hardship Quotes - Page 25

• I could do without many things with no hardship-you are not one of them.

  Ashleigh Brilliant

  Love, Friendship, Sad

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• I remember people who'd had a lot of hardship during the war. They'd thought we'd won.

  Barbara Castle, Baroness Castle of Blackburn

  War, People, Remember

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• Studies have consistently shown that financial hardship is the biggest obstacle to heterosexual marriage, yet the Republican leadership has done precious little to help address the financial hardship faced by American families.

  Kendrick Meek

  Leadership, Financial Hardship, Done

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• Our theme for this year's festivities, Dreams and Challenges of Asian Pacific Americans, speaks to the many generations of Asian Pacific Americans who worked hard to overcome economic hardship, racism and other barriers in their pursuit of the American dream.

  Lucille Roybal-Allard

  Dream, Years, Racism

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• In the intricate paths of life when difficulties and hardships confront a man, and the darkness of difficulty and suffering becomes long, it is patience only that acts like a light for a Muslim, that keeps him safe from wandering here and there, and saves him from the muddy marsh of disappointment, desperation and frustration.

  Al-Ghazali

  Wisdom, Disappointment, Islamic

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• The hardest part of your journey to success will be telling people your crazy dreams and ideas. But I've found as soon as you say your dreams aloud, many people will come to your side and help guide your journey in the right direction. During my 30 year journey with my disease I have discovered that you will always be surrounded by help, support and light if you stay positive in spite of hardships.

  Karni Liddell

  Sports, Dream, Crazy

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• I am moved by the spirit of Angolans and the work UNICEF is doing, but I am saddened by the hardships I have seen, and the fact that a little flexing of financial muscle from rich countries could do so much.

  Alyssa Milano

  Country, Children, Rich Countries

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• Death and sorrow will be the companions of our journey; hardship our garment; constancy and valor our only shield. We must be united, we must be undaunted, we must be inflexible.

  Winston Churchill

  Death, Journey, Sorrow

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• What ought one to say then as each hardship comes? I was practicing for this, I was training for this.

  Epictetus

  Challenges, Training, Ought

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• I can take hardship. I can sleep on the cold floor anytime. I can also sleep on a feather bed.

  Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala

  Sleep, Bed, Cold

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• If you tell your own story to your children - that includes your positive moments and your negative moments, and how you overcame them - you give your children the skills and the confidence they need to feel like they can overcome some hardship that they've felt.

  Bruce Feiler

  Children, Skills, Giving

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• It is hardship that makes clear who the "fighters" are.

  Marilynne Robinson

  Fighter, Clear

  "Marilynne Robinson: A Good Inheritance". Interview with Michele Filgate, www.barnesandnoble.com. October 21, 2014.

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• Crush your individuality first. Shake off the dreams of personal comfort. Then start to work. Inch by inch you shall have to proceed. It needs courage, perseverance and very strong determination. No difficulties and no hardships shall discourage you. No failure and betrayals shall dishearten you. No travails (!) imposed upon you shall snuff out the revolutionary will in you. Through the ordeal of sufferings and sacrifice you shall come out victorious. And these individual victories shall be the valuable assets of the revolution.

  Bhagat Singh

  Crush, Dream, Perseverance

  Bhagat Singh (1986). “Selected writings of Shaheed Bhagat Singh”

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• Just after I dedicated my life to service, I felt that I could no longer accept more than I need while others in the world have less than they need. This moved me to bring my life down to need level. I thought it would be difficult. I thought it would entail a great many hardships, but I was quite wrong. Instead of hardships, I found a wonderful sense of peace and joy, and a conviction that unnecessary possessions are only unnecessary burdens.

  Peace Pilgrim

  Joy, Would Be, Needs

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• Those whose hardships are set forth in pamphlets and proclaimed in sermons and speeches which echo throughout society, are assumed to be all worthy souls, grievously wronged; and none of them are thought of as bearing the penalties of their misdeeds.

  Herbert Spencer

  Echoes, Soul, Speech

  Herbert Spencer (2016). “The Man versus the State: Great Essays”, p.20, VM eBooks

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• Nobody's really happy. And as soon as society realises that you can't trust anyone and that hardship is a natural part of existence, the sooner the therapists will realise that they are worthless! Sorry. They have worth deficit disorder!

  Christopher Titus

  Sorry, Can't Trust Anyone, Natural

  "Titus / The Session". www.imdb.com. 2002.

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• We can either see our circumstances as a set of random cruelties and then allow those hardships to turn us into bitter victims; or we can recognize the fact that, though we may never comprehend why hard things happen, they do, and when they do, we can reach for a larger purpose beyond the pain.

  Amy Purdy

  Pain, May, Facts

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• It seems perverse to focus too much on the casualties or hardship in Afghanistan ...[Showing the misery of Afghanistan ran the risk of] promoting enemy propaganda...we must talk about how the Taliban are using civilian shields and how the Taliban have harboured the terrorists responsible for killing close up to 5,000 innocent people.

  Walter Isaacson

  People, Focus, Risk

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• He that struggles with us strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.

  Edmund Burke

  Inspirational, Life, Education

  Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790)

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• Brick walls are there for a reason. The brick walls aren't there to keep us out. The brick walls are there to show us how badly we want things.

  Randy Pausch

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  YouTube Channel "Carnegie Mellon University"/"Randy Pausch Last Lecture: Achieving Your Childhood Dreams", www.youtube.com. December 20, 2007.

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• It's easier to bleed than sweat, Mr. Motes.

  Flannery O'Connor

  Sweat, Easier

  Flannery O'Connor (2007). “Wise Blood: A Novel”, p.229, Macmillan

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• The brick walls are there to stop the people who don't want it badly enough. They are there to stop the other people!

  Randy Pausch

  Perseverance, Wall, Inspirational Life

  Randy Pausch (2008). “The Last Lecture”, p.71, Hachette UK

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• It is hard enough to remember my opinions, without also remembering my reasons for them!

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Sweet, Hard Times, Life Is Hard

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• The first quality of a soldier is constancy in enduring fatigue and hardship. Courage is only the second. Poverty privation and want are the school of the good soldier.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  War, School, Soldier

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• People think that if a man has undergone any hardship, he should have a reward; but for my part, if I have done the hardest possible day's work, and then come to sit down in a corner and eat my supper comfortably -why, then I don't think I deserve any reward for my hard day's work -for am I not now at peace? Is not my supper good?

  Herman Melville

  Peace, Food, Men

  Herman Melville (1967). “Moby-Dick: An authoritative text”, W. W. Norton & Company

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