Hardship Quotes - Page 4

• There is no success without hardship.

  Sophocles

  Success, Congratulations, Achievement

  Sophocles (2013). “Sophocles II: Ajax, The Women of Trachis, Electra, Philoctetes, The Trackers”, p.177, University of Chicago Press

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• In what language does rain fall over tormented cities?

  Pablo Neruda

  Life, Rain, Fall

  Pablo Neruda (2001). “Libro de Las Preguntas”, p.66, Copper Canyon Press

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• There are times you can't really see or even feel how sweet life can be. Hopefully its mountains will be higher than its valleys are deep. I know things that are broken can be fixed. Take the punch if you have to, hit the canvas and then get up again. Life is worth it.

  Queen Latifah

  Life, Sweet, Broken

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• 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

  Growing Up, Home, Mean

  "Kid Cudi: 'I've always been ahead of the curve'" by Archna Sawjani, www.theguardian.com. January 20, 2009.

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• I'm an optimist.
  I've always believed the future is going to be better than the past.
  And I also believe I have a role in that.
  The great thing about human beings, myself in particular, is that I can change.
  I can do better.
  If you can get up every day, stay optimistic, and believe the future is better than the past, those few things get you through a lot of tough times.

  Jeffrey R. Immelt

  Inspirational, Life, Change

  "The Fast Company Interview: Jeff Immelt". Interview with John R. Byrne, www.fastcompany.com. July 1, 2005.

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• "Face the brutes." That is a lesson for all life-face the terrible, face it boldly. Like the monkeys, the hardships of life fall back when we cease to flee before them.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Inspirational, Motivational, Inspiring

  Swami Vivekananda, Swami Adiswarananda (2006). “Vivekananda, World Teacher: His Teachings on the Spiritual Unity of Humankind”, p.78, SkyLight Paths Publishing

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• Adventure ... is what might otherwise be called hardship if it were attempted in a different spirit.

  Laura Miller

  Adventure, Different, Might

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• It's a fine world, though rich in hardships at times.

  Larry McMurtry

  World, Rich, Fine

  Larry McMurtry (2010). “Lonesome Dove: A Novel”, p.793, Simon and Schuster

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• Employment and hardships prevent melancholy.

  Samuel Johnson

  Employment, Melancholy

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• But not to perish from internal distress and doubt when one inflicts great suffering and hears the cry of suffering : that is great, that belongs to greatness.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Pain, Greatness, Doubt

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

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• Hardship often prepares an ordinary person for an extraordinary destiny.

  C. S. Lewis

  Life, Encouraging, Not Giving Up

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• These are the days that try man's heart.

  Thomas Paine

  Heart, Men, Trying

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• Hardship is vanishing, but so is style, and the two are more closely connected than the present generation supposes.

  E. M. Forster

  Two, Style, Generations

  "Two Cheers for Democracy". Book by E. M. Forster, 1951.

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• Poverty leads to hardship and failure.

  Irwin Redlener

  Poverty

  "Barack Obama and America’s Children: Can a Tragedy Refocus a Nation’s Priorities?" by Irwin Redlener, M.D., www.huffingtonpost.com. January 11, 2013.

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• 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

  Struggle, Sacrifice, Fighting

  Nelson Mandela (1973). “No Easy Walk to Freedom”, p.109, Heinemann

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• It is not the trials in your life that develop or destroy you, but rather your response to those hardships.

  Charles Stanley

  Trials, Response

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• From the perfection of Allah's ihsan is that He allows His slave to taste the bitterness of the break before the sweetness of the mend. So He does not break his believing slave, except to mend him. And He does not withhold from him, except to give him. And He does not test him (with hardship), except to cure him.

  Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya

  Believe, Heart, Giving

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• So often we think that Allah only tests us with hardships, but this isn't true. Allah also tests with ease. He tests us with na`im (blessings) and with the things we love, and it is often in these tests that so many of us fail. We fail because when Allah gives us these blessings, we unwittingly turn them into false idols in the heart.

  Yasmin Mogahed

  Heart, Blessing, Thinking

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• Welcome your problems with open arms! Like any other game, the game of life is played as per your aptitude; the more expert you are, the more difficult it gets. Embrace the problems and hardships that come your way, for you are the ones chosen to handle them.

  Zeina

  Games, Experts, Arms

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• Hope is not defined by the absence of hardship. Rather, hope is found in God’s grace in the midst of hardship. Hope is found in his promise to give us a future.

  Stuart Scott

  Giving, Grace, Promise

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• No matter what an individual decides to become, hard work and determination is very important in today's competitive world. You may also encounter hardships along the way, but you must not get discouraged and you push on in order to fulfill your goals.

  Tom Monaghan

  Determination, Hard Work, Order

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• The bushes of love are blossomed through the manure of hardship.

  Kedar Joshi

  Love, Determination, Manure

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• If you never know hardship, you can't really support people around you.

  Natalia Vodianova

  People, Support, Knows

  "Natalia Vodianova: My family values". Interview with Britt Collins, www.theguardian.com. March 11, 2011.

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• Keynes was chief economic adviser to the British government and largely responsible for keeping the British economy afloat at a time when more than half of our gross national product, and all of our foreign exchange, was being spent on the war. I was lucky to be present at one of his rare appearances in Cambridge, when he gave a lecture with the title "Newton, the Man." Four years later he died of heart failure, precipitated by overwork and the hardships of crossing the Atlantic repeatedly in slow propeller-driven airplanes under wartime conditions.

  Freeman Dyson

  War, Heart, Airplane

  "The Scientist As Rebel". Book by Freeman Dyson, 2006.

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• For all the hardship, I was still excited to be on the trail, testing my endurance, feeling especially alive as strength and fatigue flowed alternately through my limbs.

  Colin Powell

  Feelings, Endurance, Alive

  Colin L. Powell (1995). “My American Journey”, Random House Incorporated

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