Hardship Quotes - Page 8

• 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

  War, America, Allies

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• A characteristic of those who are still progressing in blessed mourning is temperance and silence of the lips; and of those who have made progress - freedom from anger and patient endurance of injuries; and of the perfect - humility, thirst for dishonors, voluntary craving for involuntary afflictions, non- condemnation of sinners, compassion even beyond one's strength. The first are acceptable, the second laudable; but blessed are those who hunger for hardship and thirst for dishonor, for they shall be filled with the food whereof there can be no satiety.

  John Climacus

  Blessed, Humility, Compassion

  Saint John (Climacus) (1959). “The Ladder of Divine Ascent”

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• A Marine should be sworn to the patient endurance of hardships, like the ancient knights; and it is not the least of these necessary hardships to have to serve with sailors.

  Bernard Law Montgomery

  Military, Marine, Knights

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• To love someone properly probably means that you won’t be very popular. Pure love, loving the way it was intended, is unfortunately a foreign concept to many. Love is messy. Love will involve hardship, demand patience, require forgiveness, test maturity, strain friendship, challenge priorities, refine character, ignite the heart and unleash the soul. Love is not something you sing about, it’s the reason you sing. Love is not something you write about, it’s the reason you write. Love is not something you live to find, it’s the reason that you are alive.

  Mark Hart

  Love, Forgiveness, Patience

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• I have given a name to my pain, and call it "dog".

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Dog, Pain, Names

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2010). “The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs”, p.249, Vintage

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• To work hard and then loaf; to know hardship and then luxury, to learn about society and then color it with a dash of the wilds-is there anything quite so fine?

  Elliott Merrick

  Hard Work, Color, Luxury

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• I'm often drawn to characters that are more obviously one thing. They're passionate, and there is always an element of strength because I think every person possesses that in some way, even if they've experienced hardship in their lives.

  Kate Winslet

  Character, Thinking, Passionate

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• The ability to suffer is a small matter - weak women and even slaves can acheive virtuosity in that.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Pain, Suffering, Matter

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• More than ever, I feel that the human race is one. There are differences of colour, language, culture and opportunities, but people's feelings and reactions are alike. People flee wars to escape death, they migrate to improve their fortunes, they build new lives in foreign lands, they adapt to extreme hardship….

  Sebastiao Salgado

  War, Opportunity, Land

  Sebastião Salgado (2000). “Migrations: Humanity in Transition”

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• Although psychology and pedagogy have always maintained the belief that a child is a happy being without any conflicts, and have assumed that the sufferings of adults are the results of the burdens and hardships of reality, it must be asserted that just the opposite is true. What we learn about the child and the adult through psychoanalysis shows that all the sufferings of later life are for the most part repetitions of these earlier ones, and that every child in the first years of life goes through and immeasurable degree of suffering.

  Melanie Klein

  Children, Reality, Years

  "Love, Guilt and Reparation: And Other Works 1921-1945". Book by Melanie Klein, p. 173, 2002.

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• Readers will share in the environs of the author and her characters, be taken into the hardship of a pitiless place and emerge on the other side — wiser, warier and weathered like the landscape.

  Antonya Nelson

  Taken, Character, Landscape

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• No reform is possible unless some of the educated and the rich voluntarily accept the status of the poor, travel third, refuse to enjoy the amenities denied to the poor and, instead of taking avoidable hardships, discourtesies and injustice as a matter of course, fight for their removal.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Fighting, Justice, Reform

  Mahatma Gandhi, General Press (2014). “My Experiments with Truth: An Autobiography of Mahatma Gandhi”, p.578, GENERAL PRESS

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• Fate has never ladled out hardship very evenly, and this frequently trips our often infantile sense of justice.

  Jim Harrison

  Fate, Justice, Infantile

  Jim Harrison (2007). “Off to the Side: A Memoir”, p.18, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• The open frontier, the hardships of homesteading from scratch, the wealth of natural resources, the whole vast challenge of a continent waiting to be exploited, combined to produce a prevailing materialism and an American drive bent as much, if not more, on money, property, and power than was true of the Old World from which we had fled.

  Barbara Tuchman

  Money, Waiting, Challenges

  Barbara W. Tuchman (2011). “Practicing History: Selected Essays”, p.305, Random House

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• Dealing with our overweight - or with any of our life's difficulties, for that matter - is not a battle to be fought. Instead, we must learn how to make friends with our hardships and challenges. They are there to help us; they are natural opportunities for deeper understanding and transformation, brining us more joy and peace as we learn to work with them.

  Nhat Hanh

  Motivational, Opportunity, Joy

  Thich Nhat Hanh, Lilian Cheung (2010). “Savor: Mindful Eating, Mindful Life”, p.3, Harper Collins

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• We need strong Christians who can persevere against hardship, who can sustain hope through tragedy, who can lift others by their example and their compassion, and who can consistently overcome temptations. We need strong Christians who can make important things happen by their faith and who can defend the truth of Jesus Christ against moral relativism and militant atheism. What is the source of such moral and spiritual power, and how do we obtain it? The source is God. Our access to that power is through our covenants with Him.

  D. Todd Christofferson

  Christian, Spiritual, Jesus

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• Braving obstacles and hardships is nobler than retreat to tranquility. The butterfly that hovers around the lamp until it dies is more admirable than the mole that lives in a dark tunnel.

  Khalil Gibran

  Life, Butterfly, Dark

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• The one law that does not change is that everything changes, and the hardship I was bearing today was only a breath away from the pleasures I would have tomorrow, and those pleasures would be all the richer because of the memories of this I was enduring.

  Louis L'Amour

  Inspirational, Memories, Adversity

  Louis L'Amour (2009). “The Sky-Liners and Galloway (2-Book Bundle)”, p.212, Bantam

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• Next to the defeated politician, the writer is the most vocal and inventive griper on earth. He sees hardship and unfairness wherever he looks. His agent doesn’t love him (enough). The blank sheet of paper is an enemy. The publisher is a cheapskate. The critic is a philistine. The public doesn’t understand him. His wife doesn’t understand him. The bartender doesn’t understand him.

  Peter Mayle

  Wife, Enemy, Agents

  FaceBook post by Peter Mayle from May 29, 2011

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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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• In any nation, the hypocrites do not become apparent except during times of fitnah (severe tests and hardships).

  Yasmin Mogahed

  Fake People, Islamic, Hypocrite

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• Spirituality isn't static. It's an evolving optimism that won't let hardship get the best of you.

  Judith Orloff

  Spiritual, Godly, Optimism

  Judith Orloff (2009). “Emotional Freedom: Liberate Yourself from Negative Emotions and Transform Your Life”, p.43, Harmony

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• In a delightful garden, sowing, planting or digging are not hardship but are done with a zeal and a certain pleasure.

  Martin Luther

  Garden, Sowing, Digging

  Martin Luther, Jaroslav Pelikan, Helmut T. Lehmann (1955). “Works”

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• The mayors fund for London will be a streamlined vehicle for getting money from the wealth creating sector to communities across London that are facing hardship and deprivation and are the victims of crime.

  Boris Johnson

  Creating, Community, London

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• No one who possesses snow would find any hardship in exchanging it for jewels and pearls. This world is like snow exposed to sun, which continues to melt until it disappears altogether, while the next life is like a precious stone that never passes away.

  Al-Ghazali

  Wisdom, Islamic, Jewels

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