Best 358 quotes in «hardship quotes» category

Even in hardship, God’s goodness prevails.

Everyone has hardship. Everyone has struggle. No one is immune. You can live this life focusing on your hardship and struggle. Or, you can choose to make the most of each and every moment you are gifted with.

Every seed must rise through dirt to enjoy the sunshine.

Go to war, come home as a sickened veteran, and be denied your earned disability payments to live a life of extreme poverty and hardship.

Greed is mistaken nobility. Instead of robbing all the pain and hardship from people's lives and rescuing them from danger, greed robs provisions from providers.

Hardship is the hardest moment to soften the soul.

He could feel himself gliding down like the sail of a weightless craft, forever plunging into the great beyond below where mermaids sing and summon their lovers home, further down into the depths of some complacent serenity, further down where thoughts float away and never return and the lightness is so grand that there is no other worldly place imaginable, for there is no world left to be considered. There is only the soul, free from the prison of the body, and it is released to travel another millennium through time, carrying with it the progress and industry gathered from the mind previously occupied.

He is polite; the perfect gentleman at first. Yet she knows his kindness is an act he performs for himself to justify what he’s about to do.

He were found drowned. He were coming home very hopeless o' aught on earth. He thought God could na be harder than men; mappen not so hard; mappen as tender as a mother; mappen tenderer. I'm not saying he did right, and I'm not saying he didn't wrong. All I say is, may neither me nor mine ever have his sore heart, or we may do like things.

He who make no enemies makes no difference.

Hope in the heart is the escape in any hardship.

Hope is the discipline of hardship.

Hope is victory in any hardship.

How easily such a thing can become a mania, how the most normal and sensible of women once this passion to be thin is upon them, can lose completely their sense of balance and proportion and spend years dealing with this madness.

I asked her who would teach me about life being unfair. She said time.

I can love what is broken.

I didn't care if he was a genius or a fucking idiot, he was rotting away, and it wasn't fun to watch.

If miracles were easy, the would be everywhere.

If the sky had no tears, the world would have no rainbows.

If we misread the blueprint of our life, we need not be ashamed of backtracking on our chosen options. Admitting to mistakes may make us human and maybe great again. ("Sisyphus' hardship on the hill")

If you complain about small calamities, Allah will give you great calamities.

If you have to eat two frogs, eat the ugliest one first." This is another way of saying that if you have two important tasks before you, start with the biggest, hardest, and most important task first.

If you knew all the answers, there'd be no need for trust, little one.

If you never wished you were an ass, you are most probably an ass.

You must always remember this. When hardships come, don't automatically ask God to deliver you from them. Perhaps it would be wiser to ask: What do I have to learn before I am delivered from this problem?

And you think these collapses are your end But nebulas collapse to become stars.

A rainbow earns its colors in the storm.

Because misfortune does not wait idly by until we are prepared for it.

Before I was married, I thought the sound of bangles jangling on my forearms would be delightful. I looked forward to being able to wear bells around my ankles and silver necklaces around my neck, but not any more, not since I had learned what they represented for the man who gave them. A necklace was no prettier than a piece of of rope that ties a goat to a tree, depriving it of freedom.

Be flexible like trees; when the wind blows bend, but do not break.

Before you hate pressure, remind yourself that is where diamonds are made.

Breakdowns create breakthroughs.

By properly going through hardships you can develop the qualities of the successful man that is in you

Change always happens... We adjust to it. Somehow we figure out a way. We straighten what we can or learn how to like something a little crooked. That's how it is. Something breaks, you fix it as best you can. There's always a way to make something better, even if it means sweeping up the broken pieces and starting all over. That's how we keep moving, keep breathing, keep opening our eyes every morning, even when the only thing we know for sure is that we're still alive.

Coal that bears that pressure meets a diamond.

Conversion can also occur among those who already have the faith. Christians will become real Christians, with less façade and more foundation. Catastrophe will divide them from the world, force them to declare their basic loyalties; it will revive shepherds who shepherd rather than administrate, reverse the proportion of saints and scholars in favor of saints, create more reapers for the harvest, more pillars of fire for the lukewarm; it will make the rich see that real wealth is in the service of the needy; and, above all else, it will make the glory of Christ’s Cross shine out in a love of the brethren for one another as true and loyal sons of God.

Creative work is often driven by pain. It may be that if you don't have something in the back of your head driving you nuts, you may not do anything. It's not a good arrangement. If I were God, I wouldn't have done it that way. [Interview, The Wall Street Journal, Nov. 20, 2009]

Dear Life, I have been living alone for the last four years. I am familiar with my loneliness. And sometimes I feel like a soldier who can survive without love or poetry too! I am used to leading this hard life! Yours sincerely, Mr. Writer

Difficult roads often lead to beautiful destinations.

Do not be harden by hardships.

Do not despair. We will glimpse another track; we fill find another route. The day that is not this will come. The time that is not this will be.

Don’t focus so much on what you are going through to an extent that you forget where you are going to.

Don't get discouraged by present hardships, They are the reason to your success in future. "Easy Victory is less valued than a hard one".

Endure every hardship as a discipline of grace.

Every single thing can change for the better, no matter however hard it is. Even a family in utter poverty can become prosperous in a couple of generations.

Great hardship always seems to be the prerequisite to meaningful spiritual growth.

Hang on to hope in any hardship.

Hardship is meant to modify heartless of man to make feel in the flesh as soft being.

Hardship is the discipline of life.

Hard times' is a phrase the English love to use, when speaking of Africa. And it is easy to forget that Africa's 'hard times' were made harder by them.