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Hardship Quotes

There is no success without hardship. – Sophocles

Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional. – M. Kathleen Casey

“If a man cannot understand the beauty of life, it is probably because life never understood the beauty in him.” – Criss Jami, Killosophy

“And once the storm is over, you won’t remember how you made it through, how you managed to survive. You won’t even be sure, whether the storm is really over. But one thing is certain. When you come out of the storm, you won’t be the same person who walked in. That’s what this storm’s all about.” ― Haruki Murakami

The struggle is part of the story.

Strength does not come from winning. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength. – Mahatma Gandhi

“The most beautiful people I’ve known are those who have known trials, have known struggles, have known loss, and have found their way out of the depths.” – Elisabeth Kübler-Ross

“You must make a decision that you are going to move on. It won’t happen automatically. You will have to rise up and say, ‘I don’t care how hard this is, I don’t care how disappointed I am, I’m not going to let this get the best of me. I’m moving on with my life.” – Joel Osteen

“Sometimes adversity is what you need to face in order to become successful.” – Zig Ziglar

Let me say no danger and no hardship ever makes me wish to get back to that college life again. – Joshua Chamberlain

“You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. In fact, it may be necessary to encounter the defeats, so you can know who you are, what you can rise from, how you can still come out of it.” – Maya Angelou

You can’t run away from trouble. There ain’t no place that far. – Uncle Remus

I think the challenge is to take…difficult and painful times and turn them into something beneficial, something that makes you grow. – Michelle Akers

“Fire tests gold, suffering tests brave men.” – Seneca

A key to strengthening spiritual muscles and enduring hardship is finding strength in the Word of God. – Walter Martin

Some of God’s greatest gifts are unanswered prayers. – Garth Brooks

“Life keeps throwing me curve balls and I don’t even own a bat. At least my dodging skills are improving.” – Jayleigh Cape

God tests His people through hardship. – John Piper

Look up and not down; look forward and not back; look out and not in; and lend a hand. – E. E. Hale

Birds sing after a storm; why shouldn’t people feel as free to delight in whatever remains to them? – Rose F. Kennedy

“The worse the passage the more welcome the port. ” – Thomas Fuller

Hope is important because it can make the present moment less difficult to bear. If we believe that tomorrow will be better, we can bear a hardship today. – Thich Nhat Hanh

We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey. – Kenji Miyazawa

“Enclose your heart in times of need with the steel of your determination and your strength. In doing this, all things will be bearable.” – Lora Leigh, Broken Wings

Inspirational  Hardship Quotes

You wouldn’t wish hardship on anyone, but when it comes, you would be crazy not to see the huge growth that will come from it. – Michael Leunig

“Adversity is like a strong wind. I don’t mean just that it holds us back from places we might otherwise go. It also tears away from us all but the things that cannot be torn, so that afterward we see ourselves as we really are, and not merely as we might like to be.” – Arthur Golden, Memoirs of a Geisha

We turn to God for help when our foundations are shaking, only to learn that it is God who is shaking them. – Charles C. West

“We need sometimes to escape into open solitudes, into aimlessness, into the moral holiday of running some pure hazard in order to sharpen the edge of life, to taste hardship, and to be compelled to work desperately for a moment at no matter what.” – George Santayana

A wise man adapts himself to circumstances as water shapes itself to the vessel that contains it. – Chinese Proverb

Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty. – John F. Kennedy

Rarely do we find men who willingly engage in hard, solid thinking. There is an almost universal quest for easy answers and half-baked solutions. Nothing pains some people more than having to think. – Martin Luther King, Jr.

I know God will not give me anything I can’t handle. I just wish that He didn’t trust me so much. – Mother Teresa

“What a weary time those years were — to have the desire and the need to live but not the ability.” – Charles Bukowski, Ham on Rye

With everything that has happened to you, you can either feel sorry for yourself, or treat what has happened as a gift. Everything is either an opportunity to grow or an obstacle to keep you from growing. You get to choose. – Wayne Dyer

If you never know hardship, you can’t really support people around you. –  Natalia Vodianova

Hard times will always reveal true friends.

“Hollowness: that I understand. I’m starting to believe that there isn’t anything you can do to fix it. That’s what I’ve taken from the therapy sessions: the holes in your life are permanent. You have to grow around them, like tree roots around concrete; you mold yourself through the gaps” – Paula Hawkins, The Girl on the Train

In the midst of hardship, it was the music that restored my soul. – Ji-Hae Park

“I’ve missed more than 9,000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I’ve been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.” – Michael Jordan

Never be afraid to fall apart because it is an opportunity to rebuild yourself the way you wish had been all along. – Rae Smith

Even cowards can endure hardship; only the brave can endure suspense. – Mignon McLaughlin

“The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it.” – Moliere

If you want to forget all your other troubles, wear too tight shoes. – The Houghton Line, November 1965

“She hated her job the same way I hated my jobs because she knew she was worth more, but she also hated herself so there wasn’t much point in trying to do better.” – Tawni O’Dell, Back Roads

When it rains, look for rainbows. When it’s dark, look for stars.   

Wear your tragedies as armor, not shackles.

Sometimes the issue isn’t that your problems are so big, it’s that you see yourself as being so small. – Steve Maraboli

The problem is not the problem. The problem is your attitude about the problem. – Captain Jack Sparrow

We have to remember that no matter how much hardship we go through in our life, there is always going to be that fragile place in our heart. – Angie Martinez

“I’ve only been to jail a few times, but in several different countries, at that. No, I’ve only been to jail a few times. But I still claim the ability to write a “serious” novel.” – Roman Payne

A key to strengthening spiritual muscles and enduring hardship is finding strength in the Word of God. – Walter Martin

Come then, affliction, if my Father wills, and be my frowning friend.  A friend that frowns is better than a smiling enemy. – Anon.

The fact that a baby can be born today and condemned to a life of hardship, struggle, and discrimination simply because of sex is enraging. – Adora Svitak

A bad grade is only one letter in the Essay of life. – Lee Drake

You have come into a hard world. I know of only one easy place in it, and that is the grave. – Henry Ward Beecher

“The brick walls are there for a reason. The brick walls are not there to keep us out. The brick walls are there to give us a chance to show how badly we want something. Because the brick walls are there to stop the people who don’t want it badly enough. They’re there to stop the other people.” – Randy Pausch

People had no tolerance for your particular hardship unless you knew how to entertain them with it. – Don DeLillo

Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty. – John F. Kennedy

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

When you come out of the storm you won’t be the same person who walked in. That’s what this storm’s all about. – Haruki Murakami

Storms make trees take deeper roots. – Dolly Parton

I can take hardship. I can sleep on the cold floor anytime. I can also sleep on a feather bed. – Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala

Sometimes when it seems all of the pieces are falling apart, they may actually be falling into place.

The best view comes after the hardest climb.

It is the surmounting of difficulties that makes heroes. – Louis Kossuth

Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful. – Herman Cain

The Road to success is paved with failures. –  Rashida Rowe

Nothing will carry you through hardship like a sincere devotion to Christ. – T. B. Joshua

Formula for success: rise early, work hard, strike oil. – J Paul Getty

Stars may be seen from the bottom of a deep well, when they cannot be discerned from the top of a mountain.  So are many things learned in adversity which the prosperous man dreams not of. – Spurgeon

Sorrow happens, hardship happens, the hell with it, who never knew the price of happiness, will not be happy. – Yevgeny Yevtushenko

Getting over a painful experience is much like crossing monkey bars. You have to let go at some point in order to move forward.

Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties. – Helen Keller

It has been my philosophy of life that difficulties vanish when faced boldly. – Isaac Asimov

Tears are often the telescope by which men see far into heaven. – H.W. Beecher

If you would not have affliction visit you twice, listen at once to what it teaches. – Burgh

It is not until we have passed through the furnace that we are made to know how much dross there is in our composition. – Colton

Paradoxical as it may seem, God means not only to make us good, but to make us also happy, by sickness, disaster and disappointment. – C.A. Bartol

Our ancestors are totally essential to our every waking moment, although most of us don’t even have the faintest idea about their lives, their trials, their hardships or challenges. – Annie Lennox

Hope is important because it can make the present moment less difficult to bear. If we believe that tomorrow will be better, we can bear a hardship today. – Nhat Hanh

Look not mournfully into the past, it comes not back again. Wisely improve the present, it is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy future without fear and with a manly heart. – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Even cowards can endure hardship; only the brave can endure suspense. – Mignon McLaughlin

God sometimes does try to the uttermost those whom he wishes to bless. – Mahatma Gandhi

A hard life improves the vision. – Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

A gentleman can withstand hardships; it is only the small man who, when submitted to them, is swept off his feet. – Confucius

As I grew older, I came to feel more responsible for any hardship or trouble my career caused my family. – Annette Funicello

Man’s unhappiness comes of his greatness; it is because there is an infinite in him, which, with all his cunning, he cannot quite bury under the finite. – Carlyle

There is no success without hardship.  –  Sophocles

Hardship makes the world obscure. – Don DeLillo

Without hard work, nothing grows but weeds. – Gordon B. Hinckley

Where there is ruin, there is hope for a treasure. – Rumi

You may go through difficulty, hardship, or trial—but as long as you are anchored to Him, you will have hope. – Charles Stanley

The salvation of the world is in man’s suffering. – William Faulkner

Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better take things as they come along with patience and equanimity. – Carl Jung

They say marriages are made in Heaven. But so is thunder and lightning. – Clint Eastwood

A wretched soul, bruis’d with adversity,

We bid be quiet, when we hear it cry;

But were we burthen’d with like weight of pain,

As much, or more, we should ourselves complain. – William Shakespeare

Wherever we look upon this earth, the opportunities take shape within the problems. – Nelson A. Rockefeller

Surmounted difficulties not only teach, but hearten us in our future struggles. – James Sharp

It was no hardship to me to spend long hours reading and writing. – Patti Smith

“I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.” – Thomas A. Edison