Hardship Quotes - Page 14

• At the extremity of hardship comes relief and at the tightening of the chains of trials and tribulations comes ease.

  Boonaa Mohammed

  Relief, Trials, Ease

  Twitter post from Aug 20, 2015

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• The good news of the kingdom is not freedom from hardship, suffering, and loss. It is the news of a Redeemer who has come to rescue me from myself.

  Paul David Tripp

  Loss, Suffering, News

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• There's always a positive to those negative times, because you come out of it so much stronger and wiser. Strength comes from every hardship, and it's been a lesson for me.

  Christina Aguilera

  Stronger, Negative, Lessons

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• 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... All this will not be finished in the first 100 days. Nor will it be finished in the first 1000 days, nor in the life of this Administration, nor even perhaps in our lifetime on this planet. But let us begin... And so, my fellow Americans: ask not what your country can do for you - ask what you can do for your country.

  John F. Kennedy

  Country, Support, Survival

  Inaugural address, 20 January 1961, in 'Vital Speeches' 1 February 1961, p. 227

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• When we give thanks in all things, we see hardships and adversities in the context of the purpose of life.

  Dallin H. Oaks

  Adversity, Giving, Purpose

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• As I grew up, I was continually to suffer hardships in different realms of life - in my family, in my relationship to Japanese society and in my way of living at large in the latter half of the twentieth century.

  Kenzaburo Oe

  Relationship, Suffering, Different

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• He who has realized love for God in his heart is tireless in his pursuit of the Lord his God, and bears every hardship, reproach and insult nobly, never thinking the least evil of anyone.

  Maximus the Confessor

  Christian, Heart, Thinking

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• During the financial crisis and bailouts of 2008, it probably occurred to very few average people that we were entering a period of hardship for billionaires.

  Thomas Frank

  Average, People, Entering

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• Does one come to enjoy even the hardships that help make one the person one is? Or is it that the past becomes a legend to be remembered with laughter?

  May Sarton

  Laughter, Past, Doe

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• I have been through a lot and have suffered a great deal. But I have had lots of happy moments, as well. Every moment one lives is different from the other. The good, the bad, hardship, the joy, the tragedy, love, and happiness are all interwoven into one single, indescribable whole that is called life. You cannot separate the good from the bad. And perhaps there is no need to do so, either.

  Jackie Kennedy

  Joy, Tragedy, Happiness And Love

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• Love is a mighty power,
  a great and complete good.
  Love alone lightens every burden, and makes rough places smooth.
  It bears every hardship as though it were nothing, and renders
  all bitterness sweet and acceptable.

  Thomas a Kempis

  Sweet, Good Love, Love Is

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• Victory over all the circumstances of life comes not by might, nor by power, but by a practical confidence in God and by allowing His Spirit to dwell in our hearts and control our actions and emotions. Learn in the days of ease and comfort, to think in terms of the prayer that follows, so that when the days of hardship come you will be fully prepared and equipped to meet them.

  Eric Liddell

  Prayer, Heart, Thinking

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• To those who live by the land there must always come times of hardship, of fear and of hunger, even as there are years of plenty. This is one of the truths of our existence as those who live by the land know: that sometimes we eat and sometimes we starve. We live by our labours fromone harvest to the next, there is no certain telling whether we shall be able to feed ourselves and our children, and if bad times are prolonged we know we must see the weak surrender their lives and this fact, too, is within our experience. In our lives there is no margin for misfortune.

  Kamala Markandaya

  Children, Years, Land

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• What, unless biological science is a mass of errors, is the cause of human intelligence and vigour? Hardship and freedom: conditions under which the active, strong, and subtle survive and the weaker go to the wall; conditions that put a premium upon the loyal alliance of capable men, upon self-restraint, patience, and decision. And the institution of the family, and the emotions that arise therein, the fierce jealousy, the tenderness for offspring, parental self-devotion, all found their justification and support in the imminent dangers of the young.

  H. G. Wells

  Strong, Wall, Men

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• But listen to me. For one moment quit being sad. Hear blessings dropping their blossoms around you.

  Rumi

  Spiritual, Blessing, Being Sad

  Rumi (2015). “Selected Poems”, p.35, Penguin UK

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• It's disgraceful how these humans blame the gods. They say their tribulations come from us, when they themselves, through their own foolishness, bring hardships which are not decreed by Fate.

  Homer

  Fate, Insightful, Blame

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• We have thought of peace as passive and war as the active way of living. The opposite is true. War is not the most strenuous life. It is a kind of rest cure compared to the task of reconciling our differences ... From War to Peace is not from the strenuous to the easy existence; it is from the futile to the effective, from the stagnant to the active, from the destructive to the creative way of life ... The world will be regenerated by the people who rise above these passive ways and heroically seek, by whatever hardship, by whatever toil, the methods by which people can agree.

  Mary Parker Follett

  War, Compassion, Opposites

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• There are very few certainties that touch us all in this mortal experience, but one of the absolutes is that we will experience hardship and stress at some point.

  James Dobson

  Stress, Reality, Certainty

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• Being Negative and Lazy is a disease that leads to pain, hardship, depression, poor health and failure. Be pro active, and give a damn to achieve success!

  Phil Heath

  Pain, Giving, Lazy

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• Ask for a valiant heart which has banished the fear of death, which looks upon length of days as one of the least of nature's gifts; which is able to suffer every kind of hardship, is proof against anger, craves for nothing, and reckons the trials and gruelling labours of Hercules as more desirable blessings than the amorous ease and the banquets and cushions of Sardanapallus. The things that I recommend you can grant to yourself.

  Juvenal

  Heart, Blessing, Suffering

  "The Satires".

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• McCain might have suffered hardships in his life, but what had happened to him had nothing to do with his background or his color; they were convenient excuses now. He had been a psychopath from the start.

  Anthony Horowitz

  Color, Might, Excuse

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• I have received delegations of working men who, apparently speaking with the utmost sincerity, have declared that they would regard it as a genuine hardship if they were deprived of their beer, for example.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Beer, Men, Sincerity

  "The papers of Woodrow Wilson".

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• To learn patience is not to rebel against every hardship.

  Henri Nouwen

  Rebel

  Henri Nouwen (2004). “Turn My Mourning into Dancing”, p.10, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Human happiness is defined by the hardships and conflicts you have been through. The greater they are, the greater is your happiness.

  Peter Deunov

  Conflict, Humans, Human Happiness

  Peter Deunov (2010). “Love Is All Forgiving: Reflections on Love and Spirituality”, p.113, Health Communications, Inc.

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• There's a way of dealing with hardships that are healthier than going out. That's what I've learned.

  Lindsay Lohan

  Way, Going Out, I've Learned

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