Hardship Quotes - Page 17

• The important thing is to firmly fix our gaze on our own weaknesses, not run away from them, but to battle them head-on and establish a solid self that nothing can sway. Hardships forge and polish our lives, so that eventually they shine with brilliant fortune and benefit. If left in its raw, unpolished form, even the most magnificent gem will not sparkle. The same applies to our lives.

  Daisaku Ikeda

  Running, Self, Shining

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• I believe that we live in a time of fractured families where maybe fathers aren't getting enough time to see their kids because life's complications and hardships get in the way of those things.

  Clive Owen

  Father, Believe, Kids

  Source: collider.com

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• The goal in raising one's child is to enable him, first, to discover who he wants to be, and then to become a person who can be satisfied with himself and his way of life. Eventually he ought to be able to do in his life whatever seems important, desirable, and worthwhile to him to do; to develop relations with other people that are constructive, satisfying, mutually enriching; and to bear up well under the stresses and hardships he will unavoidably encounter during his life.

  Bruno Bettelheim

  Children, Growing Up, Stress

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• I believe that anybody with Mandela's capacity to endure hardship and then forgive is a born leader and example to us all.

  Rory McIlroy

  Believe, Leader, Forgiving

  Source: www.bbc.co.uk

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• Its shocking how many people believe hardships are a punishment from God! Every hardship is good for you-if it brings you closer to Him!

  Yasmin Mogahed

  Believe, Punishment, People

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• Work Hard. Do your best. Keep your word. Never get too big for your britches. Trust in God. Have no fear; and Never forget a friend.

  Harry S. Truman

  Friendship, Best Friend, God

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• Many battles have been fought and won by soldiers nourished on beer, and the King does not believe that coffee-drinking soldiers can be relied upon to endure hardships in case of another war.

  Frederick The Great

  Kings, War, Drinking

  "Alcohol in the Western World" by Bert L. Vallée, Scientific American, Volume 278, No. 6, pp. 80-85, ru.scribd.com. June 1998.

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• It is a conquest when we can lift ourselves above the annoyances of circumstances over which we have no control; but it is a greater victory when we can make those circumstances our helpers,--when we can appreciate the good there is in them. It has often seemed to me as if Life stood beside me, looking me in the face, and saying, "Child, you must learn to like me in the form in which you see me, before I can offer myself to you in any other aspect.

  Lucy Larcom

  Life, Children, Appreciate

  Lucy Larcom (1961). “A New England girlhood”

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• God sent Jesus to join the human experience, which means to make a lot of mistakes. Jesus didn't arrive here knowing how to walk. He had fingers and toes, confusion, sexual feelings, crazy human internal processes. He had the same prejudices as the rest of his tribe: he had to learn that the Canaanite woman was a person. He had to suffer the hardships and tedium and setbacks of being a regular person. If he hadn't the incarnation would mean nothing.

  Anne Lamott

  Jesus, Crazy, Mistake

  Anne Lamott (2008). “Grace (Eventually): Thoughts on Faith”, p.101, Penguin

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• When you're playing somebody who's going through a lot - frustration and hardship - you're just purging all your emotions, and it feels really good to do that.

  Amanda Seyfried

  Frustration, Emotion, Purging

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• I'm inspired by the people I meet in my travels--hearing their stories, seeing the hardships they overcome, their fundamental optimism and decency. I'm inspired by the love people have for their children. And I'm inspired by my own children, how full they make my heart. They make me want to work to make the world a little bit better. And they make me want to be a better man.

  Barack Obama

  Family, Children, Heart

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• According to our social pyramid, all men who feel displaced racially, culturally, and/or because of economic hardships will turn on those whom they feel they can order and humiliate, usually women, children, and animals--just as they have been ordered and humiliated by those privileged few who are in power. However, this definition does not explain why there are privileged men who behave this way toward women.

  Ana Castillo

  Children, Animal, Men

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• Explorers like to pretend that they are a select breed of people with iron nerve and an ability to endure terrible hardship.

  Tahir Shah

  Iron, People, Nerves

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• I won't let others stoke fear in my heart. I choose to remain true to who I am and where my dreams direct me no matter the hardship I might incur. I remember it always: Fear wins or Freedom wins, and I choose Freedom.

  Brendon Burchard

  Dream, Heart, Winning

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• When we are broken because of increased hardship, we simply have to trust in the goodness of God.

  Steve Farrar

  Broken, Goodness, Goodness Of God

  Steve Farrar (2009). “Battle Ready: Prepare to Be Used by God”, p.113, David C Cook

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• Life is full of hardships, pimp slaps, and sorrow.

  Coolio

  Pimp, Sorrow, Life Is

  "Song: "The Revolution" ("Gangsta's Paradise")". 1995.

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• The talk of sheltering woman from the fierce storms of life is the sheerest mockery, for they beat on her from every point of thecompass, just as they do on man, and with more fatal results, for he has been trained to protect himself, to resist, to conquer.

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton

  Men, Storm, Fierce

  Speech before Senate Judiciary Committee, 18 Jan. 1892

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• Get into the habit of singing a tune. It will give you new life and fill you with joy. Get into the habit of dancing. It will displace depression and dispel hardship.

  Nachman of Breslov

  Giving, Dancing, Joy

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  I think it's my personality to overcome things, learn from them and become stronger, both personally and professionally. To be honest, I welcome those hardships.

  Hope Solo

  Thinking, Personality, Stronger

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• Well, farmers never have made money. I don't believe we can do much about it. But of course we will have to seem to be doing something; do the best we can and without much hope. The life of the farmer has its compensations but it has always been one of hardship.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Money, Believe, Made

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• In Kurdistan, theres a lot of hardship - a lot of wars, a lot of bitter and difficult lifestyles. And witnessing all those made me a director.

  Bahman Ghobadi

  War, Directors, Bitter

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• The anti-suffragist talk of sheltering women from the fierce storms of life is a lot of cant. I have no patience with it. These storms beat on woman just as fiercely as they do on man, and she is not trained to defend herself against them.

  Susan B. Anthony

  Men, Storm, Fierce

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• Care and labor are as much correlated to human existence as shadow is to light.

  Harriet Beecher Stowe

  Light, Shadow, Care

  Harriet Beecher Stowe, Harriet Beecher STOWE (2016). “Collected Works (Complete and Illustrated Editions: Uncle Tom's Cabin, Queer Little Folks, The Chimney-Corner, ...)”, p.573, Harriet Beecher Stowe

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• To the Pilgrim Mothers, who not only had their full share of the hardships and privations of pioneer life but also had the Pilgrim Fathers to endure.

  Fanny Fern

  Mother, Father, Pioneers

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• There are uses to adversity, and they don't reveal themselves until tested. Whether it's serious illness, financial hardship, or the simple constraint of parents who speak limited English, difficulty can tap unexpected strengths.

  Sonia Sotomayor

  Adversity, Simple, Financial Hardship

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