Hardship Quotes - Page 19

• To be laughed at is no great hardship to me. I can delight in scoffs and jeers. Caricatures, lampoons, and slanders are my glory. But that you should turn from your own mercy, this is my sorrow. Spit on me, but, oh, repent! Laugh at me, but, oh, believe in my Master! Make my body as the dirt of the streets, but damn not your own souls!

  Charles Spurgeon

  Believe, Laughing, Soul

  Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1858). “Sermons of the Rev. C. H. Spurgeon, of London”, p.207

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• Usually, there is nothing more pleasing that returning to a place where you have endured hardship.

  Tahir Shah

  Travel, Pleasure

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• In the world there is nothing more submissive and weak than water. Yet for attacking that which is hard and strong nothing can surpass it.

  Laozi

  Being Strong, Stay Strong, Hard Times

  Laozi, D. C. Lau (1989). “Tao Te Ching”, p.113, Chinese University Press

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• Happiness does not lie in amusement; it would be strange if one were to take trouble and suffer hardship all one's life in order to amuse oneself.

  Aristotle

  Happiness, Lying, Order

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• For men who had easily endured hardship, danger and difficult uncertainty, leisure and riches, though in some ways desirable, proved burdensome and a source of grief.

  Sallust

  Grief, Men, Riches

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• Of course, it's always bad to lose, of course it's always a hardship when you lose to yesterday's miners or yesterday's tractor drivers. But life is life. It'll surely go on.

  Vladimir Putin

  Life, Yesterday, Goes On

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• Poverty is relative, and the lack of food and of the necessities of life is not necessarily a hardship. Spiritual and social ostracism, the invasion of your privacy, are what constitute the pain of poverty

  Alice Foote MacDougall

  Spiritual, Pain, Invasion

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• Broken by hardships, disappointments and tragedy, people can become discouraged and cynical. But lives can also be mended. Put back together well, they won't be just like they were before. Damaged pieces reassembled with a golden bonding of patience and love will help form a person into an exquisite masterpiece. It is as if people have to be broken before they can become whole and complete.

  Steve Goodier

  Disappointment, People, Broken

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• Like those in the valley behind us, most people stand in sight of the spiritual mountains all their lives and never enter them, being content to listen to others who have been there and thus avoid the hardships.

  Robert M. Pirsig

  Spiritual, Sight, People

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• I am convinced that the majority of the religious hierarchy today deplores the hardship inflicted on our people. I am referring not only to the martyrs but of the families who have been dispersed and terrified, who have no resources, and to the four million unemployed who are suffering from the economic chaos of a country which only a year earlier was giving employment to a million foreigners. Those who have chosen to serve God must feel profoundly sad at seeing ridicule poured on the most sacred principles of our religion.

  Mohammed Reza Pahlavi

  Country, Religious, Years

  Mohammed Reza Pahlavi (Shah of Iran) (1980). “The Shah's story”, Michael Joseph

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• We firmly believe in the power of unity and feel that it is easier to get pass hardships and challenges as a team. This gels us and keeps us strong.

  Seohyun

  Strong, Team, Believe

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• ... we can bear with great philosophy the sufferings of others, especially if we do not actually see them.

  Albion Fellows Bacon

  Philosophy, Philosophical, Suffering Of Others

  Albion Fellows Bacon (1914). “Beauty for Ashes, by Albion Fellows Bacon; with Numerous Illustrations”

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• Winning the men's confidence requires much of a commander. He must exercise care and caution, look after his men, live under the same hardships, and-above all- apply self discipline. But once he has their confidence, his men will follow him through hell and high water.

  Erwin Rommel

  Exercise, Winning, Men

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• Music was not always my fan. Sometimes there were lean years, years where I was uncertain if I was doing the right or wrong thing. And years where there wasn't the acceptance, years of economic hardships, and failures. That's when you get to know either who you are, what you're made of, or what's inside of you. If you don't probe deeper, you'll never know, and you can't go on.

  Gino Vannelli

  Acceptance, Years, Goes On

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• Ease and luxury, such as our affluence brings today, do not make for maturity; hardship and struggle however do.

  J. I. Packer

  Struggle, Maturity, Luxury

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• When love beckons to you, follow him,
  Though his ways are hard and steep.

  Khalil Gibran

  Life, Hippie, Hard Times

  Khalil Gibran (2007). “Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces”

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• The psychological trauma of losing a job can be as great as the trauma of a divorce. It creates a lot of anger and emotional hardship. People may become quite depressed.

  Barbara Ehrenreich

  Jobs, Divorce, Emotional

  "Bait and Switch". Interview with April Dembosky, www.motherjones.com. September 9, 2005.

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• Patience will benefit you in every hour, every time and every opportunity. It helps you to overcome your opponent, howsoever strong he may be. It will help you in times of distress and hardships, in battles and in war and peace.

  Abd al-Karim Qasim

  Patience, Strong, War

  Abd al-Karim Qasim's historical extempore speech at the Reserve Officers' College, 1959.

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• When God is going to do something wonderful, He or She always starts with a hardship; when God is going to do something amazing, He or She starts with an impossibility.

  Anne Lamott

  Faith, Wonderful, Impossibility

  Anne Lamott (2006). “Plan B: Further Thoughts on Faith”, p.33, Penguin

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• If we fail now, then we will have forgotten in abundance what we learned in hardship: that democracy rests on faith; freedom asks more than it gives; and the judgment of God is harshest on those who are most favored.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  History, Giving, Democracy

  Inaugural Address, delivered 20 January 1965

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• I'm not going to experience the reality of hardship that sometimes my characters live in. I'm very cautious about that.

  Colin Farrell

  Character, Reality, Sometimes

  "Colin Farrell and Director Craig Gillespie Talk FRIGHT NIGHT, Working with Chris Sarandon, Making the Remake, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. August 15, 2011.

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• Those who don't have a life filled with luxury may have a home filled with compassion, based on their choice to be content and to practice self-discipline. Even when we have physical hardships, we can be very happy.

  Dalai Lama

  Home, Compassion, Self

  Source: www.worldreligionnews.com

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• Faith endures as seeing Him who is invisible (Heb. 11:27); endures the disappointments, the hardships, and the heart-aches of life, by recognizing that all comes from the hand of Him who is too wise to err and too loving to be unkind.

  Arthur W. Pink

  Faith, Christian, Wise

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• I think any hardship is better than pretending to do what one is paid for, and never really doing it.

  George Eliot

  Thinking, Pretending, Paid

  George Eliot (2015). “Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.99, Penguin

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• I consider those persons to be my students who come and meditate with me on a regular basis, who, in spite of the hardships and difficulties on the path of knowledge, still continue to try, and who respect me as I respect them.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Trying, Path

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