Hardship Quotes

491 Hardship quotes by 369 unique authors

Where there is ruin, there is hope for a treasure. — Unknown Author
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… — Barack Obama
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… — Anne Lamott
But listen to me. For one moment quit being sad. Hear blessings dropping their blossoms around you. — Unknown Author
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… — Randy Pausch
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… — Robert M. Pirsig
Time is a lot of the things people say that God is. There's always preexisting, and having no end. There's the notion of being all… — Diana Gabaldon
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… — George Santayana
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… — Maya Angelou
posterity who are to reap the blessings will scarcely be able to conceive the hardships and sufferings of their ancestors. — Abigail Adams
The wound is the place where the Light enters you. — Unknown Author
There is hardship in everything except eating pancakes. — Charles Spurgeon
God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change; courage to change the things I can; and wisdom to know the difference.… — Reinhold Niebuhr
...happiness does not consist in amusement. In fact, it would be strange if our end were amusement, and if we were to labor and suffer… — Aristotle
Of all the hardships a person had to face, none was more punishing than the simple act of waiting. — Khaled Hosseini
I do not at all believe in human freedom in the philosophical sense... Schopenhauer’s saying, ‘A man can do what he wants, but not will… — Albert Einstein
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,… — H.G. Wells
She thought it was part of the hardship of her life that there was laid upon her the burthen of larger wants than others seemed… — George Eliot
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… — Anne Lamott
Although I have been through all that I have, I do not regret the many hardships I met, because it was they who brought me… — Paulo Coelho
Hardships make or break people. — Margaret Mitchell
Anyone can live contentedly in circumstances of ease and comfort, health and well-being gratification and felicity; but to remain happy and contented in the face… — Abdu'l-BahÃ¡
I'm right there, swimming the river of hardships but I know how to swim... — Jack Kerouac
Only old Benjamin professed to remember every detail of his long life and to know that things never had been, nor ever could be much… — George Orwell
Waiting is one of life’s hardships. — Daniel Handler

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369 authors contributed a total of 491 Hardship Quotes, led by these top contributors: