Life is choices, but of inevitable problems that call for strength, determination, and hard work. — Indian Proverbs
Life is not a continuum of pleasant choices, but of inevitable problems that call for strength, determination, and hard work. — Indian Proverbs
The struggle of life is one of our greatest blessings. It makes us patient, sensitive, and Godlike. It teaches us that although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it. — Helen Keller
Everyone is handed adversity in life. No one's journey is easy. It's how they handle it that makes people unique. — Kevin Conroy
Life is tough pilgrim, it is even tougher if you're stupid — John Wayne
These things I wish for you-tough times and disappointment, hard work and happiness. To me, it's the only way to appreciate life. — Paul Harvey
Short Hardships Of Life Quotes
Life is hard; it's harder if you're stupid. — John Wayne
Life's hard. It's supposed to be. If we didn't suffer, we'd never learn anything. — Ethan Hawke
Life is like unto a long journey with a heavy burden. — Ieyasu Tokugawa
Life is never completely without its challenges. — Stan Lee
Get used to a rough life, for luxury does not last forever. — Umar
Never let life's hardships disturb you. No one can avoid problems, not even saints or sages. — Nichiren
Alas, not all things in life are easy; Even man struggles to be human. — Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib
Life is tough, but it's tougher when you're stupid. — John Wayne
My life is a battle. — Voltaire
Hardships Of Life Image Quotes
Art is a spiritual, immaterial respite from the hardships of life. — Fernando Botero
For what it's worth: it's never too late to be whoever you want to be. I hope you live a life you're proud of, and, if you find that you're not, I hope you have the strength to start over.
Hard Life Quotes
If I have accomplished anything in life it is because I have been willing to work hard. — Madam C. J. Walker
People know that I have adopted four principles in living my life: simple living, punctuality, hard work and prudence. — Abdul Sattar Edhi
Life is a hard battle anyway. If we laugh and sing a little as we fight the good fight of freedom, it makes it all go easier. I will not allow my life's light to be determined by the darkness around me. — Sojourner Truth
Never be a prisoner of your past. It was just a lesson, not a life sentence.
Never give up on a dream just because of the time it will take to accomplish it. The time will pass anyway. — Earl Nightingale
There's nothing inherently dirty about sex, but if you try real hard and use your imagination you can overcome that. — Lewis Grizzard
Don't be pushed by your problems. Be led by your dreams. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
There comes a point in your life when you need to stop reading other people's book and write your own.
My choice early in life was either to be a piano player in a whorehouse or a politician. To tell the truth, there's hardly a difference. — Harry S. Truman
Do you know what it's like going through life being better than everybody? It's hard. — CM Punk
I've always been my own person. Everything I've ever done in my life I did the hard way. — Bray Wyatt
Success isn't about how much money you make, it's about the difference you make in people's lives. — Michelle Obama
Life Is Hard Quotes
The purpose of life is to glorify God in both good and hard times alike. — T. B. Joshua
It's a terrible thing, I think, in life to wait until you're ready. I have this feeling now that actually no one is ever ready to do anything. There is almost no such thing as ready. There is only now. And you may as well do it now. Generally speaking, now is as good a time as any. — Hugh Laurie
There is one thing sure about life: Life will push us hardly many times! When you are pushed, don't be surprised; stay firm like a plane tree or be elastic like a bamboo! — Mehmet Murat Ildan
Some days I wish I could go back in life. Not to change anything, but to feel a few things twice.
The hard thing when you get old is to keep your horizons open. The first part of your life everything is in front of you, all your potential and promise. But over the years, you make decisions; you carve yourself into a given shape. Then the challenge is to keep discovering the green growing edge. — Howard Thurman
God has allowed hard things in your life so you can show the world that your God is great and that knowing Him brings peace and joy, even when life is hard. — Francis Chan
Times may be hard and people may be demanding, but never forget that life is special. Every single day is a special day. God is at work in you! — Charles R. Swindoll
Getting knocked down in life is a given. Getting up and moving forward is a choice.
Like life, basketball is messy and unpredictable. It has its way with you, no matter how hard you try to control it. The trick is to experience each moment with a clear mind and open heart. When you do that, the game - and life - will take care of itself. — Phil Jackson
Bad times, hard times, this is what people keep saying; but let us live well, and times shall be good. We are the times: Such as we are, such are the times. — Saint Augustine
We kill at every step, not only in wars, riots and executions. We kill when we close our eyes to poverty, suffering and shame.In the same way all disrespect for life, all hard-heartedness,all indifference, all contempt is nothing else than killing. — Hermann Hesse
You must make a decision that you are going to move on. It wont 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
Life Being Hard Quotes
Do not pray for an easy life, pray for the strength to endure a difficult one — Bruce Lee
I feel like relationships are a beautiful thing, period. Relationships can be really beautiful, they can be really hard, they can be really rewarding, or they can be bad relationships where it's really detrimental and hurtful, but that's life, period. — J. Cole
Don't chase people. Be yourself, do your own thing and work hard. The right people - the ones who really belong in your life - will come to you. And Stay. — Will Smith
The secret to living well and longer is: eat half, walk double, laugh triple and love without measure.
Human lives are hard, even those of health and privilege, and don't make much sense. This is the message of the Book of Job: Any snappy explanation of suffering you come up with will be horseshit. — Anne Lamott
That diploma you hold in your hands today is really just your learner's permit for the rest of the drive through life. Remember, you don't have to be smarter than the next person, all you have to do is be willing to work harder than the next person. — Jimmy Iovine
Life is sentimental. Why should I be cold and hard about it? That's the main content. The biggest thing in people's lives is their loves and dreams and visions, you know. — Jim Harrison
Sometimes the smallest step in the right direction ends up being the biggest step of your life. Tip top if you must, but take the step.
The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself. — Anna Quindlen
When I cannot understand my Father's leading, And it seems to be but hard and cruel fate, Still I hear that gentle whisper ever pleading, God is working, God is faithful-Only wait. — A. B. Simpson
The issue of terrorism must be dealt with firmly. We must work very hard to avoid loss of life. We must work very hard to avoid civilian casualties. And those terrorists and Baathists are holding the people of Fallujah hostage. We must release the hostages. — Ahmed Chalabi
Be calm and strong and patient. Meet failure and disappointment with courage. Rise superior to the trials of life, and never give in to hopelessness or despair. In danger, in adversity, cling to your principles and ideals. Aequanimitas! — William Osler
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
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
Don't wait for everything to be perfect before you decide to enjoy your life.
The thing about life is that you must survive. Life is going to be difficult, and dreadful things will happen. What you do is move along, get on with it, and be tough. Not in the sense of being mean to others, but being tough with yourself and making a deadly effort not to be defeated. — Katharine Hepburn
A bend in the road is not the end of the road…Unless you fail to make the turn. — Helen Keller
We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey. — Kenji Miyazawa
Don't compare your life to others. There's no comparison between the sun and the moon. They shine when it's their time.
The flower that blooms in adversity is the rarest and most beautiful of all. — Walt Disney
If you don't like your situation in life, don't fret or worry--do something about it. Worry less, and act more. — Zig Ziglar
Difficulties, opposition, criticism-these things are meant to be overcome, and there is a special joy in facing them and in coming out on top. It is only when there is nothing but praise that life loses its charm and I begin to wonder what I should do about it. — Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit
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
Life Is Very Difficult Quotes
How strange that the nature of life is change, yet the nature of human beings is to resist change. And how ironic that the difficult times we fear might ruin us are the very ones that can break us open and help us blossom into who we were meant to be. — Elizabeth Lesser
It is possible for us to live in the very sense of the Lord's presence, under even the most difficult circumstances. If you and I are going to enjoy the peace of paradise during this life we must become accustomed to a familiar, humble, and very affectionate conversation with the Lord Jesus. — Brother Lawrence
The consequences of our actions are always so complicated, so diverse, that predicting the future is a very difficult business indeed. — J. K. Rowling
Life is like a piano, the white keys represent happiness and the black shows sadness, but as you go through life's journey, remember that the black keys also makes music.
For, in the end, it is impossible to have a great life unless it is a meaningful life. And it is very difficult to have a meaningful life without meaningful work. — James C. Collins
I'm very comfortable with the nature of life and death, and that we come to an end. What's most difficult to imagine is that those dreams and early yearnings and desires of childhood and adolescence will also disappear. But who knows? Maybe you become part of the eternal whatever. — Hugh Hefner
Rather than taking an easy route, taking a difficult route is more satisfying and interesting. Life is hard at times; life is easy at other times. It zig zags and spins round and round. It goes up and down When all that is done, you’ll probably smile and say, “I lived a very fun life — Minzy
Failure are part of life. If you don't fail, you don't learn. If you don't learn you'll never change.
We all have to start with ourselves. It is time to walk the talk. Take the journey of making very difficult decisions. Start removing things from your life that are not filling your cup and adding things that bring joy in to your life. — Lisa Hammond
Young horses who cannot bear the whip or spur find life hard. At every smart they start forward and rush to their destruction, and when the way is stony and difficult, they know no better expedient than to overturn the cart and gallop madly away. — Selma Lagerlöf
Marriage is a very difficult relationship for nearly everyone and I'm sure you shouldn't do it if you want a quiet little easy life. — Fay Weldon
You may have been taught that the mind (the spirit, the brain) is a very difficult thing to know about. This is the first principle of Scientology: It is possible to know about the mind, the spirit and life. — L. Ron Hubbard
Life Is So Difficult Quotes
Difficult times have helped me to understand better than before, how infinitely rich and beautiful life is in every way, and that so many things that one goes worrying about are of no importance whatsoever. — Isak Dinesen
Why the Christian life is so difficult to many is because they have a divided heart. They are double-minded, which makes them unstable in all their ways. — Ellen G. White
It is just as necessary to forgive ourselves as it is to forgive others, and the principal reason why forgiveness seemed so difficult is because we have neglected to forgive ourselves. — Christian D. Larson
The higher you go in a company, the less oxygen there is, so supporting
intelligent life becomes difficult. — Guy Kawasaki
There is nothing so easy but that it becomes difficult when you do it reluctantly. — Terence
Nothing is easier than to admit in words the truth of the universal struggle for life, or more difficult--at least I have found it so--than constantly to bear this conclusion in mind. — Charles Darwin
What good to us is a long life if it is difficult and barren of joys, and if it is so full of misery that we can only welcome death as a deliverer? — Sigmund Freud
There is nothing in life so difficult that it cannot be overcome. This faith can move mountains. It can change people. It can change the world. You can survive all the great storms in your life — Norman Vincent Peale
To have success in your professional life is not so hard. To succeed as a man is more difficult. — Yann Arthus-Bertrand
True conviction of sin--how difficult it is, when its appearances and modes of life are so fair, when it twines itself so cunningly about, or creeps so insidiously into, our amiable qualities, and sets off its internal disorders by so many outward charms and attractions. — Horace Bushnell
To be a poor man is hard, but to be a poor race in a land of dollars is the very bottom of hardships. — W. E. B. Du Bois
Success is not achieved by winning all the time. Real success comes when we rise after we fall. Some mountains are higher than others. Some roads steeper than the next. There are hardships and setbacks but you cannot let them stop you. Even on the steepest road you must not turn back. — Muhammad Ali
It is not the trials in your life that develop or destroy you, but rather your response to those hardships. — Charles Stanley
For anew Self to be born, hardship is necessary. Just as clay needs to go through intense heat to become strong, Love can only be perfected in pain. — Shams Tabrizi
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
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
The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us — Voltaire
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, in order to assure the survival and the success of liberty. — John F. Kennedy
You don't get character because you're successful; you build character because of the hardships you face. — Herman Edwards
When Life Is Hard Quotes
When I hear somebody sigh, 'Life is hard,' I am always tempted to ask, 'Compared to what?' — Sydney J. Harris
When someone leaves, it's because someone else is about to arrive. — Paulo Coelho
Character isn't who you are when life goes your way. Character is who you really are when the bottom falls out. — LeCrae
The hardest thing to do is work hard when no one is watching. — Ray Lewis
When you have exhausted all possibilities, remember this - you haven't. — Thomas A. Edison
Hard work is painful when life is devoid of purpose. But when you live for something greater than yourself and the gratification of your own ego, then hard work becomes a labor of love. — Steve Pavlina
The brick walls are there to stop the people who don't want it badly enough. They are there to stop the other people! — Randy Pausch
A leading difficulty with the average player is that he totally misunderstands what is meant by concentration. He may think he is concentrating hard when he is merely worrying. — Bobby Jones
Character produces endurance and persistence when the going gets tough, and life truly is an endurance race, not a sprint. — Zig Ziglar
Troubles In Life Quotes
If you are in trouble anywhere in the world, an airplane can fly over and drop flowers, but a helicopter can land and save your life. — Igor Sikorsky
Life in this world is short. Let us make use of our lives in the pursuit of happiness and not trouble. — Tunku Abdul Rahman
In egotism, one is assailed by fear, he passes his life totally troubled by fear. — Guru Gobind Singh
If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn't sit for a month. — Theodore Roosevelt
Despite all the troubles of our world, in my heart I have never given up on the love in which I was brought up or on man's hope in love. In life, just as on the artist's palette, there is but one single colour that gives meaning to life and art–the colour of love — Marc Chagall
And suddenly all your troubles melt away, all your worries are gone, and it is for no reason other than the look in your partner's eyes. Yes, sometimes life and love really is that simple. — William Wordsworth
With music, one's whole future life is brightened. This is such a treasure in life that it helps us over many troubles and difficulties. Music is nourishment, a comforting elixir. Music multiplies all that is beautiful and of value in life. — Zoltan Kodaly
Whatever happens in your life, no matter how troubling things might seem, do not enter the neighborhood of despair. Even when all doors remain closed, God will open up a new path only for you. Be thankful! — Elif Safak
I firmly believe that nature brings solace in all troubles. — Anne Frank
Riches and the things that are necessary in life are not evil in themselves. And all of us face cares and troubles in this life. The sin comes in the time and energy we spend in pursuing these things, at the expense of neglecting Christ. — David Wilkerson
Life Is Difficult Quotes
The most difficult thing in life is to know yourself. — Thales
The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread. — Mother Teresa
I've discovered most Christians don't know what to do with difficult situations because they have bought into the lie that God owes us (for our good behaviour). The reality of life is that if you live long enough you are going to bleed, cry and hurt. AND God is still God IN that. — Matt Chandler
It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are difficult — Seneca
What I treasure most in life is being able to dream.
During my most difficult moments and complex situations
I have been able to dream of a more beautiful future. — Rigoberta Menchu
One of the most difficult things is not to change society - but to change yourself. — Nelson Mandela
As we advance in life it becomes more and more difficult, but in fighting the difficulties the inmost strength of the heart is developed. — Vincent Van Gogh
The period of greatest gain in knowledge and experience is the most difficult period in one's life. — Dalai Lama
I think one of life's great milestones is when a person can look back and be almost as thankful for the setbacks as for the victories. — Bob Dole
Life is a difficult game. You can win it only by retaining your birthright to be a person. — A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
In the intricate paths of life when difficulties and hardships confront a man, and the darkness of difficulty and suffering becomes long, it is patience only that acts like a light for a Muslim, that keeps him safe from wandering here and there, and saves him from the muddy marsh of disappointment, desperation and frustration. — Al-Ghazali
Life sometimes needs to give you a nudge in order to alter your path. It uses a bit of hardship to lead you to something good. — Mo Gawdat
If you are unwilling to fight through the worst days of your life, you do not deserve the best days of your life. — Chatri Sityodtong
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
More than ever, I feel that the human race is one. There are differences of colour, language, culture and opportunities, but people's feelings and reactions are alike. People flee wars to escape death, they migrate to improve their fortunes, they build new lives in foreign lands, they adapt to extreme hardship…. — Sebastiao Salgado
Withstanding hardships is a sort of sport. You can’t control how life plays, but you can control your defensive strategy. — Isaac Mashman
We depend on our circumstances to force a lot of our progress in life. — Dan Sullivan
Life is like any other contact sport. You may encounter hardships of one sort or another. Wise people find happiness not in the absence of such hardships, but in their ability to understand them when they occur. — Sydney Banks
Life is like a rose, peeping through the hardships of life to bloom with color. — Stephanie
This world isn't perfect. That means it isn't perfectly good; but it isn't perfectly bad, either. The ease comes with the hardship. Shift the focus of what you see, and your experience of this life will change. — Yasmin Mogahed
This might sound masochistic or narcissistic‚ I don't know‚ but when I'm not playing the game‚ the validations I feel about life are always through the hardships. I relate more to sadness‚ in a lot of ways‚ when I'm not playing. — Abby Wambach
The wilderness is gone, the buckskin man is gone, the painted Indian has hit the trail over the Great Divide, the hardships and privations of pioneer life which did so much to develop sterling manhood are now but a legend in history, and we must depend upon the Boy Scout movement to produce the MEN of the future. — Daniel Carter Beard
One cannot deny that in former times man's life had been one of toil and hardship. It is correct to say, therefore, that modern civilization and the progress of science have greatly improved man's life and have brought comfort and ease in their trail. — Haile Selassie
I agree to the fight. The award, which is getting for these hardships, it is exorbitantly large. It is the joy of life. — Jerzy Kukuczka
I like doing a challenging class because it makes me more brave in life. My perception of hardships is now completely different. I'm not whining and moaning inside as much. — Ione Skye
A happy life consists not in the absence, but in the mastery of hardships. — Helen Keller
There are times in everyone's life when something constructive is born out of adversity... when things seem so bad that you've got to grab your fate by the shoulders and shake it. — Lee Iacocca
When life takes the wind out of your sails, it is to test you at the oars. — Robert Breault
I felt compelled to venture forth and explore the true face of the world. Leading a satisfying life of plenty had blinded many of us to the immense hardships beyond our borders. — Werner Bischof
Dignity is as essential to human life as water, food, and oxygen. The stubborn retention of it, even in the face of extreme physical hardship, can hold a man's soul in his body long past the point at which the body should have surrendered it. — Laura Hillenbrand
"Face the brutes." That is a lesson for all life-face the terrible, face it boldly. Like the monkeys, the hardships of life fall back when we cease to flee before them. — Swami Vivekananda
I had passed on from life, from the world of struggles and hardship and big fat women with annoying laughs, and entered a glorious new existence of utter peace, and joy, and love. And then some git brought me back to life — Yahtzee Croshaw
For most of the universe's life is not all gummy wads and tarty tarts; is a struggle against hardship, unfairness, corruption, abuse, and adversity in all its guises, where even to survive - let alone survive with dignity - is heroic. To soldier through the days in the wake of failure is the courageous act of many. — Frank Beddor
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
By changing our inner state of mind, we can change any suffering or hardship into a source of joy, regarding it as a means for forging and developing our lives. To turn even sorrow into a source of creativity - this is the way of life of a Buddhist — Daisaku Ikeda
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
There are hurdles, there are handicaps, hardships you have to face in life, but you hope for a great future. — Anil Kapoor
Most men ebb and flow in wretchedness between the fear of death and the hardship of life; they are unwilling to live, and yet they do not know how to die. — Seneca The Elder
Most men ebb and flow in wretchedness between the fear of death and the hardship of life; they are unwilling to live, and yet they do not know how to die. — Seneca
The difficulties, hardships and trials of life, the obstacles... are positive blessings. They knit the muscles more firmly, and teach self-reliance. — William Matthews
One of the big tensions in my life is that I have known the stresses of financial hardship since I was a little kid, and it is the cancer for which I am seeking a cure. — Andy Richter
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
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
The life I've had, the difficulties, the hardships, the pain I've suffered since I was a child. It's a great privilege to have led a difficult life, and many people in my generation have had this privilege - I sometimes wonder if young people today aren't deprived of the dramas that shaped us. — Indira Gandhi
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
There are large numbers of people in India below the poverty line, there are large numbers of people who lead a meager existence. They want to find a little escape from the hardships of life, and come and watch something colorful and exciting and musical. Indian cinema provides that. So yes, the content of our television and our cinema is escapist in nature because we are there to provide entertainment. — Amitabh Bachchan
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 better or much worse--hunger, hardship, and disappointment being, so he said, the unalterable law of life. — George Orwell
We of an older generation can get along with what we have, though with growing hardship; but in your full manhood and womanhood you will want what nature once so bountifully supplied and man so thoughtlessly destroyed; and because of that want you will reproach us, not for what we have used, but for what we have wasted...So any nation which in its youth lives only for the day, reaps without sowing, and consumes without husbanding, must expect the penalty of the prodigal whose labor could with difficulty find him the bare means of life. — Theodore Roosevelt
Our great men have written words of wisdom to be used when hardship must be faced. Life obliges us with hardship so the words of wisdom shouldn't go to waste. — L'Chiam
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