“Marriage isn’t always easy. The first year, it is widely understood (though certainly debated), is the hardest. There are good years and bad years. Even the best marriages face tough times. But, uh, shouldn’t you have had some years under your belt before you go announcing to the world that till dea…”— Tracy Moore, melmagazine.com
“We did not ask for this room or this music. We were invited in. Therefore, because the dark surrounds us, let us turn our faces to the light. Let us endure hardship to be grateful for plenty. We have been given pain to be astounded by joy. We have been given life to deny death. We did not ask for th…”— Bridget Carpenter, Sadie Dunhill, Sarah Gadon, imdb.com
“Life is not a walk across an open field.”— Michael Hirst, Siggy Haraldson, Jessalyn Gilsig, imdb.com
“Many things can cause a loss of balance. One cause is danger, another is hardship, and another is surprise.”— Miyamoto Musashi, amazon.com
“The difficulties and distresses to which we have been exposed during the war must now be forgotten. We must endeavor to let our ways be the way of pleasantness and all our paths Peace.”— Martha Washington, amazon.com
“I heard that in times of hardship, the pioneers would eat coral. No, wait, it wasn't coral.Maybe it was sand...no, mud.”— Sherm Cohen, Aaron Springer, Peter Burns, Spongebob Squarepants, Tom Kenny, imdb.com
“My dad's been hard on me, my coaches have been hard on me, he's just like that extra father figure. When he relates to us like he expects more, we don't look at it in a negative way and say: 'You know what? I can't do it.' At least he has the confidence in us to say, 'You can do it.' We don't look a…”— Sean Taylor, great-quotes.com
“With me it is emphatically true that the presidency is "no bed of roses."”— James K. Polk, en.wikiquote.org
“It is undeniably easier to ignore the hardships of those who are too weak to demand their rights than to respond sensitively to their needs. To care is to accept responsibility, to dare to act in accordance with the dictum that the ruler is the strength of the helpless.”— Aung San Suu Kyi, amazon.com
“A soft, easy life is not worth living, if it impairs the fibre of brain and heart and muscle. We must dare to be great; and we must realize that greatness is the fruit of toil and sacrifice and high courage... For us is the life of action, of strenuous performance of duty; let us live in the harness…”— Theodore Roosevelt, cdnc.ucr.edu
“When Jesus was nailed to the cross — and hung there in torment - he cried out — "God, my God! Why hast thou forsaken me?" He cried out as loud as he could. He thought that his heavenly father had abandoned him. He believed everything he'd ever preached was a lie. The moments before he died, Christ w…”— Ingmar Bergman, amazon.com
“Hardship often prepares an ordinary person for an extraordinary destiny.”— Reepicheep (Vocied by Simon Pegg), imdb.com
“It’s the hard days — the days that challenge you to your very core — that determine who you are. You will be defined not just by what you achieve, but how you survive.”— Sheryl Sandberg, news.berkeley.edu
“Although psychology and pedagogy have always maintained the belief that a child is a happy being without any conflicts, and have assumed that the sufferings of adults are the results of the burdens and hardships of reality, it must be asserted that just the opposite is true. What we learn about the…”— Melanie Klein, goodreads.com