#hardship

Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength. ↗

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

#come #decide #develop #does #go

So we need people who will remain steadfast in any hardship and who have a high degree of resistance. ↗

— Moshe Sharett

#degree #hardship #high #high degree #need

Finding the reason to live doesn't put you on top, it's the hardships faced in process that get you there. ↗

— Sachin Kumar Puli

#hardships #knowledge #learning #life #life

South Koreans who have seen and praised the mass games should remember the hardship of tearful children. Teachers drive them hard with curses and orders to repeat and repeat. When the children return home in the evening, they can hardly walk. ↗

— Kim Il-sung

#curses #drive #evening #games #hard

I think men, growing up, you have to go through some form of hardship. You've got to harden the metal. ↗

— Ice T

#go #got #growing #growing up #harden

If you avoid all of life's abrasions, you will never be polished enough to shine. ↗

— Richelle E. Goodrich

#hardships #life #life-lessons #richelle #richelle-goodrich

Creative work is often driven by pain. It may be that if you don't have something in the back of your head driving you nuts, you may not do anything. It's not a good arrangement. If I were God, I wouldn't have done it that way. [Interview, The Wall Street Journal, Nov. 20, 2009] ↗

— Cormac McCarthy

#creation #creative-process #driving-forces #hardship #pain

Nothing was easy, and sometimes she failed, and sometimes she thought that the fairy stories were right, that there must indeed be easier ways of living happily ever after; but defeat is a poor ending to any tale, so she kept trying. ↗

— Sonya Hartnett

#hardship #inspirational #life #inspirational

At times I experience hardship in trying to find the proper point of balance between traditional things and my own personality. ↗

— Princess Masako

#between #experience #find #hardship #i

Let me say no danger and no hardship ever makes me wish to get back to that college life again. ↗

— Joshua Chamberlain

#back #college #college life #danger #ever