#hardship

There is the authority of position and the authority of knowledge - 'Authority flows from the one who knows.' But sharing in hardship confers upon a leader something quite rare - moral authority. ↗

— John Adair

#leadership #leadership

So we beat on, boats aaginst the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past. ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

#life #love #struggling #life

Every pilot needs a co-pilot, and let me tell you, it is awful nice to have someone sitting there beside you, especially when you hit some bumpy air. ↗

— Eric Wald

#life #life

The war had made some into libertines and some into serious, sober men. ↗

— Charles Bracelen Flood

#hardship #tribulation #war #men

Sometimes we must undergo hardships, breakups, and narcissistic wounds, which shatter the flattering image that we had of ourselves, in order to discover two truths: that we are not who we thought we were; and that the loss of a cherished pleasure is not necessarily the loss of true happiness and well-being. (109) ↗

— Jean-Yves Leloup

#emotional-wounds #happiness #hardships #self-image #suffering

Sorrow happens, hardship happens, the hell with it, who never knew the price of happiness, will not be happy. ↗

— Yevgeny Yevtushenko

#happens #happiness #happy #hardship #hell

Even cowards can endure hardship; only the brave can endure suspense. ↗

— Mignon McLaughlin

#cowards #endure #even #hardship #only

It's a hard life if you don't weaken. ↗

— Stephen King

#hard-life #hardships #life #life-lessons #steadfastness

I remember people who'd had a lot of hardship during the war. They'd thought we'd won. ↗

— Barbara Castle

#had #hardship #i #i remember #lot

During the financial crisis and bailouts of 2008, it probably occurred to very few average people that we were entering a period of hardship for billionaires. ↗

— Thomas Frank

#average people #bailouts #billionaires #crisis #during