Coping with Hardship Quotes

It’s the same with people who say, ‘Whatever doesn’t kill you makes you stronger.’ Even people who say this must realize that the exact opposite is true. What doesn’t kill you maims you, cripples you, leaves you weak, makes you whiny and full of yourself at the same time. The more pain, the more pompous you get. Whatever doesn’t kill you makes you incredibly annoying.

Sucking the marrow out of life doesn't mean choking on the bone.

Endure what is difficult to endure and to suffer what is difficult to suffer.

Suffering increases your inner strength. Also, the wishing for suffering makes the suffering disappear.

A man shares his days with hunger, thirst, and cold, with the good times and the bad, and the first part of being a man is to understand that.

People say, That which doesn't kill you makes you stronger. But they are wrong. What doesn't kill you doesn't kill you. That's all you get. Sometimes, you just have to hope that's enough.

Tough times test your valor, persistence and ability to make decisions. They force you to fight for your dreams.

Grip the nettle firmly and it will become a stick with which to beat your enemy.

Where life is more terrible than death, it is then the truest valor to dare to live.

Depend on it, that from every condition of distress or evil there is a great reaction, and the greater the evil or distress, the greater the reaction. If we do not get a reaction quick, we will get it long when it does come.

I am the man, I suffered, I was there.

What we cannot bear removes us from life; what remains can be borne.

In my job, you expect to suffer. That's why when I go to hell one day, it will be less painful for me than you, because I'm used to suffering.

The effect of great and inevitable misfortune is to elevate those souls which it does not deprive of all virtue.

It is worth remembering that the time of greatest gain in terms of wisdom and inner strength is often that of greatest difficulty.

For even in hell, I still have faith, To one day be free with my father at the gates, But make no mistakes, I'll show you what time takes, To be a success on earth, mixed with all the hate, I stand on my pivot, my life you could not live it For the things that I've seen have been too damn explicit.

The best happiness will be to escape the worst misery.

Through pain I've learned to comfort suffering men

No matter where you go, poor people have the capacity to endure. Some people even compliment us on it, as if endurance is all we can achieve.

People can live through hardship, but from hard feelings they perish.

Many an irritating fault, many an unlovely oddity, has come of a hard sorrow.

Misfortune does not help us to believe.

Remember - that which does not kill us can only make us stronger. And that which does kill us leaves us dead!

If you read with empathy what Lincoln went through, then you realize what you're going through is nothing compared to what he went through.

It is a very melancholy reflection that men are usually so weak that it is absolutely necessary for them to know sorrow and pain to be in their right senses.