Overcoming Hardships Quotes

There is no fate that cannot be surmounted by scorn.

Difficulties mastered are opportunities won.

My journey, my life, has not been easy. I have had to fight.

We have had much to bear already. And still more will we have to bear. Let us thank God for being young.

I think there's only one interesting story... and that's struggle.

Many men owe the grandeur of their lives to their tremendous difficulties.

There have been moments when I was physically strained, but I have overcome the hardships by staging performances and receiving support from our members and fans.

Men can bear all things but good days.

I had to fight all my life to survive. They were all against me... but I beat the bastards and left them in the ditch.

Hardships and handicaps can...stimulate our energy to survive them. You'll find if you study the lives of people who've accomplished things, it's often been done with the help of great willpower in overcoming this and that.

Conquered, we conquer.

We were promised sufferings. They were part of the program. We were even told, Blessed are they that morn.

For me, trying the NFL and trying this football thing, because of the home and what I went through in there, to me, it was no big deal. It was just another opportunity for me. I didn't see that bigger, grandiose picture of it, I just took it one day at a time, like how I took it in the group home.

I have lived a life full of love and pain, of Joy and Sorrow, and I live on still. i have many, many years ahead of me, each day with the potential to be filled to the brim with trials to face and challenges to overcome.

Crush your individuality first. Shake off the dreams of personal comfort. Then start to work. Inch by inch you shall have to proceed. It needs courage, perseverance and very strong determination. No difficulties and no hardships shall discourage you. No failure and betrayals shall dishearten you. No travails (!) imposed upon you shall snuff out the revolutionary will in you. Through the ordeal of sufferings and sacrifice you shall come out victorious. And these individual victories shall be the valuable assets of the revolution.

Bear patiently, my heart, for you have suffered heavier things.

The strength I'm looking for isn't the type where you win or lose. I'm not after a wall that'll repel power coming from outside. What I want us the kind of strength to be able to absorb that kind of power, to stand up to it.The strength to quietly endure things - unfairness, misfortunes, sadness, mistakes, misunderstandings.

Pain reconciles one to existence. Infinite resignation is that shirt in the old fable. The thread is spun with tears, bleached by tears, the shirt sewn in tears, but then it also gives better protection than iron. The secret in life is that everyone must sew it for himself.

Everybody hurts sometimes Everybody cries

Adversities such as being homeless and going to prison has made many people stronger.

It's all very well to read about sorrows and imagine yourself living through them heroically, but it's not so nice when you really come to have them, is it?

If circumstances are bad and you have to bear them, do not make them a part of yourself.

Unless you are at a picnic, life is no picnic.

It seems to me, that if people only knew how hard it was for me to endure life, they would find it easier to forgive me for all the wrong things I’ve done and all the good things that I have failed to do. And they would still find a little compassion within them to pity me.

I've faced adversity throughout my whole life.