437 Quotes About Hardship

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]

When people are facing real hardships in their lives, they have no time to invent imaginary ones.

Once you start learning from your problems, you stop wishing for a life without problems.

Your friends will believe in your potential, your enemies will make you live up to it.

Breakdowns create breakthroughs.

Difficulty’s potential to grow us is not confined to working out.

It's easier to bleed than sweat, Mr. Motes.

I didn't care if he was a genius or a fucking idiot, he was rotting away, and it wasn't fun to watch.

It is a blessing to experience hardship. Not because we suffer, but because we learn to endure.