#hardship

There is no success without hardship. ↗

— Sophocles

#success #without

She hated her job the same way I hated my jobs because she knew she was worth more, but she also hated herself so there wasn't much point in trying to do better. ↗

— Tawni O'Dell

#hardship #self-hate #working-class #self-worth

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

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

He who knows no hardships will know no hardihood. He who faces no calamity will need no courage. Mysterious though it is, the characteristics in human nature which we love best grow in a soil with a strong mixture of troubles. ↗

— Harry Emerson Fosdick

#calamity #characteristics #courage #faces #grow

Don't be too quick to draw conclusions from what happens to you; simply let it happen. Otherwise it will be too easy for you to look with blame... at your past, which naturally has a share with everything that now meets you. ↗

— Rainer Maria Rilke

#hardship #change

When you leave home to follow your dreams, your road will probably be riddled with potholes, not always paved in happy Technicolor bricks. You'll probably be kicked to the ground 150 million times and told you're nuts by friends and strangers alike. As you progress you may feel lonely or terrified for your physical and emotional safety. You may overestimate your own capabilities or fail to live up to them, and you'll surely fall flat on your face once in a while. ↗

— Kelly Cutrone

#leaving-home #life-lessons #dreams

You’re not a victim of the past; you’re a conqueror of the present moment and the hero of your own life ↗

— Martin Suarez

#courageous #hardship #hardships #life #tribulations

Life keeps throwing me curve balls and I don't even own a bat. At least my dodging skills are improving. ↗

— Jayleigh Cape

#hardship #jayleigh-cape #life #overcome #perseverance