Associations to the word «Hardship»

Wiktionary

HARDSHIP, noun. (countable or uncountable) Difficulty or trouble; hard times.

Dictionary definition

HARDSHIP, noun. A state of misfortune or affliction; "debt-ridden farmers struggling with adversity"; "a life of hardship".
HARDSHIP, noun. Something hard to endure; "the asperity of northern winters".
HARDSHIP, noun. Something that causes or entails suffering; "I cannot think it a hardship that more indulgence is allowed to men than to women"- James Boswell; "the many hardships of frontier life".

Wise words

We cannot always control our thoughts, but we can control our words, and repetition impresses the subconscious, and we are then master of the situation.
Florence Scovel Shinn