Quotes About Hardship

My own great-grandfather suffered so much from asthma that he had to walk a mile or two behind the covered wagons crossing the plains to avoid the dust. However, he always arrived at his destination and did his share of the work.

In my early days in school, I had no shoes, no school bags. There were days I had only one meal... I walked miles and crossed rivers to school every day. Didn't have power, didn't have generators, studied with lanterns, but I never despaired.

I had no money to buy clothes, and people would run away when I walked down the street. It was a right laugh.

We work. You don't come here to take life easy. And we all got rich from it, so, you know, there's a benefit from it.

I think this idea of a big break is a lie.

Before I got my big hit, I was selling beats for $500.

Poverty has become a big problem.

I know what it's like to be shoveling to pay bills. I know what it's like to not have a job.

When you're on the way up, you have to take all the jobs because bills have to be paid.

If you can't pay your bills, it has a really tough effect on your mental state.

The birth of any show is always a rough one.

Wisdom is learned through experience, and sometimes experience is hard and bitter.

I lead the league in scratches. I'm always bleeding - I'm used to it.

I have so much respect for people who do blue-collar work because I come from that background myself.

Bob Dole is not a bitter man. That part is jarring. His life was hard.

Life in Bollywood was not easy. It took me many years to establish myself, it was a struggle.

I literally worked from the bottom up to where I am now.

I started at the bottom. Nobody has given me anything.

For the birth of one champion, there are many young boxers behind them who had setbacks. In terms of that, I think boxing is very dramatic.

Boxing's been good to me.

In Brazil, I didn't have it easy growing up.

I came from a social background in Brazil that is very poor. We didn't have anything.

There were times when I couldn't even buy a loaf of bread.

I was living on a loaf of bread a week.