Quotes About Hardship

Broadway was without doubt the hardest I ever worked in my life and the highest highs I've ever had as an actor. The unadulterated fear was on a level that was hard to explain.

Life isn't supposed to be easy. Generally speaking, the harder something is the more rewarding the results will be.

The best paths in life are rarely the easiest.

We are oceans apart. My mother had a very difficult life.

And I have to tell you, as tough as farming is, the idea of farming when you're losing money year after year... that's not life even, that's like death. That's eternal damnation.

To speak broadly, the troubles of life as we find them are mainly traceable to the heart or the purse.

This is a tough, tough life when things aren't going your way.

It's easy for people to mistake most musicians as living the easy life. It takes a while to get to that point. I'm sure it's like that for acting and television.

He] went on to tell her that certain work songs made the work a little easier, but that there were others, depending upon the time of day, that dragged a body down, so 'you just gotta be careful with your songs and your hummin' and whatnot.

People who look for easy money invariably pay for the privilege of proving conclusively that it cannot be found on this sordid earth.

Whatever a defeat is in one's way of life causes pain and tears.

I am thankful that geniuses and artists and good people, no matter how hard it is, will eventually be recognized. I am doubly thankful that also goes for idiots.

Disgust at the torments that shackle us, the chains of heavy life.

I saw clearly the mothers of the old neighborhood. They were nervous, they were acquiescent. They were silent, with tight lips and stooping shoulders, or they yelled terrible insults at the children who harassed them. Extremely thin, with hollow eyes and cheeks, or with broad behinds, swollen ankles, heavy chests, they lugged shopping bags and small children who clung to their skirts and wanted to be picked up. And, good God, they were ten, at most twenty years older than me. Yet

There is a poverty that makes us all cruel.

I nostri non erano così, mancava il tempo, mancavano i soldi, mancava la voglia

Studieren galt als ein Trick der pfiffigsten jungen Leute zur Vermeidung harter Arbeit.

Poverty is like punishment for a crime you didn't commit.

His mastery of the hard-luck story was of a kind never achieved by persons not wholly concentrated on themselves.

When the battle is long and hard the victory is even sweeter

Never tire yourself more than necessary, even if you have to found a culture on the fatigue of your bones.

It was an honor and privilege to arrive to this country 16 years ago with almost no money in my pocket. A lot has happened since then.

An external pressure is required to be applied on SOMETHING hard to boil from inside to become soft and not on SOMEONE strong to toil to be productive and perform long.

Better believe in hard-luck than hard-work when it comes to making the progress & success linked to money only.