Quotes About Hardship

Well, I got pretty good and went on the road with a group. We starved. At that time I didn't realize that you'd work one gig in Kansas City, the next in Florida and the next gig will be in Louisville. You know, a thousand miles a night. That was really rough, man.

Cesarini had suffered poverty in his student days. He had been forced to copy out his own textbooks because he could not afford to buy them and, when he served as tutor to the sons of a wealthy family, had collected the stubs of candles after their splendid banquets in order to prolong his studies into the evening—for the acquisition of knowledge in those days required not just books but also a good supply of candles to read by.

There is no golden route to glory and happiness in life.

The worst part of the potato blight was that it didn't go away. After the 1845 crops failed, people counted on the potatoes of 1846 to pull them through, but those potatoes rotted away, too. For some reason the crop of 1847 survived, but not enough fields of potatoes had been planted to produce enough food for everyone who needed it. And in 1848 the blight reappeared with a vengeance.

Maybe the best things are those that take the most work, you know? Maybe how you get somewhere can be at least as important as where you're going.

Financial hardships were rough on us, even though Mom had a good job at G.M.

Trouble is the common denominator of living. It is the great equalizer.

The field that cannot feed even its tiller Burn down every stalk that stands on it.

I am convinced that the Lord heard my prayers and took me out according to His plan. I had only to learn a very deep lesson, to drink the cup to its bitterest dregs; and now I am thankful that I passed through this hard school, which teaches you the highest love, love toward God, even when He gives nothing but suffering.

CHAPTER 7 HUSTLER

When you become an animal, a vulture, in the ghetto, as I had become, you enter a world of animals and vultures. It becomes truly the survival of only the fittest.

My family was so poor we were close to eating the holes inside of doughnuts.

La pobreza no curte el alma ni la favorece. La esclaviza.

Life sucks, end of story," said Ada.

Of course there are mothers, squeezing their breasts dry, pawning their bodies, shedding teeth for their children, or that's our fond belief. But remember - Hansel and Gretel were dumped in the forest because their parents were starving.

Roughing it builds a boy's character, but only certain kinds of roughing it.

You attempt merely power you accomplish merely suffering

And don't think you can lay down the load, ever. Because you can't. I know.

war was not glory but dirt and misery.

Oh, it wasn't fair that she should have a dead husband and a baby yelling in the next room and be out of everything that was pleasant.

Las pruebas, la adversidad, forman a la gente o la destrozan.

Good Lord!" [Rhett] cried impatiently. "Don't you ever think of anything but money?" "No," [Scarlett] replied frankly, turning hard green eyes upon him. "And if you'd been through what I have, you wouldn't either. I've found out that money is the most important thing in the world and, as God is my witness, I don't ever intend to be without it again.

At a certain depth of distress, the poor, in their stupor, groan no longer over evil, and are no longer thankful for good.

My father walked to school 4 o'clock every morning with no shoes on, uphill, both ways, in 5 feet of snow and he was thankful.