Quotes About Hardship

My parents were sharecrop farm kids with no education - seventh, eighth grade.

My mother graduated from high school at 15 and went to work to support the family because the eldest son went to college.

I didn't have much but my mum and grandma gave me as much as they could, but we weren't a rich family and we had to work hard for what we got.

I was raised by my grandmother on a farm, where we were really poor - we had dirt floors - but so did everybody else.

I just think that my road has been so difficult to get where I'm at that I don't take anything for granted.

When we do things that are really hard, we can achieve great things - and that has worked as a great model for me.

The greater the effort, the greater the glory.

I grew up in austerity in the 1940s and 1950s.

I had to go through a grilling process to meet Mr. Aditya Chopra. It took a lot of time and auditioning.

Embrace the grind because it was once taken from me.

I tell inmates all the time, 'Don't complain about your grind. Do your time.'

You're going to have to grind it out on some drives.

I used to grind. I be telling people, you don't grind, you don't sell. I was like 15, 16 getting dropped off in the city by myself, with my own beat CDs.

Yeah, I blew up. But people don't see the other side of it. They don't talk about how I played on a broken foot. They don't know about the everyday grind.

I'm chuffed to be getting gritty stuff.

My time in non-league definitely grounded me and taught me to take nothing for granted - there was no glamour involved, that is for sure.

With acting, you have to put in the groundwork, then maybe you'll get lucky. It's a slog but it's also fun.

Grace under pressure isn't just about bullfighters and men at war. It's about getting up every day to face a job or a white boss you don't like but have to face to feed your children so they'll grow up to be a better generation.

When you're fighting for something, it's always a grueling battle.

I have to work my way up. There's nothing guaranteed in this league.

It's not an easy thing to be in this league 10 years. Especially with me being a second-round pick, the 46th pick, and an undersized guard, to carve a lane for myself and have a career, for my family to realize that and appreciate that, it meant a lot to me.

Drama is not great when it's a roll off the curb into the gutter.

In the Great Depression, you bought something if you had the cash to buy it.

Oh, I started out young. They handed me a cotton sack when I was about 8 years old. Give me a little small one, tell me to fill it up. I never did like the farm but I was out there with my grandmother, didn't want to get away from around her too far.