Quotes About Hardship

I don't wish homelessness on anyone, especially when you come from where your parents work hard.

Make no mistake about it: nobody gives you nothing for nothing. You have to work hard to get what you want.

It's still incredibly hard. Not just honing my craft but kicking down doors, getting my work published. Early on, I could have wallpapered my house with all the rejection letters sent my way. I put thousands of hours and pages into four novels that never saw the light of day.

They were the darkest of times, the years following the crash of the stock market in 1929. Thousands of people across the United States were cast out of their Jobs, off their farms, out of their homes and apartments, and into the crushing depths of poverty.

My father's generation's crisis was fighting fascism. Ours is fighting climate change. It is much harder because you can't see it, it is not an obvious threat. But the solution is in our hands.

You get three hours' sleep and then you start all over again. Relentless. Pre-production was almost harder than filming. I was all over the city every day. It was really exhausting.

After my debut in 2001 in 'Aks,' where I had a small part, I had to work really hard to get work in the industry. For almost three years, I had no work.

My mom had five kids. And she came home after working three jobs, and I'd rub her feet. We'd all rub her feet. We were lucky to get any time with her.

I almost went broke. I didn't file bankruptcy, but I had some miserable times there for two or three years.

We were so poor. Every item of clothing came from a thrift store.

The finest steel has to go through the hottest fire.

I've been through all the bad parts of the streets.

Success is sweet and sweeter if long delayed and gotten through many struggles and defeats.

I don't know anyone who has made it through this life with it being super easy. Life is hard.

I don't come from a family that had the money to put me through college, so I left school with $100,000 in student loan debt.

I've faced adversity throughout my whole life.

Throughout the coronavirus pandemic, there has been suffering and hardship on both sides of the generational divide.

There was an undercurrent of poverty throughout my childhood. We lived with my grandmother in her two-bedroom flat, and I slept with my parents. We had cheap holidays, I had to save for my bike and get a paper round as soon as I was old enough.

You look at a Pete Rose to be the terrific athlete he is and then he falls on hard times, but when he played the game, I got something from the way he played the game because he hustled every play, and just because he had one mistake in his life, am I supposed to throw back everything that I gained from him?

I lost six months of work due to throwing open punches and took a punch on the chin.

I worked my way through college by throwing passes for the University of Kentucky.

How little the public realizes what a girl must go through before she finally appears before the spotlight that is thrown upon the stage.

I'm married to the street; I ain't gonna switch over. I ain't gonna go religion on nobody. I believe in God - God is for the thugs too - but the streets are in the most trouble. So I'mma keep it focused on the streets and the struggle. That's what I'm mainly about.

I first came to Mumbai by train, without a reserved ticket. I stood by the door and slept in the space next to the washroom. I know what struggle is.