Quotes About Hardship

I always think that my assignment is to seek out stories that are experienced by people who don't get the ticket for Easy Street.

Our akhara was very basic. It was just a little opening next to where the animals were tied. We had to first dig the soil with our bare hands, make it loose, before we could begin our session. I used to hate it. It also used to be either too hot or too cold. There were no mats, no mattresses, nothing.

I'm from Pemberton, Wigan, and was born into a poor family. I grew up on a council estate. My dad was at first in the Army and then in the coal mines. My mother had four children by the time she was 23 so money was always tight.

Money was tight and Mum used to do two jobs to support us.

No athlete is crowned but in the sweat of his brow.

For men who had easily endured hardship, danger and difficult uncertainty, leisure and riches, though in some ways desirable, proved burdensome and a source of grief.

quoniam egestas facile habetur sine damno.

with a job at his tannery. Tomorrow I'll go to Sears's store and stock our cupboard, but for tonight, for the children—" She reached into her apron and pulled out the purse. Lyddie pushed it

That's a dilly of a pickle.

I don't know many people, if any, who have had some straight line toward success. I mean, they start here, they work hard, they've got what it takes, and they just go straight to the top over some number of years. Most people get a little failure.

Far distances and language barriers never stopped traders, he argued. Who could deny that? So the missionary must not be stopped either. Hunger would rarely be an obstacle, insisted William. The missionary could farm, fish and hunt. But nevertheless the missionary must be resolved to face poverty, poor housing and unrelenting hard work. And yes, he may also face hatred, intimidation, imprisonment, torture and even death. His

The inevitable consequence of poverty is dependence.

This mournful truth is ev'rywhere confessed—Slow rises worth, by poverty depress'd.

Gives me some kind of content to remember how painful it is sometimes to keep money, as well as to get it.

His bare foot was calloused enough for gravel and glass. But ash kept working between his foot and his remaining sandal to grind like finest sand, work its way under, and silt itself with his sweat. His heel was almost sore.

I don't know how the poor farmers deal with such situations in real life. It's really sad.

I have had not so good of a week.

There are some remedies worse than disease.

Life is hard. If we go with these feelings that are wrong, our lives are going to be even more of an uphill battle. things are hard enough, you know? Why make it worse?

First, there were the are-we-going-to-have-enough-money-to-pay-the-rent arguments. Then came the health problems that sidelined her father from work. Then Anita had to move in because they couldn't afford a nursing home anymore. Miranda juggled three jobs to make ends meet, barely seeing Jasmine and Ruby.

History at its best is a gritty, dirty business.

Always remember that striving and struggle precede success, even in the dictionary.

The angels minister to God's servants in time of hardship and danger.

Trouble and pain were what kept a man alive. Or trying to avoid trouble and pain. It was a full time job.