Quotes About Hardship

The age-old mistake, which has stunted countless lives, is the assumption that because physical hardship in childhood makes you physically tough, emotional hardship must make you emotionally tough.

The ability to endure and accept hardships became my mantra.

Among the difficulties I encountered, economic problems were the worst. I found that financial hardships could limit one's ability to realize one's dream, no matter how desperate and earnest you are.

When 'Wherever I Lay My Hat' went to number one in 1983, I was still driving a green Viva HC that my dad had given me. People would see me drive past and say, 'It can't be him,' but you don't get any money until about six months after a record is a hit.

Even though I will never be evicted again, I am haunted by those times and still work relentlessly.

While growing up, I saw how finances can play havoc in anybody's life. While we were comfortable, money didn't come easy.

There is so much headache and hassle involved in starting a business or running a business.

Everyone's got bills, everyone's got heartache, and everyone's got problems.

When I was making Heartless, I was going through a real tough stuff stage in my career and life.

You will not be carried to Heaven lying at ease upon a feather bed.

My first experience with the creative was mopping tar. If you let the tar sit, it can get cold pretty quickly. And because the mops are so heavy, you've got to dip it and then ride it really fast.

We all know what this business can do to you... you end up walking on your heels.

I've seen the hell these people go through.

I know that my life is going to be hell from here on.

We can't constantly tell stories of heroes. We have to hear the other stories, too, about people in dire straits who make bad choices.

Mother had to support herself at age 18 because it was during the depression and when my grandfather lost the farm and there was no place for her; she worked as an assistant to a maid.

Hey, a hard background is not an excuse.

My senior year of high school, I got into UCLA, but my family couldn't afford it.

We also ate all the rats we could catch. No doubt many died after the war from disease contracted account of these things.

People who have suffered every hardship and atrocity, and who have every reason to fear that they will suffer them again, may submit tamely, or they may fight for survival. The English and Scots of the frontier were not tame folk.

Let's face it: our lives are miserable, laborious, and short.

Windmill or no windmill, he said, life would go on as it had always gone on--that is, badly.

Only old Benjamin professed to remember every detail of his long life and to know that things never had been, nor ever could be much better or much worse--hunger, hardship, and disappointment being, so he said, the unalterable law of life.

It is deliberate policy to keep even the favoured groups somewhere near the brink of hardship, because a general state of scarcity increases the importance of small privileges and thus magnifies the distinction between one group and another.