Quotes About Hardship

I don't think people understand that being poor means you have to work from dawn until dusk just to survive through the day. I think there's some notion that poor people lie about all day not doing anything.

Success is blind and deaf. Its doesn't care about your riches or poverty even if you cry aloud. Success only speaks when you achieve it. _Mehraj Mubarak

Poverty makes you sad as well as wise

With food still scarce,there was no longer a right to exist. You needed to earn your spot. 

It's not easy, but it's simple.

Someone had lit a kerosene lamp. By the inconstant light of its flickering flame, they stared at him out of emaciated faces with overlarge eyes, their bodies pale beneath tattered clothes. Once again Bourne's heart was rent. He wanted to save them all, but to save two he needed to leave the others behind. He'd never make it out with all of them in tow.

Sometimes all we can do is trust that hardship is a path to peace.

I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.

It must be hard to survive without anything at all.

I knew what it was like to be poor, and that once you had become rich, anything was better than being poor again.

A row of gas cans was waiting for them. "Start on that side and work your way back to me." She massaged one bicep with her free hand. "Lighting Logan's house on fire was hard work. I should probably go to the gym more often.

as Abe Lincoln said, I was sick from my stovepipe hat to the worn out soles of my shoes.

It was birthright time, goddamnit. Though the recession was still hovering over the city, I didn't let it detour me. I began getting up at 5:00 a.m. and hustling over to the factories. Right on the entrance gate to the personnel office was a sign that read NO APPLICATIONS. Undaunted, I would stride forward. Don't play games with me, GM. My name is Hamper. Surely you remember that loyal, long-suffering clan. Just show me to my setup and everything will be fine.

colloquialism for the affliction that strikes a certain

They made me think. Everything has to fight to live. Rats work very hard. If we are not careful they will inherit the earth.

No gains without pains.

There are no gains without pains.

Industry need not wish, and he that lives upon hope will die fasting. There are no gains without pains; then help hands, for I have no lands;

Industry pays debts, while despair increaseth them.

Success has ruined many a man.

Industry pays debts while despair increases them.

Because her instinct has told her, or because she has been reliably informed, the faded virgin knows that the supreme joys are not for her; she knows by a process of the intellect; but she can feel her deprivation no more than the young mother can feel the hardship of the virgin's lot.

I tried to find a word for it in my thesaurus, but there isn't one. At least, not one that doesn't belittle the plight of POWs and victims of famine. I guess we can just call it beyond suck. -Lulu Dark

I had jobs from the age of 14, when I arrived in London as a refugee. Aged 17, I'd get up at 4 A.M. to work as a cleaner before school. It wasn't pleasant.