Quotes About Hardship

Ideology never put food on my table.

Life is so fragile, so brief. And we seemingly work so hard at trying to ignore that.

I came from the bottom, from nothing. To a man who has nothing in his life, imagine what it's like to be hoisted on someone's shoulders.

I grew up so poor and now I have an opportunity to provide for my family in a way that I never imagined. I take that in consideration and try to exploit every single opportunity because when it's over it's over, there are no redos.

I grew up with a single mum, an immigrant mum who couldn't speak the language, no money, three kids on her back, coming from Rwanda, and she's done a sterling job with all three of us.

Being that my parents and I were immigrants to Canada, I didn't have the most lavish life growing up.

My parents were immigrants and janitors.

It's a very hard and competitive business in which you have to fight every day in order to impose yourself.

People might have the impression I had an easy life, but it's been anything but that.

Imprisonment hit me so hard - much harder than I had thought.

That's basically what my parents taught me throughout my childhood, being intense and consistent. In my opinion, those are the hardest things to do in the NBA.

In the beginning, I thought it would be really glamorous, working in fashion. But it's actually quite hard. You don't even know half the stuff that goes on backstage.

I've had to work and scratch and claw for every inch of what I've gotten as a football player.

Be careful what you wish for - getting to be a successful business and maintaining it is so hard. Anyone can be good one night; being good over several years is incredibly difficult.

It's really indescribable. All the hard work you put in and all the sacrifices.

We didn't starve, but we didn't eat chicken unless we were sick, or the chicken was.

People often imagine that sailors are a breed of supermen; that we almost never sleep, spend all our time handling sails, never get a hot meal. If they only knew!

a person has to go through a lot of pain to get to comfort!

The storm that bends the birch trees Is held to be violent But how about the storm That bends the backs of the roadworkers?

And Lord did I push, for thee more hours I pushed, I pushed so hard I shat, Pushed so hard blood vessels burst in my neck and in my chest, pushed so hard my asshole turned inside-out like a rosebud.

Nobody knows (for real, for true) how hard someone is trying.

working sugar was by far the most brutal work a slave could be assigned. Most died by the age of twenty-five from infections caused by the serrated leaves, snakebite from the venomous snakes lurking in the fields, and heat exhaustion from having to stir the cane down to syrup in vats heated underneath by flames

It is good for a man that he bear the yoke in his youth