Quotes About Hardship

Traveling is a part of the business. I think it's really the hardest part of the business because the wrestling part is the easy part - something I love and enjoy doing.

Wrestling has done a lot for my life.

I was 15 years old when I started wrestling full time, and I know what I had to go through to get here.

I think I've got my business notions and my sense for that sort of thing from my dad. My dad never had a chance to go to school. He couldn't read and write. But he was so smart. He was just one of those people that could just make the most of anything and everything that he had to work with.

Life throws surprises, sorrows, sadness, and hardship, and I think that writing has actually grounded me. It kept me grounded when everything else was falling apart.

Some realities are too onerous to be borne by nations, let alone by children.

if people believe in infinite bliss in the afterlife, they'll be more willing to accept an appalling degree of oppression and injustice in this life. From anybody. Oddly, this is often framed as a plus. "Religion gives people hope in hardship." It gets presented as a feature, not a bug.

Books aren't made in the way that babies are: they are made like pyramids, There's some long-pondered plan, and then great blocks of stone are placed one on top of the other, and it's back-breaking, sweaty, time consuming work. And all to no purpose! It just stands like that in the desert! But it towers over it prodigiously. Jackals piss at the base of it, and bourgeois clamber to the top of it, etc. Continue this comparison.

Financial demands, of all the rough winds that blow upon our love, (are) quite the coldest and the most biting.

If achieving success were easy, more people would do it.

But perhaps no distance is greater than that which separates a poor family in the same country

Áður fyrr voru engin verk kölluð sóðaleg nema þau sem unnin voru án vandvirkni af kæringarlausum verkamanni og lýstu handbragði skussa og ómennis.

Äsch, det är väl bara att banka ihop några jävla brädor, sa Bjartur.

But these are small troubles, people will say. Yes, but they are drops which wear hollows in the rock.

You grow immune to cruelty. It becomes the norm. You accept it. You move on.

It all changed in an instant. That was something I had learned the hard way. Your world doesn't come apart slowly. It doesn't gradually crumble or break into pieces. It can be destroyed in a snap of the fingers. So

I was a sharecropper's son. That's as low as you can get on the totem pole.

From not having even Rs 10 in my pocket to now touching crores of people's lives, I have come a long way.

When you're in a bad situation, when you're losing, every day is tough.

If you have injuries, it's tough.

The outside world can be very tough.

In this industry, there are only two ways up the ladder. Rung by rung or claw your way to the top. It's sure been tough on my nails.

If you come from Jersey, you're tough. You've been through the grind.

I believe in greater self-sufficiency. International sport is tough, no doubt, but there shouldn't be too many crutches. In most cases sports psychologists are crutches, and they tend to soften rather than harden the players.