Quotes About Hardship

Gore isn't required for a good story, but adversity is.

The effort required by your endeavor now is not as hard as dealing with your regret later.

I was 10 years old when my father was assassinated in 1968. Then, I had some sense of the sacrifices and hardships required of the families of a leader who was constantly in the news.

I come from the poor people, and I have been here working my whole stinkin' career for people who don't have a chance, and I really resent anybody that says I'm doing it for the rich. Give me a break.

Seven months after Hurricane Sandy, New Jersey residents and business are continuing the hard work of recovery.

Since I don't come from a privileged background, I couldn't afford to be irresponsible with career decisions. I wrote two books alongside my job and resigned only when I realised I can make a living.

Too often, low-income Americans must choose between paying for medicine and having their heat shut off.

I remember as a kid, my mom had to trade canned food to buy my brother and me chocolate because we were living in Serbia at the time, and there were sanctions. If I catch myself complaining about going to a red carpet event, I say, 'Shut up.'

I am one of seven kids, number five of seven, and the first of my siblings to graduate from high school and the first to graduate from college.

My dad lost his father when he was nine and ran away from home to come to Mumbai to feed his mother and his three siblings.

Every day before I went to school, I'd already looked after my siblings. In the evenings, I often put them to bed. It was a hard time, but at the same time we were doing very well. We were happy. My family is everything for me.

Sometimes we didn't eat, we could not buy food for six siblings... That's how it was.

That said, my kids are at home right now with my husband and I'm missing something important at my daughter's school which makes me feel sick inside. It's a lot of balance and a lot of really hard decision making.

I was unloading sides of beef down on the docks when I decided enough was enough. By then, I'd done a lot of reading on my own, so I persuaded New York University to enroll me.

If someone were to ask me before I made the NBA, you going to have to go through all this, you're going to have to sign your soul away to play in the league, I still would have done it.

Sometimes it seemed to me I could not look at those silent little figures; that I must go north, to the grim coal fields, to the Rocky Mountain camps, where the labor fight is at least fought by grown men.

I thought maybe I'd be a farmer. That was another silly notion. I think I'd last about five minutes, being a farmer.

Being in a band is hard. Even if you like somebody, you start to argue over silly things.

Nothing's handed to you on a silver platter. Everything takes work, no matter how many records you put out.

Almost nothing is presented to you on a silver platter. You have to really work for it.

Nobody's going to give you everything on a silver tray. It's going to be difficult.

I never had any forefathers. I was never handed anything on a silver platter.

My life is simple and rough.

It is that peculiar soldiers' humor which springs from the experience of shared misery and often translates poorly to those not on the spot and enduring the same hardship.