Quotes About Hardship

He said gloomily, despairing, sadly: 'How hard, oh, how hard it is to die and leave one's country no better than if one had never lived for it.

But if you ask me what I remember (about 1945), I will say it was the year Franklin D. Roosevelt died and I got one of his flowers. I will tell you that yellow rose give me the courage to do the right thing even if it was hard. I will say it was the time in my life when I learned all of us is fragile as a mimosa blossom. But the miracle of all is, When push comes to shove, we can be just as tough as Hickory. It mostly hurts at first. After a while it starts to feel better.

Trabajaba mucho, eso sí, pero la vida es trabajo, ¿no? El que nace pobre tiene que trabajar, ¡a ver si no!

I wanted everything and thought it would be given to me if I asked for it. I think I was too weak to take any kind of hardship.

All the famous people had had an awful time. One of them had had a drunken father. Another had a stammer. Another had to wash hundreds of dirty bottles. They had all had what was called a difficult childhood. Clearly you had to have one if you wanted to become famous.

Some things were beyond her reach. In her sheltered life, she'd never realized that until now. She hadn't expected the world to be handed to her upon a golden platter, but she'd always assumed that if she worked hard enough for something, treated everyone the way she would like to be treated, then she would be rewarded.

The industry looks for white actors and actresses, but it's not the same for black actors. We have to really put the work in.

The amount of suffering I've seen is beyond belief. The amount of inequality is beyond belief.

My parents were born in 1906 and 1907. I think the experience of the Depression greatly influenced the way they thought about the world.

Being a doctor, lawyer in war-torn countries isn't easy when the infrastructure isn't there. The money, the food and education is not always accessible to achieve those dreams.

I think it has just been ingrained in me since an early age that the harder you worked, the more successful you were.

Work does have some value and some dignity, but I don't think working 14 hours and not being able to pay your bills, or working two jobs and not being able - there's nothing inherently dignified about that.

I don't think I should ask my kids to inherit my business, because they can't start where I did: I was from the street. I'm a very different make of person. I've been a fighter all my life.

I feel middle-class, but my family had to start from scratch. There was no inheritance from a great-aunt. It feels like a slog.

Every actor while shooting might have got injured during the shoot, and the same happened with me but I continued with work.

Even if you see a great performance, it's not always great getting there. There are injuries... Intrinsically or unconsciously, people understand that - people see those performances, and they know there are stories behind that.

Sometimes it takes an injury to get your chance.

The return is one of the hardest shots to make when you come back from injury.

I've been through things in life that are way worse than a foot injury.

In any inner city, there's not a lot of opportunities, and you really have to dig out and chase what you want to do, 'cos it's not handed to you, so.

Innovation is so hard and so frustrating; it takes the intersections of people with courage, vision, and resources.

My students are working one, sometimes two jobs. They have kids. They're going school. They're dealing with real everyday problems. They are inspiring because they're trying to get ahead and make a better life for themselves and their kids.

I had to be intellectually satisfied as well as emotionally because at that time of life one doesn't just fall into it in adolescent emotion, and I was satisfied at every point that it was the one way and the hard way to do things.

I took up boxing out of sheer interest and to help my parents financially.