Quotes About Hardship

This will not be easy,' he said. 'Neither is failure.

But the vast majority spend their lives with their backs bent, their noses to the grindstone, making no financial progress whatever.

Nobody can hate like brothers," the saying goes, especially brothers (and sisters) who had a hard childhood ruled over by immigrant parents who themselves saw life as a series of impending catastrophes.

You got to have smelt a lot of mule manure before you can sing like a hillbilly.

When I started, I faced a lot of hardships. People used to call me a Rafi clone because I used to sing my favourite singer's songs. Then 'Sa Re Ga Ma Pa' happened. It gave me a good break.

There is no prodigy in our profession. If you see all the great singer of the past, none of them are.

There's a time in everyone's career where you go, 'Ah, this is hard - how long am I going to have to do this?' But the rewards are so great. Who gets to go on the podium and hear the national anthem? The whole nation singing! Money can't buy you that.

Singing is an arduous business and it needs sacrifices.

It's just a grind every single day.

My father worked with a first-grade education in this country and managed every single day without a hiccup.

My father left the family right after I was born, so my mother was working every single day to support me and my brothers.

It's important to remember that, while poverty certainly makes single life harder, it also makes married life harder - so much harder that single life might be preferable.

It was tough being a single mom. It was tough being in a divorce with children. Very, very hard.

My mother graduated from high school in 1969, and on January 3, 1971, she gave birth to me. She was married later that year, but by the time I was 10, she was a divorced single mother of two young boys. To make ends meet, we moved in with my grandparents, who were also housing two of my mother's siblings and their kids.

I grew up in a low-income family. I was raised by a single mother.

My grandma worked her whole life as a single mother.

I was a single mother and had to earn money.

It's difficult. I'm a single parent now, and I'm having such a battle to see my kids on a daily basis. It's so hard.

The most challenging project I've ever done, I think, is every single thing I've ever tried to do. It's never easy.

I never had a single thing handed to me. I had to fight for everything I wanted, like my education.

You need to learn a practical lesson. Grit alone is not going to save you from sinking.

When I was 4 years old, my brother and sister died of hunger, so I achieved my success through confidence, self-motivation and my hard work.

We opened Panda Inn on June 8, 1973. The whole family - my parents, a brother and sister - all worked at the restaurant for free. We lived in a two-bedroom apartment in San Gabriel and didn't have any money.

When I was growing up, my family was plagued by poverty. My mother, a single parent, worked around the clock to make sure her children - me, my five brothers, and three sisters - could eat and have a safe place to sleep. We hardly saw her.