Quotes About Hardship

My mom used to work two jobs to take care of me, my brothers, and my sisters. She worked hard to take care of us. Back in the day my mom was actually a dental assistant.

Egypt was tough without our parents. My brothers and sisters had to work day by day, and every time they collected a pay cheque, they brought it into the house and put it on the table. That's how we lived.

My parents sacrificed everything for me. My father worked on a building site and as a driver - so many jobs. My mum was at home full-time to take care of me, my sister, and two brothers.

Any success I have had has not happened overnight; the journey has never felt like me sitting in the back of a limousine sipping champagne. It has always been more like riding up a hill on a pushbike, and the chain has come off.

I remember my mother and I sitting down counting off our pennies to pay our bills. We really had nothing.

Me personally, I'm real close to my mom. She raised me. It was a single-parent home situation. She did everything: cooked, worked two jobs, came home late, but she loved me to death.

But it's always nice to get some compliments, and when you are in a hard situation, it gives you motivation to come back and to prove what the people are saying.

When I say 'fighter,' I am thinking about how you deal with adversity, how you deal with being in bad situations.

I raised my sister. I was six when she was born. My mother had to make a living for herself and it was very hard, so I was looking after my sister, cooking and cleaning, and she had four jobs.

My family - my mother and father had gone through such a hard time that by the time I graduated from sixth grade, they were separated.

I always loved skating but you can get hardened by it and it's discouraging and disheartening.

Writing is really hard, and it's really a skill.

When I left school I went onto the shop floor, working 12-hour shifts in a TV factory. My workmates were sharp, skilled and all capable of enjoying higher education - but they didn't have that opportunity.

The life of an actor is not filled with limousines and talk-show interviews. I've moved crates of beer; I've been a bartender, personal assistant, butler. But all those skills have helped me in the business aspect of what I do.

The hardest part of living is loving 'Cause loving turns to leaving every time And the hardest part of leaving is living Life is hard when love is so unkind

That love doesn't come easily and that relationships are supposed to be a struggle. Everything else is so hard; hopefully love is the one thing that is actually fun.

"When in your life were you the most challenged?" I love to hear stories of adversity and how people overcome them.

He wears himself out by his labours, and grows old through his love of possessing wealth.

Love is hard, harder than steel and thrice as cruel. It is inexorable as the tides, and life and death alike follow in its wake.

Love was the hardest thing. Don't let anyone ever tell you different.

Marriages go through hard times. Sometimes you have to get in there and fight for your love. That's the only way for it to get better.

cause it's a hard life, with love in the world. and i'm a hard girl, loving me is like chewing on pearls.

When people go through tragic circumstances, it's not that there is no love there, but it's so hard to deal with and sometimes the gap starts to happen.

Ramona understood what Beezus meant, because she felt sad too, and her stomach felt tight when her father came home tired and discouraged after a day in the checkout line. People were in a hurry, many were cross because the line was long, and some customers acted as if he were to blame because prices were so high.