Quotes About Hardship

I am grateful for the lessons I learned from my parents' sacrifices. They often had trouble making ends meet, so we moved for them to find work. I remember my mom would sometimes take on second jobs, like ironing, just so we could buy groceries.

Jail is much easier on people who have nothing.

My parents got put into jail, both my mom and my dad.

Costly jail calls and high commissary fees have forced families to choose between paying their bills and talking to their loved ones who are serving time, adding further costs to an already difficult situation.

Going back to 2012, it was a bad year for me. I lost my dad as well, so burying him a week before I went to jail, just having all of that emotion, it just hit me hard.

When I was born, my father was in jail. He only had me because it was going to get him a lesser jail sentence... that's exactly... he told me that.

I got out of jail when I was about 17. You feel as if you're behind, so it made me feel as if I had to work doubly as hard as everybody else to try and make up the ground that I'd lost.

My mom is from Jamaica, and she was going to school in the morning, and in the evening she was working, and at night she would go to night school and then come in and go to sleep.

Just remember that when I went to New Japan, nobody knew who I was. And I've done okay.

A lot of my favorite artists didn't sell much out the gate. I didn't with Common at first. Neither did first albums from Outkast, Nas, or Jay Z. It doesn't scare me.

All my fans saw me as some little kid who can't even afford new jeans in his room, so they'll support me. That'll work until I become a success.

It's so difficult to make the money we produce at Jimmy John's.

Acting is the hardest job in the entire world. By far. Harder than ditch digging.

Once I failed in cricket, I joined a law course, but when it also did not work out, it was another setback. When you get back-to-back failures, you automatically start to work harder in life.

My grandfather was in the Indian Army, and my father started working to fund his own higher education and joined evening classes.

I grew up in the inner city. It wasn't a joke.

Prosperity discovers vice, adversity discovers virtue.

The way to bliss lies not on beds of down,And he that had no cross deserves no crown.

Pero, cuando comienzan las desgracias en uno, parece que nunca se han de acabar, que andan encadenadas y unas traian a otras.

For most of the universe's inhabitants, life is not all gummy wads and tarty tarts; is a struggle against hardship, unfairness, corruption, abuse, and adversity in all its guises, where even to survive - let alone survive with dignity - is heroic. To soldier through the days in the wake of failure is the courageous act of many.

Getting up, going to bed, preparing food, eating food--we futile creatures must struggle all the time. Nothing that we need comes to us; we must reach for everything.

God did not intend the human family to be wafted to heaven on flowery beds of ease.

After a lifetime of soft, easy living in the West, one's buttocks take an awful hammering out here. Backpacking around India is just one long round of sitting on bone-hard, chafing, bruising and generally uncomfortable seats-whether in buses our trains, or restaurants or cinemas. There is no such thing as a padded seat in the whole country.

There are no shortcuts in life - only those we imagine.