Quotes About Hardship

Life is very trying.

Writing's not particularly enjoyable. It's hard work like everything else.

Being a student is like someone behind the bars, only those who burn the midnight oil will get the certificate of freedom.

bad things happen in heat like this

What motivated me? My mother. My mother was an immigrant woman, a peasant woman, struggled all her life, worked in the garment center.

If only it were so easy. Real-world bad dreams are much worse.

Those who have nothing have only their discipline.

But we have not understood the world; how its way is to destroy without destroying, the way air levels a mountain; things fly apart in a vacuum... It wears us to the hard thing we cannot help being; and if the only hard thing is our determination not to be hard, it wears us down to that.

Nothing worthwhile's ever easy

When I was in Philadelphia during the Depression in 1930 or '31, I got a very sad job as a night watchman in a garage. The cars in the garage had been abandoned by their owners, since they had lost their jobs and couldn't keep up the payments.

Growing up for me in the Philippines was hard to read comic books because I'm blind.

The first things I did was I was a writer, painter, and photographer, and we grew up very poor, so even though I could get into any college I wanted, there was no way to pay for it.

I can't express enough to anyone who is fighting for whatever their dream is, whether it's to become a doctor, or a teacher, or a photographer - it doesn't matter - it's such a hard, hard road.

Physically and mentally, it's quite hard. But I'm playing cricket for England. It's what I dream about doing.

Film-making is a physically hard job.

I wish it didn't take soooooo much to get physically to where I need to be.

I played the piano as a boy for six years, from the time I was six to 12 years old. My piano lessons ended when my father died because our family had no more money. I used to have a mestiza teacher. She'd come once a week to teach me piano lessons, and she'd bribe me each time with an apple; otherwise, I wouldn't play.

It just doesn't go with my story to be a first round pick, because I had to grind my whole life.

People say, 'Well, why don't they get another job, why don't they pick themselves up by their bootstraps?' Well, the people that say that probably have the kind of jobs where they don't work that hard, so maybe they could have another job.

Picking a guitar was a lot easier than picking cotton.

There aren't a lot of second chances for second-round picks.

Life is not a piece of cake, and it certainly is not for many of the people I know.

I pinch myself every day anyway. Everyone knows the road I have had in the game and how I have managed to get myself to where I am today.

Then you'd have found me pinned beneath a large metal pipe.