Quotes About Hardship

Growing up on a family farm, I know firsthand the challenges of running a small business... challenges that only seem to be growing for today's entrepreneurs.

Anytime you own a small business, it's all you. There is nobody to fall back on.

Although they arrived in New York penniless, my parents scraped together enough savings to establish the first of several small businesses just after I was born.

I was brought up largely by my grandfather because my father only returned from a prisoner-of-war camp in 1947 and worked in the nearest small town, so I hardly ever saw him.

I know how difficult it is to come from a small town and make a name for yourself.

The poor North has much to do with slavery. It staggers under its load and smarts under its lash.

I think I grew up with a profound sense of watching people who were good people, who were smart people, who were hardworking people - God, nobody on this Earth worked harder than my mom and dad - and they had very little.

Later, one of my first jobs was to feed the calves. It meant getting up before the crack of dawn and going to school stinking of manure - you can never shift the smell; it soaks your clothes and hair.

There is something about poverty that smells like death.

I don't smile much, and I never laugh. If you'd been through what I've been through, you wouldn't be smiling, either.

I think Sam Smith's dad got a huge loan or something to help his career. Those things can help artists get attention, but I guess my song 'Say You Won't Let Go' proved it's about the song.

Acting has not been a smooth sailing journey.

Some people think a series like 'Mayberry' is a snap, but nothing in this world is a snap, unless you want it to be.

In 2013, I had the chance to try cross-country skiing on snow and just fell in love with being in nature and how hard it was to pick up the sport. And the snow is sparkly.

We're all born into whatever citizenship, circumstances, or class we happen to be born into. Immigrants and so many people in the working class work so hard every day for nickels and pennies and scraps to just barely get by and then realize that this precious life has been completely drained out of us.

I had some early success with my first film and since then it's been a grind. It's clearly a craft that I love, and a craft that I work on constantly, but after so many years, I didn't feel like I had much to show for that.

It's so hard going into a performance that you've worked all week for and put so much time and effort into and when a silly little simple mistake that's never happened before happens, it can be really discouraging.

There were always people who struggled their way to the top of the heap, no matter how much that heap looked like garbage when seen from the outside.

Everything that has meaning is the result of struggle and sacrifice, and is worth fighting for.

Cara terbaik untuk memangkasnya adalah membiarkannya tumbuh hingga berbuah dan kemudian menghukumnya dengan keras.

The pack of all disasters has moulded together and fallen on my neck." FRANCISCO PELSAERT

Once there was a certain lady . . . And she had no children, and generally no happiness either. And so first she cried for a long time, and then she became wicked . . .

So what if I had to eat out of dustbins? At least it was an honest living.

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