Quotes About Hardship

Her sister carried with her most of the grimness of shift and toil.

I used to juggle from one set to the next. I would start at 5 A. M. in the morning and would sometimes finish only at 5 A. M. the next day. I would then go home, take a bath and set out again. There would be no sleep at all.

I've carried my chip with me my entire career. I've had to fight and claw for every position I've had. I sat on the bench as a junior in high school, I had to compete my senior year in high school to get the job. I competed again at Vanderbilt before having success.

Learning how to walk again was a process for me. It was some of the darker days of my life, but I've had many moments of my life where I've had to just kind of put my head down and work, and this was no different.

The justification for early boarding is based on a massive but common misconception. Because physical hardship in childhood makes you physically tough, the founders of the system believed that emotional hardship must make you emotionally tough. It does the opposite.

It's a tough business, yes it is. But I've been fortunate. The only real hard times I had was when I was with Montague's Kentucky Serenades. We really had it tough then.

You have to fight hard to get where you want to be. I never had any backing. I just had to kick the door down and barge through.

This is a mean world, and everyone likes to jump in and kick people when they're down.

I'm not aware if anyone's been told to kick me in training - but they are doing it anyway!

When I was a kid, I had to fight for everything.

I wasn't a silver-spoon kid on the golf course growing up.

I've been slogging ever since I was 10. Yet, when I come home there's not a kind word I get to hear from my family.

I'm the kinda person, you gotta fight for everything you get. You gotta believe in yourself.

I left school when I was 14 to work in kitchens.

I sympathize with every kitchen porter.

I have worked in kitchens since I was 15 years old and never had a break.

I train until I fall on my knees. If I don't do that, I don't feel good.

Every movie that I've had to really knock down the door for has been an enormous success for me. Not just like a financial success but a real personal success.

I really appreciate an actor who has paid their dues and who has learned hard knocks and has been rewarded in the end.

My old life was really hard. I had to get up at 4:30 A.M. in the morning to pay the bills. You know that if you don't turn up you don't get paid. It has really helped me knuckle down as a dart player and treat it like a job.

When my husband and I worked as line cooks in LA, we lived in a constant state of broke and tired.

People I grew up with, my family, work in the oil fields. Everyone works a labor job - construction, concrete. All we know is work. It's a physical culture.

I would say I'd rather dig a ditch, you know, do hard, manual labor than write lyrics.

After an unremitting and severe labour of two days, we returned to our old encampment with the loss of some of my horses, and my men excessively fatigued.