Quotes About Hardship

My father's failures inspired me the most and still drive me. He worked for 10 years, but wasn't invited to award functions, forget being nominated. So winning even one trophy is a high for our family.

Through danger safety comes - through trouble rest.

My father's money vanished in the Great Depression, and he had trouble keeping a job.

If you don't have trouble paying the rent, you have trouble doing something else; one needs just a certain amount of trouble.

As I grew older, I came to feel more responsible for any hardship or trouble my career caused my family.

I grew up in a house that had a whole lot of trouble. As much trouble as you could imagine.

I was in an awful lot of trouble in Hollywood.

In trouble to be troubled, Is to have your trouble doubled.

My family in general - they're troubled or poorer people.

I grew up in a bookless house with a father and brother who have spent most of their lives in prison, psychiatric hospitals, or living rough, and a mother who has spent her life slaving and scrimping to pay the bills, living a nervous and troubled life.

Now, no matter what background you come from, there is nobody in this world who can say that their life is without troubles. Everybody faces problems at some point in their life. All that matters is how you deal with it.

The people who founded America, who fought for its freedom, did not look to anyone else to get them out of their troubles. They took matters into their own hands and answered only to God and their peers. In today's world, sacrifice and hardship are not in the everyday language, and instant gratification is foremost.

When I got outta High School I was driving a truck. I was just a poor boy from Memphis, Memphis.

I was living in my truck, bouncing in bars - a 20-year-old kid trying to break up all these red neck fights. But hey, I did what I had to do to survive.

I worked as a truck driver, carpenter's assistant, doing whatever it took to keep bread on the table for the family.

My parents both had eighth-grade educations. My mother had five kids by the time she was 23, and my father was a truck driver.

I unloaded trucks for a living and I hated it.

Any sort of major change we want to make in our life is hard. Change is not easy and true change takes time and takes thousands, millions probably, of failures along that path and that's the interesting thing.

I was on the campaign trail, covering Donald Trump for two years - and it's really hard to do anything for yourself with a schedule like that. I didn't have time to answer text messages from my friends or go to the gym, let alone get my nails done.

Coming from where I come from, I didn't have the luxury of having a trust fund. Or money from generations. Or the luxury of hoppin' into the family business, you know?

Trust me, it has been anything but easy to make it as an actor.

There's no comfort in the truth, pain is all you'll find.

A lot of country music is sad. I think most art comes out of poverty and hard times. It applies to music. Three chords and the truth - that's what a country song is. There is a lot of heartache in the world.

I think that all of us are 5-year-olds and we don't want to be embarrassed in the schoolyard. I've gone through things in my life. People say it must be so hard to do it in the public eye, but the truth is, when you go through hard things, it's just hard.