Quotes About Hardship

If you're injured, it's always mentally hard.

When I mentioned that I miss the trainee days, I guess that's because back then we were in practice for over 14 hours a day, it was almost like school.

Everything is harder when you are a Nordestino. You have to work harder than anybody else because people will be judging you with much less mercy than the other players.

One thing about being in Metallica is I've always felt challenged.

He made the game look easy. But being Michael Jordan, and all that came with it, that wasn't easy.

I came from a middle class family hence I had to struggle hard for success.

I grew up in the middle class.

My parents climbed their way to the middle class.

Miles Davis, his parents migrated from Arkansas to Illinois, where he had the luxury of being able to practice for hours upon hours. He never would have been able to do that in the cotton country of Arkansas.

I wanted to go and I wanted to drive the miles for no pay, I wanted to set up the rings, I wanted to set up the chairs, I wanted to go to training six-seven days a week for hours upon hours and blow myself up to where I can only work on instinct. I wanted to sleep in my car. I wanted to do all of that.

I've written not milestones of cinema but millstones.

Just because you are living the dream making millions of dollars doesn't mean you don't go through problems.

My dad was a coal miner in County Durham.

If I'd not been a coal miner in the past, getting up very early, I wouldn't have been able to have done what I've been doing.

I come from a family of coal miners.

My grandad used to work in the mines, he's retired now, but he's been a big part of my career.

You've got to have dedication because there's a lot of sacrifice which goes into it - a lot of your time is minimal with friends and family, especially in the past 10 years.

I think about my dad and how tough he had it. They treated us a lot better in our minor league system, especially with the food. But the bus rides were no joke.

Minorities have been hustling backwards from check to check.

Being an African-American, minority, or poor, you get in a tough situation and you don't get a fair shake.

If a person is disappointed and weary of life, it means a strong will is lacking. And if there is no strong will, how is it possible to live the life of someone who needs to practice perseverance and perhaps endure some hardship?

Even if the torment of absence and of pursuing, of advancing one's objective, one's intended continuous improvement of one's intellectual condition, is the greatest torment, and even if the hardship of taking root so far from home, in a so-called foreign country, is the greatest and most depressing of hardships, I shall not return to this state of imbecility and to the imbeciles of Altensam and Austria, he noted.

Misery taught him nothing more than defiant endurance of it.

While there's life there's hope is a conviction not so entirely unknown to the betrayed as some amiable theorists would have us believe.