Quotes About Hardship

You have to make a lot of sacrifices to succeed.

The sacrifices you make are so hard when you're training every day.

I'm from poverty, I'm never satisfied with anything I do.

There was a scary two years where it was madness because I was really in trouble with the taxman.

If I'd really known how hard I was going to have to work behind the scenes to have any kind of business, I think I would have stopped.

My children are the thing that make life work because, you know, I screwed up my life, and I know it was me, and it was really hard because it was so public, and that was very, very hard.

Our house was repossessed and we lived in a B&B until we got a council house. It was a struggle, but Mum just got her head down, found cleaning jobs and never complained. I owe her a lot, so I now do everything she says.

We had no money, my dad was out of work a lot, and we never owned a house. It was very hand-to-mouth.

My parents and friends, they're Ph.D.s that worked as custodians, that owned their own businesses, that went bankrupt, that moved seven times, that sent their kid to Harvard, that don't have any money for retirement. Highs and lows of life.

I learned the business in about two months, and then made as much as the others, and was consequently doing quite well when the factory burned down, destroying all our machines - 150 of them. This was very hard on the girls who had paid for their machines.

Entrepreneurship is enduring pain for a long time without relinquishing.

The nature of the game is pain.

A lot of other things come along with Chapter 11, which basically end up in a lot of pain.

The two most painful things in my life are arthritis and divorce.

There's nothing easy about building a company at all. I find it really hard, just painful and difficult, and if you are successful, it's even worse than if you fail.

It wasn't easy to shoot for 'Baahubali.' It was very painful and annoying.

My father was an artist. When life was harder and he couldn't get jobs, he painted houses, but he was artistic. When I went to see his work, it was special. Somewhere along the line, I felt I was special. I didn't know why.

My dad painted cars for a living. He didn't graduate from high school.

I became bitter, hard, cold. I was always on a panic - couldn't buy clothes or a good place to live.

There were times when I didn't have enough money, I didn't have enough work, and I would panic.

I've known the panic of financial struggle. I didn't grow up with money at all, and my family has certainly known the panic of, 'Oh, gosh, where's the next bit of money coming from?'

We didn't have running water. We had to get water from wells, and there was a stint where I lived with my grandma where we had to get water, bring it over to the house. You had to boil the water because you never knew what parasites were in the water.

It's now arguably over-written about and over-discussed how hard it is to be an entrepreneur. Of course it's hard. So is being a parent. Let's stop over-congratulating ourselves and let's just do our work.

There are people out there with three jobs and small children. Being an actor is a walk in the park compared to working as a cleaner overnight. I'm lucky I'm not plucking chickens.