Quotes About Hardship

I come from zero and I've had to push myself up to where I am today. I'm not going to give up and I'm going to keep pushing.

I grew up in Zimbabwe and we didn't have much. My dad worked away for the whole week as an engineer, came back on Friday with his pay and gave the rent money to my mum. He'd put aside money for food and stuff and he'd keep the rest. That's how Africans lived, but there was enough to go around.

People have no idea how hard football is, absolutely no idea. It's all about pace. You can say, 'Yeah, you've got speed of thought' - but you've got to have a little bit of a zip.

Misfortune comes to all men.

Yet man is born unto trouble, as the sparks fly upward.

I sweat. If anything comes easy to me, I mistrust it.

'Mean to' don't pick no cotton.

Trouble will rain on those who are already wet.

Thou hast shown thy people hard things: thou hast made us to drink the wine of astonishment.

A certain amount of opposition is a great help to a man; it is what he wants and must have to be good for anything. Hardship and opposition are the native soil of manhood and self-reliance.

A diamond is a chunk of coal that made good under pressure.

Americans are like a rich father who wishes he knew how to give his sons the hardships that made him rich.

I would never have amounted to anything were it not for adversity. I was forced to come up the hard way.

Americans are like a rich father who wishes he knew how to give his son the hardships that made him rich.

Trouble is the common denominator of living. It is the great equalizer.

The one law that does not change is that everything changes, and the hardship I was bearing today was only a breath away from the pleasures I would have tomorrow, and those pleasures would be all the richer because of the memories of this I was enduring.

War is a series of catastrophes that results in victory.

The bitter dregs of Fortune's cup to drain.

Prosperity makes friends and adversity tries tliem.

Wishing does not make a poor man rich.

Great is the road I climb, but... the garland offered by an easier effort is not worth the gathering.

The heights by men reached and kept Were not attained by sudden flight, But they, while their companions slept, Were toiling upward in the night.

Teaching was the hardest work I had ever done, and it remains the hardest work I have done to date.

Truthfully, what we do in training is 10 times harder than what we ever have to do in a competition.