Quotes About Hardship

It's enough to die of

Because sometimes things happen to people and they're not equipped to deal with them. Like me, for instance. Right now.

it's hard not to resent those who don't have to sign up for tesserae.

Because sometimes things happen to people and they're not equipped to deal with them.

only my flesh yields, my warmth taken. Stone conquers people every time.

It isn't fair, the way some of us have gotten so screwed by life.

Whether you like it or not, everything is to make you stronger and wiser. And the sooner you see it as such – i.e. the sooner you stop running from your pain and start asking the pain and the gods in what ways this hardship is the greatest blessing of your life – the sooner you become a more powerful and more compassionate agent of God's love in the world.

The world is so constructed, that if you wish to enjoy its pleasures, you must also endure its pains. Whether you like it or not, you cannot have one without the other.

struggle is the life of sucess

At the end of the day, I look at it like this: pro wrestling is really hard on the performers, the luchadoras, and any time a performer is in a position to do something good for themselves and make money, I'm always happy to see that happen.

We sometime didn't get enough to buy oats for our horses. Most banks had very little money in them.

When I sent those scripts, that was the lowest point of my life. We'd just had our second son, and when I went to collect them from hospital, I went to the bank to try and get some money to buy some diapers, the screen showed I've got $26 left.

My cousin in Louisiana started a small company with a little savings, renovating houses. A single mom, she saved enough to buy a home and provide child care for her son. When the economy went belly up, so did her company. She was forced to sell her home and move in with her parents.

I used to tell people I slept on the floor, in my songs.

A lot of people think I came out of nowhere. When you start as a songwriter, nobody knows who you are. I met the guy who wrote 'Yeah' by Usher, which was a huge smash, and nobody knew who he was.

Sorrow happens, hardship happens, the hell with it, who never knew the price of happiness, will not be happy.

I have all sorts of problems and feel discouraged.

Everyone's got a boulder in their life of one sort or another that they need to overcome. For most people, it's not a literal one, but there are certainly metaphorical ones.

'I'm Broken' was a sound check riff.

It's a Cyprus of misery and soup kitchens and a state which cannot meet basic obligations. It can only cause me grief.

I've always found poverty a source of strength.

I was born in South Carolina. On my dad's farm, I didn't have much. I'm just a poor kid who worked in a produce market.

I grew up in a household where a missed day of work meant bills were not paid, I've lived through the stress that confronts many South Carolina families.

Coming from southeast Ohio, it's a very impoverished area.