Quotes About Hardship

He who is greedy is disgraced; he who discloses his hardship will always be humiliated; he who has no control over his tongue will often have to face discomfort.

Poverty is not for the sake of hardship. No, it is there because nothing exists but Allah. Poverty unlocks the door - what a blessed key!

Building a career or a company is about living a few years of your life like most people won't so that you can spend the rest of your life living at a level most people can't.

Poverty is no disgrace to a man, but it is confoundedly inconvenient.

Money is to be respected one of the worst things you can do is handle another person's money without respect for how hard it was to earn.

We lived among people whose poverty could be seen in the length of their faces, in their tired speech and in the heaviness of their eyes.

A cold coming we had of it,Just the worst time of the year.

Street cred is hard won and Destiny requires you to pay it forward. God helps you through hard times so you can help someone else.

Success doesn't want you to succeed. That's why you have to fight your way through to success in endurance, faith, perseverance and discipline.

Usually, there is nothing more pleasing that returning to a place where you have endured hardship.

You could say they got punished for what they did, but when you know the circumstances you can't help feeling sorry." "Mm . . . that's right." "Afterwards Yamagami couldn't make any kind of a living. This is a small place, and the dispute haunted him: wherever he went asking for work, no one would hire him. Up to now he seemed to be managing somehow with the money Yoshi brought in now and then.

the name for workers in hokkaido was "octopus." in order to stay alive, an octopus will even devour its own limbs

Nor was that all, for at the same time the great burden of making a living lay heavily once again on Okei's shoulders. She felt as if she had been born merely to go on bearing such a weight, forbidden from stretching her hands in any direction or turning aside for even a moment.

my friends and I were all poor together; it had very little to recommend it, but at least it had involved less effort.

Life, people learned, was not easy. Life was not cake. Life was not a carrot cake.

Women's work is never easy, never clean.

Love is always hard and always worth it.

There is no weight like the burden of a body.

That's really my goal now. I'm trying to be a positive role model to my kids and to just enjoy this ride, because it's hard. It's hard to enjoy it when you're in it.

Put paying your dues and all that puts so much into being a success. You have an understanding of what it's about, being on your own for three or four years and living day to day on $3, or living in an apartment with no electricity.

This is the second-worst thing that's ever happened to these orphans in their lives.

The rewards for those who persevere far exceed the pain that must precede the victory.

The business of being told to earn a dollar, that no one is going to give you anything - that was kind of my mantra throughout my childhood, and now it's in my adult life. I find that people really tend to relate to the immigrant father, whether he be Italian, Greek, Spanish or whatever.

You can't cut no days, you can't cut no corners, because you will feel it in the gym, you'll feel it in the sparring.