Quotes About Hardship

I signed a very modest $3,000 bonus with the Braves in Milwaukee. And my old man didn't have that kinda money to put out.

A man who doesn't dream is like a man who doesn't sweat. He stores up a lot of poison.

Man has become great through struggle

It is not easy for men to rise whose qualities are thwarted by poverty.

Let every man, every corporation, and especially let every village, town, and city, every county and State, get out of debt and keep out of debt. It is the debtor that is ruined by hard times.

I don't pity any man who does hard work worth doing. I admire him. I pity the creature who does not work, at whichever end of the social scale he may regard himself as being.

Ooh, ah, ooh, ah, that's the sound of the men working on the chain gang.

I'd seen my father. He was a poor man, and I watched him do astonishing things.

Effort makes some great men famous. Even greater effort enables other great men to remain unknown.

Lazy hands make a man poor, but diligent hands bring wealth.

A man will give up almost anything except his suffering.

Well, my dad died when I was three." Shoot. That's right. Some of us have actual things to complain about.

We are all the sum of that which has happened in our lives. If you are successful, it would be wrong to think that you'd be more successful if something had been easier.

Yes, we say challenged." "Then what happens? They become less than well, then go into an involuntary nonbreathing mode?

You did not die when you were drawing public assistance money, but you certainly did not remain alive.

Perseverance is the hard work you do after you get tired of the hard work you already did!

Let every nation know," declared Kennedy in his inaugural address, "that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe, in order to assure the survival and the success of liberty.

The British welfare state, it seemed, had removed the incentives without which a capitalist economy simply could not function: the carrot of serious money for those who strove, the stick of hardship for those who slacked.

In a letter to Francesco Vettori of 18 March 1513, Niccolò gives us a vivid summary of his youth: 'I was born in poverty, and at an early age learned how to script rather than to thrive.' 1

Everyone is always going through tough things, the irony in it is that everyone thinks what they're going through is just as hard as what you are. Life isn't about surviving this, it's about understanding this.

My dad always said that when you're struggling with something, look at all the people around you and realize that every single person you see is struggling with something, and to them, it's just hard as what you're going through

There were moments when it honestly seemed as if the world were conspiring against her.

I think it's because you're frightened and you feel helpless, and even though you're trying, things continue to get harder and harder—for the both of you. And the more you try, the more hopeless things seem." "Is there any way to stop feeling this way?

No one ever said life was fair