Quotes About Hardship

From Monday morning until Saturday night, I had no advice, no counsel, no encouragement, no consolation, no assistance, no support, of any kind, from anyone, that I can call to mind, as I hope to go to heaven!

The Grindstone III. The Shadow IV. Calm in Storm V. The Wood-Sawyer

Besides, the children of the poor know but few pleasures. Even the cheap delights of childhood must be bought and paid for.

Grindstone III. The Shadow IV. Calm in Storm V. The Wood-Sawyer VI.

if he had had any such exalted expectation, he would not have prospered. He had expected labour, and he found it, and did it and made the best of it. In this, his prosperity consisted.

La aldea tenía una pobre calle, una pobre fábrica de cerveza, una pobre curtiduría, una pobre taberna, un pobre establo donde se albergaban los caballos de posta, una pobre fuente y pobres habitantes.

Nothing got without pains but an ill name and long nails.

Hard work is rewarding beyond gold. Sweating is living.

Life: that narrow space between a rock and a hard place.

Life can be hard but if you've got somebody to love — yay!

Scarcity causes hardship, but affluence creates poverty.

Pray on the shadowy hillsides of hardship and on the sunny highlands of happiness.

The Ward Line paid the lowest possible wages and drove the crew as hard as it could. Ordinary seamen earned $35 a month; firemen, $52; quartermasters, $55; engine-room oilers, $60.

Os meninos eram uns brutos, como o pai. Quando crescessem, guardariam as reses de um patrão invisível, seriam pisados, maltratados, machucados por um soldado amarelo

Suffering builds character. - Miranda Tate

Maybe the only way to get anywhere worth being is to pick up the heaviest thing you can carry. And carry it.

Follow your dreams, they say. But what no one ever tells you is what you have to give up in the process. The sacrifices. The thousand ways your life can go to hell while you keep your eyes on the horizon, waiting for that sun to rise. From 'Or She Dies'.

I worked my way up from nothing to a state of extreme poverty.

Why, look at me. I've worked my way up from nothing to a state of extreme poverty.

a la pobreza se le pega donde más le duele, tirando al aire lo poco que se tiene en la bolsa.

I am trying to say that what has happened to you is a hard thing, even if there is war somewhere. Even if emperors and kings die. You are entitled to your rage.

That's the way mining is. You always find a way to cheat fate," he says. "That's what's beautiful about being a miner: Supernatural things always happen." Now

We are kept keen on the grindstone of pain and necessity.

Often, too, they would slip half a