Quotes About Hardship

For me, I went from showering at the YMCA in L.A., eating chicken sandwiches and ramen noodles if lucky, and going from couch to couch. I'm a real story. I know the struggle.

Not every relationship works, and that is the truth, and I don't care whether you're a movie star or just a person on the street, normal life. Everybody's normal, relationships are always normal. I think movie stars have a little bit harder time because the cameras are on there all the time. But you have to be who you are.

Life normally rewards you for hard work.

Normally when I train, I'm all mad, thinking about all I've been through to push me.

'Nostalgic' was just all my influences and me just being like, 'Yo, I'm going to be the hardest one out of everybody.'

Life's not fair, I guess.

I ain't never had nothing good in life.

We got evicted from our house in Guildford. We were chucked out and had nowhere to go. We ended up in social housing. And it was very hard for my mum. My brothers were five and three.

A lot of the people that stop you - well, they're not nuts, exactly. They're more like super-fans. They think that I'm some sort of rich guy, that everyone in the movies is making the kind of money Angelina Jolie is making. They don't realize that most of my life has been a struggle.

Hardship makes the world obscure.

The road to success has to have obstacles because, at the end of the day, when success comes, it will be that much better.

So I went to Miami in '74 with my family and while I was there it became obvious that we needed money and we needed to do something, because my family, we left without anything really, and we didn't have any money to begin with.

When you're an undrafted guy, it's hard because... you're not going to have the first- or second-team reps all the time, obviously.

The hammer shatters glass but forges steel.

Twenty dollars a week doesn't go far.

Una persona sufrida es menos sensible al dolor que las que apenas si ha sido tocadas por la adversidad.

victory comes only after many struggles and countless defeats.

But what happens when you work hard at something unfulfilling? It drains your spirit. It robs you of your life force. You end up depleted, depressed and angry.

Don't think you have no chance in life because you have no capital to begin with. Most of the rich men of to-day began poor. The chances are you would be ruined if you had capital.

The great majority of men and women who have given civilization a great uplift started poor, and for many dark years saw no hope of accomplishing their ambition; but they kept on working and believing that somehow a way would be opened.

he wins the prize who pays the price.

success is the child of drudgery and perseverance. It cannot be coaxed or bribed : pay the price and it is yours.

If I could make my heart hard, said Alvin, I'd be a worse man, but a happier one.

The tragedy of the poor is that they can afford nothing but self denial.