Quotes About Hardship

I know how hard it is to send two kids to college when you ain't got nothing. I know people may not think of me in that way, but this business gives you ups and downs.

I think just consistency. That's the hardest thing to do in this league, especially for a rookie. There are going to be ups and downs.

I've had many ups and downs in my career. I've worked really hard on my game throughout.

Obviously, I've had some tough times in my career. I've had some ups and downs just like anybody's life, but you just keep continuing to work hard.

I've had to work very hard and I've been through a lot of ups and downs in my career.

You would hear stories of people that lost their houses. I remember people who had their whole lives turned upside down. I think people did learn lessons from the '80s.

'The Talk-Funny Girl' opens with a glum picture of a desperately poor rural New England family. Poverty has so brutalized the family that the ordinary laws and rules governing humanity have eroded, turning systems of behavior upside down.

We had a very normal, sort of ghetto, urban upbringing. My father was a bus driver and my mother was a seamstress and a substitute schoolteacher, off and on. So, that all adds up to no money.

As society has shifted from an agrarian to an urban structure, the joy and necessity of diligent, hard work have been neglected.

I certainly knew the hard side of urban life, stop-and-search.

I think women of our generation went through Cultural Revolution, went through hardship, coming from nowhere, and suddenly see China's amazing opportunity. So women just seized the opportunity.

A man can make what he wants of himself if he truly believes that he must be ready for hard work and many heartbreaks.

Learning to love is hard and we pay dearly for it. It takes hard work and a long apprenticeship, for it is not just for a moment that we must learn to love, but forever.

Times may be hard and people may be demanding, but never forget that life is special. Every single day is a special day. God is at work in you!

The greatest astonishment of my life was the discovery that the man who does the work is not the man who gets rich

The hardest work in the world is being out of work.

Ain't nothing coming easily in this life. Sometimes you gotta work, you gotta grow and it gotta hurt.

Hey, hey, the working man, the working man like me. I ain't never been on welfare, that's one place I won't be.

Toil is man's allotment; toil of brain, or toil of hands, or a grief that's more than either, the grief and sin of idleness.

The harder I work the more I live.

The elevator to success is out of order, but the stairs are always open.

Anyone can do his work, however hard, for one day. Anyone can live sweetly, patiently, lovingly, purely, till the sun goes down. And this is all that life really means.

I would roll up pennies to take the subway to work in Times Square. I was broke, but I was happy.

When I work fourteen hours a day, seven days a week, I get lucky.