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Quotes About Hardship

The work in S, M, L, XL was almost suicidal. It required so much effort that our office almost went bankrupt.
~ Rem Koolhaas
Writing is the hardest work in the world not involving heavy lifting.
~ Pete Hamill
People work harder when conditions are worse.
~ Jeff Goldblum
I find the mantle of, she works hard for the money, or, she's overcome so many obstacles a bit overused.
~ Marlee Matlin
You can't master time, but you have to work your hardest to manage it.
~ Chuck D
I am worn out by the insults and vexations that this work brings down on us.
~ Jean le Rond d'Alembert
My family kinda hit the skids. We were experiencing poverty at that point. We all got a job, where the whole family had to work as security guards and janitors. And I just got angry.
~ Jim Carrey
Hard work is the price we must pay for success
~ Vince Lombardi
Most people will not do the hard work it takes to make success easy. Don't be like most people.
~ Jeffrey Gitomer
I think it's good that I had some experience of the real world before I became successful. You know, having to get up in the morning and going to work in construction.
~ Tom Jones
I'm a very disciplined person when it comes to my work, but discipline can't save m from being a drug addict.
~ Steve Earle
You load sixteen tons, what do you get? Another day older and deeper in debt.
~ Tennessee Ernie Ford
Every rejection is incremental payment on your dues that in some way will be translated back into your work.
~ James Lee Burke
It feels great to have my hard work pay off, especially when the fans made it hard for me.
~ Steve Nash
My parents raised me to never feel like I was entitled to success.That you have to work for it. You have to work so hard for it. And sometimes then you don't even get where you need to go.
~ Taylor Swift
It's all just venom to the soul and symptomatic of a larger issue: the idea of the shortcut. The result without the fight. The fight is the thing. The work.
~ Daniel Gillies
I studied chemical engineering. I was a good student, but these were the hard times of the depression, my scholarship came to an end, and it was necessary to work to supplement the family income.
~ Jack Steinberger
I have an old saying that the harder I work, the luckier I get.
~ John Engler
I see my friends, my family, my cousins work all day long for very little money, and if I have this problem of not being able to wall on the streets, it's not a big deal.
~ Olivier Martinez
I wanted to make a movie, because the whole life of the movies appealed to me. You work hard for three or four months, then you don't work at all for a couple of months.
~ Gregory Hines
I always wanted to do my best. I got nothing free—I had to work hard.
~ Greta Garbo
Life can be difficult for kids born with a gold spoon in their mouth, because they never really get to find out if they're able to work hard and make it on their own.
~ Lee Iacocca
I struggled many times when maybe it didn't look like I was struggling, and I had to work hard every day.
~ Ryne Sandberg
I work three months really hard, nonstop, and then I take a month off. Then I do it all over again. I work hard but I give myself four breaks a year.
~ Tyler Perry