Quotes About Hardship

In no direction that we turn do we find ease or comfort. If we are honest and if we have the will to win we find only danger, hard work and iron resolution.

I made a choice to stay home and raise five boys. Believe me, it was hard work.

Playing golf is not hot work. Cutting sugar cane for a dollar a day - that's hot work. Hotter than my first wrist watch.

We do not choose between a life of difficulty and a life of ease. We simply choose for what purpose we will work, sometimes suffer, and hopefully endure.

No one hates his job so heartily as a farmer.

It felt good doing a physical job, and going home each evening feeling like I had really done a day's work.

I have had to tell my son, my parents, my friends that I used steroids. It's been very hard. It's been very difficult.

When you stick to what you're doing, sometimes that road ain't as easy as the rest of them.

The farmer has to be an optimist or he wouldn't still be a farmer.

I was born dirt-poor with barely a stitch on my back, and no name or prestige attached to me, and no real clout or connections.

The depths of the Depression. You didn't ask what the job was, what the pay was, you didn't ask about stock options, or - you said yes.

I was 5 years old when the stock market crashed; I lost everything.

I did not want to go out at 5:30 in the morning with my stocking cap and my navy pea coat on and shoot lines and grades for the rest of my life.

I got it tough, but I can't even imagine what the Stolen Generation went through.

After working for a whole year without a break, I made Rs 80,000, and took a loan of 50,000 from my parents. I bought a car, and as luck would have it, it got stolen.

I knew when I left school, my stomach would probably hurt from having nothing to eat, and I would be going back to those same circumstances that were breaking me.

I used to fill my stomach with water because I didn't have money to pay for food.

I'd rather break stones on the king's highway than hem a handkerchief.

When I first immigrated to the United States, there were not many jobs that stood out. So I worked at a gas station, cleaning.

I'm not going to stop having problems.

It was a very hard life. As I got older, the family was depending very much on me. My two older brothers got married, so they had their own families depending on them. I had seven people relying on me, so I worked in a grocery store.

My father's whole life was work. He had a retail store in Ossining, New York, and I mean, he was down there at 6:15 every morning. The store didn't open until 9, but he hadda be down there. That's all he knew.

My grandmother was divorced, and she had 10 children herself. She never finished high school. She started selling lace on the side of the road and then grew that into a multimillion-dollar business - a retail store selling mostly furniture and appliances.

The way some papers write about me, you'd think I was some kind of gold digger. The truth is, I've always earned my own money. Before I became a model in Europe, I even worked in a bakery store - for $1.50 an hour. It's a big jump from a bakery store to driving a Mercedes in California, but I'm the same person inside.