Quotes About Hardship

The life of men is painful.

The war had made a man of him! It had coarsened him and hardened him. There was no other way to look at it. It had made him reach a point at which he would no longer stand unbearable things.

Every ill man hath his ill day.

No matter how hard a man may labor, some woman is always in the background of his mind. She is the one reward of virtue.

I mean the business is just so rough man, people always think the business is easy, and the business is very rough. This is probably the worst business that you can get in, as far as, business-wise.

I do think my old fella wasn't much of a... I don't remember him ever being a 'dad' dad. He was too busy working. It was a hard life, man.

Is demum miser est, cuius nobilitas miserias nobilitat. Indeed, wretched the man whose fame makes his misfortunes famous.

I am a man of constant sorrow. I've seen trouble all my days.

The generality of men expend the early part of their lives in contributing to render the latter part miserable.

Remember when you see a man at the top of a mountain, he didn't fall there" "Values are meant to be costly. If it doesn't cost much, we probably wouldn't appreciate the value

It's a hard world, neighbors, if a man's oath must be his master.

The rising unto place is laborious, and by pains men come to greater pains; and it is sometimes base, and by indignities men come to dignities.

Adversity makes men wise but not rich.

I bet you never thought the hardest part of finding your 'savior? would be getting her mom to let her stay out past curfew.

My mom lived by herself with two kids. Sacrifice was the name of the game at our house.

My mom was a waitress, and my dad was a plumber who worked for the City of San Clemente fixing mains breaks, so not too glamorous.

Financial hardships were rough on us, even though Mom had a good job at G.M.

In her whole life Mom never earned more than five or six dollars a week. Being without a husband, it was hard for her to find any place at all for us to live.

My mom came from such humble beginnings and especially my dad as well. He didn't go to university.

There was a nobility in poverty when I was growing up. My mom was poor but she was planting roses and she was cleaning the steps, you know what I mean. You didn't feel sorry for yourself.

My mom knows what it's like to keep a dirt floor clean.

I don't even have money for a cheeseburger!

When I was younger I was completely without money - when I was studying in Budapest, when I was a refugee

What I know about money, I learned the hard way – by having had it.