Quotes About Hardship

'Glee Project' and 'Glee' have the same spirit, but they're both harder in their own ways. With 'Glee Project,' there's more pressure because you're being judged in everything you do. When you film 'Glee,' you go to the studio and have an off day, and it's OK - you're still going to be there; you take as many chances as you need.

I don't have all this money people think Olympic athletes have.

This may sound shocking, but I never dreamed about going to the Olympics.

The only time I really enjoyed myself before was when I was training. Besides that, everything else was an absolute nightmare. It was all about self.

Those years between drama school and getting onto the stand-up circuit were pretty lean.

From Day One, I've always had to work to find my way onto the court or onto the top position or whatever it may be.

Chemotherapy is such a hard, hard kiss. Anything we can do to alleviate its side effects should be intelligently explored with an open mind.

From the hour when the Puritan baby opened his eyes in bleak New England, he had a Spartan struggle for life.

For a year after that was done to me I wept every day at the same hour and for the same space of time. That is not such a tragic thing as possibly it sounds to you. To those who are in prison tears are a part of every day's experience. A day in prison on which one does not weep is a day on which one's heart is hard, not a day on which one's heart is happy.

They have been through the fire, and what fire does not destroy, it hardens. She has had experiences.

All trials are trials for one's life.

It sometimes seems to me that in this life we've all got to have trouble sooner or later, and some of us gets it bit by bit, spread out thin, so to speak, and a few of us gets it in a lump—biff!

We are all stumbling and falling under our own crosses, those carved from our hands, our sweat, and those not of our own making.

Any explanation of war neurosis must account for the fact that this apparently intensely masculine life of war and danger and hardship produced in men the same disorders that women suffered from in peace. So

life was good, but it was hard; we would prepare to meet it head on, but we would enjoy the preparation.

that life was good, but it was hard; we would prepare to meet it head on, but we would enjoy the preparation.

You react to crisis the right way. You remember what Toynbee says? His theory of challenge and response applies not only to nations, but to individuals. Some nations and some people melt in the heat of crisis and come apart like fat in the pan. Others meet the challenge and harden. I think you're going to harden.

Most of the time, there's no need for fancy clothes--having to work in the fields day in, day out. But the Big Times don't come but once a year. Nobody wants to look bad or feel bad then. Plenty of time to do that all year.

Sponsors dropped him, his wife left him, and his golf skills suffered greatly.

The best things are the most difficult.

disease, scarcity, and weather-related disasters.

When life is hard, pleasure can be more than a diversion. It can easily become a need. We easily move from a properly moderate enjoyment of sensuous experience to a consuming desire for it.

If it wasn't painfully difficult, you did it wrong.

If it wasn't painfully difficult, you did it wrong.