Quotes About Hardship

People worried too much about their children. Suffering when you're young is good for you. It immunized your body and soul...

we fought a lot in welch. Not just to fend off our enemies but to fit in. Maybe it was because there was so little to do in Welch; Maybe it was because life there was hard and it made the people hard...maybe it was because mining was dangerous and cramped and dirty work and it put all the miners in bad moods and they came home and took it out on their wives, who took it out on their kids, who took it out on other kids.

My favorite books all involved people dealing with hardships.

You know you're down and out when the Okies laugh at you.

I feel very tired. Is that all people will ever think when they see Aunt Faye? People who've never gone without find it easy to pass judgment on those who've struggled.

Labor rids us of three great evils; tediousness, vice, and poverty.

To succeed as a lawyer, a man must work like a horse and live like a hermit.

Guys like us, that work on ranches, are the loneliest guys in the world

Sometimes when you're putting the work in it just seems so, so hard, and you never know when that work's going to pay off.

So struggling for work here has been very good for me, but it's also been very hard to handle rejection.

It is hard work to be good when you are very little and very hungry, and have many sticks to beat you, and no mother's lips to kiss you.

Life was very simple. My parents had come from the North of England, which is a fairly rugged, bleak, hard-working part of England, and so there was not the expectation of luxury.

Hard toil can roughen form and face, And want call quench the eye's bright grace.

To work hard and then loaf; to know hardship and then luxury, to learn about society and then color it with a dash of the wilds-is there anything quite so fine?

Writing is hard. I learned how to work hard from wrestling, not English courses.

In case the rest of you missed it, the inspirational speech was: 'If you work hard, you can achieve great things. And then you die'.

It is unacceptable that someone can work full time - and work hard - and not be able to lift themselves out of poverty.

You can (be a middle-aged comic) if you work very hard at it, because comedy is really hard.

Without labor there is neither wealth, nor comfort, nor progress.

There's a big difference between wanting to work and having to work. And I had to learn that the hard way. Now money is very important to me, because I ain't got it.

Though my father was a sirdar, he always carried loads. It is hard for someone who is walking unburdened to generate in others an enthusiasm for work.

My parents got divorced when I was about ten years old, but I saw my mom go work two and three jobs to make sure we didn't miss a beat.

I was at the end of my tether when my first book was published. For eight years I didn't make a penny, I worked so hard, didn't drink, didn't enjoy life.

When you don't have much and you need to be at work, there's no such thing as being sick.