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Quotes About Hardship

Almost anything difficult, any challenge takes time, patience, and hard work.
~ Arnold Schwarzenegger
I went to drama school but it was very hard to get work until I was made assistant stage manager.
~ Brian Blessed
My dad had a very difficult life, a hard struggle all the time at work. I've always felt like I'm seeking his revenge.
~ Bruce Springsteen
I remember in my early 20s when I felt I couldn't live past 30. I was learning how to write. I had a lot of hard work ahead of me.
~ Carl Sandburg
If you're from a poor background, you have to work even harder. But that's what makes you who you are.
~ Carol Vorderman
With the 2001 terror attacks, airline bankruptcies, pension terminations, loss of pay, changes in work rules — we're all working harder and longer than we used to.
~ Chesley Sullenberger
I felt I had to work even harder in order to help two sets of parents. Most of my money I send home to let my parents manage. The rest I use for living expenses in America.
~ Chien-Ming Wang
But I've got to think of myself as the luckiest guy. Robert Johnson only had one album's worth of work as his legacy. That's all that life allowed him.
~ David Bowie
Physical rehab is often very, very hard work.
~ David Copperfield
He had kept his head, kept his health and his strength, bearing up under a weight of work and worry that only a few could have carried.
~ David McCullough
Our country offers such great opportunities for us all. Unfortunately, too many hard-working citizens go day to day without enough food to eat.
~ Dennis Franz
My work is just a hobby. No, I wouldn't want to do it professionally. It's too hard. Deadlines are no fun. But I can sit and tweak all night and not worry about time.
~ Dick Van Dyke
Work my hands in the soil, what's the pay for all the toil? Dust for blood, dust for blood, dust for blood.
~ Don McLean
I was so happy I didn't have to work that night. That was the truth, because show business is about the hardest profession in the world.
~ Elaine Stritch
We need a tax code that promotes savings, investment, achievement, innovation, and hard work.
~ Erik Paulsen
I am like a blind pig when I work.
~ Ernest Hemingway
I work really long days and I work seven day weeks.
~ Francine Prose
The toughest workout can never match the pain of being out of work.
~ George Montgomery
I had to work from a young age.
~ Giancarlo Esposito
Some people can work their butts off and never get what they're aiming for while others can get it without any effort at all.
~ Haruki Murakami
You can't be afraid of hard work or long hours. Sacrifice is important.
~ Jerry Bruckheimer
The wino and I know the pain of back bustin'.
~ Jimmy Buffett
My parents instilled in me that life was going to be very difficult and that I'd have to work for everything.
~ Joan Collins
Growing up on the plantation there in Mississippi, I would work Monday through Saturday noon. I'd go to town on Saturday afternoons, sit on the street corner, and I'd sing and play.
~ B. B. King