Quotes About Hardship

When you ain't got no money, you got the blues.

People who look for easy money invariable pay for the privilege of proving conclusively that it cannot be found on this earth.

The budgets are runnin' low, the streets ain't really got money no more, things are just dryin' up; I just felt like people needed some motivation, so I took 'em "Overtime."

Poverty - the one thing money can't buy

Work harder, work longer, and earn less because the mafia needs your money.

I hated having to go out on the block and scramble - that's the worst job in the world, especially if you ain't making any real money.

Everybody makes money when times are good. It's when times are not so good that the groundwork is laid for the next generation.

Life is hard, money doesn't care, your tears don't add value

When money's tight and is hard to get And your horse has also ran, When all you have is a heap of debt A PINT OF PLAIN IS YOUR ONLY MAN.

The money is of no concern to me, whatsoever. I started out with nothing.

I started out in life with two great advantages: No money and good parents.

Can anybody remember when the times were not hard and money not scarce?

I started to earn money because we didn't have money.

The records made money, but I didn't get none.

People should hear the pure blues - the # blues we used to have when we had no money.

Boredom is the keynote of poverty - of all its indignities, it is perhaps the hardest of all to live with - for where there is no money there is no change of any kind.

Money does not guarantee success.

I'm practically broke and homeless. This fatal city, Antioch, has devoured all my money: this fatal city with its extravagant life.

With any method of attaining great wealth, there is a price, and price is not always measured in money

Growing up in a particular neighborhood, growing up in a working-class family, not having much money, all of those things fire you and can give you an edge, can give you an anger.

I didn't have any extra money. But I can't say that I had a hard early career.

When I graduated from high school, it was during the Depression and we had no money.

Young people need plenty of difficulties to achieve something.... If you receive a little money for this, a little money for that, everything becomes mediocre, and collapses ignominiously.

God tries you in certain, certain ways. Some people are rich, and they believe in God. They lose the money, things get hard, they get weak and quit going to church. Quit serving God like they did.