Quotes About Hardship

I grew up poor. The fact that I had to struggle to succeed, that wasn't a big deal to me. I'd struggled my whole life.

Not many people get to the major leagues and succeed right away. There are some struggles. Everyone seems to struggle.

Because you've done the horrible jobs, it gives you an even grittier determination to succeed.

No one knows my struggle, they only see the trouble. Not knowing how hard it is to carry on when no one loves you.

You can't quit poverty.

When I was twenty years old and putting on my first play in Birmingham, Alabama, I had to use my mother's credit card to rent a van to get there. The bill was around three hundred dollars. But the show didn't make any money, and when I came home I had to tell her I couldn't pay for the rental.

Many of the great achievements of the world were accomplished by tired and discouraged men who kept on working.

To shine like sun you need to burn like it first.

If you want your place in the sun you've got put up with a few blisters.

It was difficult for me to write, and not just because my hands were rough and my fingers so permanently bent around the handle of a pick and axe that unbending them was unbelievably difficult. I managed to wrap a thick rag around pen and pencil to give them the thickness of a pick or shovel handle.

a chiacchiera è il companatico della miseria!

Ik besefte nog niet (...) dat alleen een proces van volledige aanpassing, het uitwissen van smaak, talent en zelfs herinneringen, het leven draaglijk maakte voor iemand die oog in oog stond met de allerergste aspecten van een oorlog.

Experience is a hard teacher. She gives the test first and the lessons afterwards.

Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterward.

Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterwards.

Serious difficulties don't vanish by themselves, they are standing around your bed when you open your eyes the next morning.

Though he had always thought logging elephants had a good life, he found himself now pining for them to have something better. The war sometimes made men harder and softer at the same time. Even with this reassuring

It's much easier to destroy a life than it is to live one.'

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

There were times when I thought I would never own a car.

Life is a merciless bully for children born into circumstances of grinding poverty, to unhappy families broken apart by crime, drugs, alcohol. It brutalises the affections, cramps the intellect, destroys aspiration.

I'm a juvenile product of the working class, who's best friend floats in the bottom of a glass.

I mean, I hate when actors talk about how hard their job is. It's ridiculous, because we have the best job in the world.

Business is never as healthy as when, like a chicken, it must do a certain amount of scratching for what it gets.