Quotes About Hardship

Nothing has been easy for me... I've always had to work for everything I've gotten and everything I've accomplished.

I've been penniless. I've had to struggle a bit. But now I enjoy thinking about that because it just makes me feel better about my achievements.

Addicts are hard workers.

It is a lot of work being an addict. There's nothing harder than being an addict.

You have to go through some adversity to be able to be successful.

There's always going to be adversity.

There's always going to be adversity in life. I saw it growing up.

I know something about adversity.

Failure affects me hard.

Where I came from, people couldn't afford to go to the theatre.

The only real goal I had was, I wanted to own a car. Because my father, most of the time, he couldn't afford a car. Once in a while he would have a car, but it would be 10 or 15 years old, an old jalopy.

I think people who go through a lot, they're aggressive.

It's not like I was a one-of-a-kind talented guy at 18 who made it to the NBA and have been playing in All-Star Games ever since.

Growing up without much money made me more ambitious.

My dad was a supplier to the army and was not a very well-off person.

When I arrived at Le Mans nobody knew me, I had to work hard to get into the first-team.

I have endured everything: hunger and thirst, want of money, want of clothes, of shoes, of linen, every cruelty that penury can inflict. I have blown on my frozen fingers in that pickle-jar of great men, which I should like to see again, now, with you. I worked through a whole winter, seeing my head steam, and perceiving the atmosphere of my own moisture as we see that of horses on a frosty day. I do not know where a man finds the fulcrum that enables him to hold out against such a life.

That would be hard upon you; you will learn them by degrees. Never speak here of your misfortunes; they are slight compared to the catastrophes by which the lives of those you are now among were blasted.

misery made me unjust to you.

Il voyait le monde comme un océan de boue dans lequel un homme se plongeait jusqu'au cou, s'il y trempait le pied.

trouble. Ordinarily that would mean

One who has known only a sweet and easy life could never do anything to move another's soul. That goes for the observer as well. That's why hardship isn't without its merits, either. I'm sure this will be a trying time for you. You may face even more trying times in the future. But whether you choose to make it your leg-iron or your shield is all up to you.

When you've been at the bottom, nothing looks that bad, and I had been at the bottom for quite a while. The bottom was normal for me. But the bottom got worse.

Calm in quietude is not real calm. When you can be calm in the midst of activity, this is the true state of nature. Happiness in comfort is not real happiness. When you can be happy in the midst of hardship, then you see the true potential of the mind.