Quotes About Hardship

I struggled for 15 years in this business before Miami Vice came along.

I've faced a lot of struggle and been a victim of backstabbing.

We are really the victims of our own problems.

There are people who are suffering beyond description. They are innocent people, they didn't bring this upon themselves. They are the victims of the sins of other people. And while it's hard to see, it's important to understand that these people exist.

In every sport, there will be struggle and obstacles, but a victory which comes easily is no victory.

I am glad that my fan believed in me and stood by me in my hard times and continued to enjoy my songs. That's the real victory for me.

My father was an electrical contractor, while I used to deliver video cassettes on a cycle to people in Juhu and Bandra, including celebrities like Mithun Chakraborty. Mithunda remembers me and is very proud of me. He can't believe that the guy who used to come to his house in short pants has become so successful.

My father left us when I was 10, so I had to make enough money for us to be able to live in a house because my brother went in the service during Vietnam and I was sole support of my mother. And she had no skills, really, except to clean other people's houses. So I had to have a bunch of jobs, you know, as well as music.

My dad was in the Navy; he was in Vietnam. My mom was trying to sell real estate on the side. We didn't have a lot of money.

Hard work often produces better results than talent.

It's no crime to be ambitious, particularly when you've started with nothing.

How do you expect to ride when you're not steady on your feet?" "The same way I always ride--badly. Your concern for my welfare is misplaced." "My concern is not for your welfare. It's for the horse you intended to ride, and the tenants you're supposed to visit. They have enough hardship to contend with--they don't need to be subjected to the company of a drunken fool.

How can we not create a fantasy in our minds when the reality is so hard?

Would that be so bad?" she asked softly. "To have your talents recognized, and use them for good? Isn't that what you want? Would it be so hard to take a more usual route, like everyone else, to put up with restrictions and being told what to do by people who aren't as clever as you—only for a year or two

Hardship finds its way into every life. It's just much easier to see our own than other people's. Hannah

Every available avenue is paved with guilt, lined with pain, and pockmarked with shame.

Hardship finds its way into every life. It's just much easier to see our own than other people's.

The greatest part of mankind ... are given up to labor, and enslaved to the necessity of their mean condition; whose lives are worn out only in the provisions for living.

The rising unto place is laborious, and by pains men come to greater pains; and it is sometimes base, and by indignities men come to dignities.

There are few sorrows in which a good income is of no avail.

There are few sorrows, however poignant, in which a good income is of no avail.

To achieve success, whatever the job we have, we must pay a price.

The man on top of the mountain didn't fall there.

You have to pay the price to win and you have to pay the price to get to the point where success is possible. Most important, you must pay the price to stay there.