Quotes About Hardship

He is so poor that he could not keep a dog.

Physical ills are the taxes laid upon this wretched life; some are taxed higher, and some lower, but all pay something.

Your father and I, we immigrated, Katarina, so you wouldn't grow up like us. We did it for you. We struggled for you. I cleaned houses and hotel rooms for you. All for you. Everything. And look at what you have done to us." Then my mother got sick. Really sick.

When I first came to Nashville, people hardly gave country music any respect. We lived in old cars and dirty hotels, and we ate when we could.

Most things worth doing are difficult,

when we feel fragile, we're like raw eggs—we crack open and splatter if dropped. But when we develop more resilience, we're like hard-boiled eggs—we might get dinged up if dropped, but we won't crack completely and spill all over the place.

Stress wouldn't be so hard to take if it were chocolate covered.

You've never been a peasant in medieval France, Harry," Bob said. "Life was hard for those people. Never enough food, shelter, medicine. If you could give yourself a fur coat and the ability to go out and hunt your own meat, you would have jumped at the chance, too.

So there are things stacked against us," I said. "What else is new?

Planet Earth isn't a fair place. It's unfair in a broad variety of different ways, some worse than others, but it isn't fair. Not for anybody.

Life is unfair, uncaring, and painful

Ah. Destiny is a . . . stone-cold bitch.

You think you know the world," the old man said. "You're barely in it yet. You ain't seen what it gets like. How bad it can get. How cruel.

Industry and determination, Mister Kettle, can transform the difficult into the routine, Grimm said.

Destiny is a . . . stone-cold bitch.

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All artists as a type seem to suffer a great deal, but then so do miners.

Rothman gave me another sharp look, and then he looked down at his desk. 'Lou' he said softly, 'do you know how many days a year an ironworker works? Do you know what his life expectancy is? Did you ever see an old ironworker? Did you ever stop to figure that there's all kinds of dying, but only one way of being dead?

Life threw you curveballs, too. Or in her case, more like a curseball. After

The idea of a vision is revolutionary and ground breaking but achieving it may be back breaking.

Omitting sacrifice will gain you nothing...He is the striver, who sacrifices delight, ail, sympathy and slumber, and at the terminalStriver is the WINNER.

What you don't sweat out when you're young will turn into tears when you're old.

Being a superhero is hard work. You have to save the world. But going to school is even harder. You have to save yourself.

After you cross a hurdle, it looks so easy. Sometimes, it may feel that it was always possible. However, for that feeling of euphoria, you have to slog. After all, nothing comes for free!