Quotes About Hardship

Someone asked me, what colour were those two years of living in Korea? I thought about it for a long time. There was no colour, I don't know what colour hard work is.

My drop of sweat is the only way I could ever float.

Those who envy the success of others are normally ignorant to the sacrafices, failures, and dedication that it took for them to get there

Coal that bears that pressure meets a diamond.

If law school is so hard to get through how come there are so many lawyers?

Miracles sometimes occur but one has to work terribly hard for them.

If a little labour little are our gains. Man's fortunes are according to his pains.

In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread.

The paradox of endurance sports is that an athlete can never work as hard as he wants, because if he pushes himself too far, his hematocrit will fall.

Even though I hated doing farming and wanted to just get out of the village, I would work from 5 in the morning till 5 in the evening.

'Dream Act' kids are like all other American kids, with the exception that they have to work harder to excel in school, they live in fear of deportation, and they worry about their future.

Life isn't hard. People with their needless complications and unnecessary lies make it that way.

It's hard to pretend you love someone when you don't, but it's even harder to pretend that you don't love someone when you really do.

I was raised by a single mother who made a way for me. She used to scrub floors as a domestic worker, put a cleaning rag in her pocketbook and ride the subways in Brooklyn so I would have food on the table. But she taught me as I walked her to the subway that life is about not where you start, but where you're going. That's family values.

Nothing's ever so bad that it can't get worse

Ife is painful, nasty and short.. in my case it has only been painful and nasty.

I'm one of those bad things that happen to good people.

I work 40 hours a week to be this poor.

It is hard to be a woman. You must think like a man, act like a lady, look like a young girl, and work like a horse.

Success is like being pregnant, everybody congratulates you, but nobody knows how many times you were f***ked before you got there.

Optimists believe that their own actions result in positive things happening, that they are responsible for their own happiness, and that they can expect more good things to happen in the future. It deals with pain and hardship better than their pessimistic counterparts.

Self-pity in its early stages is as snug as a feather mattress. Only when it hardens does it become uncomfortable.

Substance abuse is a disease which doesn't go away overnight. I'm working hard to overcome it. I did fail my recent drug test. I'm prepared to face the consequences.

To get anything of real value, you have to fight for it.