Quotes About Hardship

Writing is hard work, and don't let anybody tell you otherwise. It's hard on the eyes, the back, the fanny, the disposition and the nail polish.

I am six years old and instead of celebrating with birthday cakes, I chew on a piece of charcoal.

The real work of startups is about as sexy and fun as a root canal and about as natural as a jolly rancher. Founding

Poor people wait a lot. Welfare, unemployment lines, laundromats, phone booths, emergency rooms, jails, etc.

Our theme for this year's festivities, Dreams and Challenges of Asian Pacific Americans, speaks to the many generations of Asian Pacific Americans who worked hard to overcome economic hardship, racism and other barriers in their pursuit of the American dream.

[The people] were given over in troops to disease and death.

Give them to understand that you will not stand patiently by and see your hard earnings squandered by a luxuriating class of idlers.

You get tragedy where the tree, instead of bending, breaks.

When it rains, her father said it pours.

Since when does anyone get the option to do the easiest?

Hardship in our present life is an atonement for sins committed in our previous existence, or the education necessary to prepare for a higher place in the life to come.

Hardship in our present life is an atonement for sins committed in our previous existence, or the education necessary to prepare for a higher place in the life to come. That is what your teachers have taught you, haven't they?

Things can harden meaningfully in the moment of indecision

There I stood, looking at myself in the mirror, thinking that I had come so far, I had worked so hard, and now the disease was threatening to stamp out all of my progress.

because it's my job. It's how I make my living. And I'll tell you somethin' else: It's damn hard work bein' a girl full

However things hurt, men hurt worse.

All right for someone earning a hundred thousand a year. For most of us even contract rates are crippling; I should know.

We must all be fighters and strugglers, Lewie, and it is better to wear out than to rust out. It is bad to let choice things become easily familiar; for, you know, familiarity is apt to beget a proverbial offspring. The

I got to the top the hard way—fighting my own laziness and ignorance every step of the way.

There can be no success without sacrifice. The two go hand in hand. If you desire to accomplish little, sacrifice little. But if you want to accomplish great things, be willing to sacrifice much.

Failure results from bad breaks.

Anything worth having is going to be a struggle. Commitment doesn't come easy, but when you're fighting for something you believe in the struggle is worth it. 1. Count the price of the prize. 2. Decide if you're willing to pay. 3. Commit.

Everything worthwhile is uphill.

The short-term easy leads to the long-term difficult, while the short-term difficult leads to the long-term easy. —RORY VADEN