Quotes About Hardship

Even the best iron grows brittle with too much beating.

Même le meilleur des fers devient cassant à force d'avoir été trop battu.

The wide world is full of likable people who get kicked in the stomach regularly. They're disaster-prone. Something goes wrong. The sky starts falling on their head. And you can't reverse the process.

These are the little losers in the bunny derby, but they lose on a different route than the Mariannes, or the ones you see in the supermarket on the nights when they double the green stamps, coming in junk cars, plodding the bright aisles, snarling at their cross sleepy kids.

The wide world is full of likable people who get kicked in the stomach regularly.

The wide world is full of likable people who get kicked in the stomach regularly. They're disaster-prone.

The horrid old man Sinbad had to carry on his back. That's what you are. You get on the back of everything vital, everything trying to be honest and free, and you bear it down.

FALDER. It's easy enough to put a face on it, sir, when you're independent. Try it when you're down like me. They talk about giving you your deserts. Well, I think I've had just a bit over.

I understand that not everyone is so lucky; a precious few have it easier, but most have it harder. I might once have said that you make that kind of luck for yourself, and in some ways you do, but it's just as often true that people end up where they are through no fault of their own and are then faced with making the best of it.

Poverty is a great equalizer

Because of their sacrifice, she had been given the gift of citizenship, a permanent status she had done nothing to earn. They had worked like dogs in a country they were proud of, with the dream of one day belonging. How, exactly, would their removal benefit this great nation of immigrants? It made no sense and seemed unjustly cruel.

Too poor to paint and too proud to whitewash.' That's the perfect description of Tessa's family.

I wanted to work alone (painting the fence). I wanted to seem outmatched and undermanned by the insanity of the job before me, so that when the Mexicans returned they'd feel sorry for me.

whom they could not find) and some sympathetic relatives. The poverty hurt, and they assumed, correctly, it had bred the intense desire to succeed.

his personal sacrifice was limited, but his family lost all their property when he was outlawed.

they were caught between the river and a bog.

I TRUST THAT GOD WILL HELP ME, BECAUSE WHAT I'M SUPPOSED TO DO LOOKS VERY HARD.

Trouble was, when you refused to learn, the result was what surrounded the rumbling wagon: soured earth; abandoned homes; imperiled lives. Ruin.

My spirit is too weak--mortality Weighs heavily on me like unwilling sleep, And each imagin'd pinnacle and steep Of godlike hardship tells me I must die Like a sick Eagle looking at the sky.

Es que a veces me pongo tan triste –dijo la señora Reilly–. La vida no es fácil. Además he trabajado muy duro. Ya estoy harta.

Nobody loves you when you're down and out.

meal" every day. All these sacrifices were of

You mustnt forget the circumstances I have been brought up in, the little education I have had.

My father, at the death of his father, was but six years of age; and he grew up, literally without education.