Quotes About Hardship

Hardship is a legitimate test of character, resilience a legitimate sign of strength and patience a legitimate mark of faith.

The economic crisis really affected my family - 2006 to 2011 were really bad times. Almost everybody in my family lost their jobs.

We never had any silk sheets in our family...

My folks ain't graduated from high school or nothing like that, so we always had to struggle in the family - and I come from a big family.

If I wasn't involved in this hip-hop sh*t, I'd probably be breakin' the law to eat and feed my family and maintain the lifestyle that I'm used to.

I'm working class, my family was working class, and we have struggled the same way our neighbors here in San Francisco have struggled.

We also knew it would be difficult, because of the financial condition of the family, for me to go to college.

I didn't go to the right schools, didn't come from a well-known family, nor was I even remotely connected to a powerful publishing dynasty.

I have the most amazing and supportive family. My parents always encouraged us to aim high and follow our dreams. They instilled in us that nothing worth having comes easy.

I sacrificed a lot, in terms of friendship and family, from working so much at such a young age, but I wouldn't be where I am if I hadn't.

I was the seventh of nine children. When you come from that far down you have to struggle to survive.

I never wanted to be away from the family. Intuitively, I knew how easily distances could harden and become permanent.

Every working family in America knows how hard it is today to find affordable childcare or early childhood education.

Winners do what losers don't want to do.

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

My father was unemployed and I was the eldest of seven children. We were very poor. And when you ask how did we support ourselves, the only funding that we had was unemployment payments.

My father was a milkman. So, I delivered milk.

My father died when I was young and I was raised by my grandmother, Emma Klonjlaleh Brown. We could afford to eat chicken just once a year, on Christmas.

My father had a couple of kids at the beginning of the Depression. There was not much employment. Not much welfare. People barely got by. People were tougher then.

I was from a poor Jewish family in the South Bronx. My father was a plumber, but when I was 16, he got sick and I had to take over. Being a plumber in the South Bronx wasn't fun.

When did it become a problem to be a small businessman and become successful? The small businessman - like my father, or like me?

My father was a manual worker.

I had to escape the destruction of my fathers bankruptcy and all that difficulty.

My father was a trigamist; he supported three families. We were never not poor.