Quotes About Hardship

If you do well at anything, you gotta pay up to all the people who did worse. On the other hand, if you do badly, life makes you pay a shit tax, too. Everybody pays something.

there is a tax, you know, on success." "Huh?" "If you do well at anything, you gotta pay up to all the people who did worse. On the other hand, if you do badly, life makes you pay a shit tax, too. Everybody pays something.

The world was cruel with its rations.

Trying to save money while paying medical bills was like pouring oil into a broken jar.

They'd make a tasty broth from stones and bitterness.

Pay attention: The ones who pay the shit tax are mostly people who were born in the wrong place and the wrong time and are hanging on to the planet by their broken fingernails. They don't even know the fucking rules of the game. You can't even get mad at 'em when they lose. Life just fucks and fucks and fucks bastards like that.

A woman's life is endless work and suffering. There is suffering and then more suffering. It's better to expect it, you know

Of course she is! Sunja-ya, a woman's life is endless work and suffering. There is suffering and then more suffering. It's better to expect it, you know.

A woman's life is endless work and suffering. There is suffering and then moer suffering. It's better to expect it, you know.

always expect suffering, and just keep working hard

but dirt remained beneath her nails.

Yangjin smiled at him. Every week, he complained that no one paid on time, but most people went with less food to pay him, since it was too cold this winter not to have coal. The coal man was also a portly gentleman who took a cup of tea and accepted a snack at every house on his route; he would never starve even in such lean years.

There are more than a thousand people in one square mile of this studio who would kill to have this job. Get your ass up off the floor and go back into that writers' room, you weakling. Then I get up, pour myself a generous glass of whiskey and club soda, think about the sustained grit of my parents, and go back to work. I know that made me sound like a tortured alcoholic, like Don Draper, but I swear I'm not.

Diamonds are only chunks of coal, That stuck to their jobs, you see.

To break his spirit, the village officials and the collective farm organizers hesitated at nothing The most powerful weapon in their hands was the tax. They levied taxes payable in kind and money. Every time Shost thought he had paid all that was required, more items were taxed, and more of the produce of this hand was taken from him. Finally, the day came when he had no more money or grain.

We hear the stories every day now: the father who puts on a suit every morning and leaves the house so his daughter doesn't know he lost his job, the recent college grad facing up to the painful reality that the only door that's open to her after four years of study and a pile of debt is her parents'. These are the faces of the Obama economy.

no pain no gain , no money no honey

Experimenté algo todavía más cruel, más refinadamente cruel. En pleno invierno, cuando no hay luz nunca y el sol no aparece ni por asomo, me enviaron junto con otros presos a construir un muro con piedras tan pesadas que costaba levantarlas. Un día nos obligaban a construirlo y al día siguiente nos ordenaban que destruyéramos lo erigido; y así una y otra vez. La mayor tortura de todas las que he vivido consistía en la inutilidad de un trabajo sobrehumano.

The truth is that acting as a motivational speaker nga nawe life sometimes hits you hard is not good

I hated every minute of training, but I said, 'Don't quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.'

No one starts out on top. You have to work your way up. Some mountains are higher than others, some roads steeper than the next. There are hardships and setbacks, but you can't let them stop you. Even on the steepest road, you must not turn back. You must keep going up. In order to reach the top of the mountain, you have to climb every rock.

I hated every minute of training, but I said, 'Don't quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion'.

I'm sure everything has a bearing on what I'm doing. My family is a lower-middle-class family, there's lots of children, seven brothers, two sisters grew up together, fighting with each other, went to school. My mother went to school up to 4th grade. My father went to school up to 8th grade. So that's about the education level we had in the family.

Consider, Mighty Creator of all things, the differences between Sindbad's life and mine. Every day I suffer a thousand hardships and misfortunes, and have hard work to get even enough bad barley bread to keep myself and my family alive, while the lucky Sindbad spends money right and left and lives upon the fat of the land! What has he done that you should give him this pleasant life— what have I done to deserve so hard a fate?