Quotes About Hardship

Everyone gets their rough day. No one gets a free ride. Today so far, I had a good day. I got a dial tone.

First of all, war is a very, very difficult thing to deal with, even on the good days.

I was raised on government cheese. As an adult, in my first marriage, my husband and I worked real hard just to go bankrupt. I happened to write some jokes about it. I did real well for myself.

Great things come out of being hungry and cold. Once you're pampered, you get lazy.

A constant struggle, a ceaseless battle to bring success from inhospitable surroundings, is the price of all great achievements.

When Heaven is about to confer a great office upon you, it first exercises your mind with suffering and your sinews and bones with toil.

You have to go through rough patches to achieve great things

The country is not in good condition.

A guy I interviewed for Hard Times says, "What do I remember about the Great Depression? That I was hungry, that's all." Elemental things.

Gerald Boyd was a classic specimen of the self-made man. Born poor, he worked and studied his way up out of poverty under the guidance of his widowed grandmother.

Here below is not the land of happiness: I know it now; it is only the land of toil, and every joy which comes to us is only to strengthen us for some greater labor that is to succeed.

Annual income is £ 20, the cost is 19, you will feel happiness. If annual income of £ 20, the cost is £ 20.6, you will see suffering

The key to happiness is not being rich; it's doing something arduous and creating something of value and then being able to reflect on the fruits of your labor.

What happiness is there which is not purchased with more or less of pain?

Don't envy my smile because it took me a lot of tears to get it. So when you see the glory, ask for the story.

After the break up of the municipality and the loss of his income my father lost health and spirits.

Preserving the serious health condition is usually painful.

I wanna work harder & let myself bear the wound. even though it hurt a lot but the meaning is I can use this to help me grow up.

In America, you don't even have proper holidays. It's really one of the most prosperous slave societies in history. People work their asses off all year long and get two weeks off! It's incredible.

If there's one thing that a study of history has taught us, it is that things can always get worse.

One enjoys the good things more to the extent that one goes to them after having labored in advance, for labors are a sauce for good things

I joined Count Basie's band to make a little money and to see the world. For two years I didn't see anything but the inside of a Blue Goose bus, and I never got to send home a quarter.

They do not easily rise whose abilities are repressed by poverty at home. [Lat., Haud facile emergunt quorum virtutibus obstat Res angusta domi.]

I grew up in an underprivileged home.