Quotes About Hardship

Achieving accomplishments without first making a sacrifice to gain them does not make you accomplished. That just makes you a lucky bastard.

As Michael saw it, capitalism had been cruel to our father, giving him no quarter when he was down, the weight of no money and too much responsibility dragging him under. Which didn't mean he hadn't been sick, but that there had been no margin for being sick.

It's just a thing that sometimes has to be done and even if thirty thousand suffer with you, you suffer alone." She

Yet man is born unto trouble, as the sparks fly upward." Job 5:7

How close is the ending, well, nobody knows. The future's a mystery, and anything goes. Love is confusing, and life is hard. But you fight to survive, 'cause you've made it this far.

Let us talk sense to the American people. Let us tell them the truth, that there are no gains without pains.

Hard reality alone must mark the way to the goal. Unwillingness to walk the road of hardship means, only too often in this world, the total renunciation of one's aims and purposes-whether consciously willed or not.

Nothing, which is great in this world, was given as a gift to man. Everything had to be bitterly, difficulty won in struggle. Speech of May 1, 1933 in Berlin

if you want to shine like sun first you have to burn like it.

The Bible says that man is born to trouble as the sparks fly upward. Well, trouble followed me like sharks trailing a slave ship. Even when I tried to get away it was there swirling in a vortex around me.

It was a sombre message that he gave that night, full of references to the Depression and the high unemployment rates. (No one was immune: even the palace had made drastic staff reductions.)

When you're living off a 1 packet of pasta a day you know you need to get a break because you certainly can't go on like that for ever!

Everyone had their own machete. Because that's how you cut grass in Africa. There were no lawn mowers. We had to tend our own patches. I still feel as if I have got the blisters.

Boxing is one of the hardest jobs in the world, so when I found my career path, what I'd learnt in the boxing gym meant I was head and shoulders above everybody else.

The road hasn't always been paved for me. People identify with that. Everybody passes through hard times, and I think that's part of my appeal - that I have, too.

The people who pawn stuff never want to be on the show. And the reason behind that, I find out, is when people are pawning something, it's - they're getting a loan. They have to admit they're broke. For some reason or the other, something has happened, or they're financially irresponsible.

If life is tough, at least you got that thing you can pawn.

There's some dues that you just have to pay in life.

Sometimes if you don't take the easy option, it'll pay dividends in the long run.

I live like most of the people in my district: paycheck to paycheck.

A lot of work is going in, and it's not paying off. And it's becoming very frustrating for me.

I been through some junk. It ain't all been peaches and cream.

Was on my last leg, I couldn't even borrow my friend's extra peg.

I always hated the thought of not having two pennies to rub together.