Quotes About Hardship

I am like a blind pig when I work.

But, then, nothing is easy.

This is a bad life for good children

The one who is doing the work and getting satisfaction from it is not the one poverty is hard on. Heminway talking about his wife Hadley

First you're indebted and then you beg.

The moving of the boulders was weary and painful work. We came to know every one of the stones by sight and touch, and I have vivid memories of their angular peculiarities even to-day.

Success isn't measured by what you achieve, it's measured by the obstacles you overcome," Jimmy

There was no damned romance in our poverty.

Not having money is time consuming. There are hours spent at laundromats, hours at bus stops, hours at free clinics, hours at thrift stores, hours on the phone with the bank or the credit card company or the phone company over some fee, some little charge, some mistake

We all have to face some kind of adversity.

When things get bad, the trouble comes to the surface.

This is no time for ease and comfort,' he said in reference to the extension of rationing. 'It is the time to dare and endure.

People who don't have much get ugly about giving up the little they have left.

Rzucanie pracy i dalekie chodzenie za potrzebÄ… groziÅ'o utratÄ… cennych przemyÅ›leÅ", a na to ?aden uczony pozwoli? sobie nie mógÅ'

Listen: two years ago peasants from some godforsaken

To nie ba??, to ?ycie, Parszywe, zÅ'e, ci??kie, nie szczÄ™dzÄ…ce pomyÅ'ek, krzywd, ?alu, rozczarowaÅ" i nieszcz???, nie szczÄ™dzÄ…ce ich nikomu, ani wied?minowi, ani królowym. (...) to nie ba??, ale ?ycie, które sami musimy zapeÅ'nia? sobie momentami szcz??cia, bo na los i jego uÅ›miechy liczy?, jak wiesz, nie mo?na.

Disciplines are small and by themselves inconsequential (like the scales that professional musicians play every day), attracting no notice and deserving no prize, humbling us in advance of the occasions when our work will be recognized and applauded. Disciplines are difficult, revealing all too clearly our laziness and foolishness, preparing us for the times when fruit seems to burst from our smallest efforts.

Poor fellow, he suffers from files.

When I sent those scripts, that was the lowest point of my life. We'd just had our second son, and when I went to collect them from hospital, I went to the bank to try and get some money to buy some diapers, the screen showed I've got $26 left.

What Everard and Philip felt about the hard luck, to give it no harder name, that might tear all their ex-pupils (for they could not help looking at the situation from their own schoolmastering point of view and especially from the point of view of their own school) from their various avocations and pitchfork them into the paths of glory which may lead but to the grave, was so mixed that neither of them could quite have put it into words.

Love, love, love. What good is it, if it can't put food on the table.

Life isn't just to be found, you have to work for it.

Europeans have it better than the Americans. The Americans work too hard. The balance is out of whack. Europe's hung onto a little bit more of living a life and then working as well.

With the education I had, all I could do was work as a burro, in whatever I could find: shoeshine boy, janitor, dishwasher, waiter, bartender, cashier, bricklayer, painter.