Quotes About Hardship

I've been working since I was a child. I worked cutting lawns, delivering newspapers; I was a telephone salesperson; I was a guitar repairman.

I have done a lot of television serials in order to make ends meet.

I don't want to sound too bleeding heart, because I know how lucky I've been, but I never knew how hard it was to be the lead in a television show.

To be a Southern Ground artist, you have to be a lifer. It's not about winning a karaoke contest or a television show to become famous. It's about really paying your dues. It's people I'm fans of and want to help in the business.

Sorrow is so easy to express and yet so hard to tell.

This is the time it all starts, I'm telling you. Like, 16, I mean, forget it. You could just get beat up, you could go through these grueling schedules.

I hate telling that story to people who've been struggling for years.

Love's hard. It's hard work. No one tells you that.

So you got your reward; you got kicked in the teeth. That means you were doing good work. Getting kicked in the teeth is the reward for good work.

Many people have a stereotype of what it means to be poor. And it may be somebody they see on the street corner with a sign: "Will work for food." And what they don't think about is that person who's struggling every day. Could be the person who waited on us, took our bank deposit, works in retail, but who is barely above the poverty line.

losing it on the world. But even if the

It's been twenty years, Lieutenant. I've gone through it every day for twenty years. I'll get through these days the same way I got through those, one bad day at a time.

Life's a bitch, kid. And then you die.

Her muscles cramped and eventually seized. When

When you're one of ten, you learn quickly you're not entitled to anything but the necessities, hand-me-downs, and cars with 157,000 miles on them and the possibility of exploding gas tanks.

It takes oppression and hardship to stiffen men's guts and put the fire of hell into their thews.

Had we lived, I should have had a tale to tell of the hardihood, endurance and courage of my companions which would have stirred the heart of every Englishman. These rough notes and our dead bodies must tell the tale.

a land where living is so hard that men want a God so they can hate him.

Is demum miser est, cuius nobilitas miserias nobilitat. Unhappy is he whose fame makes his misfortunes famous. Lucius Accius, Telephus

the Bamboroughs were not-enough-to-eat poor.

But life's taught me things can always get worse than they are.

Every day there was some new tragedy, some new and inexplicable failure of the ordinary.

Got to get down to the Cumberland mine That's where I mainly spend my time

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