Quotes About Hardship

Perhaps not willingly, but pain can make a man do things he wouldn't willingly do.

A diamond is a chunk of coal that made good under pressure.

A man, fallen on hard times, sold his art collection but kept his wine cellar. When asked why he did not sell his wine, he said, ìA man can live without art, but not without culture.

A lot of us would like to move mountains, but few of us are willing to practice on small hills.

There's been times when it has been tough professionally.

My parents were not professionals. They were products of the Depression.

God bless my mother - she's long gone now, but she'd work all day and go to school at night. She started out in life as a housekeeper at 15 years old, totally on her own, and she retired as a college professor. But there were some hard times. It's not easy for a woman who's only trying to do the best for her kid but who could never be home.

There seem to be many causes of depression. One cause is profound loss, grief. Economic hardship we know is linked to depression. We don't have a full picture.

I get beat up on every project.

I had promised my husband never to accept another engagement. It was hard. It was not a very happy time for me.

Nothing's promised. You got to go out there and earn it.

For 10 years, I was my own label, my own promoter, my own PR. We borrowed money to print our CDs.

And I'd spent 20 years in bars and nightclubs, dealing with promoters and getting ripped off and just everything that comes with all that stuff - paying your dues, I guess.

My career's been a bumpy road, but at the same time I think I am living proof that if you put enough work into things you decide more or less where you want to end up.

You didn't eat some days for two days you didn't eat properly.

We've all got different ways to deal with adversity as pros, but if you want it and you want to be great, you've got to make it happen and fight through it.

Adversity makes men, and prosperity makes monsters.

Americans have always been able to handle austerity and even adversity. Prosperity is what is doing us in.

Freedom, respect and prosperity are never served on a plate.

I'll say this for adversity: people seem to be able to stand it, and that's more than I can say for prosperity.

Poverty leads to protests.

What I'm most proud of is that I paid off all the debts of my household.

Trying times will begin when I will take up my second film as that's when people will take me more seriously. I will have to prove myself too.

It's my whole life of being the little guy and having a little chip on my shoulder, from year to year trying to prove myself, and at the end of the day to be inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame is a very special honor for me.