Quotes About Hardship

The women who file for bankruptcy played by all the rules, but they are still in economic freefall.

Though there is lot of struggle, nothing deterred my ambition to get into the film industry.

I haven't earned much money through films.

Buddy Guy finally got a break and made it. And Buddy Guy deserves it.

Making it to the Finals was the hardest work. You have to go out and play the physical and mental game.

My father and mother do not know literacy. I cannot go to school due to financial difficulties. I started to working at a butcher as an apprentice when I was 14.

Even the biggest stars have to struggle to get the success they want to achieve. But, for me, being financially strong was the most important thing.

There's a fine line between character building and soul destroying.

When I'm working on a movie, I will make any sacrifice to finish it.

I finished law school in '56, but I was working two jobs.

I got fired when I was a dishwasher at Denny's. That set me back a little bit. You don't realize how important dishwashers are until you do the job.

In terms of the way things went for me, I'm a firm believer that experience is what makes you. But I'm not saying it was easy.

You have to work really hard to be first place in life.

I know first-hand how hard it is to start a business. Those first few years are rough.

I had to work on a Marlin boat, like gutting fish, like as the bait boy.

My father was a tricycle driver before, then he became a farmer and a fisherman.

My dad was a crab fisherman.

We didn't really feel poor. You don't know that as a kid, but we really didn't have any cash. When machinery broke down, we didn't have money for parts, so we did our best to fix it.

During the Great Depression, African Americans were faced with problems that were not unlike those experienced by the most disadvantaged groups in society. The Great Depression had a leveling effect, and all groups really experienced hard times: poor whites, poor blacks.

People just see the shine. They don't see the grind, the bags under my eyes. It was a lot of grinding, setbacks... I ain't finna let nothing stop me. Wherever I stop at, I already know who I am.

The rewards for those who persevere far exceed the pain that must precede the victory.

The discipline that ballet requires is obsessive. And only the ones who dedicate their whole lives are able to make it. Your toenails fall off and you peel them away and then you're asked to dance again and keep smiling. I wanted to become a professional ballet dancer.

I was determined to play my horn against all odds, and I had to sacrifice a whole lot of pleasure to do so.

I didn't have any of those good assets to have successful teenage years. It was hard. And what saved me was definitely my whole family. I knew where I was coming from and where I was going to.