Quotes About Hardship

I didn't have any success in show business until I was 30 to 31 years of age.

True success requires sacrifice.

aquella carrera le resultó beneficiosa en el sentido de que a medida que el sudor inundaba su frente su corazón se enfriaba.

That was when my father went to the docks, that patient, good man I had so little respect for, though we were of the same flesh and blood and he had saved my life more than a dozen times when we traveled over continents, finding us bread and shelter. He was a mouse who feared the forest, yet he had managed to take us into France and on to Le Havre, where he worked shoveling coal in a mill until we could afford steerage on a boat to New York, the only dream we ever shared.

One's appreciation of meager comforts, it seems, depends on what misery one has gone through before getting them.

We had a hard life but we didn't know it...We had power....it's a power of transformation you have, when you're stuffed full of fear and eagerness - not a thing in your life can escape being momentous. A power you never think of losing because you never know you have it.

El invierno cae con dureza sobre el campo, se asienta en él como la capa de hielo de tres metros de profundidad hace miles de años. La gente vive envuelta en el invierno de un modo que los extraños no comprenden. Mantienen una actitud precavida, previsora, tranquila, animosa.

Hard times" is a phrase the English love to use, when speaking of Africa. And it is easy to forget that Africa's "hard times" were made harder by them.

MISFORTUNE, n. The kind of fortune that never misses.

Poverty and zeal are an upper and a nether millstone.  It is dangerous to make a third in that kind of sandwich.

Yarvi: 'If we had known the hardship of it, we might have chosen another.' Shidwala: 'So it is with many choices.' Yarvi: 'All we can do now is see it through.' Shidwala: 'So it is with many choices.

Yarvi soon learned only to sip the results, since unwrapping to piss in that cold was an act of heroism that earned grunted congratulations from the others, all the more heartfelt since everyone knew sooner or later they would have to present their own nethers to the searing wind.

It's a hard world. No one gets what they deserve.

But easy is for the dead,

Suffering is what gives a man strength, my boy, just as the steel most hammered turns out the hardest." The old man winced as he squatted down beside Jezal. "Anyone can face ease and success with confidence. It is the way we face trouble and misfortune that defines us.

Say one thing for Logen Ninefingers...

This wasn't fantasies, it was life. And life had a habit of kicking her in the cunt. But

Ljudi ponekad moraju raditi i nešto što im se ne svi?a ako žele ostati zapam?eni. Kroz muke, ne kroz lagodnost, sti?u se slava i ?ast. Kroz konflikte, ne kroz mir, sti?u se bogatstvo i mo?.

Suffering is what gives a man strength, my boy, just as the steel most hammered turns out the hardest.

Si te toca levantar una carga, más te vale levantarla que echarte a llorar

His face was like a whipped back, criss-crossed with ragged scars. His

Better off digging than getting buried.

Eider frowned. Something for her to think about, perhaps? "I would have thought your pain would give you empathy." "Empathy? What's that?" Glokta winced as he rubbed at his aching leg. "It's a sad fact, but pain only makes you sorry for yourself.

No one likes to shake hands with the man who empties the latrine pits eitherm but pits have to be emptied all the same. Otherwise the world fills up with shit.