Inspirational Quotes
Words to motivate, inspire, and guide you.
Hardship Quotes
HardshipOpportunityOvercoming AdversityPerseveranceStruggle I grew up where, when a door closed, a window didn't open. The only thing I had was cracks. I'd do everything to get through those cracks - scratch, claw, bite, push, bleed. Now the opportunity is here. The door is wide open, and it's as big as a garage.
DeterminationHardshipOvercoming AdversityResponsibility My parents were dealing with evictions and repossessions and electricity getting shut off, and I just realized that I had to get it together.
ChallengeExperienceGrowthHardshipRealization If you hold a cat by the tail, you learn things you cannot learn any other way.
AchievementHardshipMotivationTransformationWealth I love money because I've earned it. I won sixty G's with my first knockout - and the week before, I was collecting social welfare.
HardshipPovertyResourcefulnessSelf-Sufficiency I do remember how it was to be poor. I do remember that in my early years, we had to grow and raise all of our food, even our animals. And I remember in my early life, we didn't even have electricity. So it was very, very hard times then.
Child LaborHardshipLost ChildhoodPoverty I never had a childhood. I started working when I was 7 years old. I got $1 a day getting water for the workers at the sugar cane plant.
ComfortEnduranceHardshipPerspective It is a much easier and less distressing thing to draw remonstrances in a comfortable room by a good fireside than to occupy a cold bleak hill and sleep under frost and snow without clothes or blankets.
EnduranceExclusionHardshipInjustice Here comes a time when people get tired of being pushed out of the glittering sunlight of life's July and left standing amid the piercing chill of an alpine November.
HardshipLoyaltyPerseveranceResilienceSupport The fans know what's happened to me over the past couple of years. I lost my family. I pretty much got devastated financially and the fans know that I've had some hard times - and that's the nature of loyal fans. They want to see the people that they love and believe in get back on their feet.
HardshipInstabilityResilienceSingle Parent I'd go to, like, six different schools in one year. We were on welfare, and my mom never ever worked.
EmpathyHardshipLeadershipResilienceSacrifice I'm no longer just a candidate. I'm the President. I know what it means to send young Americans into battle, for I have held in my arms the mothers and fathers of those who didn't return. I've shared the pain of families who've lost their homes, and the frustration of workers who've lost their jobs.
ConnectionFamilyGratitudeHardshipTechnology I'm thankful God has given us the technology where we can see each other through Skype on the computer. It's not the same thing, but at least we can see each other. Imagine the time before when that wasn't available and people had to go defend our country. It's really hard. I go two weeks without seeing my family and I go crazy.
DedicationHardshipResilienceSacrificeStarting From Nothing I remember I used to sleep on my records. In a room with no furniture. I remember I used to sleep in my car.
DeterminationHardshipIndividualityPerseveranceResilience To become 'unique,' the challenge is to fight the hardest battle which anyone can imagine until you reach your destination.
EmpathyHardshipRemembranceUnderappreciation The caddies are so overlooked out here, and I remember the tough times I had making ends meet when I used to carry the bag.
HardshipNostalgiaSimple Pleasures I used to live on one candy bar a day - it cost a nickel. I always remember the candy bar was called Payday. That was my payday. And that candy bar tasted so good, at night I would take one bite, and it was so beautiful.
