I’m from Colombia, and we’ve been through a lot of hard situations.

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

There was a time when my parents had to sell off a plot of land so that I can buy a rifle for competitive tournaments. After that we stayed in a rented house for the next 15 years.

Guess I’m hanging’ by myself but I don’t mind.

Born through hard times, Ghetto child of mine. I wonder if you have to suffer for your father’s crimes.

Liberal instruction is at the core of a common society, and at the core of liberal training is the demonstration of educating

Especially when you’re faced with hard times, you need to remember that life is either tragedy or comedy. For me, that’s what the magic is. Life has remarkable, surprising moments that get you through the hard times.

In the time of war, everyone was basically trying to live and manage the best they could. But you also had another period which was not a hard time at all – it was just a beautiful time. I lived in both eras. I got to fully experience and appreciate both the tragedy of Somalia and the beauty of it.

A bear, however hard he tries, grows tubby without exercise.

Rolf Harris is a hard man to hate, but that doesn’t mean we shouldn’t try

Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.

In life, as in football, the principle to follow is to hit the line hard.

One must give value to their existence by behaving as if ones very existence were a work of art.

It is hard enough to remember my opinions, without also remembering my reasons for them!

Be sincere; be brief; be seated

It gets harder the more you know. Because the more you find out the uglier everything seems

Would you please please please please please please please stop talking?

Write hard and clear about what hurts.

I wanted to tell my story and where I came from and my background because it was not easy.

If you push through the hard days you can get through anything.

Hard days are the best because that’s when champions are made.

I was just, you know, kind of getting racist jokes, kind of being isolated from the group. So it was definitely hard. I would come home at night and just cry my eyes out.

As a career, the business of an orthodox preacher is about as successful as that of a celluloid dog chasing an asbestos cat through hell.

I was your man and you were my girl It was you and me against the world

I’ll take one shot for my pain One drag for my sorrow Get messed up today I’ll be ok tomorrow

Dreamers, keep on dreaming and keep working hard to achieve your goals

Sir Alex has a special place in my life. In fact, he was the main man. I was not famous, I was not a star. I arrived at Old Trafford as just another young talent. He was the one who told me to do all the right things. He gave me the opportunity to play in one of the biggest clubs in the world. So he is one of the most important people in the world for me. I worked with Sir Alex for a few years and I know he deserves ­everything that he has achieved in his career. He works so hard, he is clever, he has experience, he is a human guy.

I have practically no private life. I’m already used to this and ready for it. Yes, sometimes it is hard, but it is the choice I made.

I work hard and fight easy.

I believe in working harder and putting in the time – being completely obsessed. And, yeah, I think that’s life.

The hardest thing of all is to find a black cat in a dark room, especially if there is no cat.

There are no secrets to success. It’s the result of preparation, hard work, learning from failure.

Hard times arouse an instinctive desire for authenticity.

When a naked man is chasing a woman through an alley with a butcher knife and a hard-on, I figure he isn’t out collecting for the Red Cross.

The funny thing about the heart is a soft heart is a strong heart, and a hard heart is a weak heart.

I like to use the hard times in the past to motivate me today.

Hit hard, hit fast, hit often.

Study hard so that you can master technology, which allows us to master nature.

Hard times build determination and inner strength. Through them, we can also come to appreciate the uselessness of anger. Instead of getting angry, nurture a deep caring and respect for troublemakers because by creating such trying circumstances they provide us with invaluable opportunities to practice tolerance and patience.

Not length but strength is desirable. A sense of need is a mighty teacher of brevity. If our prayers had less of the tail feathers of pride and more wing they would be all the better. Verbiage is to devotion as chaff to the wheat.

Poverty is a hard heritage; but those who trust in the LORD are made rich by faith. Let us, when we have short commons below, think of the royal table above.

There is hardship in everything except eating pancakes.

We continually encounter hardships. People disappoint us. We disappoint ourselves. But God is constant and compassionate. We are not alone. He cares. Against all reason, the transcendent God loves us so much that He has committed Himself to us.

There was a long hard time when I kept far from me the remembrance of what I had thrown away when I was quite ignorant of its worth.

An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way.

It is hard to see how a great man can be an atheist. Without the sustaining influence of faith in a divine power, we could have little faith in ourselves.

It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for a bird to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad

Baseball hasn’t forgotten me. I go to a lot of old-timers games and I haven’t lost a thing. I sit in the bullpen and let people throw things at me. Just like old times.

For me, life is about continuously being hungry. It’s meaning is not simply to just exist or to survive, but to move ahead, to go up, to achieve, to conquer. Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength. We all have great power. That power is self-faith. There’s really an attitude to winning. You have to see yourself winning before you win. And you have to be hungry. You have to want to conquer.

It is my goal to win every time I play. But on the other hand, I also seek a balance of compassion and respect for the other players. I understand that everyone goes through difficult times, either mentally or physically, to cope with their life, to live the sport.

Getting along with the gang in one place is not any harder than getting along in another. It depends about 98 percent on your own behavior.

A lot of artists come into the game with a radio record, but they don’t establish the fans as fans of their style of music. It’s just that they’re a fan of that song, and after that song plays out, it’s real hard for me

Growing up in Chicago is hard. I’d say 80 percent of the people ain’t really got no daddies. Their household wasn’t right. All they know is the streets and getting some money to support each other and support their family.

We came from nothing really. One house. Ten people. Even days the lights were off. The worst day was not eating. Surviving off rice and toast.

The strength of a woman is not measured by the impact that all her hardships in life have had on her, but the strength of a woman is measured by the extent of her refusal to allow those hardships to dictate her and who she becomes

The hardest thing is to live richly in the present without letting it be tainted out of fear for the future or regret for the past.

I don’t intend to shrink from the truth, because the longer it’s postponed, the harder it will be for them to accept it when they do hear it

My mom and I have always been there for each other. We had some tough times, but she was always there for me.

I think the reason why I’m the person who I am today is because I went through those tough times when I was younger.

The harder the conflict, the greater the triumph

I am far from denying that newspapers in democratic countries lead citizens to do very ill-considered things in common; but without newspapers there would be hardly any common action at all

The surface of American society is covered with a layer of democratic paint, but from time to time one can see the old aristocratic colors breaking through

“From a small seed, a mighty trunk may grow

Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute, and it seems like an hour. Sit with a pretty girl for an hour, and it seems like a minute. THAT’S relativity.

Man can hardly even recognize the devils of his own creation

If happiness always depends on something expected in the future, we are chasing a will-o’-the-wisp that ever eludes our grasp

Human nature will not change. In any future great national trial, compared with the men of this, we shall have as weak and as strong, as silly and as wise, as bad and as good.

I work very hard, but when God opens that door for you – when life opens that door for you, I should say – I think it’s important to be giving, to return the love back.

To become ‘unique,’ the challenge is to fight the hardest battle that anyone can imagine until you reach your destination

I hope the millions of people I’ve touched have the optimism and desire to share their goals and hard work and perseverance with a positive attitude.

I know fear is an obstacle for some people, but it is an illusion to me. Failure always made me try harder next time.

It was hard for me because it was such a big change. I left a lot behind in Argentina and unlike other children living at the Masia, I hardly ever got to visit my family. I only saw them once or twice a year and that was very hard for me.

I am competitive and I feel bad when we lose. You can see it in me when we’ve lost. I’m in a bad way. I don’t like to talk to anyone.

I think, therefore I am is the statement of an intellectual who underrates toothaches.

Never be afraid to be kicked in the teeth. Let the blood and the bruises define your legacy.

Cause it’s a hard life, with love in the world. And I’m a hard girl, loving me is like chewing on pearls.

My childhood years were very painful. I was only 5 when the Croatian War of Independence broke out. I was living in a war zone and lost my grandfather in that war.

I hustle hard, that’s how I survive.

I went through my darkest time alone so sorry if I act like I don’t need anybody.

I can’t do what she want me to do, she tryna take my child away. I think my past tryna haunt me.

I’ve missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I’ve been trusted to take the game-winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.

The war made me stronger; it was a very hard time for me and my family. I don’t want to drag that with me forever, but I don’t want to forget about it, either.

Messi is an incredible player but he can’t do everything alone. In football you need help and it can’t be done alone.

The Premier League is the best competition in the world, and it’s not easy to win a league with great teams like Man United, Chelsea, Liverpool, Man City, and Arsenal as rivals.

There are ups and downs, but whatever happens, you have to trust and believe in yourself.

I’ve seen a great deal of hardship in my life.

When the war started, we became refugees, and it was a really tough time. I was six years old. These were really hard times. I remember them vividly, but it’s not something you want to remember or think about.