Hard Life Quotes
By Alan Reiner – July 18, 2024
‘Life is hard. Life is difficult. Life is going to punch you in the gut. But when you change your attitude, you change your behavior. When your behavior changes, so do your results.’ – Will Hurd
‘It’s a hard life… but if I could, I would do it all again.’ – Natalia Makarova
‘We have to laugh at how hard life can be and how screwed up we can be at times.’ – Brett Gelman
‘I grew up in low-income areas and I’ve seen people take negative energy and just accept it. They give into and end up living a pretty rough life. At a young age, I just knew I wasn’t going to give in because I didn’t want to end up being one of those people in the neighborhood that didn’t have anything and lived a hard life.’ – LaMarcus Aldridge
‘Being in a fishbowl, everybody looking at every move you make, talking about everything you do – it’s just a hard life to live.’ – Allen Iverson
‘I always heard that immigrants had a really hard life when they came to America.’ – Sofia Vergara
‘I never question God. Sometimes I say, ‘Why me? Why do I have such a hard life? Why do I have this disease? Why do I have siblings who died?’ But then I think and say, ‘Why not me?” – Mattie Stepanek
‘I remember listening to the radio as a kid and finding that the songs always made me feel more peaceful. Funny, but the more hurtin’ the music was, the better it made me feel. I think of that now when I write my songs. I may not be feelin’ the blues myself, but I’m writing them for other people who have a hard life.’ – Chris Isaak
‘I don’t really think about having had a hard life. It was just my life, and it’s all I knew. It made me who I am – all the good and bad – and it’s where all of the songs on Here For The Party came from. I’ve lived them all.’ – Gretchen Wilson
‘Life is not hard. Life is very simple.’ – Ben Wallace
‘When I talk to kids, I have a theme: If you work hard, life is easy.’ – Howie Long
‘Dad lived such a hectic, hard life on the road, and I didn’t get to spend as much time with him as I would have liked.’ – Goldust
‘I had a very hard life in Kazakhstan.’ – Gennady Golovkin
‘I do think my old fella wasn’t much of a… I don’t remember him ever being a ‘dad’ dad. He was too busy working. It was a hard life, man.’ – Noel Gallagher
‘But I want people to understand that poker’s not all glamorous, it’s not all being on TV and making tons of money. It’s a hard life. It’s a lot of travel. It’s a lot of weird hours.’ – Chris Moneymaker
‘I know a lot of people who are struggling musicians; it’s a hard life, and I’ve risked being that. The rewards are tremendous now that I’ve made it, I thank God every day. But I put it all on the line for it.’ – Kid Rock
‘Being an MP is not a desperately hard life, like going down the pit or working in the steelworks – with which I am all too familiar, having been brought up in the city of Sheffield; and it certainly isn’t badly paid compared with any of my constituents.’ – David Blunkett
‘I love my country, but it’s a very hard life, the life of a politician.’ – Margaret Cuomo
‘You have to live what you write, or you have to know it. There are exceptions, like story songs, where you just have to have your facts straight. But I think you don’t have to live a hard life to be a good or interesting songwriter.’ – Justin Townes Earle
‘My kids idea of a hard life is to live in a house with only one phone.’ – George Foreman
‘I get paid to play, to win, to give the city pride, so maybe everybody can forget for a little while how hard life is.’ – Randall Cunningham
‘There’s a difference between someone who’s ‘harsh’ and someone who is ‘hard.’ Life was hard. You lived in the South, as my grandparents did, and you had to survive. That is hard. In order to respond to that, he had to become a hard man, with very hard rules, very hard discipline for himself, very hard days, hard work, et cetera.’ – Clarence Thomas
‘It was a very hard life. As I got older, the family was depending very much on me. My two older brothers got married, so they had their own families depending on them. I had seven people relying on me, so I worked in a grocery store.’ – Martin Lel
‘You have to remember, I had come from a pretty hard life. There was all this abuse and everything else, so the idea of fighting for sport was pretty heavy. Fighting to me was about fighting for your life, you know.’ – Frank Shamrock
‘Yes, long hours and a hard life for my parents, but for a six to seven year old every new day dawned with fresh excitement when you have not a care in the world, and so much to learn and witness.’ – Vernon L. Smith
‘It’s a hard life as a professional cricketer. It’s not as easy as everyone makes out. To survive you need a tough hide.’ – Steve Waugh
‘There’s a difference between someone who’s ‘harsh’ and someone who is ‘hard.’ Life was hard. You lived in the South, as my grandparents did, and you had to survive. That is hard.’ – Clarence Thomas
‘I think I’ve lived a pretty hard life. What I mean by hard is that… I’ve been kind of reckless with things. I’m a passionate person. I’m a super passionate person. I think there’s definitely been sorrow in my life, good and bad. I think it comes through. I hope it comes through in my writing because to me that’s what artistry is.’ – Kip Moore
‘I get really tired of hearing of all these old rockers whine and complain about how hard life on the road can be. Just stop if you don’t like it. I don’t think of it as work. I love it all.’ – Edgar Winter
‘When a gently born spinster has little money, her choices are few. She might receive an offer of marriage, but it’s unlikely to be from a wealthy man, so she’ll have a hard life trying to make ends meet for her growing family.’ – Jo Beverley
‘You go on a million auditions anyway as an actor, and one out of a hundred, you get. It’s a hard life, but you can’t really think about it that way.’ – Morena Baccarin
‘My mom always let me watch movies that were probably slightly too mature for my age, but she wanted me to see different stories. We grew up with quite a hard life, so she wasn’t afraid to show me that in movies.’ – Kaya Scodelario
‘They’ve had a hard life, the Oasis brothers. They’ve done really well to be semi-normal. It’s always sad when your dirty linen is brought out in public.’ – Ian Brown
‘I’ve had a hard life. I smell and sense fear. I didn’t get that from Catholic school; I know what fear is.’ – Bernard Hopkins
‘Being a wrestler is not an easy life. It’s very hard on the body. I loved it, but it is a hard life to live.’ – The Iron Sheik