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There is something to be said for people who have to work hard, be creative, produce what they have with little - or no - means. Those of us from poor homes have the advantage of thinking for ourselves and of knowing that when times get hard, things could always be worse.

— Beth Ditto

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

I experienced firsthand what it means to be poor, what it means to go hungry, and that, I think, may be the reason, the root cause of why I'm able to work so hard, even these days.

— Rain

Working hard is a great way to impact the world, to learn, to grow, to feel accomplished, and sometimes even to find happiness, but it becomes a problem when you do so at the expense of the people closest to you.

— Travis Bradberry

There are so many people working so hard and achieving so little.

— Andy Grove

Nothing comes without hard work. I've been taught that by many people growing up.

— Taylor Lautner

I don't have to be working every moment. Why turn something good into a hard job? It's more special when it's not a daily occurrence. It doesn't cheapen it so much.

— Mel Gibson

Poor people are those who only work to try to keep an expensive lifestyle and always want more and more.

— Jose Mujica

Life is difficult for everyone; everyone has bad days. Everyone has trouble in their life, because it doesn't matter how rich you are: Sickness and trouble and worry and love, these things will mess with you at every level of life.

— Domhnall Gleeson

✗Opposing Perspectives

Where the despair of loneliness and poverty haunts every hour, the optimism to embark on new projects cannot find a place to alight on the brain's cortex. Poverty itself is an enormous obstacle to an enlightened and enlightening - not to say healthy - old age.

— Sherwin B. Nuland

I don't think people understand that being poor means you have to work from dawn until dusk just to survive through the day. I think there's some notion that poor people lie about all day not doing anything.

— Emma Thompson

In today's world, we all live with the burden of feeling that anything is possible if we're only clever enough, smart enough, work hard enough.

— Elizabeth McGovern