Nawazuddin Siddiqui Quotes

My family endured a big crisis after my father's business went bankrupt and we went from having a comfortable life to having virtually nothing. I saw from that moment how fragile and precarious life can be and you have to work very hard not just to survive but also to accomplish something in life and fulfill your dreams.

When I graduated from high school, it was during the Depression and we had no money.

I've always been the person to look at any turmoil as temporary. I recall times where my mom was working five and six jobs, and there's still no food in the house.

Going through economic hard times is something I know firsthand.

I come from a poor background, I've seen struggle. Money will come and go, but I will continue to be grounded.

The fight to make ends meet, keeps a man upon his feet.

Poverty often hides her charms under an ugly mask; yet thousands have been forced into greatness by their very struggle to keep the wolf from the door.

I had been practicing for the Depression a long time. I wasn't involved with loss. I didn't have money to lose, but in common with millions I did dislike hunger and cold.

In the Depression especially, I think you learn to face problems and not run away from them.

I've known the panic of financial struggle. I didn't grow up with money at all, and my family has certainly known the panic of, 'Oh, gosh, where's the next bit of money coming from?'

When life is too easy for us, we must beware or we may not be ready to meet the blows which sooner or later come to everyone, rich or poor.

From the age of 11, I was cleaning floors, washing dishes, making sandwiches and being a cashier. Survival was the name of the game. Life was so hard that I had to struggle to keep up my standards. Under these conditions, I didn't think about science too much.

You know, every family and every business in California knows what it means to go through tough times.

Americans have always been able to handle austerity and even adversity. Prosperity is what is doing us in.

When I started out, I struggled, and I was broke a lot. But I'm glad I struggled, and I'm glad I was broke a lot.

Poverty is not a disgrace, but it's terribly inconvenient.

We're living in hard times.

I was a happy man, never working. Sometimes I saw days with no money to eat. It was not so difficult.

I didn't have any extra money. But I can't say that I had a hard early career.

I've always found it very sanitary to be broke.

Alarm in hard times makes one live; indulgence in comfort makes one die.

Can anybody remember when the times were not hard and money not scarce?

In prosperity remember adversity.

Independence feels like a luxury, where the reality is that it's hard to survive financially for so many people out there.