Relative Hardship Quotes

There are other people who have it a lot worse

There is always someone worse off than yourself.

There are people much less fortunate than us, and I don't mean people hungry sleeping in the streets either.

So many of my relatives didn't get a chance to go to school, and my own Daddy couldn't read or write.

When I hear somebody say 'Life is hard', I am always tempted to ask 'Compared to what?'

Every one thinkes his sacke heaviest.

In America people get depressed for no reason. They say, 'I'm sad my boyfriend didn't call me.' I tell them, 'How would you like to spend 12 hours on a line to get bread or a chicken?' That is depressing.

I haven't had the difficulties in my life that other people have had. I didn't have an unhappy childhood.

When life's problems seem overwhelming, look around and see what other people are coping with. You may consider yourself fortunate.

In actuality, no one ever sank so deep that he could not sink deeper, and there may be one or many who sank deeper. So it is always possible to be happy and grateful that things are not worse!

Yes, it is hard out there. But hard is relative. I come from a middle-class family, my parents are academics. I was born after the Civil Rights movement, I was a toddler during the women's movement, I live in the United States of America, all of which means I am allowed to own my freedom, my rights, my voice and my uterus.

What happened to you could have been worse - it could have happened to me.

When I listen to these women, it makes what I thought were my hard knocks feel like little nudges.

There's this myth that science is hard. But everything is hard.

She could not complain about not having shoes when the person she was talking to had no legs.

I do spend a lot of weekends on the road. I have to pace myself. It can be pretty busy, but I'm not out in the Afghan desert with 70 pounds on my back, away from my family for a year at a time. I keep a good perspective on it.

I wish that everyone that's complaining about how things are here would shut their mouth for a little bit, go around the world and see how it is everywhere else.

You think we got it bad in Omaha, or in any city in the United States, and then you go to a different country and you see how bad they got it. You give those people a balloon and they'll cherish it like you gave them a chunk of gold.

The truth is, I'm someone coming from a spoiled society - the worst thing we deal with in Canada is winter.

All people believe their suffering is greater than others.

We cannot consent to be judged by someone who has suffered less than ourselves. And since each of us regards himself as an unrecognized Job.

I always thought I had a difficult childhood 'til I saw the film 'Angela's Ashes'.

Cutting one side of your head for a few months is not a big deal compared with what other people have to deal with in the world. Plus, hair grows back.

You leave the States, and you see people have bigger problems than you, much worse problems than you.

Every horse thinks its own pack heaviest.