Many have overcome real personal hardship to achieve their goals.

Overcoming many hardships in his early ages, he dedicated himself to the family business.

The little guy stands for all that is good and decent - about people overcoming hardship.

"These are students who have overcome hardship," he says.

He was an artistically gifted young man and overcame hardship in order to study art.

The university also expanded admissions criteria to consider when students overcome economic or educational hardships.

He has a simple answer to the question of how he overcame such hardships to succeed.

There is a large agricultural society, which is slowly overcoming much hardship.

I'm not sure whether they're all brilliant examples of self-made individuals who have overcome great hardship to make it to the top.

Meditations on overcoming hardships by the actor who was paralyzed in 1995.