Hard Quotes
The image is one thing and the human being is another...it's very hard to live up to an image.
Bands today have to learn their craft by putting the hard work in that we did when we were young performers.
I've always done things the hard way. I was born like a piece of tangled yarn. The job is trying to untangle it, and I'll probably go on doing it for the rest of my life.
But, once you get a taste for shutting people up, it's hard to stop. Why bother winning the debate when it's easier to close it down?
The impulse to pursue God originates with God, but the outworking of that impulse is our following hard after Him.
I don't work so hard at trying to get every song to be three-dimensional and mean so much. I just want to breathe, right now, with the music.
Selling is the easiest job in the world if you work it hard-but the hardest job in the world if you try to work it easy.
Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding. Even as the stone of the fruit must break, that its heart may stand in the sun, so must you know pain.
If you are sick, fast and pray; if the language is hard to learn, fast and pray; if the people will not hear you, fast and pray, if you have nothing to eat, fast and pray.
I've learned that under everyone's hard shell is someone who wants to be appreciated and loved.
You see, if you make believe hard enough that something is true, then it is true for you.
There is no luck, you work hard and study things intently. If you do that for long and hard enough you're successful.
Work hard every day at increasing your purity of heart, which consists in appraising things and weighing them in the balance of God's will.
Unless you're not pushing yourself, you're not living to the fullest. You can't be afraid to fail, but unless you fail, you haven't pushed hard enough."
Chesterton spoke of 'the modern and morbid habit of always sacrificing the normal to the abnormal.' It would be hard to sum up liberalism for succinctly.
It's hard to pay attention and stay focused, especially when there is a lot going on around you.
I didn't work especially hard at mathematics at school, because I knew that's what I'd be doing later.
At 50, don't let aging get you down. It's too hard to get back up. Happy 50th birthday.
Don't be so busy making a living that you forget how to live. Work hard to be successful, but enjoy the journey.
As a songwriter, it's very hard to listen to music that's not coming from the heart and soul, personally.
I like to work really hard and then earn the good life. I actually enjoy it. If you're eating caviar all the time, it doesn't taste good anymore.
Gems, in fact, are a species of mineral flowers; they are the blossoms of the dark, hard mine; and what they want in perfume, they make up in durability.
We can work out anything if we put our mind to it, study it, do hard work instead of finding simple answers
You know your talent. You know if you work hard, your hard work is going to pay off one day.
It's great to win, but it's also great fun just to be in the thick of any truly well and hard fought contest against opponents you respect, whatever the outcome.
...If you work hard enough and assert yourself, and use your mind and imagination, you can shape the world to your desires. (151)
I myself find it hard to accept the notion of self-creation from nothing, even given unrestricted chance.
Everyone tries to define this thing called Character. It's not hard. Character is doing what's right when nobody's looking.
Besides, I think that when one has been through a boarding school, especially then, you have some resistance, because it was both fine comradeship and a fairly hard training.
Cleverness is a gift, kindness is a choice. Gifts are easy-they're given after all. Choices can be hard.
The path of repentance, though hard at times, lifts one ever upward and leads to a perfect forgiveness.