Hard Quotes

Yes, hard is good. When I was in high school, I spent a lot of time on my knees playing with balls. I guess it was only natural that I became a catcher.

The two ingredients in success in basketball are playing hard and playing intelligently.

I'm such a control freak, and it's very hard for me to lose my inhibitions without something chemical inside me.

It's very hard to self-motivate without someone standing over you snarling, ready to hurl the chalk at your head at the slightest slackening.

If you believe in it, and you believe in it hard, it is impossible to fail.

If you're not tough it's hard to survive in this world; and if you're not kind then you don't deserve to survive.

Be like a tree in pursuit of your cause. Stand firm, grip hard, thrust upward. Bend to the winds of heaven. And learn tranquility.

I'm very moved by Renaissance music, but I still love to play hard rock - though only if it's sophisticated and has some thought behind it.

If you can wear the hard times of your life as furrows on your brow, you can wear the good times as a twinkle in your eye.

It would've been hard to do something else, to as it were, run away from the circus and become an accountant.

Eat a lot and train hard, I am sure that you will succeed.

Everything for me started with my love of the sport. In society we're losing the fun with kids and pushing success on them too hard. Success comes from fun.

Writing is very hard work and knowing what you're doing the whole time.

Making miracles is hard work, most people give up before they happen.

Christ did not die for the good and beautiful. It is easy enough to die for the good and beautiful; the hard thing is to die for the miserable and corrupt.

The female brain is predominantly hard-wired for empathy. The male brain is predominantly hard-wired for understanding and building systems.

Trust and integrity are precious resources, easily squandered, hard to regain. They can thrive only on a foundation of respect for veracity.

Forbidden to remember, terrified to forget; it was a hard line to walk.

Im a realist, not a sugar coater. I believe in always letting people know what their obstacles are. And at the end of the day, I just want to be respected for my hard work.

I don't want to leave this mess around my children to clean up. I want to swing absolutely as hard as I can to straighten things out before they get to the age where it starts hurting them.

How could an Angel break my heart? Why didn't he catch my falling star? I wish I didn't wish so hard. Maybe I wished our love apart.

It is hard to say what the future holds, but this is probable - it won't be just like the past.

If you stumble at mere believability, what are you living for? Isn't love hard to believe?

When you look like I do its hard to get a table for one at Chucky Cheese.

Nothing is more inspiring than a person with seemingly mediocre talent rising against the odds to become a champion by way of hard work, effort, and perseverance toward their goals.

The reason a lot of people do not recognize opportunity is because it usually goes around wearing overalls looking like hard work.

I've always had a 'Work hard, play hard' attitude to life - I still do - but sometimes you get involved in something that needs a calm, methodical approach.

Learning to make films is very easy. Learning what to make films about is very hard.

Working hard is great, being lazy sometimes is great, but failed potential is the worst.

Many 'hard' scientists regard the term 'social science' as an oxymoron. Science means hypotheses you can test, and prove or disprove. Social science is little more than observation putting on airs.

It hurts every day when you practice hard. Plus, when this decathlon is over, I got the rest of my life to recuperate. Who cares how bad it hurts?

Sexism goes so deep that at first it's hard to see; you think it's just reality.

There's no substitute for hard work. If you work hard and prepare yourself, you might get beat, but you'll never lose.

For me the most important thing has always been tennis, and that's what I want to get across the image I want to portray is a hard-working tennis player.

It's about hitting the ball in the center of the club face and hitting it hard.

It's hard for the modern generation to understand Thoreau, who lived beside a pond but didn't own water skis or a snorkel.

[s]he was a compulsive pessimist, always looking for the soft brown spot in the fruit, pressing so hard she created it.

Being ready is state of mind... It's a mentality. Do you think your the best in the world? Do you work hard every single day?

I was never a natural. I got there in the end because I did believe that if you work hard enough, then you can achieve a lot.

Work hard for what you want in life.

It's a hard life sometimes and the biggest temptation is to let how hard it is be an excuse to weaken

It's hard for the White House to regain momentum if the Congress is in disarray. It ties up the Republicans in Congress and limits their ability to execute any White House agenda.

We have a hope of succeeding if we learn from our past mistakes and pull together to make the hard choices.

A lot of people think I am cold and have no feelings. But I do. I just try very hard to focus and not let my emotions take over on the golf course.

Art is rare and sacred and hard work, and there ought to be a wall of fire around it.

A merger is hard to pull off under any circumstances. It's harder when everybody is against you.

We are the mediocre, we are the half givers, we are the half lovers, we are the savourless salt. Break the hard crust of complacency. Quicken in us the sharp grace of desire.

On Belle de Jour, the producer was very protective. It was very hard for me.

When the facts change, you change your mind. I know that is a hard concept for people to get sometimes.

I can't even really tell a joke. I find being funny very hard work. I am always asked about it and I feel guilty saying that, but it's the truth. I love my work but it ain't easy.