Hard Quotes

Hard times build determination and inner strength. Through them we can also come to appreciate the uselessness of anger.

You think you're winning, but it's hard to say sometimes.

Innovation is hard to schedule.

Meditation is hard. You are constantly trying to focus on one thing, usually your breath, and your mind is going to go berserk.

The hard part about living in the present is it forces you to abandon hope for the future. Thanks for nothing, now.

I never had little brothers, so I was totally not used to hearing a lot of cussing at a young age! I learned what 'pull my finger' meant the hard way.

I have not really experienced any significant conflict with anyone in regard to my choice to be vegan, although going out to eat is hard sometimes.

When you get as lucky as I got, you have to work as hard as possible to earn that luck.

But bread is different. I come from Czechoslovakia, where we eat lots of it, so it's hard to say no. I can't even have one piece, because when I start, I don't stop.

I work too hard and don't play enough.

I used to wash up the dishes as C3PO. And it's very hard to put cups away when this joint doesn't bend! Mum was very tolerant.

I think musicians like me are drawn to those older desks, not just because they're legend and lore but also because they do something really specific that is hard to emulate or re-create digitally.

Some people record onto tape, and then they pay for the tape, and download those onto a hard drive. Initially in a Pro Tools program. Other people go straight into digital, and use no tape at all.

Hitting bottom and hitting it hard was the worst thing that ever happened to me and the best thing that ever happened to me.

It's hard being a hostage in somebody else's mouth - or a character in somebody else's novel.

I'm trying to keep my personal life personal. It's very hard for me because I'm a very honest person.

Even talent is rarely distinguishable, over the long run, from perseverance and lots of hard work.

For years we have been taught not to like things. Finally somebody said it was OK to like things. This was a great relief. It was getting hard to go around not liking everything.

I find rebellion packaged by a major corporation a little hard to take seriously.

Normally when people say they haven't decided, they're being polite but they're definitely not voting for you. I think it's different this time. People are thinking hard about the issues.

Hard rock may have faded from the media for a time, but I've always been able to make a living, if not in America, then in the rest of the world.

People who are prone to guilt tend to work harder and perform better than people who are not guilt-prone, and are perceived to be more capable leaders.

I shave my legs twice a week. It's hard the first time you do it. But I'm very lazy. For a team photo in December I just did the fronts.

Unreached peoples are unreached for a reason. They're hard, difficult, and dangerous to reach. All the easy ones are taken

There is evidence that young men in the big law firms, although they still work harder than most of their clients, do not glory in putting in night work and weekend hours as they once did.

Though top executives may work as hard as ever-in part perhaps because, being trained in an earlier day, they can hardly help doing so-their subordinates are somewhat less work-minded.

I got a lot of heart. I am going to give it my all every day. I have no excuses. I come prepared every day. I put it in the hard work.

I can do what I need to do. I can get where I want to go, no matter how hard it is.

You start with a darkness to move through but sometimes the darkness moves through you.

It's hard to see clearly when your eyes are squinched tight out of fear.

I tour all year, 42 weeks a year, so it's hard for me to remember every place I play.

Really it's hard to know where the Republican Party ends and the Tea Party begins.

Life is what you make of it. You can make it easy on yourself or you can make it hard.

You never forget your first kiss. And that's what makes it so hard to forgive my uncle.

As an older and wiser man, I don't believe in luck. I believe in hard work and talent and determination.

Too easy to lose the way. Too hard to keep from unraveling when there’s nothing to remind you of who you are and where you should be. Another eternity passes in the flick of an eyelash.

It's very odd, being older, because in a way it's hard to own the past, even.

Comedians are sometimes resentful of their writers. Probably because it's hard for giant egos to admit you need anyone but yourself to be what you are.

My sensei was a British karate champion named Brian Fitkin. He was my mentor and because I had a hard relationship with my dad, he became a father figure to me.

My bones are as hard as a rock. Every time I have a biopsy, the doctors are doing hand exercises a week, ten days out.

There's only one thing we can control, and that is how hard we play.

I throw the ball as hard as ever, but it just takes longer to get to the plate.

In fact, my main conclusion after spending ten years of my life working on the TEX project is that software is hard. It's harder than anything else I've ever had to do.

I think it's very hard for us, for Christians, to understand that it's okay to read a book, for instance, on how to manage your time. There's nothing wrong with that.

Aim High, Drive hard.

I think it's very hard if you love someone to walk away from a relationship that isn't healthy.

It was hard to turn down the money since I didn't have a job, but I didn't want to exploit my notoriety because I knew the way I'd been living was wrong.

It's hard for me to show work while I'm writing, because other people's comments will influence what happens.

You can be hard on people as long as you're just as hard on yourself.

It's difficult to speak with beautiful people. No matter how hard you try to pretend otherwise, you still want them to like you.