Hard Quotes

17169 Hard quotes by 8518 unique authors

I have nothing in common with lazy people who blame others for their lack of success. Great things come from hard work and perseverance. No… — Kobe Bryant
Lord knows dreams are hard to follow, but don't let anyone tear them away. — Mariah Carey
It does not seem to be true that work necessarily needs to be unpleasant. It may always have to be hard, or at least harder… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
My sense of identity broke down and was replaced by something that is very hard to put into words. Awareness, Consciousness. — Eckhart Tolle
No-one gets an iron-clad guarantee of success. Certainly, factors like opportunity, luck and timing are important. But the backbone of success is usually found in… — Mia Hamm
God would not rub so hard if it were not to fetch out the dirt that is ingrained in our natures. God loves purity so… — William Gurnall
If believers decay in their first love, or in some other grace, yet another grace may grow and increase, such as humility, their brokenheartedness; they… — Richard Sibbes
He that will be knighted must kneel for it, and he that will enter in at the strait gate must crowd for it-a gate made… — Thomas Adams
Gradually, at various points in our childhoods, we discover different forms of conviction. There's the rock-hard certainty of personal experience ("I put my finger in… — Philip Pullman
We find it hard to picture to ourselves the state of mind of a man of older days who firmly believed that the Earth was… — Anatole France
The reason why new concepts in any branch of science are hard to grasp is always the same; contemporary scientists try to picture the new… — Freeman Dyson
[N]o scientist likes to be criticized. ... But you don't reply to critics: "Wait a minute, wait a minute; this is a really good idea.… — Carl Sagan
You set a goal to be the best and then you work hard every hour of every day, striving to reach that goal. If you… — Don Shula
It is just as hard to do your duty when men are sneering at you as when they are shouting at you. — Woodrow Wilson
One teacher recently retired with a half-million dollars after 30 years of working hard, caring, dedicating herself and totally immensing herself in the problems of… — Milton Berle
Getting in shape for this role, which is incredibly demanding, vocally, has been a lot of hard work, but I'm nailing it. I'm even kind… — David Hasselhoff
It is as hard for the good to suspect evil, as it is for the bad to suspect good. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
No matter how hard you hug your money, it never hugs back. — H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
A good painter has two main objects to paint, man and the intention of his soul. The former is easy, the latter hard as he… — Leonardo da Vinci
People think responsibility is hard to bear. It's not. I think that sometimes it is the absence of responsibility that is harder to bear. You… — Henry A. Kissinger
No sane local official who has hung up an empty stocking over the municipal fireplace is going to shoot Santa Claus just before a hard… — Al Smith
One of the things I had a hard time getting used to when I came to California in '78 was Santa Claus in shorts. — Dennis Franz
It's very hard to make arguments about the effects of cloning on family relations if family relations are in tatters. — Leon Kass
Why has elegance found so little following? That is the reality of it. Elegance has the disadvantage, if that's what it is, that hard work… — Edsger Dijkstra
Hard things take time to do. Impossible things take a little longer. — Percy Cerutty

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