Hard Won Quotes

31 Hard Won quotes by 30 unique authors

Judge Roberts has assured me personally that he has a healthy respect for precedent and the hard-won rights of Americans. — Max Baucus
This is a long-delayed, hard-won, and badly needed victory for millions of women. — Patty Murray
We physicians have focused on the nuclear threat as the singular issue of our era. We are not indifferent to other human rights and hard-won… — Bernard Lown
How can we not believe in the greatness of America? How can we not do what is right and needed to preserve this last best… — Ronald Reagan
Happiness was my choice, and though it is hard-won, I am the only person who can stand in the way of it. — Stephanie Nielson
War had the effect of encouraging people to try to stay alive. Poverty, too. Survival was simply too hard-won to be given up lightly. — Aminatta Forna
As we drifted to earth I sat up on the glass roof of the capsule, watching the beauty of the golden dawn as it broke… — Richard Branson
I was trying to find out what it was that everybody else understood without giving up my stubborn and hard-won lack of understanding. — David Antin
A rich, vibrant, consoling, hard-won prayer life is the one good that makes it possible to receive all other kinds of goods rightly and beneficially.… — Timothy Keller
I love advertising because I love lying. I think spending your life trying to dupe innocent people out of hard-won earnings to buy useless, low-quality,… — Jerry Seinfeld
The popular mythology of creative genius depends on beloved stereotypes of the artist in youth and old age: the misunderstood upstart who forces us to… — Martin Filler
Books served to keep hard-won knowledge safe. They endured. — Terry Goodkind
We Aryans are those of European descent who are racially conscious and who have committed our lives to our people's survival and evolutionary advancement. We… — David Duke
Perhaps worse still is what liberal societies might do to themselves in the face of this new and different threat [of terrorism]. They begin, by… — A.C. Grayling
Brothers in suffering, brothers in resistance, brothers in ideals and conviction. It is now our duty to further strengthen this bond in order to secure… — Guy Verhofstadt
Most of us encounter a great deal more Mystery than we are willing to experience. Sometimes knowing life requires us to suspend disbelief, to recognize… — Rachel Naomi Remen
The quality that defines us as Americans is the courage to respond to being hit. The courage to root out and destroy the killers. And,… — Nick Clooney
Deficit reduction is not an end in itself. It is the means to an end. Canadians must now decide what kind of country they want… — Jean Chretien
We know the product is going to stink. We know that because we live in the world, and we know that everything stinks. We all… — Jerry Seinfeld
We cannot be wise while in the grip of a deep fear. ... This is why demagogues, when seeking our support, will first cause us… — Philip Gulley
My after forty face felt far more comfortable than anything I lived with previously. Self-confidence was a powerful beauty-potion; I looked better because I felt… — Nancy A. Collins
Given enough time, you could convince yourself that loneliness was something better, that it was solitude, the ideal condition for reflection, even a kind of… — Dean Koontz
To feel our character, our personality, and our personal, hard-won history fade from being is to be exposed to whatever lies beneath these comforting, operational… — Peter Straub
In the blood-heat of pursuing the enemy, many people are forgetting what we are fighting for. We are fighting for our hard-won liberty and freedom;… — Julia Child
A marriage is a private thing. It has its own wild laws, and secret histories, and savage acts, and what passes between married people is… — Catherynne M. Valente

Who Wrote These Hard Won Quotes

30 authors contributed a total of 31 Hard Won Quotes, led by these top contributors: