Top 1200 Hard Things Quotes & Sayings - Page 11

Individual responsibility, hard work, paying attention in school, faith, family all these things are important.

Some things were too hard to believe, however entertaining they might be to hear or read.

Things change whether you want them to, or not--unless you are dead. Don't hold so hard to the past that you die with it.

To get people to do needed things is the perennial hard task of government, not to mention of religion and philosophy.

Of course I work hard. Why shouldn't I? Who am I to think I should get things the easy way?

I am retiring from startup investing. It's hard to leave all this behind right when things are going so well.

Well the press and things like that are pretty hard core, but I don't pay too much attention to that.

Being in a band is hard. Even if you like somebody, you start to argue over silly things.

I kind of grew up with a mix of two things. One was kind of this individual work ethic that my father and my stepfather and my mother all taught me, which was never depend on anyone else to do things for you, and work really hard on your own. At the same time, I benefited from the help of church and family and government my whole life.

I believe in love. I believe in hard times and love winning. I believe marriage is hard. I believe people make mistakes. I believe people can want two things at once. I believe people are selfish and generous at the same time. I believe very few people want to hurt others. I believe that you can be surprised by life. I believe in happy endings.

Most of us have learned the hard way that there are very few things you can absolutely count on in life.

It's very hard to be objective about something you're in, especially when you set it up against things that you experienced as a child.

When you write a memoir, and it's your life, and you're exposing things that are close to home, it's hard to see it changed.

To know the way, we go the way, we do the way. The way we do, the things we do, it's all there in front of you. But if you try too hard to see it, you'll only become confused. I am me and you are you. As you can see; but when you do the things that you can do, you will find the way. The way will follow you.

You people who have survived childhood don't remeber any longer what it was like. You think children are whole, uncomplicated creatures, and if you split them in two with a handy axe there would be all one substance inside, hard candy. But it isn't hard candy so much as a hopeless seething lava of all kinds of things, a turmoil, a mess. And once the child starts thinking about this mess he begins to disintegrate as a child and turns into something else--an adult, an animal.

You don't pick up things, get to the top of multiple industries and sports without working hard.

People are working hard in the USA to make things. And I want to help them do it even more.

It's really hard to compete with Apple on pure coolness, and if you do, you're probably going to use some of the things they pioneered.

One of the most ephemeral and important things is atmosphere and tone and it's very hard to put your finger on what creates that.

It's very nice to meet people who just get on, work hard, and don't have things handed to them.

There's always things you want to get better at and learn from but that's something that's quite hard to instil in players.

I've had opportunities. But I'm happy at Utah. I can do a lot of nice things and I love the kids. We work hard and we have fun.

I have no complex about wealth. I have worked very hard for my money; producing things people need.

I make no conscious effort to be tough, or hard-boiled, or grim, or any of the things I am usually called.

Nothing clears my head and puts things in perspective quite like a long, hard run.

People have a hard time reading my comics. I think I leave things out, but I feel you should.

I was doing hard personally and did some things I probably shouldn't have done. We've all got our cross to bear.

It is hard to get in the habit of forcing yourself to find three things on a regular basis that you are grateful for.

Once the blinders are off, it's rather hard to go back to seeing things the way you used to.

Take a hard look at those things, which we needlessly turn into burdens, when they were meant to be blessings.

That's gotta be one of the principles behind reality. Accepting things that are hard to comprehend, and leaving them that way.

Think about the most important things in life and set hard boundaries to protect them.

I need to show my son that when things get hard and rough - not if, when - you have to keep going; you have to move forward.

It's hard to differentiate between a vision and a delusion - both cause you to see things that no one else sees.

It is the opposite of ignorance—it is intellectual honesty: to be willing to accept reality and to call things what they are even when it is hard.

It is hard when fans say nasty things on Twitter but we are starting to build a thicker skin and are getting used to it.

If some things don't make me feel good, I stop them. How simple, yet so hard to do.

I like when things are hard; I'm very competitive. If something seems difficult or impossible, it interests me.

As you practice things, you get better. I mean I've worked very hard on changing my life and taking what is good about it and trying to jettison the things I think were not good about it. I think the key word is "discipline," focus. I'm always working at it, but I'm not always successful.

I'm a very feminine person, but I have this hard shell, man, and I stay focused and don't take things personally.

You have to work hard, and you have to enjoy what you're doing. If you don't enjoy it, no matter how hard you seem to work, you're not going to be working as hard as you can because you're not enjoying it.

I worked hard at Everton. I learned many things, and I was lucky enough to achieve my goal of returning home.

It's important to understand it's OK to control the subject. If most editorial stories were photographed just as they are, editors would end up throwing most in the waste basket. You have to work hard at making an editorial picture. You need to re-stage things, rearrange things so that they work for the story, with truth and without lying.

As time goes by, you seem to weed out the things that were making your life hard.

There are only two hard things in photography; which way to point the camera and when to release the shutter.

When you bump into your own mom at an orgy, it's hard not to get her to read into certain things.

One of the things I find really hard and view as a massive drag... is that I'm losing my ability to be completely anonymous.

I'm proof that great things can happen to ordinary people if they work hard and never give up.

It seems to me, that if people only knew how hard it was for me to endure life, they would find it easier to forgive me for all the wrong things I’ve done and all the good things that I have failed to do. And they would still find a little compassion within them to pity me.

I knew two things from my father: keep working hard, stay humble, and someday you'll be OK.

Looking back, I remember my family laughing a lot. We were never the kind of people that dwelled on hard times. My family laughs when things are tough. Growing up like that, I got used to making jokes about things that were difficult. So when I started doing stand-up, that's what I went towards.

I've got my head down, working hard, while others are chasing other frivolous things.

It's hard to do things like auditions, because you don't want to put weeks of work into just an audition.

There's few things that get you over your own crap more than working hard.

It never gets boring for me because there's so many different things to explore in the studio. The studio's become the sanctuary that people have come in and found new things out about themselves, as weird as that sounds. But it's true, I'm no different. I've made some crazy hard records, and I've made a jazz album.

It's just so hard sometimes to work out where people stand on these things. I mean, isn't the Pope a feminist?

I didn't know I was really alive in this world until I felt things hard enough to kill for 'em.

In 1948, I began coaching basketball at UCLA. Each hour of practice we worked very hard. Each day we worked very hard. Each week we worked very hard. Each season we worked very hard. Four fourteen years we worked very hard and didn't win a national championship. However, a national championship was won in the fifteenth year. Another in the sixteenth. And eight more in the following ten years.

I came from the Bronx and a certain background. I worked really hard. I kept my focus on the right things.

Some people say the things I do are annoying because I'm intentionally trying too hard to be relatable, but I'm really not. It's never really been my intention; I've never gone out of my way to be relatable to anyone. I just say what I want, and I'm pretty blunt about things.