Top 1200 Hard Things Quotes & Sayings - Page 12

It's all in your headJ you have the power to make things seem hard or easy or even amusing. The choice is yours.

When you really have the preparation time and things start taking the shape that they need, you have a beautiful feeling that comes from the hard work.

I try to eat on the healthier side, but baked goods are hard to resist. I just love sweet things.

You can't control the perception of others no matter how hard you try. Do things that promote personal growth and health.

I work hard and do things the way they're supposed to be done just so I can have success out here. I always want more.

Though leadership may be hard to define, the one characteristic common to all leaders is the ability to make things happen.

This was one of the best things about Lennon and McCartney, the competitive element within the team. It was great. But hard to live with.

I had seen my dad overcome and work hard for the things that he has, and I hear the stories about the injustices that he faced.

I realize I have made a lot of mistakes and done things wrong. I've done things I wish I could have done in another way. I didn't come in with the same kind of desperation that I may have had on the first or second record. I didn't come in thinking, 'Oh God, please. I hope this does well because I have nothing else and I worked so hard at this.'

In America, even the critics - which is a pity - tend to genre-ize things. They have a hard time when genres get mixed. They want to categorize things. That's why I love Wes Anderson's films and the Coen Brothers, because you don't know what you're going to get, and very often you get something that you don't expect and that's just what a genre's not supposed to do.

Stories have always been incredibly comforting and can help illuminate things that are hard to understand other wise.

My mom always told me that if you work hard, you can achieve anything. And it's true. It's one of the truest things ever.

There are two things for a marriage to be good. One is to work hard on it. The other one is to marry above you. And I succeeded at both of those.

I didn't mean I'd seen everything, John Grady said. I know you didn't. I just meant I'd seen some things I'd as soon not of. I know it. There's hard lessons in this world. What's the hardest? I dont know. Maybe it's just that when things are gone they're gone. They aint comin back. Yessir.

If the way which I have pointed out as leading to this result (i.e., power over the emotions by which the wise man surpasses the ignorant man) seems exceedingly hard, it may nevertheless be discovered. Needs must it be hard, since it is so seldom found. How would it be possible, if salvation were ready to our hand, and could without great labour be found, that it should be by almost all men neglected? But all things excellent are as difficult as they are rare.

One of the things I had a hard time getting used to when I came to California in '78 was Santa Claus in shorts.

I think the success that I have is due to hard work and destiny. It is important to stay grounded and not take things for granted.

I think Black Nativity movie has a very clear message. It's about a family in crisis facing some of the very familiar struggles we face in our communities. It's really about love, redemption, forgiveness, faith and family, the things that have gotten us through so many hard times, and that continue to get us through them. When times are hard, we need each other.

When I go out and race, I'm not trying to beat opponents, I'm trying to beat what I have done ... to beat myself, basically. People find that hard to believe because we've had such a bias to always strive to win things. If you win something and you haven't put everything into it, you haven't actually achieved anything at all. When you've had to work hard for something and you've got the best you can out of yourself on that given day, that's where you get satisfaction from.

I'm used to really struggling and facing a hard time to get things going, until I'm comfortable at all with them.

Politics is very hard work. You have to really commit to things. Some people get into it for the wrong reasons.

The way I look at love is you have to follow it, and fall hard, if you fall hard. You have to forget about what everyone else thinks. It has to be an us-against-the-world mentality. You have to make it work by prioritizing it, and by falling in love really fast, without thinking too hard. If I think too hard about a relationship I'll talk myself out of it. I have rules for a lot of areas of my life. Love is not going to be one of them.

The hard thing is to stick to things when you have outlived the first interest, and not yet got the second which comes with a sort of mastery.

In case the rest of you missed it, the inspirational speech was: 'If you work hard, you can achieve great things. And then you die'.

I know that isn't always easy and that there is self-harm in the world. Sometimes it's hard for people to rise above things.

The art of losing isn't hard to master; so many things seem filled with the intent to be lost that their loss is no disaster.

It's just one of those things, I believe in myself and - especially with how hard I've worked - I'm one of the top five players in the world.

I got the three things I wanted. I did my job, I worked hard in the process, and I cherish the memories, and they're mine.

Nothing erodes [a mother's love]. It is not sand on a beach. It is the nuclear heart of things-hard as the rock of this earth.

He told them tales of bees and flowers, the ways of trees, and the strange creatures of the Forest, about the evil things and the good things, things friendly and things unfriendly, cruel things and kind things, and secrets hidden under brambles.

I know the price of success: dedication, hard work, and an unremitting devotion to the things you want to see happen.

Relationships are like farting, If you push too hard things could get messy real fast.

I'm a hard-luck kind of guy. Usually, things that I hope for don't go my way, so I'm very used to that. In fact, I expect it.

So many things that seemed crucial and excruciatingly hard ended and then didn't matter anymore, forever after

Sometimes things get hard, especially if you are not having a great game or not feeling good within your cricket.

Today, the sun is everywhere, and everything solid is nothing but its own shadow, I know that the real things in life, the things I remember, the things I turn over in my hands, are not houses, bank accounts, prizes or promotions. What I remember is love -- all love -- love of this dirt road, this sunrise, a day by the river, the stranger I met in a café. Myself, even, which is the hardest thing of all to love, because love and selfishness are not the same thing. It is easy to be selfish. It is hard to love who I am. No wonder I am surprised if you do.

The three things that are most essential to achievement are common sense, hard work and stick-to-it-iv-ness.

I didn't have the confidence from my childhood, but dreams are possible and all good things in life are hard to get, so persevere and don't give up!

People always think that happiness is a faraway thing," thought Francie, "something complicated and hard to get. Yet, what little things can make it up; a place of shelter when it rains - a cup of strong hot coffee when you're blue; for a man, a cigarette for contentment; a book to read when you're alone - just to be with someone you love. Those things make happiness.

Some people say the things I do are annoying because I'm intentionally trying too hard to be relatable, but I'm really not.

Everybody wants a big crowd. You get amazed sometimes with certain things that millions of people are watching and you go, "Serious?! Really?!" And then, there are things that you really, really enjoy and not a lot of people are watching. It's very, very hard to predict how it works.

Most of my life, everybody made more money than I did at the places I worked. In fact, when I've been an employee, I have never been anywhere close to being the highest paid person there, never. I was working hard. I was working hard. I was doing things I didn't want to do, that I thought I should do. I was getting up every day, going to work, did not phone in sick. Striving. Trying to get ahead, you know, doing what Obama says, working hard and applying myself and trying to get ahead. There was always somebody, there were always a lot of people that earned more than I did.

I was raised in a reform synagogue. I think we all bring with us a sense of when hard things happen to us, we find ourselves asking questions of why are these things happening to me at this time in my life. I think in that sense, there's a certain resonance that I carry. It's more of a spiritual resonance as opposed to particularly of Judaism.

It's easy to talk about digitalising things; it's quite difficult to do in a B2B environment. It's hard to digitalise that complexity.

I love the feel of hitting the ball hard, the pleasure of a rally. It is these things that make tennis the delightful game that it is.

Paintings are too hard. The things I want to show are mechanical. Machines have less problems. I'd like to be a machine, wouldn't you?

Modeling is just one of those things that goes along with acting. When it's offered, it's hard to say no, because it's fun.

I just try really hard to be me, and sometimes that means I'm unfiltered. I try to give people myself because I think making a great product is being in touch with how you feel about things and being able to express things. I really hope I can stay in touch with how I feel about things and I'm able to express that.

If you think reading a book is hard, you should try writing one. Because it's even harder. It's still not as hard as writing a game, though. If you discount the purely visual pop-up parts, a book is made almost entirely of words. As a novelist, you just need to think of a few decent strings of words and then fill the other 98% of the book with more or less random descriptions of things and exclamation points.

There is no easy way to greatness in any venue. But if you work hard, good things will inevitably happen to you.

I've done a lot of dramedies in my career. You know, I started as a standup comic, and then the movies that I was doing, like 'Up Side of Anger' were kind of like - they're hard. They're hard to sell; they're hard to get made, you know.

Complexity is your enemy. Any fool can make something complicated. It is hard to keep things simple.

I'm having a hard time trying to figure out how to say things. I'm a little exhausted by the process.

I am of the philosophy that if you work really hard and focus on things, you will get there in some form or fashion.

hard work is a misleading term. physical effort & long hours do not constitute hard work. hard work is when someone pays you to do something you'd rather not be doing. anytime you'd rather be doing something other than the thing you're doing...you're doing hard work.

Speech is for the convenience of those who are hard of hearing; but there are many fine things which we cannot say if we have to shout.

A guy I interviewed for Hard Times says, "What do I remember about the Great Depression? That I was hungry, that's all." Elemental things.

I enjoy myself a lot but I derive more joy in working. I believe in hard work and one of my business success secrets is hard work. It's hard to see a youth that will go to bed by 2am and wake up by 5am. I don't rest until I achieve something.

I definitely work very hard for a lot of the things that I have, and as you can see, I'm out here hustling, and I've always been working.

Certain mystes aver that the real world has been constructed by the human mind, since our ways are governed by the artificial categories into which we place essentially undifferentiated things, things weaker than our words for them. We believe we invent symbols. The truth is that they invent us; we are their creatures, shaped by their hard, defining edges.