Top 1200 Hard Things Quotes & Sayings - Page 9

Some things just won’t go away, no matter how hard you scrub.

No matter how hard you try to be present at home, you're always doing the things that you have to do.

The fans have always been die-hard and awesome. That's why we do a lot of the things we do.

You put an extreme amount of hard work in and things don't always go perfect.

Children build self-esteem by doing things that are hard and learning what works.

My interpretation of football is to stay humble, work hard, and things will come.

I find it hard to talk and say things, but I can always sing about them.

Don't think too hard. Just be present, and things will reveal themselves.

I think I've lived a pretty hard life. What I mean by hard is that... I've been kind of reckless with things. I'm a passionate person. I'm a super passionate person. I think there's definitely been sorrow in my life, good and bad. I think it comes through. I hope it comes through in my writing because to me that's what artistry is.

Hard work is about risk. It begins when you deal with the things that you'd rather not deal with: fear of failure, fear of standing out, fear of rejection. Hard work is about training yourself to leap over this barrier, tunnel under that barrier, drive through the other barrier. And after you've done that, to do it again the next day

A good man likes a hard boss. I don't mean a nagging boss or a grouchy boss. I mean a boss who insists on things being done right and on time; a boss who is watching things closely enough so that he knows a good job from a poor one. Nothing is more discouraging to a good man than a boss who is not on the job, and who does not know whether things are going well or badly.

Life is a river always flowing. do not hold onto things. work hard.

Television is hard work. It's all hard work. Theatre is hard work. I tell you, I have bruises from changing backstage. Those quick changes are really difficult.

I would direct TV. That's a little different. It's more of a contained world as a director. When you're doing a film you get on the rollercoaster, you put the safety bar down and then you're gone. And it's hard. It's hard, too, as a parent, I think, because the hours are so long. It's hard.

I think it's just recognizing that who you are is not any of the stuff that you have. It's not any of the things of the ego. Coming to that awareness is a very hard thing for most people to do - but that's an excuse. If you tell yourself it's too hard, then you won't take it on. But right now, for most people, it's almost an impossibility to do so, because they're so attached to "I am what I have"; "I am what I do"; "I am what my reputation is"; or "I am all of this material stuff."

Hard work is something that comes without saying for us to achieve the things we want.

Years ago, while I was watching a baseball game between the Baltimore Orioles and the Texas Rangers, I remember staring in awe at Cal Ripken. I realized during this game that 'you don't have to be flashy' or have 'power numbers' to be great. It's about the simple things that are the hard things. It's about leadership, work ethic and commitment.

Scaling down individually is very hard. Imagine that if you go to a place where everybody is dressed nicely, and you are the only one who doesn't dress nicely. Everybody goes on vacations to a great place and you go to the Jersey shore. It's very hard to do these things without an organized mechanism, but it looks to me like there might be some organized mechanisms.

Technology should do the hard work so people can do the things that make them the happiest in life.

When you start rhyming, it's hard to find things that rhyme with Yauch, Horovitz and Diamond.

One of the biggest things I learned was that it's OK to be nervous and admit that you're having a hard time.

It's hard for me to talk about the terrible things that have happened in my lifetime because they didn't need to be.

I've learned enough things the hard way to know we humans can make a difference.

It's hard to make strangers care about the good things in your life.

It's hard to hear that your good intentions are making things worse and tragic.

What we instill in our kids is that if you work hard, good things will happen.

I've spent my whole life learning how to do things that were hard for me.

I've worked tremendously hard to make things happen for New Orleans culture.

Someone once defined hard work as the accumulation of the easy things you didn't do when you should have.

I guess I don't believe these things can ever be easy, although I also don't see why they have to be hard.

I felt, and it may sound a bit stupid, that I want to try things that are hard.

Visiting old haunts is hard on memory. Things shrink, change, and disappear.

Every film is hard work, and a few lucky people do get Oscars for what they do, and it's recognition for all that hard work on a certain level. If you didn't do the hard work, you wouldn't be standing there. On the other hand, people do a lot of hard work and don't get Oscars, so it's a mixture of glory and injustice at the same time.

It's hard when people are expecting things from you, and all you're trying to do is write songs that you like for yourself.

There are two things that are hard to hit and see. That's a spooky ghost and Muhammad Ali.

I think you can have it all, you just have to work really hard because great things don't come easily.

We speak of 'software eating the world,' 'the Internet of Things,' and we massify 'data' by declaring it 'Big.' But these concepts remain for the most part abstract. It's hard for many of us to grasp the impact of digital technology on the 'real world' of things like rocks, homes, cars, and trees. We lack a metaphor that hits home.

Read things you're sure will disagree with your current thinking. If you're a die-hard anti-animal person, read Meat. If you're a die-hard global warming advocate, read Glenn Beck. If you're a Rush Limbaugh fan, read James W. Loewen's Lies My Teachers Told Me. It'll do your mind good and get your heart rate up.

If we practice hard enough, we can become thoroughly interested in even the simplest things of daily life, the way a child would. The smallest things would become so meaningful, they might even be worth a few words or a photograph, whatever method you use to capture them.

I'm a person who's trying to live within divine law, to the best and it's very hard because it's self-discipline, because the more you realise, the more you've got to get yourself straight, so it's hard, you know. I'm trying and there are a lot of people who are trying, even people who are not conscious that they are doing it, but they are really doing things for the good, or just to be happy or whatever.

Success comes from doing the hard part. When the hard part is all you've got, you're more likely to do it. And this is precisely why it's difficult to focus. Because focusing means acknowledging that you just signed up for the hard part.

It's so hard to compare one organization to another, just because there's a different way of doing things.

It's hard to be a friend to someone who's depressed, but it is one of the kindest, noblest, and best things you will ever do.

It's really hard to watch things and then not think about anything afterwards.

I believe that one of the things I've tried to do is work hard and take the business very seriously.

The art of winning in business is in working hard - not taking things too seriously.

I know that good things will happen for me if I keep working hard.

It was probably very difficult to go from Chinese and then suddenly go to kindergarten and start speaking English; it's very hard to transition back and forth when you are in that pivotal age. It's also hard to transition back, but if I was immersed in the country for a given amount of time, you are surrounded by it, everyone is speaking, you are learning new things, you are practicing all the time.

When I was going through all the divorce things, that was really hard to discuss, because nobody wants to talk about their failures. Nobody wants to talk about how painful those kinds of things are.

You find it hard to deal with certain things and as you get older it becomes easier.

A lot of people think I had such a rosy career, but I wanted to identify that one of the things that helps you have a long career is learning how to deal with adversity, how to get past it. Once I learned how to get through that, others things didn't seem so hard.

The main thing is to work hard. When you work hard, you'll be in the team. It's as simple as that. And that's what I'm going to do, put my head down, work hard, and see where it takes me.

As long as you work hard, good things will come. I firmly believe that.

I try to be honest and work hard. That's the only two things I worry about.

Moral #1: "If you work hard, stay focused, and never give up, you will eventually get what you want in life." Moral #2: Sometimes the things we want most in life are the things that will kill us.

It's so hard for me to focus on things for a long time that I'm not incredibly passionate about.

You combine hard work, creativity, and self-determination, and things start to happen.

When things get hard you've got to run with it, and when things get good you run with it.

Trying to get over to the 'on camera' side of things has been hard work.

We Americans are hard on almost everything. We are hard on our vehicles, our marriages and our heroes. Mostly, however, we are hard on ourselves.