Top 68 Harshest Quotes
#1. If you have faith in the public sector, as I do, you must be the harshest critic of corruption, waste and fraud in government.
Eric Schneiderman
#2. Acceptance, she thinks, is the harshest lesson life teaches and the one most important to learn.
Rose Tremain
#3. There are many harsh lessons to be learned from the gambling experience, but the harshest one of all is the difference between having Fun and being Smart.
Hunter S. Thompson
#4. It is the mind that creates our wealth, and this goes with us into exile, and in the harshest desert places it finds sufficient to nourish the body and revels in the enjoyment of its own goods.
Seneca.
#5. The wide open nature of any truly creative artistic endeavor is one of its most important virtues, and one of its harshest realities. Only the most determined, hardest working, capable and creative will make their way to earning a good living by their art.
Mike Svob
#6. In the harshest place on Earth, ... love finds a way.
Morgan Freeman
#7. What I've learned about comedy people is that they're defined by the harshest level they've been to, their personal Auschwitz.
Bob Saget
#8. Is it always in the interest of the public safety to seek the prosecutor's traditional solution
the harshest penalty possible? Or is the public best served by finding ways to change a kid's lot in life for the better, even if that means opening the prison door?
Edward Humes
#9. What I think of as a mistake might be something that does really well at the box office, so I'm my own harshest critic - as we all are, really.
Cate Blanchett
#10. Their relationship was built on friendship, and in matters of friendship he was boundlessly loyal. It was a relationship that would survive the harshest test.
Steig Larsson
#11. We are often our own harshest critics
Megan Hart
#12. Veal, by definition, is the product of a sick, anemic, deliberately malnourished calf, a newborn dragged away from his mother in the first hours of life. Veal calves are dealt the harshest of punishments for the least essential of meats.
Matthew Scully
#13. Don't judge. That was a joke. How could I not? Everyone judged whether we admitted to it or not, usually saving the harshest criticisms for ourselves.
Donna Augustine
#14. Only through the hottest fires, whispers the radio, can purification be achieved. Only through the harshest tests can God's chosen rise.
Anthony Doerr
#15. We're all the harshest judges of ourselves.
Susan Anton
#16. I'm my best and harshest critic. I know what's good and what isn't.
Anne Frank
#17. What I've realized is that we're our own harshest critics. We give ourselves limitations. But I want to push through that wall, on a creative and personal level.
Carla Gugino
#19. It's hard when you read an article saying bad things about you. It is as if someone is sticking a knife on your heart. But I am the harshest critic of my work.
Robin Williams
#20. At the age of five she has already come to terms with one of the life's harshest lessons: that the world isn't fair.
Tabitha Suzuma
#21. Arrakis is ours because we have taken it," Selim announced. "We have learned to survive under the harshest circumstances, without depending upon the benevolence of strangers or trade with offworld intruders.
Brian Herbert
#22. When states like Alabama and Arizona passed some of the harshest immigration laws in history, my Attorney General took them on in court and we won.
Barack Obama
#23. The capacity to be overwhelmed by the beautiful is astonishingly sturdy and survives amidst the harshest distractions.
Susan Sontag
#24. Loveless work, boring work, work valued only because others haven't got even that much, however loveless and boring
this is one of the harshest human miseries.
Wislawa Szymborska
#25. Maybe I was a bit harsh on some people. But I was harshest on myself, really.
Marc Almond
#26. If we fail now, then we will have forgotten in abundance what we learned in hardship: that democracy rests on faith; freedom asks more than it gives; and the judgment of God is harshest on those who are most favored.
Lyndon B. Johnson
#27. Women are the harshest critics of other women.
Joy Bryant
#28. I'm a sensitive guy, and I'm already one of my harshest critics, so if other people are hard on me, it just amplifies how hard I already am on myself.
Steve Grand
#29. Your harshest truths are dreams, and your gentlest dreams are true.
Richard Bach
#30. I think everyone is their harshest critic, but I strive for excellence as much as I can because I think it shows.
Zachary Levi
#31. People that criticize the harshest usually are the ones who would trade places the fastest
Gary Hopkins
#32. The harshest people I've met over the years have had two things in common: they don't fully trust anybody, and they view relationships as a means to an end.
Donald Miller
#33. I relate to the feeling that Da Vinci was often plagued by the idea that what he did wasn't good enough, that he was his harshest critic. He'd sometimes destroy what he was working on.
David S.Goyer
#34. Sometimes the harshest lessons were the most valuable.
S.M. Stirling
#35. Isolation can be a particular problem for mothers at home with small children. Mothers become isolated from each other because we fear judgement. Other mothers can be our harshest critics. And we anticipate that criticism and don't ask each other for help.
Kathleen A. Kendall-Tackett
#36. As I wrote more I became more critical of myself and I think that you have to be your harshest judge. I don't ever believe that what I write is my best work. I always think that I can hone it. I can always think that I can make it a little bit better.
Homer Hickam
#37. Lately even the harshest critics of President Bush have been forced to admit maybe he's right about freedom's march around the globe. What if we are watching an example of presidential leadership that will be taught in American schools for generations to come? It's an idea gaining more currency.
Brian Williams
#38. When I am running I inhabit and exit my body in the same moment. I bear witness to the harshest of physical sensations, even while I feel myself flying free and away. I do not want to remember what has happened to me. I do not want to reflect on the past. I can't in a way. I'm not made for regrets.
Carrie Snyder
#39. That the Jews were unholy was a belief so ingrained by the Church [by the 14th century] that the most devout persons were the harshest in their antipathy, none more so than St. Louis.
Barbara Tuchman
#40. The wicked have weakness other than their willingness to kill and maim. Even the bleakest, cruelest soul can have its tender spots. Even the harshest desert has its pools, its shady trees and gentle streams.
Paul Hoffman
#41. I'm probably my own harshest critic. If I get a hundred good reviews and one really bad one, it's that one out of a hundred that I remember. I think we actors are hard on ourselves, and I don't know why that is.
Tim Daly
#42. History will not judge HIV/AIDS kindly ... the harshest words will be reserved for how the world responded, or rather failed to respond, to the epidemic.
Seth Berkley
#43. He smelled of cold. Like ice and snow on the harshest days of winter.
Amanda Hocking
#44. We Venusians are sturdier than that. One can't even become part of the Protectorate until we've survived, naked and unarmed, in the harshest jungles of Venus. Only after a warrior crawls into civilization wearing the pelt of the fearsome screeching five-horned fiend do they pass the test.
A. Lee Martinez
#45. N the harshest days of leaf-bare clanmate turns upon clanmate danger lurks behind familiar faces and one more warrior may be lost forever
Erin Hunter
#46. Throughout history, even the harshest and most shameful measures are regularly accompanied by professions of noble intent - and rhetoric about bestowing freedom and independence.
Noam Chomsky
#47. As a director, you have to go in with a really, really, really clear picture of what you want. That's the point of my commentaries. It's so difficult because you're the harshest critic.
David Slade
#48. Momofuku is not me. It's everyone. I'm just the facade. We have to exceed expectations and be our harshest critics.
David Chang
#49. Looking at her was like stepping into a patch of spring sunlight after the harshest winter.
Kate Evangelista
#50. Your harshest critic is always going to be yourself. Don't ignore that critic but don't give it more attention than it deserves.
Michael Ian Black
#51. The harshest winter finds an invincible summer in us.
Albert Camus
#52. If I think I weigh too much, I'll lose weight; if my hair looks stupid, I'll cut it. I guess I'm my harshest critic. I'm not easily satisfied.
Marilyn Manson
#53. Those who never sail stormy waters are the quickest and harshest judges of bad seamanship.
Susan Glaspell
#54. No one listens willingly to someone who speaks to them from a position of self-righteousness and judgment. Again and again in the Gospels, Jesus reserves his harshest words for those who ignore their own weakness in order to lord it over others.
Pope Francis
#55. As if Spade's chivalry would allow him to do anything to a woman. The harshest punishment she could imagine him dishing out to Cat would be refusing to open a door for her.
Jeaniene Frost
#56. It is because the fight against the harshest aspects of unrestricted capitalism is therefore a political problem and not an intellectual one that community action remains so essential.
Barney Frank
#57. In order for us, black and white, to disenthrall ourselves from the harshest slavemaster, racism, we must disinter our buried history ... We are all the Pilgrim, setting out on this journey.
Studs Terkel
#58. And violent hearts set harshest flame, Roque murmurs from his knee.
Pierce Brown
#59. He who graduates the harshest school, succeeds.
Thucydides
#60. The harshest tyranny is that which acts under the protection of legality and the banner of justice.
Baron De Montesquieu
#61. The bleakest situations bring out the hospitality in all of us, but it's during the harshest we find out how strong we really are.
Evan Meekins
#62. They say the truest beauty is in the harshest land and that God can be found there by those with open eyes.
Alice Hoffman
#63. 'Great Expectations' has been described as 'Dickens's harshest indictment of society.' Which it is. After all, it's about money. About not having enough money; about the fever of the getting of money; about having too much money; about the taint of money.
Felix Dennis
#64. Grande is Mexico's harshest and most secure prison, and
Don Winslow
#65. The boundaries are not to be blurred. I was sent off, struck by his harshest thunderbolt, excommunication. In his eyes I am no longer a man of the cloth. But I yet feel the Lord's hand holding me up.
Yann Martel
#67. I fought as an infantry Marine on one of the Vietnam War's harshest battlefields. After leaving the Marine Corps, I studied law and found a fulfilling career as an author and journalist. But again and again, I came back to the personal fulfillment that can only come from public service.
Jim Webb
#68. Fear was a wicked monster clinging to every insecurity, whispering the harshest things.
And salvation could also be dirty.
V. Theia
