If It's Hard Quotes

#1. If it's hard, do it hard! Nobody said it would be easy.

Les Brown

#2. Sometimes the road to Heaven leads you straight through hell. If it's hard going, chances are, you are on the right path.

Mark J. Jannetta

#3. We all go through it. Kids exist to remind us that our priorities aren't always the ones we think. Even if it's hard sometimes, they put order in our lives.

Franck Thilliez

#4. You want it to be hard. If it's hard, then that means others can't do it easily and you can charge for that value.

Seth Godin

#5. When my husband died, people kept telling me not to cry. People kept trying to help me to forget. But I didn't want to forget ... So I realize, that if it's hard for me, how much harder it must be for you.

Katherine Paterson

#6. Now both my films have been number one at the Australian box office and it took about two years just to get the finance for this film, so if it's hard for me then God help everyone else.

Yahoo Serious

#7. Every time you see someone's bright-and-shiny, remember: They have their own crappy truths too. Of course they do. And every time you see your own crappy truth and feel despair and think, 'Is this my life?', remember: It's not. Everyone's got a bright-and-shiny, even if it's hard to find sometimes.

Sophie Kinsella

#8. You're supposed to help people, even if it's hard to do. Especially if it's hard to do.

Diane Chamberlain

#9. In the end you should always do the right thing even if it's hard.

Nicholas Sparks

#10. I think about what Devon would say. You have to Work At It Dad. You have to try even if it's hard and you think you can never do it and you just want to scream and hide and shake your hands over and over and over.

Kathryn Erskine

#11. Sometimes, you gotta start small to fix what's broke. Even if it's hard work, it's worth each little step if it's something you love.

Laura Ware

#12. While everyone else is thinking about economics and politics, executive salaries and the future of the euro, do the opposite, even if it's hard. Invest in the spirit.

Jonathan Sacks

#13. If it's hard to remember, it'll be difficult to forget.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

#14. Pretending that something doesn't exist if it's hard to quantify leads to faulty models. You've already seen the system trap that comes from setting goals around what is easily measured, rather than around what is important. So

Donella H. Meadows

#15. It's much more difficult to work on a broad subject than on a specific one, because even if it's hard to find the information, if you look hard enough for something specific you will find it, and you will discover things that you wouldn't have thought of before.

Iris Chang

#16. For a while, I thought, maybe I should direct, until I got to New York and saw the stupidity of that idea. If it's hard to get into acting, what is it like for a woman to become a director?

Linda Hunt

#17. It is a great victory if you learn how to survive in today's hard times; it's an even greater victory if you
help someone else survive and find meaningful work.

Richard N. Bolles

#18. I don't know if people know how hard it is to get a hit or how hard it is to field a ground ball. It's an easy game in principal, but to actually execute the game it's very difficult.

Morgan Ensberg

#19. I believe that I can create whatever I want to create. If I can put my head on it right, study it, learn the patterns, and - it's hard to put into words, it's real metaphysical, esoteric nonsense, but I feel very strongly that we are who we choose to be.

Will Smith

#20. There is nothing so nice as supposing. It's almost like being a fairy. If you suppose anything hard enough it seems as if it were real.

Frances Hodgson Burnett

#21. If you can't read, it's going to be hard to realize dreams.

Booker T. Washington

#22. As an adult, it's hard for me to remember my mother before her sickness. But if I go back into childhood, I can access that.

Bruce Eric Kaplan

#23. Kids who grow up in radically different environments are always going to have different comfort levels with regard to a topic. If you don't live near a train track, it's hard to squash a penny that way, and if you live in an apartment in New York City, it may be difficult to get to drive a car.

Gever Tulley

#24. So much emotion can be brought in an animated film that's very hard to get in a live-action film. I haven't quite put my finger on why, but it might be because the characters can make facial expression that, if you made them in a movie, they'd call them corny.

Steve Martin

#25. It's hard to stay on purpose if we don't know what our purpose is.

Sam Horn

#26. If you're sitting around worrying about bills all day, it's hard to hear the guidance that's coming from the inside.

Echo Bodine

#27. But you have to figure that if it's too hard to hang on, then maybe you should let go.

David Levithan

#28. It's really hard when people write nasty things about you all the time. As much as good things are said about you, it's always those one or two bad comments that really stay with you and gnaw at you. I try not to read that stuff if I can.

Jordin Sparks

#29. When you make a record, your own record, and you don't even recognize it yourself, it's hard to think if anybody else is going to recognize.

Robbie Robertson

#30. The process of building trust is an interesting one, but it begins with yourself, with what I call self trust, and with your own credibility, your own trustworthiness. If you think about it, it's hard to establish trust with others if you can't trust yourself.

Stephen Covey

#31. Life is like dancing, sometimes one of you leads, sometimes the other, and if you do it right it's beautiful, even when it's hard.

Laurell K. Hamilton

#32. He took a moment, as if he were deciding which tack to go with. I think he chose honesty, but it's so hard to tell. And if you chose honesty as a strategy, is it still honesty?

Kate Morgenroth

#33. It's not hard to get a girl if I wanted one. But it doesn't mean you want it, and even if you did, you're certainly not going to rub it in anybody's face.

Jon Bon Jovi

#34. God's voice is still and small, the voice of a sparrow in a cyclone, so said the prophet Isaiah, and we all say thankya. It's hard to hear a small voice clearly if you're shitass drunk most of the time.

Stephen King

#35. If something is too hard to do, then it's not worth doing. You just stick that guitar in the closet next to your shortwave radio, your karate outfit and your unicycle and we'll go inside and watch TV.

Matt Groening

#36. We were girls once. As hard as that is to believe. //Oh you can't see it now--our bodies have stretched and sagged, faces and necks drooping. That's what happens when you get old. Every part of you drops, as if the body is moving closer to where it's from and where it'll return.

Brit Bennett

#37. If the primary ends up being a hard hitting, bloody battle, well so be it. Let's get ready for the general election

Steve Lonegan

#38. Absolutely not. It's just that I kind of work for Ethan, and it will be really hard to face him if I have to hear about all of your sex-capades.

Samantha Chase

#39. If you work hard, whatever you want, it will come to you. I know that's easier said than done, but keep trying.

Beyonce Knowles

#40. Stopping a piece of work just because it's hard, either emotionally or imaginatively, is a bad idea. Sometimes you have to go on when you don't feel like it, and sometimes you're doing good work when if feels like all you're managing is to shovel sh*t from a sitting position.

Stephen King

#41. All this hoping for something- or someone- that's maybe hopeless. I'm having a hard time processing what I am supposed to believe, or if I'm even supposed to. There is too much information, and I don't like a lot of it.

David Levithan

#42. I tell them that if compulsive eating is anything, it's a way we leave ourselves when life gets hard. When we don't want to notice what is going on. Compulsive eating is a way we distance ourselves from the way things are when they are not how we want them to be.

Geneen Roth

#43. As a young person, and I know it's hard to believe that I was shy, but you could take your camera, and it would take you to places: it was like having a friend, like having someone to go out with and look at the world. I would do things with a camera I wouldn't do normally if I was just by myself.

Annie Leibovitz

#44. it's hard to believe that next time will be different (especially if you're using the same strategy that failed last time).

Stephen Guise

#45. I already fell - a little too hard if you ask me. Now it's your turn."
"My turn for what?"
"To say you love me so I can close my eyes and fall all the way.

Ella Maise

#46. It's hard to tell the truth sometimes, especially if you don't want to hurt someone. And you did. You said what you feel. And you must do what is right for you, not what other people say is right.

Louise Rennison

#47. We're hard-wired by 200,000 years of evolution to be sensitive to the idea that someone might be watching us. They might be predators, after all. An uneasy feeling is perfectly natural if you suspect that someone has you in their ocular sights, whether it's a ghost or just some guy at the bus stop.

Seth Shostak

#48. It is not hard to understand modern art. If it hangs on a wall it's a painting, and if you can walk around it it's a sculpture.

Tom Stoppard

#49. I'm a big movie fan. After a show, if I'm on the bus or a plane, it's often hard to get to sleep, so I'll watch a film. An action film can even relax me.

Garth Brooks

#50. It's hard to move on if you don't forgive," he said. "It's like trying to dance with a lead weight on your shoulders. The anger can weigh you down forever.

Diane Chamberlain

#51. It's amazing how many of the things needed for a basic biology lab are capable of blowing up, if you're willing to try very, very hard, and don't much care about possibly losing a few fingers in the process.

Mira Grant

#52. If you can look at somebody and say, 'I never loved you, you were a mistake,' that's one thing. But if you look at him and say, 'You were everything and I poisoned it because I wouldn't stand up for myself,' that's hard. That's too hard ...

Jennifer Crusie

#53. Never give up. Things will get hard. No relationship is easy. You have to work through your problems as if tomorrow isn't guaranteed, because it's not. Never go to bed angry and always make sure you say I love you every chance you get.

Teresa Mummert

#54. If you're in a business where you can do only one thing and it doesn't work out, it's hard for your bosses to be mad at you.

Michael Lewis

#55. Sometimes, you feel that you're unwanted, in someone's life when you're actually the best thing happened in their entire life, it's just too hard, to recognize if they really want you or if they're pretending to want you.

Amna.s

#56. There's always a way through things if you work hard enough and look close. It all depends on your level of determination.

Liz Murray

#57. I just never, ever want to give up. Most battles are won in the 11th hour, and most people give up. If you give up once, it's quite hard. If you give up a second time, it's a little bit easier. Give up a third time, it's starting to become a habit.

Lewis Gordon Pugh

#58. If my daughter wants to get into this business, I would support that decision. She's going to have a hard time not being in it. She loves food and she's around it all the time.

Bobby Flay

#59. Oregon is demure and lovely, and it ought to play a little hard to get. And I think you'll be just as sick as I am if you find it is nothing but a hungry hussy , throwing herself at every stinking smokestack that's offered.

Tom McCall

#60. With comedy, it's really hard to tell if something's working on the page - you really need the actors to bring it alive. The scariest part is if people will laugh or not.

Maggie Carey

#61. Never strive to be part of the norm. If people think you strange ... CELEBRATE. Normal people try way to hard to please others and never end up pleasing themselves. Be ABnormal. It's more fun.

Shelley K. Wall

#62. The first eight songs we were using someone else's monitors and it is hard to follow the changes when you are jamming if you can't hear those who you are jamming with.

John Entwistle

#63. I think that if you're just a good person, you work hard, you say "yes," and you are driven, you will eventually work your way to the top. At least that's how it's been for me.

Ainsley Earhardt

#64. It's hard to be done a favor by a man you hate. It's hard to hate him so much afterwards. Losing an enemy can be worse than losing a friend, if you've had him for long enough.

Joe Abercrombie

#65. Careers are built on relationships. Even if it's a bad movie, even if I know it's a bad movie, even if it's a team of filmmakers that I know are going to be difficult, that I know are going to really make me work extra hard, it's fundamentally the same process.

Christophe Beck

#66. It's a hard thing to leave any deeply routine life, even if you hate it.

John Steinbeck

#67. It's so hard to be sincere without sounding pretentious,' she said. 'I mean, what are you supposed to do if you really happen to feel like you've swallowed the universe? Not say so?

Elif Batuman

#68. I really enjoy playing 'Tiger Woods' on the Wii, and you can set the levels to easy, medium, or hard, so I think it's definitely a good way for kids to learn the motion of a golf swing if they want to get into the sport. It makes it more fun for them as well.

Rory McIlroy

#69. You can do something extraordinary, and something that a lot of people can't do. And if you have the opportunity to work on your gifts, it seems like a crime not to. I mean, it's just weakness to quit because something becomes too hard ...

Morgan Matson

#70. It's hard for me not to have a great deal of compassion for the last Romanov family because, really, I don't know if a politically savvy ruler would have been able to make the situation turn out much differently.

Kathryn Harrison

#71. Don't for once ever think that what you're doing is easy. If it feels that way, you're probably doing something wrong. Throwing words onto a page is easy. But writing, the real kind, is hard. It's damn hard.

Allison M. Dickson

#72. It's fashionable with the Sarah Palin set to attack Harvard and treat its graduates as elitists. But if you spend any time on campus, you see students drawn from all over the world - an astonishing number these days with roots in Asia - whose chief assets are brainpower and hard work.

David Ignatius

#73. You know, it's hard to say what's going to happen in the future. But, if I stay healthy, I think I'll probably play until I'm about 40.

Karrie Webb

#74. To me, acting is all about hard work and talent. Once you get your first wrinkle, if you are a female actress, nobody will care about what you look like - it's all about what you can do.

Dominik Garcia-Lorido

#75. After his failed political career, Lincoln often pondered the question of the purpose of the meaning of life. In 1850 [ten years before he was elected President], Lincoln told Herdon [his law partner] How hard, oh how hard it is to die and leave one's country no better than if one had never lived.

Ronald C. White Jr.

#76. It's the sort of hum that makes you feel that you're the actual ground lying under the sky, a blue hum that's all above and around you, but if you think about it too hard it will get too loud or big, and make you feel no more than just a speck.

Colum McCann

#77. I'm very moved by Renaissance music, but I still love to play hard rock - though only if it's sophisticated and has some thought behind it.

Ritchie Blackmore

#78. When you are really in love, when it's the right guy, it's not this hard. Things fall into place; they work. If it's meant to be, it'll work itself out.

Karyn Bosnak

#79. Minimalism is a girl's best asset, blend tones, smudge hard outlines; if all else fails; Photoshop it.

Judith Chambers

#80. Writing is not glamorous - it's hard work. If you want to be a glamorous writer, wear purple nail varnish when you type.
Sue Cross

Sue Cross

#81. Even the water, grey and listless as it tossed against the harbour wall, seemed fixed in time; as if peering hard enough into its depths would reveal the tips of Peter's fingers, himself still swaying underwater, cradled in the sea's mouth.

Ava Bloomfield

#82. I ended up at fifty, over-the-hill, thinking I had no future. Finally, I realized that I had allowed myself to write less than I could ... As writers true to ourselves, it will always be hard, and if we're good, we'll always be in trouble. Let's be sure we deserve it.

Waldo Salt

#83. Never get married in college; it's hard to get a start if a prospective employer finds you've already made one mistake.

Elbert Hubbard

#84. Having a dance background, I became used to rejection at an early age. Dance is very competitive, especially for a sensitive person like me. But I realized it's better not to take it so seriously. If you beat yourself up, it's hard to keep going.

Dianna Agron

#85. If ya let hornets rest in yer outhouse, it's hard t'get pissed when they buzz down and sting yer ass.

Stephen J. Cannell

#86. So long, I've been looking too hard, I've been waiting too long Sometimes I don't know what I will find, I only know it's a matter of time,When you love someone, when you love someone It feels so right, so warm and true, I need to know if you feel it too.

Foreigner

#87. At sunset, if I am near the water - and it is hard to be very far from it here -I pause to watch the splendid disc set the brine aflame and then douse itself in it's own fiery broth.

Geraldine Brooks

#88. This life's hard, but it's harder if you're stupid.

George V. Higgins

#89. Follow the voice of your heart, even if it leads you off the path of timid souls. Do not become hard and embittered, even if life tortures you at times. There is only one thing that counts: to live one's life well and happily ...

Wilhelm Reich

#90. To try and imagine that I'm another person is always going to be hard - whether I'm writing about a truck driver or someone who is gay, who's trans, who is of a different ethnicity or creed. But it would be boring if I always had to write about myself and my limited viewpoint.

Brian K. Vaughan

#91. I mean it's very hard to meditate and live a spiritual life in America. People think you're a freak if you try to.

J.D. Salinger

#92. Which made me laugh, of course. If you ever want to get truly hysterical, just get really, really scared, and then have somebody say something funny. You get caught between the laugh and the sob, and it's hard to find your way out.

Kristen D. Randle

#93. If you can't get your core audience to watch the show, it's very hard to then pull in enough people outside of your fan base to your network. The networks are just so branded now; USA can't really do a dark despairing drama and FX can't do a blue-sky show. People watch the networks they watch.

Warren Leight

#94. I know with me, you really have to, like, pound me over the head to say, 'I like you. I really like you' to get me to see it. I think if you're too passive, you just fall into that friend role. And that's hard to break out of.

Kiele Sanchez

#95. If an infant had the capacity to think hard about this world, it would have wanted to go back to its mother's womb again

Munia Khan

#96. But why allow someone to make a bad choice when a little information might engender a better one? It's hard to wake up and see the sun if the blinds are pulled.

Kim Harrison

#97. If you're with someone who enjoys having people play hard to get, maybe that's the way you're supposed to do it then.

Anne Hathaway

#98. When Bauhaus designers adopted Sullivan's "form follows function," what they meant was,
form should follow function. And if function is hard enough, form is forced to follow it,
because there is no effort to spare for error.
Wild animals are beautiful because they have hard lives.

Paul Graham

#99. I guess it's hard for people who are so used to things the way they are - even if they're bad - to change. 'Cause they kind of give up. And when they do, everybody kind of loses.

Catherine Ryan Hyde

#100. If you think hard enough about it, Rowlf the dog playing the piano on 'The Muppet Show' - what kind of insanity was happening underneath the cameras to make that happen? His mouth is moving, and he's got two hands playing the piano. That's two people under there!

Rob McClure