Learned The Hard Way Quotes

#1. I learned the hard way that just as I no longer have to save anyone, neither do I have to be saved.

Loni Anderson

#2. The older you get, the easier it is to get injured. But what I've learned the hard way is that the more excess weight you have, the more likely you are to get injured doing everyday things.

Steve Howey

#3. Our lives teach us who we are. I have learned the hard way that when you permit anyone else's description of reality to supplant your own ... then you might as well be dead.

Salman Rushdie

#4. Sometimes the best lessons learned are those that are learned the hard way

Teresa Keefer

#5. Mothering, she learned the hard way, was about loss as well as love.

Attica Locke

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

Graydon Carter

#7. Governments of all stripes want to deliver growth and rebalance their economies now that they have learned the hard way that, left to their own devices, markets pick expensive banking losers.

Frances O'Grady

#8. Jason always tried to build a good relationship with his team. He'd learned the hard way that if somebody was going to have your back in a fight, it was better if you found some common ground and trusted each other. But Nico wasn't easy to figure out.

Rick Riordan

#9. Over the years, a number of very smart people have learned the hard way that a long string of impressive numbers multiplied by a single zero always equals zero.

Warren Buffett

#10. Many's the audition I waltzed into unprepared and wondered why I didn't get it. I learned the hard way.

Deirdre O'Kane

#11. I have 5 teenage daughters, and I learned the hard way - it's difficult to talk to any person under the age of 25 without the presence of a cell phone.

Marc Ostrofsky

#12. They learned the hard way that you can't save nobody who ain't interested in being saved.

Terry McMillan

#13. I had a lot of growing up to do. A lot of times, I learned the hard way.

Allen Iverson

#14. And I'd learned, the hard way, that sometimes, even with the purest intentions, we make things worse when we do our best to make things better.

Gregory David Roberts

#15. I've learned so many things and a lot of things I've learned the hard way. I look at failure as education in that respect I'm very well educated.

Kathy Ireland

#16. I have in the past tended to overestimate the amount of change I can affect in the short run and then not fully appreciate the change I can affect in the long run. And so I've learned that it's critical to think carefully about the pace of change, and it's something that I've learned the hard way.

Harry West

#17. I learned the hard way not to open my heart to a stranger, knowing that it only leads to heartbreak, tears, and weight gain".

Gina Gershon

#18. I've learned the hard way how valuable privacy is. And I've learned that there are a lot of things in your life that really benefit from being private. And relationships are one of them.

Ashton Kutcher

#19. I've learned the hard way that to have any kind of a future you've got to give up hope of ever changing your past. She

M.L. Stedman

#20. Just be you. I've learned the hard way and in the end, some people are just so full of hate that no matter what you say or do, they'll always have something to say.

Megan Fox

#21. I've learned the hard way that the best thing to do is say nothing about what you're really thinking. If you say nothing, they'll assume you're thinking nothing, only what you let them see.

Jennifer Niven

#22. I've never had a career of that kind of box office power. I've always learned the hard way.

Holly Hunter

#23. Absolute certainty is not something I strive for anymore. I've learned the hard way that destiny usually looks upon our most strident convictions with amusement, or perhaps even pity.

Elizabeth Gilbert

#24. Because I have learned the hard way how deadly these beauties can be.

Suzanne Collins

#25. I learned the hard way that taking shortcuts and living for free is not really living free.

Sophia Amoruso

#26. I learned the hard way how desperately primitive is the technology we have for monitoring the health of someone with a chronic illness.

Chris Toumazou

#27. But this is what I've learned the hard way: what people think about you means nothing in comparison to what you believe about yourself.

Shauna Niequist

#28. Lessons that come easy are not lessons at all. They are gracious acts of luck. Yet lessons learned the hard way are lessons never forgotten.

Don Williams

#29. He'd learned the hard way that there was no future when all he could see was revenge. The only thing revenge had ever given him was a brief moment of satisfaction, followed by an empty abyss. He was through with revenge. He wanted to feel full instead of empty, loved, instead of feared.

C.J. Roberts

#30. That's another lesson I've learned the hard way. All relationships will die if they aren't nurtured. Just as a flower will die if it's not watered. Because love is demonstration, not declaration.

Patti LaBelle

#31. One lesson I have learned the hard way, and there will not be any such thing in the White House. Although, I am quick to add, there's no evidence that it was ever hacked. And unfortunately, you can't say that for a lot of the government.

Hillary Clinton

#32. I've been living with Mor for five hundred years. I've learned the hard way not to question shoe choices.However stupid they may be.

Sarah J. Maas

#33. The alphabet was a great invention, which enabled men to store and to learn with little effort what others had learned the hard way-that is, to learn from books rather than from direct, possibly painful, contact with the real world.

B.F. Skinner

#34. Izz, I've learned the hard way that to have any kind of a future you've got to give up hope of ever changing your past.

M.L. Stedman

#35. I've learned the hard way at the national level that any erroneous statement will very quickly be magnified. So, as someone who talks for a living, I've learned to check, double-check and triple-check my sources.

Michele Bachmann

#36. Take it from me because I learned the hard way: circumcisions are best left to professionals.

Mark Hoppus

#37. I learned the hard way that not only do you not have to be superwoman, but it's better not to be and not to try to be. What I would like to be is just a good person - someone who tries her best and puts her best foot forward.

Cindy McCain

#38. Until 'Scrubs,' I didn't have a business manager. I learned everything on my own - and I learned the hard way.

Donald Faison

#39. One of the things I learned the hard way was that it doesn't pay to get discouraged. Keeping busy and making optimism a way of life can restore your faith in yourself.

Lucille Ball

#40. I learned the hard way that people are quick to judge, will jump at the chance of a cheap ego boost at another's expense.

Sharon Bolton

#41. I learned the hard way that if you heard you were one thing enough times, eventually you had no option but to start believing it.

Jay Crownover

#42. Mistakes are a part of being human. Precious life lessons that can only be learned the hard way. Unless it's a fatal mistake, which, at least, others can learn from.

Al Franken

#43. When I was a kid, I learned the hard way how expensive the truth was. Sometimes it cost you people in your life. Sometimes it cost you things in your life. And in this life, most people were too cheap to pay the price for something as valuable as honesty.

Mariana Zapata

#44. She didn't want to believe the pretty gentleman capable of such violence, but she had learned the hard way that pretty gentlemen were often the worst of the lot.

Kady Cross

#45. Michael had learned the hard way that nothing good came from interfering in the affairs of the afterlife.

Jacqueline E. Smith

#46. Nothing in this world is a gift. Whatever must be learned must be learned the hard way.

Carlos Castaneda

#47. I know that for every mother, there is always the possibility of three in your relationship with your daughter. You, your daughter the way she is, and your daughter the way you want her to be. I learned the hard way ten years ago that that kind of control is an illusion and a barrier.

Claire Fontaine

#48. I learned a great many things in the Marines that helped me as a football coach. The Marines train men hard and to do things the right way, just as a football team must train.

Hayden Fry

#49. One of the few things I've learned is that humans hardly ever learn from the experience of others. They learn - when they do, which isn't often - on their own, the hard way.

Robert A. Heinlein

#50. I might have been asked to moderate my attitude a time or two. But really, life was too short to take shit. Let people walk all over you and you got what you deserved. I'd learned that the hard way.

Kylie Scott

#51. It was that she truly believed you could be fourteen when you learned how love could change the speed your blood ran through you, how it made you dream in kaleidoscope color. It was that Trixie knew she couldn't have loved Jason this hard if he hadn't loved her that way too.

Jodi Picoult

#52. You can't do television shows caring whether or not the network picks you up. You can only do them enjoying the work, because if you're always on pins and needles about whether you'll be picked up, you'll lose your mind. I learned that the hard way.

Jon Cryer

#53. When I was a player, I didn't expect my teammates to play the way I did. I did expect them to work hard hard every day and get better. And I never learned anything by losing.

Larry Bird

#54. I have learned the lesson the hard way and I hope it serves as a lesson to lots of other young people. I would also like to apologise to all loyal Blue Peter viewers.

Richard Bacon

#55. It's important to be gentle about my routines. I've learned that the hard way. When I'm really stressed out, I can take it out on my body and hurt myself. Sometimes I need to be as loving and soft with myself as possible. I've had to learn how to pay attention. It's a kind of mind-set.

Lisa Edelstein

#56. A universal truth that most mature women have learned, often the hard way ... When choosing a mate, keep in mind, only nature has the ability to turn sand into pearls. If the relationship isn't happy, healthy, or working, move on ... unless of course you prefer sand.

K.E. Garvey

#57. He wasn't a white knight. He'd learned that the hard way. But something about Lea made him want to be.

Megan Erickson

#58. I learned how to horseback ride in English style, which is very hard, by the way. I had no idea how challenging it was. I've always ridden horses, but Western is like riding a horse in a rocking chair, as opposed to English, where you have to balance and hold on with your legs.

Minka Kelly

#59. I learned about sex the hard way ... from books.

Emo Philips

#60. I wasn't smart enough to read relationship books when I was coming up. I learned everything the hard way.

Michael Ealy

#61. Some lessons you learned by the book. Others you learned from cold hard experience. The latter may not be the best way to learn, but it damn well stuck.

Maya Banks

#62. Spain travel tip: If bathroom genders are indicated by flamingos, the boy flamingo is the one with a hat. I learned this the hard way.

Dave Barry

#63. Safety Tip: Over the years I have learned that tackling the hard stuff in the morning is the most productive way to start your day. After the hard stuff is done, you get to do some fun stuff later, and this allows you to be more productive.

John Richard Pierce

#64. There's the generic 'be yourself', you'll learn it the hard way. You might just have to learn it that hard way ... I think I probably kind of learned it the hard way.

Dusty Redmon

#65. If I've learned anything as a mom with a daughter who's three, I've learned that you cannot judge the way another person is raising their kid. Everybody is just doing the best they can. It's hard to be a mom.

Maggie Gyllenhaal

#66. I worked hard and made my own way, just as my father had. And just, I'm sure, as he hoped I would. I learned, from observing him, the satisfaction that comes from striving and seeing a dream fulfilled.

Sigourney Weaver

#67. I never had little brothers, so I was totally not used to hearing a lot of cussing at a young age! I learned what 'pull my finger' meant the hard way.

Danica McKellar

#68. Really, you just play football; that's all I can do ... I don't change. I'm going to always play tough, hard - that's the way I was brought up at Nebraska, where I really learned football from the Pelinis and that staff and continue to play hard, play blue-collar football.

Ndamukong Suh

#69. So I had to learn. All my life. The hard way. And the hard way's pretty hard, but not so hard as the easy way. I learned.

Terry Pratchett

#70. I'm on the world's best birth control." "Okay," he sighed. More than okay. Her body burned like fire around him and he groaned as her heat enveloped him. She moved and he moved with her, into her. "If you're sure, ma'am." "Very sure," she said, moving against him. "Learned that the hard way.

Tiffany Reisz

#71. Well, my life had been nothing but selfish up until then. Nothing should ever come before family. I learned that the hard way.

Penelope Ward

#72. I learned in an extremely hard way that the accountability falls with me.

Stephen Baldwin

#73. I learned that the only way you are going to get anywhere in life is to work hard at it. Whether you're a musician, a writer, an athlete or a businessman, there is no getting around it. If you do, you'll win - if you don't, you won't.

Caitlyn Jenner

#74. One of the most stubborn barriers to patient empowerment is the cultural assumption that since the way professionals learned was hard, you must need to be really smart, and you need to be taught in a carefully thought out, methodical sequence.

Dave DeBronkart

#75. What I learned growing up on the farm was a way of life that was centered on hard work, and on faith and on thrift. Those values have stuck with me my whole life.

Rick Perry

#76. There is not enough air in the room for Marianne and Elizabeth to share. They have learned this the hard way, but acceptance of the fact has made life easier. Now they see each other twice a year, for a weekend in the early summer and for the American holiday of Thanksgiving

Jessica Shattuck

#77. You can't trust anyone - I learned that the hard way.

Sona Charaipotra

#78. When I started training, I just started running every day, which you shouldn't do. I learned that lesson the hard way by getting a stress fracture.

Sophia Bush

#79. Just because someone doesn't love you the way you want him to, doesn't mean he doesn't love you with everything he has. | Learned that the hard way.

Ika Natassa