Quotes About Accomplishing Something Difficult

#1. Hard fun is, of course, the idea that we take pleasure in accomplishing something difficult: the joy in meeting and mastering a challenge. As a result, when someone is doing something that is hard fun, moment by moment it looks more like "work" than "fun," but the net effect is pleasurable overall.

David Williamson Shaffer

#2. The self-confidence one builds from achieving difficult things and accomplishing goals is the most beautiful thing of all.

Madonna Ciccone

#3. The tiger and the lion may be more powerful, but the wolf does not perform in the circus.

Unknown

#4. And its object is Art not power, sub-creation not domination and tyrannous re-forming of Creation.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#5. It may be difficult to understand why a test comes our way, but we must never forget that the test is accomplishing refining and purification.

Billy Graham

#6. I'd hate to have a job where I had to be rude to people.

Clay Aiken

#7. I've always wanted to play a normal woman, and I think I have been offered these parts where I play a kook because I'm not the idea of what a normal woman is.

Jenny Slate

#8. When a woman excels at her job, both male and female coworkers will remark that she may be accomplishing a lot, but is "not well-liked by her peers." She is probably also "too aggressive," "not a team player," "a bit political," "can't be trusted," or "difficult.

Sheryl Sandberg

#9. Tell me, sweet eyes, from what divinest star did ye drink in your liquid melancholy?

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

#10. And Thought leapt out to wed with Thought Ere Thought could wed itself with Speech.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

#11. Trust in the silent doers. It is far more difficult to put your dreams into action than into flowery words.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#12. When I had a job catering, I catered a wedding for the Smashing Pumpkins bassist in Indiana. And I served Billy Corgan shrimp off a tray.

Amy Poehler

#13. If there is no heart in it, there is no hole through it.

Alysha Millet

#14. It's not what you say, it's what people hear.

Frank Luntz

#15. We talk what we think but do what we believe.

Raheel Farooq

#16. That's what we do on 'Entourage.' We embed ourselves in legitimate authentic moments so wherever the action is happening, we're taking pieces from that red carpet.

Adrian Grenier

#17. It is difficult to feel accomplished when you're not accomplishing something that matters to you. Doing something 'for your own good' is rarely for your own good if it causes you to be less than who you really are.

Ken Robinson

#18. If you don't know where you are going it doesn't matter which road you take.

Lewis Carroll

#19. Don't be fooled. The battle between Iran and ISIS doesn't turn Iran into a friend of America.

Benjamin Netanyahu

#20. I'm hoping that maybe I'll start getting a reputation for being a guy who can be pretty versatile. That's the challenge and the fun of being an actor. I love getting to play and do different things.

Tyler Labine

#21. I'm drawn to New England because that's where my roots are, and I miss it. I come from many generations of New Englanders, and so, in my writing, I've been drawn back there to the landscape and the light and the type of personality that's revealed.

Elizabeth Strout