Quotes About Hard Things

#1. Crockery broke and fabric frayed. The delicate things I cared about perished, while the hard things like swords survived.

Sujata Massey

#2. Like a plant that starts up in showers and sunshine and does not know which has best helped it to grow, it is difficult to say whether the hard things or the pleasant things did me the most good.

Lucy Larcom

#3. The fundamental level of success is doing the hard things first - If you go for the feared thing first, then the rest of the day is easy.

Robert G. Allen

#4. I do think that people yearn for connection and intimacy, and that they're hard things to achieve.

Chelsea Martin

#5. Here again is one grand element of a preacher's success. He must labour by all means to be understood. It was a wise saying of Archbishop Usher, To make easy things seem hard is every man's work; but to make hard things easy is the work of a great preacher.

J.C. Ryle

#6. Men little know when they say hard things to us how well we remember them, and how much harm they do us.

Wilkie Collins

#7. 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

#8. This is a bright place, filled with frightened people, and fast hard things that hurt and wound. No matter. I swore I would remain by her side forever, and until death divided us.

Neil Gaiman

#9. When he thought he was doing something that made a difference to people, he could bear any burden [Moses]. When he lost that sense of achievement, he became too discouraged to keep on doing the hard things.

Harold S. Kushner

#10. If you say hard things you must expect to hear them in return.

Plautus

#11. Counting one thousand gifts means counting the hard things - otherwise I've miscounted.

Ann Voskamp

#12. Fact is, knowing what you want and knowing who you are ... those are two separate things. One is complicated. The other isn't. You're trying to take something simple and make it hard, and there's enough hard things in life without you adding more for yourself.

Cora Carmack

#13. And behold! He cometh with ten thousands of His holy ones To execute judgment upon all, And to destroy all the ungodly: And to convict all flesh Of all the works of their ungodliness which they have ungodly committed, And of all the hard things which ungodly sinners have spoken against Him.

Enoch

#14. Morris Berman has pointed out that museums characteristically present hard things, such as axes and spears, as evidence of early culture. But culture very likely begins with baskets made of reeds that are "soft" and hold emptiness.

Robert Bly

#15. Feelings can kill such good hard things as love and hate.

Heinrich Boll

#16. (Taken from the Foreword of 'Do Hard Things') One of my life's principles is to develop myself to the maximum of my potential in all ways and to help others do the same.

Chuck Norris

#17. I don't know what the future holds, but I know that God holds tomorrow, so it is exciting. Even when I have hard things happen, He loves me so big, so much. I come through it and I grow from it, because He has got me.

Barbara Mandrell

#18. The hard things got easier the more you did them.

Hugh Howey

#19. A brand for a company is like a reputation for a person. You earn reputation by trying to do hard things well.

Jeff Bezos

#20. I love life. I think it's fantastic. Sometimes it deals hard things, and when it deals great things, you have to seize them.

Sam Taylor-Wood

#21. We've got to learn hard things in our lifetime, but it's love that gives you the strength. It's being nice to people and having a lot of fun and laughing harder than anything, hopefully every single day of your life.

Dag Hammarskjold

#22. I don't believe things happen by accident. I think that everything that comes into our life, even the really hard things, are intended for good. That they can shape us positively if we'll embrace them and remain teachable and purpose to use that almost like fertilizer to grow out of the experience.

Michael Hyatt

#23. Easy things are worthless ... It's the hard things that matter. Those are the things worth leaping for ... If we don't fight other people's curses, what are we left with? Just a swift fall to the earth, and where's the meaning in that?

Andrea Cremer

#24. But kids also make the hard things harder, and the painful things more painful, because you have to see them hurting too. Of course, they also give you a reason, a compelling one, to make it through." "I guess I hadn't

Leta Blake

#25. The hard things in life, the things you really learn from, happen with a clear mind.

Caroline Knapp

#26. We can either see our circumstances as a set of random cruelties and then allow those hardships to turn us into bitter victims; or we can recognize the fact that, though we may never comprehend why hard things happen, they do, and when they do, we can reach for a larger purpose beyond the pain.

Amy Purdy

#27. There are a couple hard things. One, getting a funny idea that people can relate to; a funny idea or a funny script; there's a million pitches.

David Spade

#28. Often, our most rewarding dreams are staring us right in the face, but for some reason we focus on how hard things are, how we are scared of the unknown and what would happen if we failed.

Joel Brown

#29. One of the hard things in my life has been balancing my education with my acting career, because I've been acting since the age of seven, on and off, just doing little parts and things. I've always been very keen to stay in school.

Anna Popplewell

#30. I think that all of us are 5-year-olds and we don't want to be embarrassed in the schoolyard. I've gone through things in my life. People say it must be so hard to do it in the public eye, but the truth is, when you go through hard things, it's just hard.

Helen Hunt

#31. We can do hard things -- it's the impossible that takes a little longer.

Alan Packer

#32. Secrets are such hard things to manage whwn you're not the only one who knows.

Mel Odom

#33. To look in the face of hard things and keep moving forward - that's what one has to do.

Anna Godbersen

#34. There is something to be said for people who have to work hard, be creative, produce what they have with little - or no - means. Those of us from poor homes have the advantage of thinking for ourselves and of knowing that when times get hard, things could always be worse.

Beth Ditto

#35. You have to always continue to strive no matter how hard things get, no matter how troubled you feel. No matter how tough things get, no matter how many times you lose, you keep trying to win.

LL Cool J

#36. As humans, we often let our egos rule our decisions. We let fear stop us from reaching our true potential. We forget about love. But the heart, it never forgets. No matter what happens, no matter how hard things get, it always remembers.

Liz Fenton

#37. To forget hard things try even harder things!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#38. These things will be hard to do, but you can do hard things.

Glennon Doyle Melton

#39. Hard things don't always make life harder. It takes something hard to sharpen steel.

Richard Paul Evans

#40. Relationships are like farting, If you push too hard things could get messy real fast.

Kevin Hart

#41. There had been times when he knew, somewhere in him, that he would get used to it, whatever it was, because he had learnt that some hard things became softer after a very little while.

Nick Hornby

#42. Go into hard things quickly, eagerly, then retreat.

Miriam Toews

#43. Accomplishing hard things requires preparation, a realistic understanding of what may be required and a willingness to put forth the effort.

Andi Jones

#44. Give your entire attention to what God is doing right now, and don't get worked up about what may or may not happen tomorrow. God will help you deal with whatever hard things come up when the time comes.

Anonymous

#45. Hard things take time to do. Impossible things take a little longer.

Percy Cerutty

#46. To be in Jesus' easy yoke is an easy way of doing hard things." (p. 202)

Bill Gaultiere

#47. I know that I might die but that seems a happier end than being without you and anyway it seems to me that looking in the face of hard things and still being able to move forward even when the end includes grave danger and the possibility of death is the mark of a man.

Anna Godbersen

#48. God doesn't tell you to do hard things so He can stand back and laugh and watch you struggle. He tells you to do things the things that He knows are gonna work out to your good in the end.

Joyce Meyer

#49. The song "No Fairy Tale" tells my story. Going through the hard things leads to a richer life than just trying to make everything perfect, or worse, pretending things are good when they don't feel right. I've done that more than enough times.

Lisa Loeb

#50. We did hard things for each other. Risked our lives. Gave up our lives and faced death, and then faced life again. You might be surprised to find that facing life can be much harder than facing death.

Robin Hobb

#51. As quietly as possible he sought around for something, anything, that could be turned into a weapon. Regrettably, they had, when choosing toys for Young Sam, completely neglected the whole area of hard things with sharp edges.

Terry Pratchett

#52. Hard things only grow harder if you put them off.

George R R Martin

#53. You can quit if you want. If you hate it. If it isn't fun anymore. I'll back you with Dad. But you can't quit just because it's hard. Things are hard for most people. Life is hard.

Catherine McKenzie

#54. Hard things are valuable; easy things are not so valuable. Reaching the mountaintop is rewarding because it is hard. If it was easy, everybody would do it.

Evan Williams

#55. 'Sesame Street's' genius lies in finding gentle ways to talk about hard things - death, divorce, danger - in terms that children understand and accept.

Nancy Gibbs

#56. Here's the thing: No matter where I go, sad things will happen to me, hard things. People I love will die, and sometimes I'll have to tell friends good-bye. I'll meet people who won't like me, and I'll know loneliness. I don't like it, but that's the way it is.

Jennifer Archer

#57. God has allowed hard things in your life so you can show the world that your God is great and that knowing Him brings peace and joy, even when life is hard.

Francis Chan

#58. We are still the America that does the hard things, that does the great things. We're the nation that always dared to dream. We're the nation that dared to take risks.

Barack Obama

#59. There are only two hard things in photography; which way to point the camera and when to release the shutter.

Ralph Steiner

#60. It may not make sense to you, now, but when you get older you'll understand that sometimes things have to be done. Hard things. But everyone will hate the person who finally does them. But if they do them anyway, that's the mark of true honor.

Rhiannon Held Silver

#61. Not all things will be easy for you, Bailey. It's the hard things that grow us. If you need to get stronger as a performer, then you'll get stronger.

Karen Kingsbury

#62. For of all hard things to bear and grin, / The hardest is knowing you're taken in.

Phoebe Cary

#63. You read these management books that say, 'These are the hard things about running a company.' But those aren't really the hard things. The hard things are when you have to layoff half your company, or you have to fire your best friend. Or you have to figure out a way not to go bankrupt.

Ben Horowitz

#64. I want to live like a kid,
Away from bothering about others,
Smile without reason but true from heart,
Cry little harder instead of keeping hard things inside,
Stand up again with more determination when i fall,
And enjoy the gift of life by sharing gift of smile with others.

Nitish Sharma

#65. Easy things should be easy, and hard things should be possible.

Larry Wall

#66. Procrastination makes easy things hard, hard things harder.

Mason Cooley

#67. Life is sometimes hard. Things go wrong, in life and in love and in business and in friendship and in health and in all other ways that life can go wrong. And when things get tough, this is what you should do. Make good art.

Neil Gaiman

#68. A great teacher makes hard things easy.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#69. The man (or woman) who can make hard things easy is the educator.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#70. Only when you work hard things work for you

Sunday Adelaja

#71. I've always been prepared to write about the hard things. Only for healing, teaching, and enlightening purposes not to hurt or disparage anyone.

Luis J. Rodriguez

#72. I'm used to feeling like I'm the only one sees the hard things coming, and I'm always angling to skew the odds in my favor. It's nice to know somebody else is preparing, too.

Karen Marie Moning

#73. Two Core Abilities for Thriving in the New Economy 1. The ability to quickly master hard things. 2. The ability to produce at an elite level, in terms of both quality and speed.

Cal Newport

#74. Just a beginner, but he learned so fast. Everything came so damn easy to him. Not true. The hard things cam easy. But the easy things he found impossibly hard.

Janet Fitch

#75. A 'goto' in Perl falls into the category of hard things that should be possible, not easy things that should be easy.

Larry Wall

#76. When life is good and we have no problems, we can almost let ourselves believe we have no need for God. But in my experience, sometimes the richest blessings come through pain and hard things.

Anne Graham Lotz

#77. If we don't allow ourselves to experience joy and love, we will definitely miss out on filling our reservoir with what we need when ... hard things happen.

Brene Brown

#78. A man thinks that by mouthing hard words he understands hard things.

Herman Melville

#79. That is the difference between great men and small, we great are willing to do the hard things, the uncomfortable things to ensure we succeed.

S.C. Barrus

#80. There's always a point where you get knocked down. But I draw on what I've learned on the track: If you work hard, things will work out.

Lolo Jones

#81. I know that I'm going to have to work hard, keep working hard, and not because of this victory think, 'I'm back.' I don't think like that. I'll definitely work hard. Things are not going to be easy. I might lose first round next week. You never know.

Kim Clijsters

#82. Joy, collected over time, fuels resilience - ensuring we'll have reservoirs of emotional strength when hard things do happen.

Brene Brown

#83. If you would only recognize that life is hard, things would be so much easier for you.

Louis D. Brandeis

#84. She was the living, breathing proof that the hard things in life didn't have to defeat you - or even define you.

Susan Wiggs

#85. True courage is not the absence of fear; it is refusing to let fear control your actions.

~ from the book "Do Hard Things

Alex Brett Harris

#86. It's the hard things that matter. Those are the things worth leaping for.

David Levithan

#87. I imagined the hard things that pulled us apart
Will never again, sir, tear us from each other's hearts.

Bruce Springsteen

#88. Because Jesus Christ suffered greatly, He understands our suffering. He understands our grief. We experience hard things so that we too may have increased compassion and understanding for others.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

#89. We think being a Christian means to go to church on Sunday and trying to be good through the week. Now I see it means suffering, being willing to let the hard things happen to you, so that God can use us to do His work on this earth!

Kimberly L. Smith

#90. I don't want to be in some relationship that's just about trading apologies when things get hard. Doing that won't make it all OK, you know? So, no, I don't forgive you. But I fucking accept you, including all the shit you do that tests my patience. Because I love you.

Liora Blake

#91. If you were in the film industry at that time, you were always picked up by directors who were much older. You were whisked about and shown things. I did work very hard though.

Diane Cilento

#92. Why are cancer patients so hard to buy for? This question always puzzles me. When people are healthy, things are so simple, including gift buying. A jaunt to the local mall or a day in front of the TV watching QVC can be just enough for all the loved ones on your list.

Jenna Morasca

#93. [It] has a lot of things in it that I like, but I think it's way too hard on financing things from immigrants.

William J. Clinton

#94. It was kind of unexpected, to wake up one day and realize that the things that you've worked so hard to accomplish, you've accomplished in so little an amount of time.

Colton Haynes

#95. I worked hard at that through most of the '80s, and in 1990 my house burned in New Hampshire, and my studios and my offices. I had to decide at what level to rebuild, and I decided that I was going to stop trying to be all things to all people, and just go back to playing the guitar.

Tom Rush

#96. Love required sacrifice and making hard choices and doing things that were bigger than just you. It wasn't something you asked for, or could control or change. It was something you accepted. Love was a force of nature.

Kimberly Derting

#97. She wanted him to tell her that when you love someone so hard and so fierce, it was all right to do things that you knew were wrong.

Jodi Picoult

#98. Yes, I've worked hard; and yes, I may have achieved a certain level of success-but I'm very clear about the fact that none of it would be worth it without doing the things that keep me close to God.

David Archuleta

#99. We too often let the material things serve as indicators that we're doing well, even though something inside us tells us that were not doing our best. That we are avoiding that which is hard, but also necessary. That we are shrinking from rather than rising to the challenges of the age.

Barack Obama

#100. One of the most touching things my mother said to me was that if I ever wanted to come back to live in India, she would build me a home and go out and work hard so that I could be happy.

Saroo Brierley