Top 80 Quotes About Hard Truths
#1. We know we have to face hard truths and take strong steps, but we have not done so; instead, we have drifted. And that drifting has eroded our resources, fractured our economy, and shaken our confidence.
Bill Clinton
#2. Lucas had told me only one lie, ever; he kept the secret of black Cross because it wasn't his secret to tell. In every other way, he'd been honest with me and shared the hard truths nobody else thought I deserved to hear.
Claudia Gray
#3. Because others have let us down, it is now our duty to face the hard truths and do the right thing
no matter the personal cost.
Glenn Beck
#4. Conservatives used to believe in confronting hard truths, not succumbing to comforting fairy tales. Some still do.
Fareed Zakaria
#5. Growing up on the fringe, you came to accept hard truths. Nothing was fair. the world was cold, unforgiving, and people died. it was just the way things were.
Julie Kagawa
#6. The President's biggest problem right now is he's gotta tell the truth. And we've seen this in New Jersey. I've told lots of hard truths in New Jersey that people didn't necessarily agree with, but they give you credit for looking them in the eye and telling them the truth.
Chris Christie
#7. One of the hard truths about the new digital world is that we have to be prepared to acknowledge when an experiment is not going to work, and to take action.
Andrew Rosenthal
#8. The truth of good economic doctoring is to know the general principles, and to really know the specifics. To understand the context, and also, to understand that an economy may need some tender loving care, not just the so-called hard truths, if it's going to get by.
Jeffrey Sachs
#9. There is a big difference between hurt and harm. We all hurt sometimes in facing hard truths, but it makes us grow. It can be the source of huge growth. That is not harmful. Harm is when you damage someone. Facing reality is usually not a damaging experience, even though it can hurt.
Henry Cloud
#10. Crafted with care and with love, this beautifully constructed novel reveals hard truths and difficult secrets. Diana Davidson is a writer of great honesty and integrity, a writer to trust.
Pauline Holdstock
#11. But neither path is safe. Which way would you walk - the way of hard truths or the way of fine lies?" Shadow hesitated. "Truths," he said. "I've come too far for more lies.
Neil Gaiman
#12. The patterns have become unmistakable and undeniable ... We have to come to terms with some hard truths about race and justice in America.
Hillary Clinton
#14. One must never have spared oneself, one must have acquired hardness as a habit to be cheerful and in good spirits in the midst of nothing but hard truths.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#15. A startup's job is to (1) rigorously measure where it is right now, confronting the hard truths that assessment reveals, and then (2) devise experiments to learn how to move the real numbers closer to the ideal reflected in the business plan.
Eric Ries
#16. Real friends offer both hard truths and soft landings and realize that it's sometimes more important to be nice than to be honest.
Anna Quindlen
#17. Scrape knees for love. Tell hard truths for love. And definitely run heart-first into the unknown for love. Try to have a plan. But if you don't, make sure you have people. You coming, mi gente?
Gabby Rivera
#18. Great leadership does not mean running away from reality. Sometimes the hard truths might just demoralize the company, but at other times sharing difficulties can inspire people to take action that will make the situation better.
John P. Kotter
#19. Hard truths can be dealt with, triumphed over, but lies will destroy your soul.
Patricia Briggs
#20. The problem in today's society is that the truth is in short supply and people love soft lies more than hard truths
Rassool Jibraeel Snyman
#21. Take one, and you cannot take the other," she said. "But neither path is safe. Which way would you walk - the way of hard truths or the way of fine lies?
Neil Gaiman
#22. Most centrist Democrats ... try to distance themselves from controversies that recall the 1960s. There are journalistic centrists as well, who avoid hard truths for the sake of acceptance and legitimacy.
Tom Hayden
#23. File under "Hard Truths": the creative muse is fiction. If you sit around waiting for the right moment to create, you will die waiting.
Antony Johnston
#24. There is a sense of exhilaration that comes from facing head-on the hard truths and saying, "We will never give up. We will never capitulate. It might take a long time, but we will find a way to prevail."
James C. Collins
#25. This is how you explain how you feel: broken words and hard truths.
R. YS Perez
#26. Mitt Romney will tell us the hard truths we need to hear to end the debacle of putting the world's greatest care system in the hands of federal bureaucrats and putting those bureaucrats between an American citizen and her doctor.
Chris Christie
#27. We can order him to make appointments and talk to someone, but we can't force him to actually do the work. You've got to be willing to work on your issues. You've got to be willing to face hard truths and fight to get better. that takes courage and force of will. (Anita)
Laurell K. Hamilton
#28. The ability to make hard truths palatable is one that every long-lived co-leader has mastered.
David A. Heenan
#30. When we are lost in delusion, it's hard to see even the most obvious truths.
Jack Kornfield
#31. [ ... ] It's not your job to fix the world; it's your job to live well. That's your birth right. Everyone knows it, but far too few people actually take to implementing it.
Alice Walsh
#32. With temerity and defiance, obstinance and patience, she chipped away at every hard edge of me until there was nothing left but the truths I feared. The bent and broken.
K. Bromberg
#33. People who've been hurt like hurting others [..]
Alice Walsh
#34. If you're a young woman in Hollywood, then they want you to look a certain way and paint you in this and that. To this day, it's hard to find people like us, who want to kind of find deep truths, not just skirt above the top of it.
Sherilyn Fenn
#35. Some truths are hard to swallow, so we share it within tales that most people will accept without being frightened by the truth hidden within.
Larry Itejere
#36. There was something absolutely terrifying in handing over your wounded heart for someone else to hold.
N.R. Walker
#37. It was hard and sour, but, as Poushkin said, the illusion which exalts us is dearer to us than ten thousand truths. I saw a happy man, one whose dearest dream had come true, who had attained his goal in life, who had got what he wanted, and was pleased with his destiny and with himself.
Anton Chekhov
#38. 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
#39. It must be recognized that the real truths of history are hard to discover. Happily, for the most part, they are rather matters of curiosity than of real importance.
Napoleon Bonaparte
#40. I smashed my fist into his face. Lies roll off us. It's the truths we work hardest to silence. "Then you weren't looking hard enough! I'm the one with boobs!" "I know you're the one with boobs! They're in my fucking face every fucking time I turn around!
Karen Marie Moning
#41. Maybe it's just that some of us have had certain facts and truths slapped up against our heads so hard and so often that we have to see them and pay our respects to their reality.
Ralph Ellison
#42. More than illness or death, the American journalist fears standing alone against the whim of his owners or the prejudices of his audience. Deprive William Safire of the insignia of the New York Times, and he would have a hard time selling his truths to a weekly broadsheet in suburban Duluth.
Lewis H. Lapham
#43. Without gospel truths, man's efforts to reach his goals are like the northbound explorer who drove his dog sled feverishly northward on an ice pack that was flowing southward - only to find himself farther from his destination at the end of a hard day's journey than he had been at dawn!
Neal A. Maxwell
#44. When the truths of love are planted firm, they won't be hard to find. And words of love I speak to you will echo in your mind.
Stevie Wonder
#45. [..]the way you get her interested in you will also be the way you'll lose her [..]
Alice Walsh
#47. The Street Epistemologist is a philosopher and a fighter. She has savvy and street smarts that come from the school of hard knocks. She relentlessly helps others by tearing down falsehoods about whatever enshrined "truths" enslave us.
Peter Boghossian
#48. A good man: body serves his will and enjoys hard work, clear intellect that understands the truths of nature, full of passion for life but controlled by his will, well-developed conscience, loves beauty in art and nature, despises inferior morality, respects himself and others.
Thomas Huxley
#49. Reality wins, and I'd rather see the truth than stay in love with a fantasy.
Jewel
#50. Is this how it is with lies? The first one comes hard, the second one easier, until they slip off your tongue easier than truths - maybe because they are easier than truths.
Gayle Forman
#53. Never underestimate the power of a pity fuck, which makes for about ninety percent of women's collective dating history.
Alice Walsh
#54. Life after love was possible. I was proof. Loss taught you about yourself, burrowed in the dark parts of your soul and ate you from the inside out.
Hailey Edwards
#55. It is easy to be accurate if you have the freedom to be complicated, and it is very easy to be simple if you have the freedom to shade the truth. What's hard is to be simple and very accurate, and that takes work to figure out what are the simple truths that are going to sustain your case.
David Boies
#56. It is hard to open yourself to someone who might really love you. I kept trying to drive Ken away and he kept passing the test by staying.
Erica Jong
#57. It should never be your job to pick up the pieces of a broken man or to housebreak one. There are far better things you can do with your time.
Alice Walsh
#58. Personal finance is a means to an end - living a rich and fulfilling life. It is not hard. It is not complicated. I write this to share simple truths I've learned from some very wise people.
Rick Van Ness
#59. Hatred is like fire. It burns the one who harnesses it. It's also extremely hard to see more helpful truths through its flames.
Morgan Rhodes
#60. She knew that sex was a means of getting ahead and saw nothing wrong in exploiting male weaknesses for her own purposes.
Alice Walsh
#61. I have learned as a journalist that if you look long enough and hard enough and carefully enough, most truths are discoverable.
Edward Klein
#62. The simplest principles become difficult of practice, when habits, formed in error, have been fixed by time, and the simplest truths hard to receive when prejudice has warped the mind.
Frances Wright
#63. How hard have those intolerant of John Adams's perspective worked to strip from young people any hope of knowing the concepts and truths that help deal with life?
Foster Friess
#64. But romantic vision can also lead one away from certain very hard, ugly truths about life that are important to know.
Donna Tartt
#65. What does the novel do? It tells beautiful, shapely lies which enclose hard, exact truths.
Julian Barnes
#68. "Integrative" simply means that this approach attempts to include as many important truths from as many disciplines as possible-from East as well as the West, from premodern and modern and postmodern, from the hard sciences of physics to the tender sciences of spirituality.
Ken Wilber
#69. The necessity of loyalty between friends, the responsibility that the strong owe the infirm, the illusion of ill-gotten gain, the rewards of hard work, honesty, and trust-these are enduring truths glimpsed and judged first through the imagination, first through art.
Michael Dorris
#70. Accomplishment of your dreams demand personal sacrifice and hard work.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#71. When you took a man's job away from him, his ability to feed and clothe his family, that man was going to get angry.
Darrin Grimwood
#72. Mum liked to say that some things happen for a reason, that sometimes obstacles were there to stop you from doing something stupid.
Maggie Stiefvater
#73. It's so hard to write about countries like Haiti because there's truths behind the misperceptions people have. But there's so much more. There are multiple truths.
Roxane Gay
#74. There came a time in everyone's life when they realized that in spite of how hard they'd been running from themselves, everywhere they went, there they were: Addictions and compulsions were nothing but marching bands of distraction, masking truths that were unpleasant, but ultimately undeniable.
J.R. Ward
#76. After I removed all the cultural coatings and traditions that disguise each religion, I discovered the soul to be the same in all of them. Therefore, it is hard for me to say I am just one, when my heart recognizes the truths in them all.
Suzy Kassem
#77. The devil has not vanished simply because people refuse to believe he exists, no more than God has ...
E.A. Bucchianeri
#78. It's hard to be a living dream when there's no one around to dream for you.
Vaughn R. Demont
#80. Memories were short and history unkind. It was the way of the world.
Deborah Harkness
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