Top 100 Quotes About Something Hard
#1. He said, Don, when something hard happens to you, you have two choices in how to deal with it. You can either get bitter, or better. I chose to get better. It's made all the difference.
Donald Miller
#3. Make a conscious effort to loosen your hands and let your arms feel soft when you're at address. Take the club back a bit shorter, and feel as if you're cracking a whip on the way down - not tensing up to smash something hard.
Ernie Els
#4. It is not the job of writers to life our spirits. Books simply do what they do. They sometimes confirm the capricious drama of a childhood living room. When you think that you are in the grace of a dance you come upon something hard.
Dionne Brand
#5. Why the worst women should always attract the best men is something hard to fathom!
Agatha Christie
#6. Aunt Flo's love is not a soft thing, I think, but something hard and unyielding, which can be good or bad.
Jan Strnad
#7. But the thing to do when you have to do something hard is just dig in and do it. After a while, it being hard doesn't matter anymore. It's just what you're doing, and you keep on doing it.
Rosemary Kirstein
#8. When you're threatened, or something hard hits you, acknowledge it, embrace it. Don't pretend that you didn't get hurt - hurt, cry, think about it. And then you let it go and try something else.
Teresa Heinz
#9. ...I have a difficult time sleeping at night. Especially if there is something hard in my bed.
Lila DiPasqua
#10. The sharp, superficial pain at being spoken to unkindly had obscured the deeper pain, which had not yet turned into something hard and heavy.
Olivia Sudjic
#11. He shifts awkwardly, and I realize a few things:
First, I'm still clinging to a stranger I fell into like an idiot.
Second, before he moved, I think I felt something hard. Down there. Maybe.
Third, I have cupcake all over my face.
Helena Rac
#12. I'm a huge Marlene Dietrich fan. She's got this raunchy kind of strength. It would be hard to find a man who could come up with something hard for her to handle. She's seen it all and done it all.
Jessica Pare
#13. Want something hard enough and work for it, and you'll get it, but when you get it it will either prove to be not wholly what you wanted, or something will happen to soil it.
Paul Gallico
#14. If you think something hard is impossible, you'll never even start trying to achieve it.
Peter Thiel
#15. I'm greedy for that satisfaction of doing something hard and knowing that, even though I was afraid I couldn't do it, that somehow I can deliver.
Alan Alda
#16. When he'd kissed her, it had felt like the striking of a match, something hard and bright in his chest, a part of him he hadn't even realized was waiting to be lit.
Jennifer E. Smith
#17. In our life sometimes we have to make painful choices. And it takes a bit of courage to make up our mind for it involves an element of renunciation, something hard to accept in a world steeped in pleasure and comfort.
Fr. Henry Bocala
#18. Hard things don't always make life harder. It takes something hard to sharpen steel.
Richard Paul Evans
#19. I really feel that most things are difficult at the beginning and they become fun, something you love, only after you've worked at them. Making children do something hard can, in the long run, be a great parental service.
Amy Chua
#20. There was a breath of widening life in the morning air
something hard to describe
John Knowles
#21. Without law in some form, and, also, without butting up against that law, we cannot move forward easily or naturally. We have to have something hard and half-good to rebel against.
Richard Rohr
#22. Just kept hoping that if I believed something hard enough, it might actually come true.
Keri Arthur
#23. Every correct answer is necessarily a secret: something important and unknown, something hard to do but doable.
Peter Thiel
#24. Unless I can stretch and touch something hard, I shall be blown down the eternal corridors for ever. What then can I touch? What brick, what stone? and so draw myself across the enormous gulf into my body safely?
Virginia Woolf
#25. Law of Attraction won't let you remove a thought. You cannot concentrate upon NOT thinking about something hard enough to stop thinking about it! For the more you decide you will not think about it, the more you think about it! ... Think about that.
Esther Hicks
#26. I really think you can manifest your dreams. You can manifest your destiny. If you want something hard enough and you're willing to work for it, I think you can get it. I truly believe that.
Billy Magnussen
#27. Gary Paulsen - If you work on something hard and get some success. You can get some nice rewards.
Gary Paulsen
#28. I feel self-doubt whether I'm doing something hard or easy.
Sigourney Weaver
#29. To experience real agony is something hard to write about, impossible to understand while it grips you; you're frightened out of your wits, can't sit still, move, or even go decently insane.
Charles Bukowski
#30. If you pretend something hard enough, could it become real?
Megan Miranda
#31. You might think of a thought as an invisible, innocuous little thing. Something that barely exists. But a thought is something hard to conceal. Hold a thought and it melts all over your hands. Touch something else and now you've left traces of it. Hide it under your shirt and it bleeds through.
Thomas Lloyd Qualls
#32. She shifted and, to her horror, she felt something hard against her hip. Audrey drew in a scandalized breath. "That better not be your dick I feel against my leg.
Jessica Clare
#33. If you wish for something hard enough, the fairy tales teach us, you can get it in the end. But it's hardly ever the way you thought it would be, and the endings aren't always happy ones.
Jennifer Weiner
#34. figure out when and where you're most comfortable doing deliberate practice. Once you've made your selection, do deliberate practice then and there every day. Why? Because routines are a godsend when it comes to doing something hard. A
Angela Duckworth
#35. There may be a better land where bicycle saddles are made of rainbow, stuffed with cloud; in this world the simplest thing is to get used to something hard.
Jerome K. Jerome
#36. what valuable company is nobody building? Every correct answer is necessarily a secret: something important and unknown, something hard to do but doable. If there are many secrets left in the world, there are probably many world-changing companies yet to be started.
Peter Thiel
#37. Absolute trust is something hard to achieve even in a family, and it is much harder to achieve on an international level.
Vladimir Putin
#38. You can come round to my flat." Toreth's voice changed, sliding subtly into something hard-edged but seductive. "I don't need chains to make you do what I want. I don't need anything. I can take whatever I want from you, however I want it, and you can't stop me.
Manna Francis
#39. If you believe in something hard enough, never give up working toward that goal.
Sylva Kelegian
#40. If you want something hard enough, whether it be a material possession or just something in your life, if you work hard enough there is absolutely no reason why you can't obtain it.
Charles Trippy
#41. He had a passion for cricket right from his childhood and liked nothing else but playing with the bat and the ball. I wanted him to study hard and get into a government service. But, he wanted to do something in cricket and earn a name for himself.
Bill Vaughan
#42. Whether or not Afghanistan would be a peaceful nation-state had we not gone into Iraq I doubt. Afghanistan is going to be Afghanistan, no matter how hard we try to make it something else.
Michael Hastings
#43. 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
#44. Before you take the leap, before you jump, really make sure it's going to be something you want to get out of bed [to do] everyday, because it is so hard. So you want to make sure that you're really committed.
Alexa Von Tobel
#45. No matter how often I pray, how many retreats I make, or how hard I try, I still sin. It is something that I bump up against daily.
James Martin
#46. Once I got a guitar that was relatively user-friendly, but not super-duper easy, I really came on as a guitarist, at that point. It helped. It was a super-expensive guitar either, but something needs to steer you a bit, if you're playing an instrument that is really hard.
Jimmy Page
#47. The heart knew that something was missing and it was having to work extra hard to make up for it.
Cecelia Ahern
#48. If you don't allow yourself the possibility of writing something very, very bad, it would be hard to write something very good.
Steven Galloway
#49. It's hard to reach [the age of] 100. We're not programmed for longevity. We are programmed for something called procreative success.
Dan Buettner
#50. God is not all that interested in your grammar. He is interested in the meaning of your grammar!
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#51. It was hard to sing like how I wanted to because playing live I had to just be at the top of my lungs all the time, and it made me sound like I had a really bad cold or something.
Elliott Smith
#52. It is hard for a black man to just be himself. We spend so much time in defense of something that is indefensible because there is nothing to defend.
Kevin Eubanks
#53. Once it was his hard-earned money that had been used to buy her freedom. How could she speak against his doing something with what was his for another in need?
Elizabeth Yates
#54. I wish there was something that - I get all those wonderful letters and wonderful acknowledgments, and I wish I could be more appreciative of what I do. But it's hard for me.
Harvey Korman
#55. Something to think about: If you fish the wrong fly long and hard enough, it will sooner or later become the right fly.
John Gierach
#56. It's too hard to present an opinion on something that's not true to who you are. It's much easier to base opinions and debates off of fact and your true heart on things. To me that just comes quite naturally, and it's also about being open to what the debate is about and hearing the other side.
Elisabeth Hasselbeck
#57. When I have something to say that's particularly hard to say, I often write it down first.
Cheryl Strayed
#58. Never complain or make excuses. If something seems unfair, just prove yourself by working twice as hard and being twice as good.
Amy Chua
#59. I never thought that I would co-host something at TED. I've been attending TED conferences since 2009, so I've been in the audience for many, many years, enjoying the very hard work of the TEDsters.
Sara Ramirez
#60. I've always tried to work hard. I'm not trying to show anybody up or do something spectacular for attention.
Roy Halladay
#61. Working hard for something we don't care about is called stress: Working hard for something we love is called passion.
Simon Sinek
#62. It's hard to make something feel like it needs to exist.
Jake Barton
#63. Go ahead, work hard and never be afraid to try something. Even if you don't make it, at least you can say you tried.
Guy Lafleur
#64. Sometimes I'll write a song. When I've gone through something really hard in my life, sometimes it's other people's music. Other times it's actually writing the songs and getting out of mind and into the song.
Jack Johnson
#65. In opera tradition, when opera die-hard fans, there is a replacement of singer or singer wasn't at his or hers vocal best, doing something, they boo. Especially now that they pay hundreds of dollars for the ticket.
Mikhail Baryshnikov
#66. It's very hard to dramatise something factual and not make it look overdone, but also not to make it look so under-dramatised that it's dull.
Julia Sawalha
#67. It has often been hard for me to know if people are serious when they talk about making T-shirts. Just to be clear: Nobody ever means it, ever. Making and wearing matching, themed T-shirts is embarrassing. Unless you want to make some with me right now, or something.
Katie Heaney
#68. If you really believe in what you're doing, work hard, take nothing personally and if something blocks one route, find another. Never give up.
Laurie Notaro
#69. I got into hula hooping at age six - I hula hooped all day, every day. That was something I was comfortable with, but I never tried walking or singing while hula hooping! It's actually pretty difficult and tiring. But I like challenging myself. It's hard, but it's really fun.
Patina Miller
#70. I did something brave, then. Or stupid. Sometimes it's hard to tell the difference.
Michelle Hodkin
#71. So what did God say to me in the silence that morning? I'm not sure, but I think God said something like, Don't try so hard, little child, and, Hey, check out this cool turtle I made.
Rachel Held Evans
#72. You could just tell when a person belonged somewhere. That is something you can't fake, no matter how hard you try
Sarah Dessen
#73. Imagine," she said, her face turning serious for a moment, "imagine if something happened to one of us and there was no Easter egg hunt next year, imagine if everything stopped being perfect - you would wish so hard that you'd taken part today . . .
Lisa Jewell
#74. God always has a plan. This isn't his fault. This is a test, something designed to help you grow closer to God. And. I know, somehow, God will use it.
C.B. Cook
#75. Hey," he said smiling at me pulling off his sunglasses. "Did you get me something good?"
"I think so," I said trying to ignore how hard my heart was beating. Then before I could think about it or analyze or consider what I was doing I leaned over and kissed him.
Morgan Matson
#76. You work hard and you pray, and you do something where you know the energy around the project is right, but you never really know if it's going to hit and resonate with audiences.
Jussie Smollett
#77. The band that changed my life was The Who. It's hard to pick just one album, but if I had to pick the one that really showed me how things could be done, it's 'The Who Sell Out.' They really went to town on that, doing something that no one had ever done before.
Buzz Osborne
#78. My family never talks about feelings, and we certainly never talk about plutonium. It's hard to take something seriously if you can't see it, smell it, touch it, or feel it. Plutonium is a cosmic trick. The invisible enemy, the merry prankster. Can it hurt you or not? None of us know.
Kristen Iversen
#79. This was a different kind of a kiss, not one that leads to something, but a hard, painful one.
It was a goodbye kiss.
Penelope Ward
#80. Testimony is not something you have today, and you are going to have always. A testimony is fragile. It is as hard to hold as a moonbeam. It is something you have to recapture every day of your life.
Harold B. Lee
#81. My formula for success is just a lot of hard work. It's believing in yourself. It's a pride that I gotta get better at something every time I wake up.
Kevin Ollie
#82. You just say it. That's how you say something that's hard. You put one foot in front of the other. You take it step by step. You say the words. There is no magic formula. There is no secret sauce. But there are words, she says emphatically, as if she's delivering an impassioned speech.
Lauren Blakely
#83. You always measure success by what you did last. It's hard to measure that because it's something that just comes. If someone can just make a hit, they would do it everyday. But you can't make a hit that you know is a hit every day.
Ginuwine
#84. To live an honest life you have to strive hard, get involved, fight, make mistakes, begin something and give it up, begin again, struggle endlessly, and suffer loss. As for tranquility - it's spiritual baseness.
Leo Tolstoy
#85. I wanted to prove that I could play something else, but there were 249 episodes out there of 'Mayberry,' and it was aired every day. It was hard to escape.
Andy Griffith
#86. I didn't fall in love with James. Falling sounds like an accident. Falling hurts. I'd fallen in love with Michael, fallen hard like slipping off a cliff and hitting the rocks below. Falling in love was something I'd vowed never to do again.
I chose to love James.
Megan Hart
#87. Nothing can save something that is not meant to be, no matter how hard you try.
Bipasha Basu
#88. Whispers, that's what she calls them. They're signs, small sounds, or little reminders, letting you know that there's something bigger than us out there. That there's a force working hard to make things right in the universe.
Renee Carlino
#89. It can be hard to feel like you have to start from scratch when you have invested so much time with a person, but shortly after my break up I realized something: I wasn't losing the chance to have love
I was getting the opportunity to do it all over again.
Lauren Conrad
#90. The binding factor between knowing something and doing it is "passion". When your passion is concentrated in what you know, your work output will bind well.
Israelmore Ayivor
#91. People who care about records are always giving me a hard time. I mean, I would destroy records in performances, and break them, and whatever I could do to them to create a sound that was something else than just the sound that was in the groove.
Christian Marclay
#92. The epistolary form is one of the hardest to write. It's so hard to show something that's bigger in a letter. Plus, you have to have the balance of how many letters are going to work to tell the story and how few are going to make it fall apart.
Jacqueline Woodson
#93. It's hard for anyone in the 24-hour news cycles that we all live in now to follow something that the first round is played in March and the final finishes in December. I understand the challenges there.
Jim Courier
#94. I think of myself first as a singer, meaning an interpreter. Then I think of myself as a writer. It is an outlet I have to have. I get very hard to live with without something happening to write about.
Oliver
#95. There's this thin line between knowing something is going to be really hard and saying, 'Yeah, you know, but I still gotta see if I can pull it off.'
Michael Keaton
#96. when you stop caring about how hard something is, its gets a lot easier
Aaron Lauritsen
#97. I don't really know what the dream role would be. That's a hard question to answer. You never really know, until you're immersed into something, how passionate you feel for it and how it unravels.
Aaron Taylor-Johnson
#98. Comedies are very hard to do. They are difficult. Unless there's the Judd Apatow school, where they're like okay, we know that, we're going to do those. Or unless it's something that's far to the other side.
Don Cheadle
#99. Live in Manhattan once, but leave before it makes you too hard. Live in San Francisco once, but leave before it makes you too soft.' Something like that.
Anonymous
#100. David had said something about her 'distinctive features'. Was he going to make her look ethnic? Jade worried. She was trying so hard to look just like everyone else!
Francine Pascal
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