Quotes About The Hardest Thing To Do

#1. That's the hardest thing to do-to stay with a sentence until it has said what it should say, and then to know when that has been accomplished.

Vivian Gornick

#2. To stand there and do nothing on film is probably the hardest thing to do.

Thomas Jane

#3. The hardest thing to do in baseball is to hit a round baseball with a round bat, squarely.

Ted Williams

#4. I think the hardest thing to do in the world, show-business-wise, is write comedy.

Carol Burnett

#5. Football is simple but the hardest thing to do is play simple football.

Johan Cruijff

#6. I enjoy comedic things. People don't understand it's the hardest thing to do. We have a ratio of 25-to-1 between good dramatic actors and people who are considered good comic actors.

Charles Grodin

#7. You know the hardest thing to do in Hollywood is burn bridges. There is usually some sucker who still likes me. There is usually some sucker who will still work with me.

Terry Gilliam

#8. Sometimes the hardest thing to do is to trust your team. It's a lesson I've had to relearn quite a few times.

Robert Kiyosaki

#9. Hitting. That's what I enjoy most. Realistically, it's probably the hardest thing to do in all of sport. Think about it. You've got a round ball, a round bat, and the object is to hit it square.

Pete Rose

#10. I asked Michael Jackson once. I said to him, 'How were you able to go from the Jackson Five to the biggest star in the world? What was your secret, Michael?' He said, 'Ricky, stay inspired. That's the hardest thing to do. If you can figure out a way to stay inspired, you can make it.'

Ricky Schroder

#11. The hardest thing to do often comes with no earthly reward; but it supernaturally affects eternity, so it turns into huge deposit in heaven.

Alisa Hope Wagner

#12. The hardest thing to do is work hard when no one is watching.

Ray Lewis

#13. I think you've got to be honest with yourself at what you're good at. That's the hardest thing to do.

Jerry Bruckheimer

#14. Changing your nature is the hardest thing to do. But I discovered that you can be who you choose to be.

George Foreman

#15. What you want is the thing that critics love and audiences love, but that's the hardest thing to do.

Paul Feig

#16. It's funny, the hardest thing to do is to make something look like it's fast, loose and improvised, and get somebody to laugh.

Abel Ferrara

#17. I'm convinced to do improv. All you have to do is listen to what people are saying to you, and then just add more information to what they've just said. That's all there is to improv, but it's the hardest thing to do.

Ryan Stiles

#18. the hardest thing to do is believe in yourself enough to step out and help someone else.

Paddi Newlin

#19. Always, my mother said, "Be yourself." That is sometimes the hardest thing to do. I try to always remember that and come back to that and have strength in who you are. There is only one you.

Felicity Jones

#20. The hardest thing to do in life is to be yourself.

Debasish Mridha

#21. Stand-up don't get no respect - it's the hardest thing to do in show business. You don't have no band and there's no music.

Tracy Morgan

#22. It might seem as the hardest thing to do, but you have to forget the guy who forgot about you.

Nicholas Sparks

#23. As any actor will tell you, the hardest thing to do is small parts, because you focus all your attention and concentration on that small part. When you're playing the lead part, you don't have time to think about the whole of it, so you just have to steam on and get on with it.

Colin Baker

#24. Well, the hardest thing to do, as we know from our own experience on 9/11 is protect everything all the time.

John Abizaid

#25. Scaring someone's the hardest thing to do, and that's why most of these scary movies are not scary. They're sick, but not scary. There's a lot of sickness out there, of people who then sit there and watch it, which I think is absolutely dismaying.

Ridley Scott

#26. The first thing is to be patient, which is probably the hardest thing to do. Don't worry if blokes are whacking you out of the park because you still have the opportunity to get him out next ball, even if it's not the same ball.

Shane Warne

#27. The hardest thing to do in talking to a woman was taking the first step, but the most important thing to do was not to think.

Viet Thanh Nguyen

#28. The hardest thing to do is something that is close to nothing.

Marina Abramovic

#29. For an individual fully to play himself, rather than to sound like someone else, is possibly the hardest thing to do.

Gary Bartz

#30. The first lesson a watcher learns is to separate truth from illusion. Because in the world of magicks, it's the hardest thing to do.

Joss Whedon

#31. The key is to wait. Sometimes the hardest thing to do is to do nothing.

David Tepper

#32. The hardest thing to do in this business is to still be around. When music changes, when labels' resources have dried up, it becomes harder and harder to continue to make a living at this.

Brian McKnight

#33. Sometimes the hardest thing to do in a pressure situation is to allow the tension to persist. The temptation is to make a decision, any decision, even if it is an inferior choice.

Garry Kasparov

#34. The hardest thing to do is to trust people.

Dwight Howard

#35. You can't hold on, Zoe. Not to hate. Not even to love. You kill things that way. There's only one freedom. Forgiveness. And sometimes the hardest thing to do is to forgive yourself.

Pamela Todd

#36. I always knew I had a voice and I've always known I could sing, but I was too shy to let it come out. I think it's the hardest thing to do, to sing in front of people. When I finally let go and did it, I realized it's what I'm most talented at and what I love to do the most.

Paris Hilton

#37. The hardest thing to do is to be true to yourself, especially when everybody is watching.

Dave Chappelle

#38. The hardest thing to do in sports, I think, is to hit a home run.

Mickey Mantle

#39. I think the hardest thing to do in a relationship is something for yourself.

Kat Graham

#40. The hardest thing to do in this world is to have a steadfast mind & will to be who God called you to be.

Okisha Jackson

#41. The hardest thing to do in politics is campaign as someone you aren't. People can spot an imposter from a mile away.

Chuck Todd

#42. I'm really eager to go back and do some theater. I would love to do some more comedy as well because I think that's really the hardest thing to do; it's what I grew up doing, and I would love to go back and do that. I did a lot of theater growing up - musical theater.

Bridget Regan

#43. I can't be reading novels when I'm writing a novel, because somebody's voice creeps in. The hardest thing to do is keep the tone and your attitude over the course of a year or however long it takes.But when I'm writing short stories, which I will be doing shortly, I can read anything I like.

T.C. Boyle

#44. Because pretending to be happy is almost like being happy. Until you remember that you're only pretending. Then you're sad. Really sad. Because wearing a mask every day of your life is the hardest thing to do. And after a while, you get a little scared because the mask becomes you.

Brittainy C. Cherry

#45. I do like to make films with a political theme, but sometimes it's nice simply to make people laugh. That's the hardest thing to do in fact.

Ridley Scott

#46. Listening to your instincts, while being the easiest, can also be the hardest thing to do.

Tena Desae

#47. I've always wanted to do more significant stuff. I think of myself as well-informed, but the hardest thing to do is talk about politics and current events and be funny and not just preachy.

Gary Gulman

#48. The hardest thing to do in the world is overcome the mind but it just so happens that it's also the most rewarding.

Matthew Donnelly

#49. The hardest thing for a sane person to do is not care what anyone thinks, although everyone swears by it, hence our glorification of insanity.

Criss Jami

#50. Piece by piece living is hard to do. It may even feel like the hardest thing. But it has this going for it: you never need to know what it is you're carrying on your shoulders.

Ann-Marie MacDonald

#51. Making it look easy is the hardest thing in the world to do.

Sarah Ban Breathnach

#52. I've often heard people say that managing creative people is the hardest thing in the world. 'They're never happy, they drive up the cost of things, blah blah blah.' I just manage people the way I always wanted to be managed. That is, to be creatively challenged, but never to be told what to do.

John Lasseter

#53. The hardest thing you will ever do in life is to know for sure what is true.

G.P. Ching

#54. I do feel like the hardest thing is to do something simple and tap into whatever remains of our common language rather than cultivating your own willfully esoteric vocabulary.

David Longstreth

#55. The easiest thing humans can do is fall in love. The hardest thing is learning what it takes to stay in love.

Agnes H. Hagadus

#56. The hardest thing about traveling is that mostly you get to a point - and it always happens on every tour - where you can choose between eating and sleeping, but you can't do both.

Philip Glass

#57. Breaking up is the hardest thing we do. It's the most important thing we do, in a way. You've got to embrace rejection, or you'll maintain a very limited life. It'll be very nice and neat - and very, very small.

Laurie Helgoe

#58. Sometimes the hardest thing about the truth is putting down the misassumptions, falsehoods, and half-truths that stand between it and you. Sometimes that's the last thing that anybody wants to do. And sometimes, it's the only thing we can do.

Mira Grant

#59. The hardest and greatest thing a human being can do is submit to his Creator.

Habeeb Akande

#60. So much for endings. Beginnings are always more fun. True connoisseurs, however, are known to favor the stretch in between, since it's the hardest to do anything with. That's about all that can be said for plots, which anyway are just one thing after another, a what and a what and a what.

Margaret Atwood

#61. Putting my book down should be the hardest thing my reader has to do that day. Authorship is a merciless business!

Rachel Aaron

#62. For everything you are, and everything I love about you, there's nothing you can do to save us from an impossible situation. I've accepted that. That's the hardest thing we have to do today and I've done it.

Taylor Adams

#63. I was going through the hardest thing, also the greatest thing, for any human being to do; to accept that which is already within you, and around you.

Malcolm X

#64. I think to an extent every human being needs to be redeemed somewhat or at least needs to look at themselves and say, 'I've made mistakes, I'm off course, I need to change.' Which is probably the hardest thing for a human being to do, and maybe that's why it interests me so.

Joss Whedon

#65. It's the hardest thing in the world to put yourself in someone else's place, try to really feel what they feel, figure out why they do the things they do. Especially when it's easier to stick a label on something. Or someone.

David Baldacci

#66. Letting go of someone we love is the hardest thing we will ever do. Some people never surrender to love for the fear of being hurt. But to not have loved, to not have felt the immense joy it brings, would have been a far worse kind of death.

Goldie Hawn

#67. Volleyball was the hardest thing I've ever had to do.

Liam Hemsworth

#68. The hardest thing for me to do, and the best thing I've done and learned as an actor is to sacrifice being funny in certain circumstances in order to do something that makes sense for the story or the character, or emotionally.

Jonah Hill

#69. You still get the movies made. A filmmaker can always scrape up money to do a movie. The passion drives it. And you'll get the money. Money's the easiest thing. But the hardest thing is finding a way for people to see your movie.

Allison Anders

#70. It's the fucking hardest thing to do - to be around the person you love, every day, and not be able to love them.

Jay McLean

#71. The hardest thing in life to do is to change.

Mickey Rourke

#72. Do you know what is the hardest thing in life? To make a choice.

Honore De Balzac

#73. The hardest thing is to do something which is close to nothing because it is demanding all of you.

Marina Abramovic

#74. Do you know that being a stranger is the hardest thing that can happen to any one in all this world?

Gene Stratton-Porter

#75. England was never my home. I had a home there but Dublin is my home so leaving Ireland was the hardest thing I had to do.

Kevin Kilbane

#76. The hardest thing for an artist to do is to let go. I don't wanna be the dude - if you come to my house, there are no pictures circa '86 in my house.

Heavy D

#77. I had to accept the fact that bad things happen. It's out of our control and I know it hurts like hell but you learn to move on. Yes, the pain never fades and it's the hardest thing you'll ever do but eventually you learn to breathe again.

Joanne McClean

#78. My back went out and I gained 40 pounds while sweating over 'Perestroika.' It was incredibly hard, the hardest thing I had to do before the screenplay to 'Lincoln.'

Tony Kushner

#79. When I was just about to leave, and when I realised that I wasn't going to wake up in the morning and do this again - that was probably the hardest thing for me. Leaving this family that I'd created on set, with all the cast and the crew was very sad for me.

Jared Gilman

#80. The hardest thing about movie acting is that if you're playing a character who changes within the movie, you've got to do that, but you've got to do it out of sequence, because we never have gotten to shoot in sequence, and that's really, really tough.

John Sayles

#81. The hardest thing we are asked to do in this world is to remain aware of suffering, suffering about which we can do nothing.

May Sarton

#82. We have a choice. To be bitter and angry, or to try and move on. It's the hardest thing for me, letting go of all that righteous anger. I'm still struggling. But that's what I want to do.

Kim Edwards

#83. That's always the hardest thing when someone completely has you fooled so much, that you think they're just never going to hurt you, then they do. That's when you get the worst heartbreak.

Taylor Swift

#84. To say something nice about themselves, this is the hardest thing in the world for people to do.

Nancy Friday

#85. To say something nice about yourself, this is the hardest thing in the world for people to do. They'd rather take their clothes off.

Nancy Friday

#86. I do think it is the hardest thing in the world, that your estate should be entailed away from your own children; and I am sure, if I had been you, I should have tried long ago to do something or other about it. Jane and Elizabeth tried to explain to her the nature of an entail.

Jane Austen

#87. I found the ability to become still. The hardest thing for people to do is just be still. And in that stillness you create motion.

Gonjasufi

#88. Good sense is the most evenly distributed thing in the world; for everyone believes himself to be so well provided with it that even those who are the hardest to please in every other way do not usually want more of it than they already have.

Rene Descartes

#89. The plain truth can be the hardest thing to see when it's about yourself. If you don't want to know the truth, you'll do anything to disguise it.

Sara Pennypacker

#90. The hardest thing to find in life is balance - especially the more success you have, the more you look to the other side of the gate. What do I need to stay grounded, in touch, in love, connected, emotionally balanced? Look within yourself.

Celine Dion

#91. The hardest thing about getting what you want is knowing what to do with it.

Patrick Hennessey

#92. Working pretty much nonstop as an artist, the hardest thing is to know what to do with yourself when you have some time off. You struggle with yourself to take a vacation.

Karen O

#93. I thought I was stronger than a word, but I just discovered that having to say goodbye to you is by far the hardest thing I've ever had to do.

Colleen Hoover

#94. The hardest thing I think I've ever had to do to tell you, the woman I love, that I'm having a baby by a woman that I barely know.

Usher

#95. Why do they always teach us that it's easy and evil to do what we want and that we need discipline to restrain ourselves? It's the hardest thing in the world
to do what we want. And it takes the greatest kind of courage. I mean, what we really want.

Ayn Rand

#96. The worst, the hardest, the most disagreeable thing that you may have to do may be the thing that counts most, because it is the hard discipline, and it alone, that makes possible the highest efficiency.

Elihu Root

#97. in business doing nothing is often the hardest thing. (And not just in business. Harold Macmillan, prime minister during the Cuban missile crisis, mused then 'on the frightful desire to do something, with the knowledge that not to do anything was prob. the right answer'.)

Simon Kuper

#98. They never tell you about that either. How the hardest thing a mother has to do is give her child up, let them go, watch them run.

Jackie Kay

#99. And sometimes the hardest thing you can do is walk away. But you got to. And, when you do, it changes your life.

David Hasselhoff

#100. Things do not always work out as we have planned, do they? Sometimes the hardest thing is not to just survive the grief, but to step around it and move on. It helps if your suitcases are not so full.

Karen White