Top 100 The Harder Quotes
#1. I wasn't always minimal. In the early days, I was laying it on as thickly as I could, trying very hard to get it right. But I found that the harder I tried, the more tired whatever it was I was working on looked. And then I grew tired of it as well.
Chris Raschka
#2. People think they can take a pill and become a champion. But the harder you work, the luckier you get. You have to work a move hundreds or thousands of times.
Gene LeBell
#3. Expectations were like fine pottery. The harder you held them, the more likely they were to crack.
Brandon Sanderson
#4. The farther you go ... the harder it is to return. The world has many edges and it's easy to fall off.
Anderson Cooper
#5. The traditional rules for having children are long gone. Some days I feel like the harder choice is to not have a kid.
Henriette Mantel
#6. Instead, we have found ourselves gasping for air in a sea of corruption, dysfunction, environmental degradation, waste, disenchantment and inequality - and the harder we compete, the more unequal we become.
Margaret Heffernan
#7. The more comfortable you get, the more money you earn, the more successful you are, the harder it is to create situations where you have to prove yourself and make yourself not just want it, but need it. The stakes should always feel high. Stephen
Carrie Brownstein
#8. Whenever you come to a fork in the road, always choose the harder path, otherwise the path of least resistance will be chosen for you.
Olga Grushin
#9. People mistakenly believe that if you do nothing but train you can only get better. You've got to work hard, but the harder you work the harder you must rest and relax.
Justin Gatlin
#10. To face a man in combat is challenge enough. To find the goddess in a woman is the life work of a man. Hard though the first may be, the second is the harder longer road. But every man seeks the woman of the dream, and only the best of men finds what he seeks.
Rosalind Miles
#11. Most music that comes out of Holland is basically the harder part of dance music - hip-hop, drum'n'bass.
Afrojack
#12. The harder you push people to follow, the more they go their own way, but the more acceptance and friendship you offer, the more they fall in line.
Heather Tullis
#13. The harder road. Because she was a woman? Because she was short? Because her law school ranked top-ten but not top-five? "Hey.
Tara Conklin
#14. Man is a genius when he dreams. Dream what you are capable of. The harder you dream it, the sooner it will come true.
Akira Kurosawa
#15. If I have had any success, it's due to luck, but I notice the harder I work, the luckier I get.
Charles Kettering
#16. The farther a man follows the rainbow, the harder it is for him to get back to the life which he left starving like an old dog.
Jane Bowles
#17. There are a lot of things that are uncomfortable and hard to do, and the longer you put off those things, the harder they get.
Dave Morin
#19. Writing is like trying to escape quicksand. The harder you try the faster you sink.
Alane Adams
#20. The harder you try to control your girlfriend the further you'll drive her away, so stop acting like a dumbbell.
Jeanne Phillips
#21. The harder you work when nobody's watching the less you bleed when it's time to perform.
Brandon Jennings
#22. The harder I train every day on the track and in the gym, the more trust I gain in myself.
Miguel Cotto
#23. I thought, transgender people are much worse off than I am. That's why they're willing to risk everything to be who they are. But the older I got, the harder it got to stay in my body.
Chaz Bono
#24. I'm a big believer in luck - the harder you work, the luckier you become.
Jeannette Walls
#25. Think about all of the times, situations, and circumstances where you have gotten caught up in making your self right rather than happy ... The harder you fight to win, the bigger you lose.
Phil McGraw
#26. I knew from the time I was a young girl that I was destined to be a writer. I'm incredibly stubborn. The more someone tells me I can't do something, the harder I work to prove them wrong. My father's nickname for me when I was growing up was 'Hardhead.'
Lori Wilde
#27. Life is like a videogame, the harder it gets the victory feels better
Roberto Llamas
#29. The way to put oneself in a position to take the harder, more honorable political path is to argue for one's virtues in a vigorous way.
Jon Meacham
#31. This World is not our home, so we don't have to worry about whether it's good or bad. The BETTER it is, the HARDER it is to leave it. The BADDER it is, the EASIER it is to leave it!
David Berg
#32. There's an old saying in the Two Rivers" Rand said dryly. "'The louder a man tells you he's honest, the harder you must hold on to your purse.'" Another said, "The fox often offers to give the duck its pond.
Robert Jordan
#33. A man might find for a moment that he was unable to work, but that's exactly the right time to remember his past accomplishments and to consider that later on, when the obstacles has been removed, he's bound to work all the harder and more efficiently.
Franz Kafka
#34. The real trick for me as a director is to make sure that people don't start pushing because the harder you push as a perform the less funny it becomes.
Ivan Reitman
#35. The Archangel." I murmured. looking back over my shoulder at the ride, which had started its next ascent.
"It means high-ranking angel." There was a definite smugness to his voice. "The higher up, the harder the fall.
Becca Fitzpatrick
#36. Of one thing the reader can be certain: the more easily anything reads, the harder it has been to write.
Mary Roberts Rinehart
#37. Most people (by the time they have become adults ) can't change their minds because their neural pathways have become set ... the longer neural pathways have been running one way the harder it is to rewire them.
Howard Gardner
#38. The harder part of doing a real story is that there are real people and you have a responsibility to not just go crazy with their lives and have them do things which are not their character, that they then have to live with.
Scott Walker
#39. Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.
Thomas Paine
#40. Being kind, being compassionate, being respectful does not make you weak. More often, it's the harder path to take.
Liza M. Wiemer
#41. Where there's life, death is inevitable. Dying's easy; it's living that's hard. The harder it gets, the stronger the will to live. And the greater the fear of death, the greater the struggle to keep on living.
Mo Yan
#42. and anyway,
there will always be your breath
which, hard as you try,
you cant do without
you cant run away from.
There will always your heart
beating
stronger and louder
the harder, the further
you run.
Yrsa Daley-Ward
#43. The bigger they are, the harder they fall. And the better the world liked seeing them fall.
Loretta Chase
#45. One of the billions of things I love about Beyonce: The harder she tries to come on crazy, the less crazy she sounds.
Rob Sheffield
#46. Sometimes the better the writing, the harder it is to play because you really want to service it. It's hard to be that quick and articulate in life. You've got to try to make it seem discovered, you know, not rehearsed.
David Duchovny
#47. The more women walk around in sweat pants, the harder it is to tell who's out jogging and who's running away from a mugger.
Dana Gould
#48. There are two types of pain, the one that breaks you and the one that changes you. In the gym, pain is felt as a result of weakness leaving the body. Physical pain is the glue of transformation and the pain of progress. The more you endure the harder it gets to accept the thought of failure.
Greg Plitt
#49. Things can be seen better in the darkness," he said, as if he had just seen into her mind. "But the longer you spend in the dark, the harder it becomes to return to the world aboveground where the light is
Haruki Murakami
#50. The harder I work, the luckier I get.
Buck Owens
#51. Striving to meet my father's expectations is like climbing out of quicksand: the harder I try to get to the top, the more I'm sucked back down by his unrelenting criticism.
Lac Su
#52. The more you walk with God, the harder it is to scrape your knee
Big K.R.I.T.
#53. Under capitalism the more money you have, the easier it is to make money, and the less money you have, the harder.Wherever there is great property there is great inequality. The affluence of the rich supposes the indigence of the many.
Adam Smith
#54. The harder you work, the poorer you become.
Nigel Cooper
#55. The more she studied, the harder it became to speak or know anything with certainty.
Chris Kraus
#56. The sicker you get, the harder it is to remember if you took your medicine.
George Carlin
#57. I grew up in New England. I think I was brought up with the Puritan ethic: that if you worked really hard in life, then good would come to you. The harder you work, the luckier you get. I've come to believe that it's the smarter you work, the better.
Ken Blanchard
#58. The world is a terrible place for sensitive people but the closer we come to losing our minds, the harder we'll work to keep them.
Kate Tempest
#60. Writing is like sex. The more you think about it, the harder it is to do. It's better not to think about it so much and just let it happen.
Stephen King
#61. The great are like a rubber ball; the harder they hit the ground, the higher they rise.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#62. The more people they can give us upfront the harder we play.
Bon Scott
#63. The price of training is always a certain trained incapacity: the more we know how to do something, the harder it is to learn to do it differently.
Abraham Kaplan
#64. It is a strange pressure to be across from a man who wants something that you don't want to give. It's like standing in a forceful current, which at first you think is not too strong, but the longer you stand, the more tired you become, the harder it is to stay upright.
Stephanie Danler
#66. I find the closer you get to people, the harder it is to satirise them.
Peter Capaldi
#67. The older one gets, the harder it is to account for time. Children ask: "Are we there yet?" Adults: "How did we get here so quickly?" Somehow,
Jonathan Safran Foer
#68. Life bites, and the harder you fight it, the more leverage it has to tear your heart right out of your chest.
Rachel Vincent
#69. I decided not to wear makeup, figuring the more innocent I looked, the harder it might be for him to ground me, or shoot hellfire from his eyes, or whatever it was that angry demon dads did.
Rachel Hawkins
#70. Because of love, of course. The more you love something, the harder it is to lose.
Ava Dellaira
#71. You can't live your life to suit other people. The harder you try, the more restrictions they'll put on you just for the fun of seeing you jump through their hoops.
Judith McNaught
#72. Knowledge is death in my experience. The more I know about film, the harder it is to create freely.
Christopher McQuarrie
#73. I can't help feeling as if there's something missing in my life. But I don't know what it is. And the harder I look, the more I can't find it because there's just too much pressure and not enough time.
Alexandra Potter
#74. The harder you work ... and visualize something, the luckier you get.
Seal
#75. Often you will discover that the harder you work, and the more wisely you work, the luckier you get. But there is luck, and it helps.
Neil Gaiman
#76. Nobody is perfect. The harder you try to attain perfection, the harder you'll fail.
Isobel Irons
#78. The harder it has been for a son of earth to win freedom,
The more mightily does he stir his fellow man.
Conrad Ferdinand Meyer
#79. The more you love someone, he came to think, the harder it is to tell them. It surprised him that strangers didn't stop each other on the street to say I love you.
Jonathan Safran Foer
#80. But no, I've just been very lucky. But I've worked hard, and the harder you work, the luckier you seem to get.
Norman Wisdom
#81. That's always the way in life: the longer you leave things, the harder they are to do.
Lisa Jewell
#82. The harder a place is to reach, the more likely reaching it will be worthwhile.
Isaac Marion
#83. That's the thing about this game
you get a little monkey on your back. You go 0-for-3, you go 0-for-6, pretty soon you start pressing. You keep trying a little harder, and the harder you try, the worse it gets. So, anytime you can break out of it by getting a base hit, it feeds confidence.
Mike Candrea
#84. Dreamers like your wife are limited, little Helldiver." She makes sure I don't speak.
"Understand that. The only power they have is in death. The harder they die, the louder
their voice, the deeper the echoes. But your wife served her purpose.
Pierce Brown
#85. The simpler the solution, the harder it is to arrive at.
Neal Shusterman
#87. And it's so easy to just go along. So easy not to see what's happening. And the longer you don't see it, the harder it becomes to see it, because then you have to admit that you ignored it all that time.
Ann Leckie
#88. Being held down and secured just made me all the harder. I'll probably be speaking in tongues by the time this is over.
John Ellison
#89. The better I get at writing songs, the harder it seems to be to relate to people. But when I get on stage, I'm extremely happy.
John Darnielle
#90. When "Do no Evil" has been understood, Then learn the harder, braver rule, "Do Good.
Arthur Guiterman
#91. The better looking you are the harder your life, under one condition: You're of above average intelligence. It's those unintelligent attractive people who have it best.
Gregor Collins
#92. The harder a government, such as a dictatorship, tries to maintain monetary policy autonomy, the more it must either limit the movement of capital into and outside of the country, or the more it must compromise exchange-rate stability.
Janet M. Tavakoli
#93. The manlier you are, the harder it is to understand what a woman wants: there is not a hint of female brain in you.
Criss Jami
#94. The harder survival becomes, the more you want to pull together. And the more you want to pull together, the harder survival becomes.
Rick Yancey
#95. I'm awake and I can't sleep. The more I'm awake, the more I see, and the harder to sleep.
Donna Lynn Hope
#96. The harder one tries to get over that person, the deeper they seem to fall for them.
Preeti Shenoy
#97. We all make mistakes. The more you punish yourself for them, the harder it is to live.
Kristina Adams
#98. I see marriage as an operation that sews two people together, and divorce is a kind of amputation that can take a long time to heal. The longer you were married, or the rougher the amputation, the harder it is to recover.
Elizabeth Gilbert
#99. I've learned something on the road, traveling around: state shapes. The easier it is to draw the shape of the state, the harder it is to live in that state. So, if you live in a regular polygon, get the hell outta there. You gotta move to a squiggly area. Culture's attracted to squiggles.
Demetri Martin
#100. The virtue as the art consecrates itself constantly to what's difficult to do, and the harder the task, the shinier the success.
Aristotle.
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