Top 100 The Hardest Quotes
#1. Even in the hardest circumstances, dreams can give you the courage to live, and I hope I can share that message with children in need.
Kim Yuna
#2. I think I bit off more than I could chew, I thought the marathon would be easier. For the level of condition that I have now, that was without a doubt the hardest physical thing I have ever done.
Lance Armstrong
#3. It was the hardest decision of his coaching career so I accepted that I should be No 1 and that was it
Jens Lehmann
#4. Believe me, for certain men at least, not taking what one doesn't desire is the hardest thing in the world.
Albert Camus
#5. Baseball people are generally allergic to new ideas; it took years to persuade them to put numbers on uniforms, and it is the hardest thing in the world to get Major League Baseball to change anything - even spikes on a new pair of shoes - but they will eventually ... they are bound to.
Branch Rickey
#6. Broadway was without doubt the hardest I ever worked in my life and the highest highs I've ever had as an actor. The unadulterated fear was on a level that was hard to explain.
Brad Garrett
#7. The hardest that I've laughed at a movie was probably Team America. I laughed 'til I thought I was just gonna throw up. I almost had to turn it off.
Ron White
#8. 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
#9. The hardest thing for me about making movies, and that included 'M*A*S*H' because it was made like a movie, was starting and stopping.
Alan Alda
#10. 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
#11. 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
#12. The hardest obstacle I've ever had to overcome is probably my first steps into adulthood: paying rent, groceries, cooking, taxes. I was so anxious to grow up, and now I'm wishing I was still a kid.
Dillon Lane
#13. 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
#14. You go to any Jay-Z concert, and he plays his hits. Comedians don't have hits. You have to have a whole brand-new hour. You have no hits to rely on. It's the hardest thing.
Aziz Ansari
#15. The hardest part of continuous improvement in organizations is changing the behavior of other people.
Jurgen Appelo
#16. Sometimes the hardest thing about committing the perfect crime can be keeping your genius to yourself.
Sarah Lacy
#17. Before you can be anything, you have to be yourself. That's the hardest thing to find.
E.L. Konigsburg
#18. These machines have no common sense; they have not yet learned to "think," and they do exactly as they are told, no more and no less. This fact is the hardest concept to grasp when one first tries to use a computer
Donald Knuth
#19. My own [story] is the simplest ... it hardly amounts to more than a convincing proof of my existence - and yet I find it the hardest to begin.
Julian Barnes
#20. It was unfair that people who longed for love the most, searched the hardest for it, found it so elusive.
Lisa Kleypas
#21. When the winds of life are pushing you back, THAT'S when you push forward the hardest.
Yvonne Pierre
#22. One of the reasons I wanted to do a show about Nashville in Nashville was because when I lived here, the hardest thing to go out and hear was country music. Country was taking place inside the studio and it was an export.
Callie Khouri
#23. The hardest part is keeping yourself even keel across the board. You have to keep a balance until you get to Sunday and understand what goes with the week.
Kevin Harvick
#24. The hardest thing about being a parent is watching your kids make mistakes. Our instinct is to protect you. But you're right, Deenie. Sometimes we have to step aside and let you make them anyway. The best we can do is be there when you mess up.
Lisi Harrison
#25. It's our job to get into the hardest-to-see places and bring back the best footage - we have the best footage of North Korea ever shot. If that's a stunt, then I'll keep on doing stunts until I die.
Shane Smith
#26. The dear Lord has favored us with a share of His cross. The greatest and undoubtedly the hardest to bear is the lack of success in our work here. If a saint had been in charge, all would have gone well.
Rose Philippine Duchesne
#28. After the first day of practice, there's not one guy who's playing at 100 percent or who feels great. Sometimes, getting up in the morning and brushing your teeth is the hardest part of the day - it just hurts.
Tom Brady
#29. It's definitely the biggest lesson - not to take things personally. But it's also the hardest one.
Kid Cudi
#30. One of the hardest obstacles I've had to overcome in my life was not understanding how to draw healthy boundaries. I finally learned it's perfectly OK to say no.
Maria Canals Barrera
#31. Finding someone to love for the rest of your life should be the easiest thing in the world. I guess the easiest things are the hardest for me.
Julian Aguilar
#32. 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
#33. It's the hardest thing on earth to like yourself, and then when you do, it's a catastrophe. I mean, the people I know who like themselves - I don't want to see them!
Mike Nichols
#34. Beginnings are the hardest because they're the parts that pull people in, that make them want the ends. And endings are the most painful, the parts that can leave you bleeding out.
Krista Ritchie
#35. One of the hardest things for a writer to do is delete words.
Alessandra Torre
#36. I used to think as I looked out on the Hollywood night - there must be thousands of girls sitting alone like me, dreaming of becoming a movie star. But I'm not going to worry about them. I'm dreaming the hardest.
Marilyn Monroe
#37. Savasana - corpse pose - is the hardest pose of all. You would think, 'What could be hard about lying on the floor?' But the truth is that we, as humans, are not wired to be still and do nothing.
Jennifer Weiner
#38. The ones who constantly make us laugh are the hardest of friends to know - for comedians are the caricatures among us.
Criss Jami
#39. I think the hardest part about being a teenager is dealing with other teenagers - the criticism and the ridicule, the gossip and rumors.
Beverley Mitchell
#40. The hardest memory of slavery that Rialla had to bear was not the lack of freedom; it was the lack of desiring freedom.
Patricia Briggs
#41. No doubt about it, in my career Ron Lyle hit me the hardest. One time he hit me so hard I didn't see it until I saw it on film when I woke up!
George Foreman
#43. One of the hardest ideas for humans to accept,' he says, 'is that we are not the culmination of anything. There is nothing inevitable about our being here. It is part of our vanity as humans that we tend to think of evolution as a process that, in effect, was programmed to produce us.
Bill Bryson
#44. Greed is one of the hardest things for a human to hide: it always comes out in the face as a sort of hunger.
E.J. Weaver
#45. My mother used to say that sometimes if you turn a tragedy over in your hand, you can see a miracle running through it, like fool's gold in the hardest shard of rock.
Jodi Picoult
#46. I'm 100 percent sure this is it. I know that I'll never play in the NHL again. It's not a hard decision. I think the hardest thing is you get a little emotional talking about your family. I couldn't have played any longer than I did and I accomplished what I wanted to.
Chris Chelios
#47. The hardest obstacle I've had to overcome is complacency.
Malcolm Goodwin
#48. Being a mother is probably the hardest job in the world. I feel like, in a lot of ways, children come into the world to teach us.
Mariah Carey
#49. The hardest thing in making a movie is to keep in the front of your consciousness your original response to the material. Because that's going to be the thing that will make the movie. And the loss of that will break the movie.
Stanley Kubrick
#50. It is hard to take the last step, but the hardest thing is to make a choice between the unwillingness to live and the inability to die.
Igor Eliseev
#51. Sometimes the things we want most are the hardest to get. That means you need to be even more determined to succeed. That's what it takes to be a winner. You have to want it bad enough to stick with it no matter how tough things get.
Chuck Norris
#52. Sometimes the hardest thing within doing something challenging is deciding to commit to do it.
Andi Jones
#53. I never felt entitled to anything. I'm the hardest worker I know.
Daryl Hall
#54. Humor is really one of the hardest things to define, very hard. And it's very ambiguous. You have it, or you don't. You can't attain it.
Heinrich Boll
#55. The hardest hit, as everywhere, are those who have no choice.
Theodor Adorno
#56. In truth, 2007 was the hardest year of my life. I lost my best friend. I lost my father.
Hope Solo
#57. We always give our best when our back is against the wall. We will write a superlative essay when pushing hard against a deadline, make the most innovative presentation when our job is in jeopardy, and study the hardest when the exam is the next day.
Twinkle Khanna
#58. I found that I was much more interested in writing and that I didn't like the illustrating at all. I had always been the hardest on myself when I drew and painted. I am not hard on myself when I write. I like what I write, so it is a much happier process.
Gail Carson Levine
#59. The dreams that were buried the deepest were the hardest to get rid of.
Michelle M. Pillow
#60. The hardest thing about getting started, is getting started.
Guy Kawasaki
#61. What kind of Dv would it take to escape history, to escape an inertia that powerful, and carve a new course? The hardest part is leaving Earth behind.
Kim Stanley
#62. What you'll always get from me is a variety of emotions. Whenever you listen to my CD, whether you're the hardest dude or the bitterest cat, I'll give you a real story to think about.
Drake
#63. As a mom I know that raising children is the hardest job there is.
Hilary Rosen
#64. The evolution of sex is the hardest problem in evolutionary biology.
John Maynard Smith
#65. The hardest part of writing 'William Shakespeare's Star Wars' was probably the sheer amount of iambic pentameter and tiptoeing around certain scenes I knew would be hot-button issues for 'Star Wars' fans.
Ian Doescher
#66. Teachers have the hardest and most important jobs in America. They're building our nation. And we should appreciate them, respect them, and pay them well.
Jim Hunt
#67. The hardest part of the day is all the stuff after I open my eyes in the morning.
Jim Gaffigan
#68. One of the hardest things in this world is to admit you are wrong. And nothing is more helpful in resolving a situation than its frank admission.
Benjamin Disraeli
#69. I think the hardest thing in life is when we see those we love turn down a wrong path, and when no entreaty will induce them to retrace their steps.
Rosa Nouchette Carey
#70. Part of the issue of achievement is to be able to set realistic goals, but that's one of the hardest things to do because you don't always know exactly where you're going, and you shouldn't.
George Lucas
#71. The most powerful part of the art is experiential, yet it's the hardest to describe because it's nonverbal.
Janet Echelman
#72. The hardest thing is kindness when you know you don't deserve it. I want to deserve it. I want it so bad.
Laura Tims
#73. I really believe in myself. I'm the hardest worker I know, and one of the best songwriters. There's a craft to it, and it takes a long time to hone it, and I work really hard at it.
Arthur Godfrey
#74. Passion is what gets you through the hardest times that might otherwise make strong men weak, or make you give up.
Neil DeGrasse Tyson
#75. The hardest thing about moving to California from Connecticut was just missing my family. If I went back, it would be just because I was homesick.
Kevin Nealon
#76. It's always a bit overwhelming when you arrive on set and everyone's new, but you soon become a big family. I find the hardest thing about acting is that you have to say goodbye to everyone at the end of a shoot.
Nicholas Hoult
#77. The problem of how to characterise the properties that would trivialise the principle is one of the hardest problems concerning the principle of identity of indiscernibles and one the problems to which least attention has been paid of.
Gonzalo Rodriguez-Pereyra
#78. The hardest thing to do in sports, I think, is to hit a home run.
Mickey Mantle
#79. A diamond, which is the hardest of stones, not yielding unto steel, emery or any other thing, is yet made soft by the blood of a goat.
Thomas Browne
#80. The Path of the Heart is the Hardest to take, for the Heart will not Fool, and the Heart will not Fake.
A.B. Curtiss
#81. Sometimes the hardest one to see ... is the one standing right before you.
Lenore Wolfe
#82. I think the hardest part of writing anything is getting exposition out easily, without hitting people over the head with it.
Jillian Bell
#83. It might have been the hardest hit I took all day.
Drew Brees
#84. You have traveled far, but the hardest part of a journey is always the next step.
Jackie Morris
#85. I think the hardest thing about making music now is being a great dad at the same time. There's an insanity that goes with writing - a mad scientist thing that you have to go through - and sacrificing a kid's upbringing to do that is not an option.
Eddie Vedder
#86. The hardest things to do in any art is to risk failure and put yourself out on the line.
Oscar Isaac
#87. Johanna: What's it feel like when you dive?
Jacques: It's a feeling of slipping without falling. The hardest thing is when you're at the bottom.
Johanna: Why?
Jacques: 'Cause you have to find a good reason to come back up... and I have a hard time finding one.
Luc Besson
#88. The hardest thing in the world to do is to have someone in a seat in a theater laughing so hard that they're making weird sounds.
Adam McKay
#89. You might think what I tell you next is all a dream, or that I've imagined it. I can't help it if that's what you think, but I swear it's true. Sometimes the truest things are the hardest to believe.
Glenda Millard
#90. I think being a woman celebrity is the hardest thing in India ... People will ask many things, what you wear, how you speak, when you will have a baby and other things.
Sania Mirza
#91. Words are important. No words at all are the hardest to hear
J. Yates
#92. You did not walk away from those you loved. You fought for them, always, with everything you had, even if it meant fighting the long fight, and staying on the hardest, quietest, most difficult course.
Thea Harrison
#93. Our greatest pretenses are built up not to hide the evil and the ugly in us, but our emptiness. The hardest thing to hide is something that is not there.
Eric Hoffer
#94. In terms of playing ability there is nothing to choose between number one and 100. Instead, it's a question of who believes and who wants it more? Which player is mentally stronger? Which player is going to fight the hardest in the big points? These are the things that determine who is the champion.
Novak Djokovic
#95. Tell me to stop, Aby, and I will...It will be the hardest thing I'll ever do, but if you don't want this, now would be the time to tell me.
C.J. Wells
#96. We thought the hard part was over - but we were wrong. Living is the hardest part. Figuring out how to live your life when you're all busted up inside and out - there is nothing harder.
Paullina Simons
#97. That's the hardest part,' he says. 'The absence of certainty.' - Tucker
Cynthia Hand
#98. The hardest decisions in life are not between good and bad or right and wrong, but between two goods or two rights.
Joe Andrew
#99. It has perhaps always been the case that the waging of peace is the hardest form of leadership of all.
Queen Elizabeth II
#100. It's the broken plans you have made that are the hardest to get over.
Cheryl Cole