Top 100 The Hardest Thing Quotes
#1. The easiest thing is to react. The second easiest thing is to respond. But the hardest thing is to initiate.
Seth Godin
#2. Mystification is simple; clarity is the hardest thing of all.
Julian Barnes
#3. The hardest thing in this world, is to live in it.
Joss Whedon
#4. Nothing comes at all
never anything. And I cannot accustom myself to that. It is this monotony, this absolute fixity in life, that is the hardest thing for me to endure. I should like to go away from here. Go away? But where and how? I do not know, and I stay.
Octave Mirbeau
#5. The hardest thing in practice is finding enough time to think about design.
John McAslan
#6. The hardest thing is for me to let the work go and let myself just live. Every actor is different; they each have their own strengths and weaknesses; trust and ease are mine.
Emory Cohen
#7. Am I just chasing it because it's the hardest thing for me to get and I want to prove I can do it?
Tina Fey
#8. The hardest thing is to live richly in the present without letting it be tainted out of fear for the future or regret for the past.
Sylvia Plath
#9. I do know I felt as if my heart had been shredded when I found you in our storeroom, unconscious and bleeding. And leaving you with Vinco in the holding cells was the hardest thing I've ever done.
- Riley to Trella
Maria V. Snyder
#10. 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
#11. My style is constantly evolving. Style has been something that I think has been the hardest thing for me to come to terms with.
Jessie J.
#12. The hardest thing, as a director, is that it's never right. Nothing you do is ever right. It's never exactly how you envision it. Making a movie is about making it better.
David Ayer
#13. The hardest thing about "everything happens for a reason" is waiting for that reason to show up.
Karen Salmansohn
#14. The hardest thing about being a writer is convincing your wife that lying on the sofa is work.
John Hughes
#15. 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
#16. People wanna give you a $5 contribution online, but they have a million other things to do. But getting them to just sit still for 45 seconds and go in there and make the donation is, like, the hardest thing in the world.
John Sarbanes
#17. If you're a reporter, the easiest thing in the world is to get a story. The hardest thing is to verify. The old sins were about getting something wrong, that was a cardinal sin. The new sin is to be boring.
David Halberstam
#19. Screenplays are the hardest thing to try to get right. They look so simple when they work, but they really destroy your brain cells trying to get them there.
Jerry Bruckheimer
#20. But Rangers don't need to go there and win, they need to go there and get a point. I think the hardest thing about it is there will be no supporters. Playing in an empty ground will be a problem for the players.
Graham Roberts
#21.
Stardust is
the hardest thing
to hold out for.
You must make of yourself
a perfect plane-
something still
upon which
something settles-
something like
sugar grains on
something like
metal, but with
none of the chill.
It's hard to explain.
Stardust
Kay Ryan
#22. Making movies is really hard. It's the hardest thing I've ever done.
Madonna Ciccone
#23. I studied law, economy, international relations, communications, in order to find what I would do. It's the hardest thing, being 17 and trying to find what to do in life. You've explored so little. I'm lucky: My parents let me explore.
Mario Testino
#24. The hardest thing for everyone, for the writer, for the director and certainly for the actors, is not to panic when they're doing a certain line for the tenth time because everything ceases to be funny after it's been repeated.
Ivan Reitman
#25. The hardest thing about praying hard is enduring unanswered prayers. If you don't guard your heart, unresolved anger toward God can undermine faith.
Mark Batterson
#26. She simply cannot let go of love- and who can blame that? Is it not the hardest thing in the world to relinquish, once you have it?
Jude Morgan
#27. I have never even had a sip of alcohol, never have done drugs. The hardest thing I have ever done would be Pepsi.
Dane Cook
#28. The truth is, I've been going pretty much nuts all year. I constantly have to fight being scattered. I feel like I'm on automatic pilot from fatigue. The hardest thing is trying to be present, living for the moment, for everybody in the family.
Patricia Richardson
#29. The key is to wait. Sometimes the hardest thing to do is to do nothing.
David Tepper
#30. I think the hardest thing about my life is that I've met so many people all over the world who I love, but they're not friends with each other.
Cat Power
#31. The hardest thing in the world is to have a relationship, to be committed to one person and feel vulnerable. Recently one of my son's came to me and said 'it's hard for me to have a relationship, you and dad have been married three times each.'
Pamela Anderson
#32. The hardest thing to walk away from, over a long-form TV show, is the comradery of the company, both with the crew and the group of actors.
Joshua Jackson
#33. The hardest thing, as a producer, is to find a director who does the picture for all the right reasons, and not just because they know it's successful or that they can do a good job, but in their bones, they love that genre.
Lorenzo Di Bonaventura
#34. The hardest thing is at the end you have to say bye to all these people who you have worked with for so many months. It was really sad not to see them anymore. But you have the parties that you go to and you get to see them, like the premieres and the screenings.
Dakota Fanning
#35. Running away from her was the hardest thing he'd ever done, he had no doubt of it.
James Dashner
#36. The commercial music video industry is very hard to break into, and until you break in, that first job is the hardest thing in the world to get.
Joseph Kosinski
#37. The hardest thing any man can do is to fall down on the ice when it's slippery, and get up and praise the Lord.
Josh Billings
#38. The hardest thing for me is not to keep laughing. Jennifer particularly is like a clown.
Victor Garber
#39. The hardest thing about having three kids is trying to find a balance, because there's always the odd man out, and you also need to make sure each child gets the attention he or she needs.
Patrick Dempsey
#40. Love is the hardest thing to grasp. You have to seize it at once, else it may be too late.
Jude Morgan
#41. Making duck calls is the hardest thing that we make, so there's skill involved, and they're all handmade.
Willie Robertson
#42. The hardest thing about writing is writing.
Nora Ephron
#43. My mother's father was from Sligo, and he used to say it was the hardest thing in the world to find a man alive in Dublin who wasn't in the GPO during the Easter Rising. Twenty brave men marched into that post office, he said, and thirty thousand marched out.
Lawrence Block
#44. Why is it," Jonathan puzzled, "that the hardest thing in the world is to convince a bird that he is free, and that he can prove it for himself if he'd just spend a little time practicing? Why should that be so hard?
Richard Bach
#45. The hardest thing about starting a company and running a company is, there's just so many expectations on you, and there are so many people who have things that they want you to do. It's a lot like life about that.
Ben Horowitz
#46. The hardest thing for a chief executive to do is to tell someone that they don't have a job anymore.
Carly Fiorina
#47. I thought I was going to die. I was a teenager. It was the hardest thing I'd ever gone through. It'd be contradictory if I said I wasn't pro-choice. I wasn't ready. I didn't have anything to offer a child.
Nicki Minaj
#48. We could have been happy. I know that, and it is perhaps the hardest thing to know.
Ally Condie
#49. Writing is the hardest thing I know, but it was the only thing I wanted to do. I wrote for 20 years and published nothing before my first book.
Kent Haruf
#50. The hardest thing about depression is that it is addictive. It begins to feel uncomfortable not to be depressed. You feel guilty for feeling happy.
Pete Wentz
#51. Performing is the hardest thing. Even though I've done it for so many years, it's still exposing yourself. You suddenly become extremely vulnerable when you're on camera. You're filmed and you're being observed. It's a bit of a violation each time.
Julie Delpy
#52. I thought losing Robert was the hardest thing I'd ever been through. But it wasn't. Moving on from it was.
Brenda Rothert
#53. It isn't easy, it doesn't count if it's easy, it's the hardest thing. Forgiveness. Which is maybe where love and justice finally meet.
Tony Kushner
#54. The hardest thing is that I never do anything the same way twice, and when I'm on the air, I'm very unscripted, and I'm very comfortable in that role. So me being scripted is not a comfortable place for me.
Ashleigh Banfield
#55. Trust is the easiest thing in the world to lose, and the hardest thing in the world to get back.
R. M. Williams
#56. But we don't always have to be studying something, I thought, it's perfectly enough merely to think, to do nothing but think and give our thoughts free rein. To give in to our philosophical worldview, simply submit to our philosophical worldview, but that's the hardest thing, I thought. Wertheimer
Thomas Bernhard
#57. The hardest thing is to endure the applause of fools, and patiently suffer the booing, while with the bravissimo of the foolish one would rather strike them between the ears.
Carl Maria Von Weber
#58. 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
#59. I asked for help, which is the hardest thing in the world.
Marcia Wallace
#60. The hardest thing about being a leader is demonstrating or showing vulnerability ... When the leader demonstrates vulnerability and sensibility and brings people together, the team wins.
Howard Schultz
#61. 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
#62. The hardest thing that I'll ever do, is ballet. Because you are either good or bad.
Elle Fanning
#63. 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
#64. 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
#65. The hardest thing is to go to sleep at night, when there are so many urgent things needing to be done. A huge gap exists between what we know is possible with today's machines and what we have so far been able to finish.
Donald Knuth
#66. The hardest thing is remembering that you have some complicity in the things that happen to you in your life.
Kiki Smith
#67. Well, the hardest thing to do, as we know from our own experience on 9/11 is protect everything all the time.
John Abizaid
#68. 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
#69. Let no one say that taking action is hard. Action is aided by courage, by the moment, by impulse, and the hardest thing in the world is making a decision.
Franz Grillparzer
#70. The hardest thing for me is walking. Can you imagine you've got a metal pole and if you put pressure on it like a strong walk, you can walk.
Heather Mills
#71. The hardest thing is to get started, but the really hardest thing is to finish.
Yogi Berra
#72. To think is easy. To act is hard. But the hardest thing in the world is to act in accordance with your thinking.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#73. The hardest thing is to write about people. First and foremost, you have to encounter their humanity. That is the only way you can make them live as characters on the page.
Philip Kerr
#74. indifference toward a world which should have been ours was the hardest thing to attain. I
Ayn Rand
#75. Sometimes waiting is the hardest thing of all.
Luanne Rice
#76. The hardest thing in the world, I now know, is to hold in your head that it is okay to think that you are right, but not to think so necessarily because everyone who disagrees with you is wrong or stupid or duped or bad.
Abigail Disney
#77. Forgiving was the hardest thing. Sometimes forgiving was the hardest thing in the whole world.
Sergei Lukyanenko
#78. 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
#79. Loss is the hardest thing, I said. But it's also the teacher that's the most difficult to ignore.
Dean Koontz
#80. That's the hardest thing about doing sequels - you've lost the element of surprise.
Sylvester Stallone
#81. 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
#82. Getting back on the surfboard after the [shark] attack was the hardest thing and I did it! After that, the hardest thing was my first competition.
Bethany Hamilton
#83. The hardest thing about getting what you want is knowing what to do with it.
Patrick Hennessey
#84. 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
#85. I'm harder to kill."
"Actually ... " Luc drawled the word out. "I'm probably the hardest thing to kill."
"Special snowflake syndrome strikes again," Daemon muttered.
Jennifer L. Armentrout
#86. I think for a woman, the hardest thing about growing old is becoming invisible. There's something very front and center about being young.
Amy Grant
#87. 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
#88. Sometimes, the hardest thing of all is being tossed on the winds.
Debora Geary
#89. The hardest thing to accept about the passage of time is that the people who mattered most to us are all wrapped up in parenthesis
John Irving
#90. The hardest thing is trying not to correct everything on the Internet. It'd be night and day - wrong, wrong, wrong, wrong. So you just have to say, 'All right, I'll take it, bring it on.'
George Clooney
#91. 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
#92. People ask what the hardest thing is about having an autistic child, and for me the answer is easy. What mom doesn't want to hear her baby tell her that he loves her or to feel his arms around her?
Kristine Barnett
#93. The hardest thing to do is something that is close to nothing.
Marina Abramovic
#94. Whether the lightning bewildered me and made me take a false turn, I cannot tell; for the hardest thing to understand, in intellectual as well as moral mistakes, is - how we came to go wrong.
George MacDonald
#95. The hardest thing I've had to overcome was being from my small coal-mining town of Big Stone Gap, Virginia. My mother was a coal miner for nineteen years, and the expectations of making it out of my town were slim to none.
Thomas Jones
#96. Though it is the hardest thing, to work out one's weight and heft in the world, to whittle down all that I am and give it a value.
Anna Funder
#97. For an individual fully to play himself, rather than to sound like someone else, is possibly the hardest thing to do.
Gary Bartz
#98. That is the hardest thing of all. It is much harder to judge yourself than to judge others. If you succeed in judging yourself, it's because you're truly a wise man.
Antoine De Saint-Exupery
#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. Love was the hardest thing. Don't let anyone ever tell you different.
Kate Atkinson
