Hard Quotes

Have convictions. Be friendly. Stick to your beliefs as they stick to theirs. Work as hard as they do.

It is hard to interest those who have everything in those who have nothing.

When love beckons to you, follow him, Though his ways are hard and steep. And when his wings enfold you yield to him, Though the sword hidden among his pinions may wound you.

Rarely do we find men who willingly engage in hard, solid thinking. There is an almost universal quest for easy answers and half-baked solutions. Nothing pains some people more than having to think.

It's true hard work never killed anybody, but I figure, why take the chance?

Victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory however long and hard the road may be; for without victory, there is no survival.

I can't complain. I'm making a living out of what I do, which is really rare for a lot of actors. The hard part is staying confident and staying with it.

I worked hard. Anyone who works as hard as I did can achieve the same results.

Truth is so hard to tell, it sometimes needs fiction to make it plausible.

Judges must beware of hard constructions and strained inferences, for there is no worse torture than that of laws.

It is as hard and severe a thing to be a true politician as to be truly moral.

There are very few things that are purely conceptual without any hard content.

I'm a Pisces, so I'm a very closed-book kind of person.

I believed in myself, and I've always worked very, very hard as an artist, and I am an artist in every sense of the word.

I was trying to make something really hard, but then I thought I should make something really soft instead, that could be molded into different shapes. That was how I came up with the first plastic. I called it Bakelite.

Conquest is the missionary of valor, and the hard impact of military virtues beats meanness out of the world.

Writers are socially observant. We find people endlessly fascinating, and real life is mysterious. Sometimes it's hard to stop staring at the strut and squawk of my fellow man. They can be quite inspiring. Sometimes it's hard to stop talking to them to see what in the world they're thinking.

Writers aren't born properly labeled so it is hard to know one when one appears.

Actors are hard to photograph because they never want to reveal who they are. You don't know if you're getting a character from a Chekhov play or a Polanski film. It depends what mood they're in.

There are two kinds of talent, man-made talent and God-given talent. With man-made talent you have to work very hard. With God-given talent, you just touch it up once in a while.

I very rarely came across rude or disrespectful people. I don't know how I slipped by all of them, but I honestly can't think of one experience off the top of my head that was like that. I'm sure they're there, but I'd have to think really hard to recall them.

I love driving cars, looking at them, cleaning and washing and shining them. I clean 'em inside and outside. I'm very touchy about cars. I don't want anybody leaning on them or closing the door too hard, know what I mean?

I have a lot of different stages in my life when training has been easy or hard. Now, it seems that I have been training for so long that it has become almost second nature to me.

We worked very hard to make extensions very simple.

Of course, it's hard to support full-time programmers, so we do get funds from a set of companies that are interested in the health of the Mozilla project and so are willing to support the people working for the Foundation as well.

I really practiced hard and got to a certain level of technical proficiency. I overcame some of my limitations. I was a hard-working, dedicated bassoonist, but I have to say I'm not a natural musician.

I was very shy and somewhat awkward. I studied too hard. And to have this exciting dorm life was a whole new thing.

I do fat people and these makeups are really hard to do, but I want to make monster movies.

I feel like I have to top myself every film I do, and it gets hard.

I try to be straightforward and honest with my kids, and I believe nothing beats good old hard work.

On the whole, show business is a hard business in which to be married.

I look for material that both interest me and challenges me. If I am drawn to the material and I have to work hard at it, the characters and the plots reflect the hours and hours of research.

Getting older is hard.

I believe I have a calling. Do you know what that calling is? To stand up in a new and hard core, radical way for the Lord. In the process, if I insult a couple of people, if I offend a couple of people, and if I got to shake it up a little bit, as long as it is led by the Holy Spirit, amen.

It is hard to look the other way when a dictator is being so cruel and violent with his own people.

I think trying too hard to be sexy is the worst thing in the world a woman can do.

It's hard for me to get interested in stories that ignore death, which is what American marketing culture would like to do: pretend that death doesn't exist, that you can buy immortality; just buy these products, and you'll be forever young and happy.

If you read the memoirs of slave-owning families, you'd be hard pressed to find evidence of black people in the lives of the whites, even though for most of the time on the plantations black people outnumbered whites by a ratio of seven to one.

Luck? I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to me is something else: Hard work - and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't.

Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true.

Society bristles with enigmas which look hard to solve. It is a perfect maze of intrigue.

Towns find it as hard as houses of business to rise again from ruin.

We're living in hard times.

I still find it hard to understand that anyone could argue that you can't have machines that exhibit consciousness.

It's hard to spend years at a time working in total solitude with no reality-check.

You have come into a hard world. I know of only one easy place in it, and that is the grave.

Power is my mistress. I have worked too hard at her conquest to allow anyone to take her away from me.

A soldier will fight long and hard for a bit of colored ribbon.

It is seldom very hard to do one's duty when one knows what it is, but it is often exceedingly difficult to find this out.

There's a big difference between wanting to work and having to work. And I had to learn that the hard way. Now money is very important to me, because I ain't got it.

There are a lot of guys in Hollywood who clap you on the back just a little too hard.

There are 6 billion people in the world. It's hard to find the one person who's right for you.

My whole body is a wreck. I've injured myself so many times with jujitsu, skateboarding, football. I guess I like to live hard.

My college, Fitzwilliam, was pretty good but unfashionable and I lived in digs so I was not part of the cloistered 'old college' environment, which frankly was a bit intimidating. But I worked hard and settled in by exploring politics and girls.

I think you get so wrapped up in the book you're currently writing, it's hard to think about anything else. But I know as soon as I'm done with this book, I'll move on to something else.

We can all agree that first loves can be a scary thing, and that growing up is hard to do.

Stanley Kubrick, I had been told, hates interviews. It's hard to know what to expect of the man if you've only seen his films. One senses in those films painstaking craftsmanship, a furious intellect at work, a single-minded devotion.

The hard wind we get around here on the eastern slopes of the Rockies is called a Chinook. It's a katabatic wind and comes from mountains to the west of us and the mountains to the south.

I'm blessed that I'm not content. Whenever I work with kids, which I'm passionate about, I want them to know that, yes, two World Cups, two Asian Cups, but I've done it the hard way.

There are so many things about playing football that seem to me uniquely American. Anybody can succeed, anybody can play, but you've got to work hard to do it.

You will find this hard to believe, but I've never laughed as much as I did when I was a corporate lawyer. When you're working 16 hours a day for months at a time, you get punchy. Everything and everyone seems hilarious.

I wanted to acquire an education, work extremely hard and never deviate from my goal, to make it.

We have been working hard to think about what our combined needs are going to be in the way of intelligence capabilities, not today but 15 to 20 years in the future.

A lot of times, when a band finds success with a certain style or sound, they have a really hard time breaking away from that to grow as artists.

I've talked to some drummers who seem to have a very hard time staying in shape on the road, including some drummers touring with high-profile acts that don't have to live on fast food every night.

Aside from what it teaches you, there is simply the indescribable degree of peace that can be achieved on a sailing vessel at sea. I guess a combination of hard work and the seemingly infinite expanse of the sea - the profound solitude - that does it for me.

Goodness and hard work are rewarded with respect.

I work very hard and I'm worth every cent.

These are very difficult times for new artists. Back in the day, a hit song could really seep into a person's DNA with radio and MTV. A hit today is not the same as a hit twenty years ago. Now there is so much competition, it is very hard to reach the people. The music scene is so overly saturated. There are no gatekeepers like there used to be.

I think feature film can be quite conservative, because you have to now get audiences to come out, and it's quite a hard thing to do. Of course, television can be conservative too.

It is hard to say what the future holds, but this is probable - it won't be just like the past.

Although I believe that scripture is divinely inspired and infallible, I have a hard time going along with the belief that the whole creation process occurred in six twenty-four hour days.

How hard, how bitter it is to become a man!

The Olympics show that your dream can come true if you work hard. It's not impossible.

It was really hard to find another project after my first film.