Hard Quotes - Page 2

• If a man is called to be a street sweeper, he should sweep streets even as a Michaelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, 'Here lived a great street sweeper who did his job well.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• Nothing is work unless you'd rather be doing something else.

  George Halas

  Work, Office Jobs, Nfl

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  I think the saddest people always try their hardest to make people happy
  because they know what it's like to feel absolutely worthless
  and they don't want anyone else to feel like that.

  Robin Williams

  Inspirational, Change, Happiness

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• We can smile, breathe, walk, and eat our meals in a way that allows us to be in touch with the abundance of happiness that is available. We are very good at preparing to live, but not very good at living. We know how to sacrifice ten years for a diploma, and we are willing to work very hard to get a job, a car, a house, and so on. But we have difficulty remembering that we are alive in the present moment, the only moment there is for us to be alive. Every breath we take, every step we make, can be filled with peace, joy, and serenity. We need only to be awake, alive in the present moment.

  Nhat Hanh

  Happiness, Jobs, Yoga

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• The harder you work, the harder it is to surrender.

  Vince Lombardi

  Inspirational, Motivational, Basketball

  Vince Lombardi (2012). “What it Takes to be Number One”, p.70, Thomas Nelson Inc

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  The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.

  Thomas Paine

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Thomas Paine (1817). “The Political Works of Thomas Paine: In Two Volumes”

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• You are perfect the way you are." Blay's voice was strong. "There is nothing wrong with who and what you have always been. I'm proud of you. And I love you. Now ... and always." Qhuinn's vision got wavy. Hard-core. "I'm proud of you. And I love you," Blay repeated. "Always. Forget about your old family ... you have me now. I am your family.

  J.R. Ward

  Strong, Love You, Voice

  J.R. Ward (2013). “Lover At Last: A Novel of the Black Dagger Brotherhood”, p.578, Penguin

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• Becoming yourself is really hard and confusing, and it's a process. I was completely the eager beaver in school, I was the girl in the front of the class who was the first person to put her hand up, and it's often not cool to be the person that puts themself out there, and I've often gotten teased mercilessly, but I found that ultimately if you truly pour your heart into what you believe in - even if it makes you vulnerable - amazing things can and will happen.

  Emma Watson

  Girl, Believe, Heart

  "Emma Watson Had Emma Stone Speech Envy Before MTV Trailblazer Award". Interview with Jocelyn Vena, www.mtv.com. April 15, 2013.

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• Hard times don't create heroes.
  It is during the hard times when the "hero" within us is revealed.

  Bob Riley

  Strength, Hero, Hard Times

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• The first time you quit, it's hard. The second time, it gets easier. The third time, you don't even have to think about it.

  Bear Bryant

  Motivational, Sports, Believe

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• Sometimes to love is easy, but to accept love is hard.

  Brent Weeks

  Love Is, Sometimes, Easy

  Brent Weeks (2009). “Beyond The Shadows: Book 3 of the Night Angel”, Hachette UK

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• Preparation for tomorrow is hard work today.

  Bruce Lee

  Hard Work, Preparation, Today

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• Confidence comes from hard work. It comes from facing different situations and making putts. It comes from knowing you've worked on the right things, so when you get under the gun, you can execute what you've practiced.

  David Duval

  Softball, Sports, Motivation

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• You can never meet everyone's expectations. It's hard enough to meet your own.

  Andrea Jaeger

  Softball, Sports, Motivation

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• A true champion works hard and never loses sight of her dreams.

  Dot Richardson

  Softball, Sports, Dream

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• Adulthood isn't an award they'll give you for being a good child. You can waste years, trying to get someone to give that respect to you, as though it were a sort of promotion or raise in pay. If only you do enough, if only you are good enough. No. You have to just take it. Give it to yourself, I suppose. Say, I'm sorry you feel like that and walk away. But that's hard

  Lois McMaster Bujold

  Children, Sorry, Maturity

  "A Civil Campaign". Book by Lois McMaster Bujold, 1999.

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• ...And i can't get you out of my mind, God knows how hard I've tried.

  Toni Braxton

  I Miss You, Missing You, Mind

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• We've got to learn hard things in our lifetime, but it's love that gives you the strength. It's being nice to people and having a lot of fun and laughing harder than anything, hopefully every single day of your life.

  Dag Hammarskjold

  Fun, Nice, People

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• Love is like a war; easy to start but hard to end and you never know where it might take you.

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny, Witty, War

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• A man, after he has brushed off the dust and chips of his life, will have left only the hard, clean question: Was it good or was it evil? Have I done well - or ill?

  John Steinbeck

  Life, Integrity, Character

  John Steinbeck (1952). “East of Eden, And, The Wayward Bus”

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• Always work hard. Intensity clarifies. It creates not only momentum, but also the pressure you need to feel either friction, or fulfillment.

  Marcus Buckingham

  Motivational, Hard Work, Needs

  "What Does A Strong Life Look Like?" by Marcus Buckingham, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 18, 2010.

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• It is hard work to be good when you are very little and very hungry, and have many sticks to beat you, and no mother's lips to kiss you.

  Ouida

  Mother, Hard Work, Kissing

  Ouida (2016). “Signa”, p.14, Ouida

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• Too many girls follow the line of least resistance, but a good line is hard to resist.

  Mae West

  Girl, Lines, Resistance

  Mae West (1967). “The wit and wisdom of Mae West”

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• A smart man can't beat a hardworking man and a hard working man can't beat a happy working man.

  Taeyang

  Drama, Smart, Hard Work

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• I didn't know you were having a hard time. I really am unqualified to be a teacher. Hurting you there...I'm really sorry.

  Cheon Eunbi

  Teacher, Hurt, Sorry

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