Hard Life Quotes - Page 2

• A problem is a chance for you to do your best.

  Duke Ellington

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

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• Remember that very little is needed to make a happy life.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Inspirational, Life, Happiness

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• Focus and simplicity...once you get there, you can move mountains.

  Steve Jobs

  Life Lesson, Moving, Simple

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• In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.

  Robert Frost

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• When I hear somebody sigh, 'Life is hard,' I am always tempted to ask, 'Compared to what?'

  Sydney J. Harris

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

  Sydney J. Harris (1953). “Strictly personal”

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• When a soldier complains of his hard life (or a labourer, etc.) try giving him nothing to do.

  Blaise Pascal

  Giving, Soldier, Trying

  Blaise Pascal (1966). “Pascal Pensées”, Penguin Classics

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• Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "From Telegraph to Light Bulb with Thomas Edison". Book by Deborah Headstrom-Page, 2007.

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  Life is hard; it's harder if you're stupid.

  John Wayne

  Funny, Life, Leadership

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• I've watched those shows my whole life - being on one is like a dream. It's hard to balance that dream with the fact that this is the Edie I've known my whole life.

  Edie Falco

  Dream, Balance, Facts

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  Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.

  Dale Carnegie

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Dale Carnegie (2017). “How to enjoy your life and your job”, p.59, Diamond Pocket Books Pvt Ltd

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• When you get into a tight place, and everything goes against you till it seems as if you could n't hold on a minute longer, never give up then, for that 's just the place and time that the tide'll turn.

  Harriet Beecher Stowe

  Inspirational, Motivational, Strength

  "Old Town Folks". Book by Harriet Beecher Stowe. Chapter 39, p. 507, 1869.

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  Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.

  Harriet Beecher Stowe

  Inspirational, Motivational, Moving On

  Harriet Beecher Stowe (1896). “Oldtown folks. Sam Lawson's Oldtown fireside stories”

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• If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude.

  Maya Angelou

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

  Twitter post from Jan 15, 2017

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  It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.

  Confucius

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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  Dreams do come true, if we only wish hard enough, You can have anything in life if you will sacrifice everything else for it.

  James M. Barrie

  Life, Dream, Sacrifice

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• In life, all good things come hard, but wisdom is the hardest to come by.

  Lucille Ball

  Reality, Good Things, Hardest

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Try hard to find out what you're good at and what your passions are, and where the two converge, and build your life around that.

  Joshua Lederberg

  Passion, Two, Life Is Hard

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• Work hard, earn a great living, get whatever you want out of life, have all the stuff you want. But there should be a ceiling on it-enough is enough!

  Sandy Duncan

  Hard Work, Life Is Hard, Ceilings

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• Why am I so soft in the middle when the rest of my life is so hard?

  Paul Simon

  Squash, Life Is Hard, Middle

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• My kids idea of a hard life is to live in a house with only one phone.

  George Foreman

  Life, Teenage, Kids

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• It is not reason which makes faith hard, but life.

  Jean Ingelow

  Life Is Hard, Reason, Hard

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• I think life is full of challenges and problems. I don't believe that anyone is perfect. We all make mistakes. It's not a bed of roses, and you have to work real hard at it.

  Nigel Mansell

  Sports, Mistake, Real

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• At the core of life is a hard purposefulness, a determination to live.

  Howard Thurman

  Life, Determination, Purposefulness

  Howard Thurman (1963). “Disciplines of the spirit”, Friends United Pr

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• I wanted to make a movie, because the whole life of the movies appealed to me. You work hard for three or four months, then you don't work at all for a couple of months.

  Gregory Hines

  Couple, Hard Work, Life Is Hard

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• Hate no one, no matter how much they've wronged you. Live humbly, no matter how wealthy you become. Think positively, no matter how hard life is. Give much, even if you've been given little. Keep in touch with the ones who have forgotten you, and forgive who has wronged you, and do not stop praying for the best for those you love.

  Ali ibn Abi Talib

  Hate, Thinking, Giving

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