Hard Way Quotes - Page 2

• The hard way builds solidly a foundation of confidence that cannot be swept away

  Colonel Sanders

  Dream, Foundation, Way

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• It's always something that's going to be a part of me. It's the reason why I work so hard each and every day. It's the reason I come to work dedicated to become the best that I can be. Nothing's going to come easy in life, and I've learned a lot of lessons, some the hard way, and I think just the things that I've been through have helped mold me into the person I am and what (is in) my future and that's continuing to do things the right way.

  Michael Vick

  Sports, Commitment, Thinking

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• You know what I'm going to have on my gravestone? 'She did it the hard way.'

  Bette Davis

  Way, Gravestone, Knows

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• All great leaders since Moses have known that a feared enemy must be crushed completely. (Sometimes they have learned this the hard way.) If one ember is left alight, no matter how dimly it smolders, a fire will eventually break out. More is lost through stopping halfway than through total annihilation: The enemy will recover, and will seek revenge. Crush him, not only in body but in spirit.

  Robert Greene

  Crush, Revenge, Fire

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• Most of my colleagues go on backpacking trips when they have to do some thinking. I go to a good hardware store and head for the oiliest, dustiest corners... If they're really good, they don't hassle me. They let me wander around and think. Young hardware clerks have a lot of hubris. They think they can help you find anything... Old hardware clerks have learned the hard way that nothing in a hardware store ever gets bought for its nominal purpose. You buy something that was designed to do one thing, and you use it for another.

  Neal Stephenson

  Thinking, Clerks, Use

  "Zodiac: An Eco-Thriller". Book by Neal Stephenson, May 1988.

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• Lessons that come easy are not lessons at all. They are gracious acts of luck. Yet lessons learned the hard way are lessons never forgotten.

  Don Williams

  Lesson Learned, Luck, Lessons

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• I learnt the hard way about positioning in business, about catering to the right segments.

  Shaffi Mather

  Way, Catering, Hard

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• What I didn't realize was the severity of the crime, so to speak. I think that's important. That's one of the lessons learned here. You move to a new area, you really need to be sure of what the laws and penalties are. You hear those things. You hear, 'Don't speed in Virginia' when you get here, just in casual conversations. What's left out is why you don't speed in Virginia. I learned the hard way, that's for sure.

  Jayson Werth

  Moving, Thinking, Law

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• Sin has made us stupid, so that we can only learn the hard way.

  Peter Kreeft

  Stupid, Way, Sin

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• We are all one - and if we don't know it, we will learn it the hard way.

  Bayard Rustin

  Way, Knows, Hard

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• It [further education] is most essential,otherwise I would not have educated my sons. I learnt the hard way.Maybe if I had some education my success and growth would have been quicker.

  Dhirubhai Ambani

  Inspirational, Son, Growth

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• Becoming a real researcher has been the ultimate humbling experience for me. Nature is the examiner from hell; if you find new things at all, you always find them the hard way, with sweat and tears. Only then do you notice that there was a really easy way to find them. But this insight rarely arrives before you have been utterly humiliated and reduced to despair.

  Joao Magueijo

  Nature, Real, Sweat

  João Magueijo (2004). “Faster Than the Speed of Light: The Story of a Scientific Speculation”, Penguin Group USA

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• The easy way is efficacious and speedy, the hard way arduous and long. But, as the clock ticks, the easy way becomes harder and the hard way becomes easier. And as the calendar records the years, it becomes increasingly evident that the easy way rests hazardously upon shifting sands, whereas the hard way builds solidly a foundation of confidence that cannot be swept away.

  Colonel Sanders

  Years, Long, Records

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• We can count on so few people to go that hard way with us.

  Adrienne Rich

  People, Way, Hard

  Adrienne Rich (1995). “On Lies, Secrets, and Silence: Selected Prose 1966-1978”, p.104, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Uri Geller may have psychic powers by means of which he can bend spoons; if so, he appears to be doing it the hard way.

  James Randi

  Mean, Psychics, Spoons

  "An Encyclopedia of Claims, Frauds, and Hoaxes of the Occult and Supernatural". Book by James Randi, 1995.

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• MAKE ME AN ANGEL THAT FLIES FROM MONTGOMERY, MAKE ME A POSTER OF AN OLD RODEO JUST GIVE ME ONE THING THAT I CAN HOLD ON TO TO BELIEVE IN THIS LIVIN' IS JUST A HARD WAY TO GO.

  John Prine

  Believe, Angel, Giving

  Song: Angel From Montgomery

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• I didn't know," I start truthfully, "that it was the hard way when I started on it.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Way, Knows, Hard

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• We'de have to get in and get out the hard way; and if we made a mistake, there was no telling what sort of curse we'de unleash: monster guardians, plagues, fires, exploding donkeys(don't laugh; they're bad news).

  Rick Riordan

  Mistake, Fire, Laughing

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• Southern women see no point in the hard way. Life is hard enough. So we add a little sugar to the sour. Which is not to suggest Southern women are disingenuous cream puffs. Quite the opposite. When you are born into a history as loaded as the South’s, when you carry in your bones the incontrovertible knowledge of man’s violence and limitations, daring to stay sweet is about the most radical thing you can do.

  Allison Glock

  Sweet, Men, Opposites

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• If you never put your life in someone else's hands, then you can't really expect them to put theirs in yours. In the long run, never trusting anyone is a hard way to live.

  Sabrina Jeffries

  Running, Hands, Long

  Sabrina Jeffries (2011). “How to Woo a Reluctant Lady”, p.273, Simon and Schuster

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• You can get what you want. Never sell out. Don't break. Don't weaken. Don't let the kindness of strangers be your salvation, for it is no salvation at all. Unless you sleep alone, you sleep with the enemy. Never come out of the storm. On the other hand, maybe you should. You don't have what it takes to go the hard way. Come out of the cold and sit by the fire. Let them warm you with the smiles and promise of friendship's fortune. Lose your edge. A soft body and chained mind suit you. Chances are you don't have what it takes to walk the frozen trail. Stay home and relax.

  Henry Rollins

  Kindness, Sleep, Home

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• Hurl yourself at goals above your head and bear the lacerations that come when you slip and make a fool of yourself. Try always, as long as you have breath in your body, to take the hard way–and work, work, work to build yourself into a rich, continually evolving entity.

  Sylvia Plath

  Long, Goal, Trying

  Sylvia Plath (2007). “The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath”, p.47, Anchor

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• I feel that I've always done things the hard way, and I've always felt a lot of pride in earning everything that I have.

  Christine Evangelista

  Pride, Done, Way

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• He's going to learn the hard way. Hopefully he changes his mentality quick.

  Dwyane Wade

  Way, Hopefully, Hard

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• You learn lessons. A lot of them the hard way.

  Taylor Swift

  Way, Lessons, Hard

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