Hardest Thing Quotes

• Making it look easy is the hardest thing in the world to do.

  Sarah Ban Breathnach

  Friendship, Best Friend, Real Friends

  Sarah Ban Breathnach (1999). “Something More: Excavating Your Authentic Self”, G K Hall & Company

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• Always forgive your enemies - nothing annoys them so much.

  Oscar Wilde

  Love, Inspirational, Funny

  Oscar Wilde (1947). “The Happy Prince”, p.16, New Line Publishing

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• The great Japanese film director Akira Kurosawa said that to be an artist means never to avert your eyes. And that's the hardest thing, because we want to flinch. The artist must go into the white hot center of himself, and our impulse when we get there is to look away and avert our eyes.

  Robert Olen Butler

  Mean, Eye, Artist

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• But I just know from experience that accent wise, even if you're an accent genius, crossing the Atlantic is the hardest thing in the world either way.

  Hugh Grant

  Wise, Way, Genius

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• The hardest thing about my job isn't the snake bites or the crocodiles, it's being away from my children. I have a really religious satellite phone call every day back to the boys, wherever we are, whatever time zone, to say goodnight.

  Bear Grylls

  Religious, Jobs, Children

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• I always knew I had a voice and I've always known I could sing, but I was too shy to let it come out. I think it's the hardest thing to do, to sing in front of people. When I finally let go and did it, I realized it's what I'm most talented at and what I love to do the most.

  Paris Hilton

  Letting Go, Thinking, Voice

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• Our greatest pretenses are built up not to hide the evil and the ugly in us, but our emptiness. The hardest thing to hide is something that is not there.

  Eric Hoffer

  Trust, Beauty, Math

  Eric Hoffer (1955). “The passionate state of mind, and other aphorisms”

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• The hardest thing is to take less when you can get more.

  Kin Hubbard

  Literature, Consumerism, Hardest

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• 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

  Thinking, Style, Term

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

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• Premiering a new opera is probably one of the hardest things in the world to do, and opening nights of any opera are always pretty stressful.

  Rufus Wainwright

  Night, World, Opera

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• One of the hardest things in life is having words in your heart that you can't utter.

  James Earl Jones

  Love, Life, Heart

  James Earl Jones, Penelope Niven (1993). “James Earl Jones: Voices and Silences”, Scribner Book Company

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• It is not a sudden leap from sick to well. It is a slow, strange meander from sick to mostly well. The misconception that eating disorders are a medical disease in the traditional sense is not helpful here. There is no 'cure'. A pill will not fix it, though it may help. Ditto therapy, ditto food, ditto endless support from family and friends. You fix it yourself. It is the hardest thing that I have ever done, and I found myself stronger for doing it. Much stronger.

  Marya Hornbacher

  Sick, Support, Stronger

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• What it's like to be a parent: It's one of the hardest things you'll ever do but in exchange it teaches you the meaning of unconditional love.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Love, Parenting, Inspire

  FaceBook post by Nicholas Sparks from Jun 21, 2011

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• 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

  Thinking, Growing, Becoming

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• The hardest thing to do is something that is close to nothing.

  Marina Abramovic

  Hardest, Things To Do, Hardest Thing To Do

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• Part of the issue of achievement is to be able to set realistic goals, but that's one of the hardest things to do because you don't always know exactly where you're going, and you shouldn't.

  George Lucas

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• I think to an extent every human being needs to be redeemed somewhat or at least needs to look at themselves and say, 'I've made mistakes, I'm off course, I need to change.' Which is probably the hardest thing for a human being to do, and maybe that's why it interests me so.

  Joss Whedon

  Mistake, Thinking, Needs

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• Finding that balance between work and family is the hardest thing I've ever done - by far.

  Gwen Stefani

  Balance, Done, Hardest

  ""September Cover Girl: Gwen Stefani" by Derek Blasberg". www.harpersbazaar.com. August 7, 2012.

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• The hardest thing about skateboarding is consistency: The slightest flick of your foot or gust of wind can send your board flying, so it's really anybody's game out there.

  Shaun White

  Wind, Games, Feet

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• The hardest thing in the world is believing someone can change. It's always easier to go along with the way things are than to admit that you might have been wrong in the first place.

  Jodi Picoult

  Believe, World, Might

  Jodi Picoult (2012). “The Jodi Picoult Collection #4: Change of Heart, Handle with Care, and House Rules”, p.387, Simon and Schuster

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• The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody had decided not to see.

  Ayn Rand

  Inspirational, Live Life, Teaching

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• I think the hardest thing to overcome is judging yourself and being your own worst critic so to speak.

  Nile Rodgers

  Thinking, Judging Yourself, Overcoming

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• I'm not an old, experienced hand at politics. But I am now seasoned enough to have learned that the hardest thing about any political campaign is how to win without proving that you are unworthy of winning.

  Adlai E. Stevenson

  Winning, Hands, Political

  "Adlai Stevenson: A Study in Values". Book by Herbert Joseph Muller, p. 174, 1967.

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• Before you can be anything, you have to be yourself. That's the hardest thing to find.

  E. L. Konigsburg

  Being Yourself, Just Be Yourself, Hardest

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• She said that her father's death had been the hardest thing in her life. "We are all children until our fathers die.

  Melissa Bank

  Children, Father, Said

  Melissa Bank (2000). “The Girls' Guide to Hunting and Fishing”, p.134, Penguin

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