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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• Sometimes, the hardest thing was doing nothing.

  Scott Westerfeld

  Doing Nothing, Sometimes, Hardest

  Scott Westerfeld (2010). “Extras”, p.111, Simon and Schuster

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• The hardest thing for a musician to learn is how to play WITH people. That's what made the Basie rhythm section.

  Jo Jones

  Music, Play, People

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• I'm a cook, and I'm like, "a dash of this, a pinch of that." I cook with a lot of passion and instinct. So that's the hardest thing - to put an actual recipe together.

  Eva Longoria

  Passion, Together, Recipes

  "Eva Longoria's One Cooking Tip for Men (Also: Pizza)". Interview with Mark Mikin, www.esquire.com. May 3, 2011.

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• Nothing comes at all -- never anything. And I cannot accustom myself to that. It is this monotony, this absolute fixity in life, that is the hardest thing for me to endure. I should like to go away from here. Go away? But where and how? I do not know, and I stay.

  Octave Mirbeau

  Life, Going Away, Should

  Octave Mirbeau (1911). “The Experiences of a Ladies' Maid”

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• The hardest thing about leadership is the intimacy it requires.

  Dallas Willard

  Intimacy, Hardest

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• You know what the hardest thing is? What nobody wants to understand -- is me. People want their memories of me to be my memories of me. But you know what? They're not.

  Hank Aaron

  Memories, People, Want

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• I've loved Kevin McDonald's movies for a while and it was an amazing experience because he really wanted to do something different. It was by far one of the hardest things I've ever done, to wake up every single day and know that you're going to be freezing cold and wet, every single day, 10 times a day, and there's no getting away from it.

  Channing Tatum

  Mcdonalds, Different, Wake Up

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• Playing is much, much harder than composing in my opinion, becoming a player. If you want to be a player for all your life either you decide not to do it professionally and just enjoy it and just do it every weekend, but if you want to be a professional musician- hardest thing I could imagine and I really wasn't capable of doing it.

  John Powell

  Weekend, Player, Want

  Source: collider.com

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• Not following her is the hardest thing I've ever done.

  John Green

  Hipster, Done, Errands

  John Green (2013). “Paper Towns”, p.304, A&C Black

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• One of the hardest things in life to realize is that the person you love could never love you like you love them.

  Carlos Salinas

  Love, Things In Life, Realizing

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• I discovered early that the hardest thing to overcome is not a physical disability but the mental condition which it induces. The world, I found, has a way of taking a man pretty much at his own rating. If he permits his loss to make him embarrassed and apologetic, he will draw embarrassment from others. But if he gains his own respect, the respect of those around him comes easily.

  Alexander P. de Seversky

  Respect, Inspiration, Loss

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• The hardest thing to do is to write straight honest prose on human beings. First you have to know the subject; then you have to know how to write. Both take a lifetime to learn, and anybody is cheating who takes politics as a way out. All the outs are too easy, and the thing itself is too hard to do.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Life, Cheating, Writing

  Ernest Hemingway (2014). “By-Line Ernest Hemingway: Selected Articles and Dispatches of Four Decades”, p.163, Simon and Schuster

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• Forgiving was the hardest thing. Sometimes forgiving was the hardest thing in the whole world.

  Sergei Lukyanenko

  Forgiving, World, Sometimes

  Sergei Lukyanenko (2009). “Last Watch”, p.219, Hachette UK

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• The hardest thing about exercise is to start doing it. Once you are doing exercise regularly, the hardest thing is to stop it.

  Erin Gray

  Motivational, Fitness, Exercise

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• I naturally have an athletic build, thick legs yet a lean upper body. I filled out much later than all my classmates, and I thank God for it now. I had to learn to fix what I can and accept what I cannot fix...That's probably the hardest thing.

  Keri Hilson

  Beauty, Filled Out, Athletic

  "Celebrity Body-Image Confessions: How They Turned Insecurities Into What They Love Most About Their Bods" by Anne Jensen, www.glamour.com.

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• I do know I felt as if my heart had been shredded when I found you in our storeroom, unconscious and bleeding. And leaving you with Vinco in the holding cells was the hardest thing I've ever done." - Riley to Trella

  Maria V. Snyder

  Heart, Cells, Found You

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• The hardest thing was to give meaning to what appeared to have none.

  Tatjana Soli

  Giving, Hardest

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• One of the hardest things to teach a child is that truth is more important than consequences.

  Orlando Aloysius Battista

  Wisdom, Children, Important

  "Quotoons: a speaker's dictionary".

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• Sometimes the greatest tests of our strength are situations that don't seem so obviously dangerous. Sometimes surviving is the hardest thing of all.

  Richelle Mead

  Tests, Sometimes, Dangerous

  Richelle Mead (2010). “Last Sacrifice: A Vampire Academy Novel”, p.10, Penguin

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• Love was the hardest thing. Don't let anyone ever tell you different.

  Kate Atkinson

  Different, Hardest

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• The hardest thing in this world, is to live in it.

  Joss Whedon

  Women, Vampire, World

  "Buffy the Vampire Slayer (The Gift)". TV Series, www.imdb.com. 2001.

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• When it comes to making commitments to other people, sometimes one of the hardest things to learn to say is no when we mean no.

  Rory Vaden

  Mean, Commitment, People

  Rory Vaden (2012). “Take the Stairs: 7 Steps to Achieving True Success”, p.83, Penguin

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