Harsh Quotes

• I will be as harsh as truth, and uncompromising as justice... I am in earnest, I will not equivocate, I will not excuse, I will not retreat a single inch, and I will be heard.

  William Lloyd Garrison

  Justice, Retreat, Excuse

  The Liberator, 1 Jan. 1831 (first issue)

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• A gentle answer turns away wrath, but a harsh word stirs up anger.

  Solomon

  Inspirational, Wisdom, Kings

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• Don't be too harsh to these poems until they're typed. I always think typescript lends some sort of certainty: at least, if the things are bad then, they appear to be bad with conviction.

  Dylan Thomas

  Thinking, Conviction, Certainty

  Dylan Thomas, Paul Ferris (1985). “The collected letters”, Scribner

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• I will be as harsh as truth and as uncompromising as justice.

  William Lloyd Garrison

  Truth, Justice, Retreat

  The Liberator, 1 Jan. 1831 (first issue)

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• Whoever is new to power is always harsh.

  Aeschylus

  Power, Literature, Reconstruction

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• The words of Mercury are harsh after the songs of Apollo.

  William Shakespeare

  Song, Apollo, Mercury

  'Love's Labour's Lost' (1595) act 5, sc. 2, l. [938]

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• Speak softly. It is far better to rule by love than fear.Speak softly. Let no harsh words mar the good we may do here.

  Isaac Watts

  Mars, May, Speak

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• When to give grace? I'd rather stand before God knowing I loved others too much rather than regretting that I judged too harshly.

  Lysa TerKeurst

  God, Faith, Christian

  FaceBook post by Lysa TerKeurst from Nov 10, 2014

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• I never hesitated to promote someone I didn't like. The comfortable assistant - the nice guy you like to go on fishing trips with - is a great pitfall. Instead I looked for those sharp, scratchy, harsh, almost unpleasant guys who see and tell you about things as they really are. If you can get enough of them around you, and have patience enough to hear them out, there is no limit to where you can go.

  Tom Watson

  Work, Nice, Fishing

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  Running is a road to self-awareness and reliance-you can push yourself to extremes and learn the harsh reality of your physical and mental limitations or coast quietly down a solitary path watching the earth spin beneath your feet.

  Doris Brown Heritage

  Inspirational, Motivational, Sports

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• Purify your heart. Cleanse it. Make it a wake-up routine. Your environment may be harsh, difficult and tumultuous but if you work on your heart, you can be calm amidst all those challenges.

  Rita Zahara

  Heart, Challenges, Routine

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• Necessity is harsh. Fate has no reprieve.

  Euripides

  Fate, Reprieve

  Euripides (2013). “Euripides II: Andromache, Hecuba, The Suppliant Women, Electra”, p.132, University of Chicago Press

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• Some may belittle politics, but we know - who are engaged in it - that it is where people stand tall. And, although I know it has its many harsh contentions, it is still the arena that sets the heart beating a little faster. And if it is, on occasions, the place of low skulduggery, it is more often the place for the pursuit of noble causes.

  Tony Blair

  Heart, People, May

  "Blair Steps Down, Takes Up Mideast Peace". Interview with Robert Siegel, www.npr.org. June 27, 2007.

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• It is not heroin or cocaine that makes one an addict, it is the need to escape from a harsh reality.

  Shirley Chisholm

  Reality, Addiction, Needs

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• As you pass from the tender years of youth into harsh and embittered manhood, make sure you take with you on your journey all the human emotions! Don't leave them on the road, for you will not pick them up afterwards!

  Nikolai Gogol

  Journey, Years, Emotion

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• I like college football a lot, because it's the dream that you're chasing. The dream of one day possibly making it, with the harsh reality that only one percent make it.

  Ray Lewis

  Football, Dream, Reality

  "Ray Lewis Is Fed Up With Abusive Coaching". Interview with Ryan Bort, www.esquire.com. January 29, 2015.

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• I am apt to be harsh in my secret judgments of others, seeing them as defective because they are not enough like me.

  Phillip Lopate

  Secret, Judgment, Enough

  Phillip Lopate (2004). “Getting Personal: Selected Writings”, p.143, Basic Books

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• Yet birth, and lust, and illness, and death are changeless things, and when one of these harsh facts springs out upon a man at some sudden turn of the path of life, it dashes off for the moment his mask of civilization and gives a glimpse of the stranger and stronger face below.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Spring, Men, Civilization

  Arthur Conan Doyle (2007). “Around the Red Lamp: Medical Life As It Used to Be”, p.47, Fireship Press

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• People are really excited about robotic exploration. I understand the feeling there because, in fact, robots can do things humans can't. They can survive harsh conditions, they can explore places we would never go, plus you never actually have to bring them back.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  People, Feelings, Robots

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• There are but two roads that lead to an important goal and to the doing of great things: strength and perseverance. Strength is the lot of but a few privileged men; but austere perseverance, harsh and continuous, may be employed by the smallest of us and rarely fails of its purpose, for its silent power grows irresistibly greater with time.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Inspirational, Life, Perseverance

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• By patience and determination, rather than by a harsh upsetting of tradition, we move toward our national aspirations.... This is the way we get things done in America. One man tells another, does what he can, till the sum of these efforts grows into a national aspiration-a precious goal. Then occurs our miracle of democracy: because the groundwork has been surely laid, the goal is already within our grasp.

  Newton B. Drury

  Determination, Moving, Men

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• With everything we do in life we identify ourselves. Here is a man who says harsh words to me. I feel anger coming on me. In a few seconds anger and I are one, and then comes misery. Attach yourselves to the Lord and to nothing else, because everything else is unreal. Attachment to the unreal will bring misery. There is only one Existence that is real, only one Life in which there is neither object nor [subject].

  Swami Vivekananda

  Real, Anger, Men

  Swami Vivekananda (2016). “Vivekananda Reader”, p.83, Advaita Ashrama (A publication branch of Ramakrishna Math, Belur Math)

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• A single woman should only marry a man she can follow: Ladies if you are single, be very, very careful who you date and marry. Don't just date a man who you can put up with, marry a man you can trust, you'll follow his leadership, you'll respect him, he's saved, he's godly. The last thing you want is some guy you don't trust, he's not wise, he doesn't do his homework, he's harsh, he's inconsiderate, he's immature, he's a boy, you're more his mother than you are his mate, Real danger...real danger...

  Mark Driscoll

  Wise, Mother, Real

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• I am amazed at the seeker of purity
  When time for polishing comes
  Complaints of harsh treatment
  Love is a lawsuit
  Without evidence, you will not win
  My son, when one beats the rug The beating is not intended against the rug
  But against the dust inside the rug
  My son, that harsh treatment
  Is not intended against you
  But against the ill qualities inside you

  Rumi

  Son, Love Is, Winning

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• Don't let negativity affect your vision. People say harsh things, but don't let them affect you.

  Nicole Polizzi

  People, Negativity, Vision

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