Hard Quotes

Ignorance is stubborn and prejudice is hard.
Adlai E. Stevenson

Ignorance, Stubborn, Prejudice

It's hard to say what I want my legacy to be when I'm long gone.
Aaliyah

Long, Gone, Legacy

Writing is hard work and bad for the health.
E. B. White

Work, Health, Bad

I don't try to focus on anything that doesn't affect me personally and how I go out there every single day. I'm just going to continue to work hard and focus on what I can control.
Tim Tebow

Work, Focus, Single

Bad psychoanalysis would say I enjoyed pleasing people, working really hard and pleasing people, which is probably related to my father in some way. But I really liked working hard. When I worked at Disneyland, I'd do 12 hours straight and go home thrilled.
Steve Martin

Home, Bad, Father

It's hard sometimes to not want to know what people are saying behind your back and to ignore certain things that are being written.
Sienna Miller

Saying, Ignore, Sometimes

And I'm going to work as hard as I can... for cancer research and hopefully, maybe, we'll have some cures and some breakthroughs. I'd like to think I'm going to fight my brains out to be back here again next year for the Arthur Ashe recipient. I want to give it next year!
Jim Valvano

Work, Fight, Give

If somebody says no to you, or if you get cut, Michael Jordan was cut his first year, but he came back and he was the best ever. That is what you have to have. The attitude that I'm going to show everybody, I'm going to work hard to get better and better.
Magic Johnson

Work, Best, Attitude

It's difficult to speak with beautiful people. No matter how hard you try to pretend otherwise, you still want them to like you.
Doug Coupland

Beautiful, Try, Difficult

Any time you end a relationship, and everyone has ended plenty in their life, it's always a tough thing and hard to get over.
Adam Brody

Life, Time, End

I'm not as hard on myself anymore. I'm comfortable exactly where I am, though it took me until I was 34 years old! I still have things I'm really insecure about, but I've changed by loving me - C-section scars, stretch marks, and all.
Jenny McCarthy

Insecure, Old, Until

I get crazy in a bookstore. It makes my heart beat hard because I want to buy everything.
Reese Witherspoon

Crazy, Heart, Makes

What I work hard at doing is staying on a path of being kind and showing and proving that I'm a good person to society. That's hard. The talent, that's a gift. I just came here like that.
Erykah Badu

Work, Good, Society

To make our way, we must have firm resolve, persistence, tenacity. We must gear ourselves to work hard all the way. We can never let up.
Ralph Bunche

Work, Ourselves, Tenacity

I do remember how it was to be poor. I do remember that in my early years, we had to grow and raise all of our food, even our animals. And I remember in my early life, we didn't even have electricity. So it was very, very hard times then.
Dolly Parton

Life, Food, Remember

I know that in life there will be sickness, devastation, disappointments, heartache - it's a given. What's not a given is the way you choose to get through it all. If you look hard enough, you can always find the bright side.
Rashida Jones

Life, Through, Find

Put your ear down close to your soul and listen hard.
Anne Sexton

Down, Soul, Put

My childhood was safe and sane. No abuse and no traumas. I was surrounded by a large and loving family who taught me the importance of hard work and a meaningful education.
Ronnie James Dio

Education, Work, Family

As Americans, we don't see the role of government as guaranteeing outcomes, but allowing free men and women to flourish based on their own vision, their hard work and their personal responsibility.
Rick Perry

Work, Women, Men

Dreams can become a reality when we possess a vision that is characterized by the willingness to work hard, a desire for excellence, and a belief in our right and our responsiblity to be equal members of society.
Janet Jackson

Dreams, Work, Society

The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it.
Norman Schwarzkopf

I knew I could only play Cyrano if he were Americanized. I had no intention of writing the script myself. I was afraid of it. You're playing with fire when you tamper with a classic. So I went looking for a writer. But it was such a personal idea, and anyone I would give it to would make it his own. It's hard to ask Neil Simon to write your idea.
Steve Martin

Writing, Fire, Give

I work very hard, but when God opens that door for you - when life opens that door for you, I should say - I think it's important to be giving, to return the love back.
Lady Gaga

Life, Love, Work

You know the best thing about competition? There's this whole strategy game, and when it all works out its like solving that hard math equation. You finally get the answer and you're so happy.
Shaun White

Best, Happy, Game

We're in a world where there's famine and hunger and people are dodging bullets and having their nails pulled out in dungeons so it's very hard for me to place any high value on the work that I do to write a song. Yeah, I work hard but compared to what?
Leonard Cohen

Work, Place, Write

Don't try too hard to be something you're not.
Daniel Radcliffe

Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance or a stranger.
Franklin P. Jones

Friend, Honest, Criticism

What helps luck is a habit of watching for opportunities, of having a patient but restless mind, of sacrificing one's ease or vanity, or uniting a love of detail to foresight, and of passing through hard times bravely and cheerfully.
Victor Cherbuliez

Love, Mind, Through

I find it hard to believe that human beings are the crowning achievement of life on earth. Something better than us has to come along.
Doug Coupland

Life, Human, Find

Forget about being world famous, it's hard enough just getting the automatic doors at the supermarket to acknowledge our existence.
Doug Coupland

Famous, Forget, Enough

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