Raising children is an incredibly hard and risky business in which no cumulative wisdom is gained: each generation repeats the mistakes the previous one made.
Bill Cosby

Let the word go forth from this time and place, to friend and foe alike, that the torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans - born in this century, tempered by war, disciplined by a hard and bitter peace.
John F. Kennedy

When you play, play hard; when you work, don't play at all.
Theodore Roosevelt

It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.
Theodore Roosevelt

Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.
Theodore Roosevelt

I don't pity any man who does hard work worth doing. I admire him. I pity the creature who does not work, at whichever end of the social scale he may regard himself as being.
Theodore Roosevelt

Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for.
Socrates

It is hard to interest those who have everything in those who have nothing.
Helen Keller

Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.
Peter Drucker

No memory of having starred atones for later disregard, or keeps the end from being hard.
Robert Frost

In the world there is nothing more submissive and weak than water. Yet for attacking that which is hard and strong nothing can surpass it.
Lao Tzu

A soldier will fight long and hard for a bit of colored ribbon.
Napoleon Bonaparte

Power is my mistress. I have worked too hard at her conquest to allow anyone to take her away from me.
Napoleon Bonaparte

The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it.
Robert H. Schuller

A hard man is good to find.
Mae West

It's hard to be funny when you have to be clean.
Mae West

Blues is easy to play, but hard to feel.
Jimi Hendrix

Have convictions. Be friendly. Stick to your beliefs as they stick to theirs. Work as hard as they do.
Eleanor Roosevelt

Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though sometimes it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and grieves which we endure help us in our marching onward.
Henry Ford

Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.
Henry Ford