Hard Way Quotes

One of the things I learned the hard way was that it doesn't pay to get discouraged. Keeping busy and making optimism a way of life can restore your faith in yourself.
Lucille Ball

Life, Faith, Yourself

An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way.
Charles Bukowski

Simple, Hard, Artist

I wanted a perfect ending. Now I've learned, the hard way, that some poems don't rhyme, and some stories don't have a clear beginning, middle and end.
Gilda Radner

End, Hard, Perfect

Mistakes are a part of being human. Appreciate your mistakes for what they are: precious life lessons that can only be learned the hard way. Unless it's a fatal mistake, which, at least, others can learn from.
Al Franken

Life, Mistakes, Human

There are two ways to go when you hit that crossroads in your life: There is the bad way, when you sort of give up, and then there is the really hard way, when you fight back. I went the hard way and came out of it okay. Now, I'm sitting here and doing great.
Matthew Perry

Life, Great, Bad

I had a lot of growing up to do. A lot of times, I learned the hard way.
Allen Iverson

Hard, Learned, Times

I never had little brothers, so I was totally not used to hearing a lot of cussing at a young age! I learned what 'pull my finger' meant the hard way.
Danica McKellar

Age, Hard, Learned

Absolute certainty is not something I strive for anymore. I've learned the hard way that destiny usually looks upon our most strident convictions with amusement, or perhaps even pity.
Elizabeth Gilbert

Hard, Destiny, Learned

When I started training, I just started running every day, which you shouldn't do. I learned that lesson the hard way by getting a stress fracture.
Sophia Bush

Stress, Hard, Learned

All dope can do for you is kill you... the long hard way. And it can kill the people you love right along with you.
Billie Holiday

Love, Long, Hard

I've always done things the hard way. I was born like a piece of tangled yarn. The job is trying to untangle it, and I'll probably go on doing it for the rest of my life.
Karen Allen

Life, Job, Hard

Dope never helped anybody sing better or play music better or do anything better. All dope can do for you is kill you - and kill you the long, slow, hard way.
Billie Holiday

Music, Long, Hard

There's a big difference between wanting to work and having to work. And I had to learn that the hard way. Now money is very important to me, because I ain't got it.
James Caan

Work, Money, Important

Governments of all stripes want to deliver growth and rebalance their economies now that they have learned the hard way that, left to their own devices, markets pick expensive banking losers.
Frances O'Grady

Hard, Learned, Growth

Working at Pixar you learn the really honest, hard way of making a great movie, which is to surround yourself with people who are much smarter than you, much more talented than you, and incite constructive criticism; you'll get a much better movie out of it.
Andrew Stanton

Great, Yourself, Hard

Being thrown into the fire and getting the thing turned around in a hurry made it more difficult. Things have been done the hard way. I think you learn better when things are done the hard way.
John Elway

Hard, Fire, Done

It's important to be gentle about my routines. I've learned that the hard way. When I'm really stressed out, I can take it out on my body and hurt myself. Sometimes I need to be as loving and soft with myself as possible. I've had to learn how to pay attention. It's a kind of mind-set.
Lisa Edelstein

Hurt, Important, Hard

I have 5 teenage daughters, and I learned the hard way - it's difficult to talk to any person under the age of 25 without the presence of a cell phone.
Marc Ostrofsky

Age, Hard, Person

My dad's a bodybuilder. My whole life I've been taught to train the hard way. I believe in earning strength, not buying it. My grandfather raised me old school: In baseball, you work for whatever you get.
Gary Sheffield

Life, Work, Strength

You can't do television shows caring whether or not the network picks you up. You can only do them enjoying the work, because if you're always on pins and needles about whether you'll be picked up, you'll lose your mind. I learned that the hard way.
Jon Cryer

Work, Mind, Hard

I wasn't smart enough to read relationship books when I was coming up. I learned everything the hard way.
Michael Ealy

Smart, Hard, Everything

I'm blessed that I'm not content. Whenever I work with kids, which I'm passionate about, I want them to know that, yes, two World Cups, two Asian Cups, but I've done it the hard way.
Timothy F. Cahill

Work, Blessed, Hard

I've never had a career of that kind of box office power. I've always learned the hard way.
Holly Hunter

Power, Hard, Career

I have come up the hard way.
Johnny Olson

I had to be intellectually satisfied as well as emotionally because at that time of life one doesn't just fall into it in adolescent emotion, and I was satisfied at every point that it was the one way and the hard way to do things.
Ruth Pitter

Life, Time, Hard

I never had any financial support or sponsors, and so I always had to, at every level, prove myself the hard way. I was five years in Japan before I got my debut at Le Mans. And I think this is a humble way to get through as a racing driver.
Tom Kristensen

Humble, Hard, Through

Roller-skating and ice-skating are two different things - I found that out the hard way.
Todd Bridges

Hard, Different, Two

I was always accused of being too stiff. In 1974, when I ran my first primary race for state rep, I was chief aide to the speaker of the House, I knew the issues and understood state government. But what I found out the hard way is that you can know all the ins and outs but people want to know you, your family.
Jim Edgar

Family, Government, Hard

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