Hard Quotes

Hard conditions of life are indispensable to bringing out the best in human personality.

I'm trying to keep my personal life personal. It's very hard for me because I'm a very honest person.

I always laugh the hardest at the stuff you see in day-to-day life. It's great when somebody can tell a joke that really makes you laugh hard, but to see some kind of personal interaction that no one could write is so good. Those are always the things that make me laugh.

Even though I don't feel I need approval, it's still important to me to give a good performance. I'm hard on myself.

I'm a different person off the court than I am on the court, where I'm very competitive, a perfectionist, and I can be hard on myself sometimes. Off the court, nothing really bothers me. I'm easy-going.

It's hard to be perfect, It really is. I keep learning things after I've already bungled it.

I hope to find the perfect band as well, I really do, and I'm working very hard to find that band.

I just found over the years that it's very hard to change people's perception of what it is that you do.

My perception is that I've never done anything but work really hard.

The first album was 99 percent hard core to show you I was the best rhymer in the world.

I've heard people say it looks as if I don't care and I've certainly read that, but the way I play is natural. I don't think I can change it. I know I'm working as hard as the next man, even if it doesn't always look that way.

I'd like to be more patient! I just want everything now. I've tried to meditate, but it's really hard for me to stay still. I'd like to try to force myself to do it, because everybody says how wonderful meditation is for you, but I can't shut my mind up. So patience and learning is the key.

I never want to discourage anyone who chooses the arts as a path because it's hard enough to make it in this business or even get ahead.

I understand the harsh feelings and sentiments from my opponents and their supporters because I myself have been defeated twice in my political life in the past and I understand very well it is hard to accept your own failure.

It's hard to avoid the past but one goes forward.

We have a hope of succeeding if we learn from our past mistakes and pull together to make the hard choices.

Try hard to find out what you're good at and what your passions are, and where the two converge, and build your life around that.

For women in their 30s, it's so hard to get good parts.

Once you've gotten the job, there's nothing to it. If you're an actor, you're an actor. Doing it is not the hard part. The hard part is getting to do it.

Oh, it was so hard to leave Paris, just about my favorite city in the world.

I know people think we drive around in these nice cars and we do whatever we want and our parents will pay our credit cards, but that's not the case. Sure, my parents were generous; I got a nice car at 16, but at 18 I was cut off. I've worked really hard. I opened the store myself.

All parents believe their children can do the impossible. They thought it the minute we were born, and no matter how hard we've tried to prove them wrong, they all think it about us now. And the really annoying thing is, they're probably right.

I had parents who instilled in me the importance of love, morals and hard work. I give God all the glory because he has brought me through so much.

It's hard to learn about your parents' courtship.

It was extremely hard going from being a parent of one to a parent of three, because now all these instant decisions have to be made about how you balance out the time and attention between them.

That's sort of like asking a parent who their favorite child is. It's very hard to determine. Sometimes I'll get feedback from somebody who liked this part of the show. Others like another part of the show.

Ali had a break that was an inch and a half long, and you keep getting hit as hard and as much as I hit Ali, the pain would take over and you would pass out.

The hard work definitely paid off and hard work always does.

I'm glad that I'm being acclaimed as an actor. Today, when my hard work has paid off I can chill out about it.

When you see the orbiter headed out the launch pad and then crawling up the hill and being hard down on the pad, it does something to you.