Hard Quotes - Page 28

We know how to sacrifice ten years for a diploma, and we are willing to work hard to get a job, a car, a house, and so on. But we have difficulty remembering that we are alive in the present moment, the only moment there is for us to be alive.

I would like to instill in people just to work hard. As long as they keep at it, their dreams will happen.

Every job is good if you do your best and work hard. A man who works hard stinks only to the ones that have nothing to do but smell.

Of all the hardships a person had to face, none was more punishing than the simple act of waiting.

Let us not compare Edward Snowden's situation with that of Chelsea Manning or Jeremy Hammond, who is also imprisoned in the United States. As a result of WikiLeaks' hard work, Edward Snowden has political asylum, has travel documents, lives with his girlfriend, goes to the ballet and earns substantial speaking fees. Edward Snowden is essentially free and happy. That is no coincidence. It was my strategy to undo the chilling effect of the 35 year Manning sentence and it has worked.

If a man knows nothing but hard times, he will paint them, for he must be true to himself.

Be Hard on the issue, Soft on the person.

If you spend enough time reading or writing, you find a voice, but you also find certain tastes. You find certain writers who when they write, it makes your own brain voice like a tuning fork, and you just resonate with them. And when that happens, reading those writers ... becomes a source of unbelievable joy. It’s like eating candy for the soul. And I sometimes have a hard time understanding how people who don’t have that in their lives make it through the day.

I'm continuing to work hard, not without periods of discouragement, but my strength comes back again.

To succeed, work hard, never give up and above all cherish a magnificent obsession.

I'm learning to fly, but I ain't got wings. Coming down is the hardest thing.

No one gives you anything in life. You gotta work hard and go after it to get it.

I don't want riders who work physically hard. Work by thinking.

At no time and in no circumstances should a Communist place his personal interests first; he should subordinate them to the interests of the nation and of the masses. Hence, selfishness, slacking, corruption, seeking the limelight, and so on, are most contemptible, while selflessness, working with all one's energy, whole-hearted devotion to public duty, and quiet hard work will command respect.

Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.

Football is a very short-term proposition. Football really prepares you for nothing. The only thing I got out of football was the ability to work hard, and that's it.

I'm glad I don't have to make a living farming. Too much hard work. Too many variables you don't have control over, like, is it going to rain? All I can say is, god bless the real farmers out there.

Justice demands that the good and hard-working be rewarded and the evil and the lazy be punished (if only by the withholding of the rewards of doing the right things). Modern Liberalism demands that the good and hardworking be punished as the recipients of an unfair advantage and the evil and the lazy be rewarded, their acts of evil and their failure all the proof the Modern Liberal needs that somehow they have been victimized by forces out of their control.

The artist who aims at perfection in everything achieves it in nothing.

It's hard to be always the same person.

The solution to our human frailty is not to try harder, but to turn Godward.

It doesn't take any talent to play hard.

I work hard, but I work from a position of rest.

Miracles do happen, but you have to work hard at them.

Self-esteem is something you have to earn! The only way to achieve self-esteem is to work hard. People have an obligation to live up to their potential.