Hard Quotes

"It is as hard to see one's self as to look backwards without turning around."
-Henry David Thoreau

"He is a hard man who is only just, and a sad one who is only wise."
-Voltaire

"Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle."
-Plato

"Make yourself necessary to somebody. Do not make life hard to any."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

"'All say, 'How hard it is to die' - a strange complaint to come from the mouths of people who have had to live."
-Mark Twain

"All say, 'How hard it is that we have to die'--a strange complaint to come from the mouths of people who have had to live."
-Mark Twain

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

"It's so hard to know what to do when one wishes earnestly to do right."
-George Bernard Shaw

"Men will fight long and hard for a bit of colored ribbon."
-Napoleon Bonaparte

"It is hard enough to remember my opinions, without also remembering my reasons for them!"
-Friedrich Nietzsche

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

"Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though sometimes it is hard to realize this."
-Henry Ford

"It is well, I die hard, but I am not afraid to go."
-George Washington

"I'm trying as hard as I can, and sometimes things don't go your way, and that's the way things go."
-Tiger Woods

"It's hard to beat a person who never gives up."
-Babe Ruth

"It is pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness; poverty and wealth have both failed."
-Kin Hubbard

"Hard work's a good distraction."
-Scott Westerfeld

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

"Use soft words and hard arguments."
-English Proverb

"When I hear somebody sigh, 'Life is hard,' I am always tempted to ask, 'Compared to what?'"
-Sidney J. Harris

"Do the hard jobs first. The easy jobs will take care of themselves."
-Dale Carnegie

"Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee and just as hard to sleep after."
-Anne Morrow Lindbergh

"It's hard to beat somebody when they don't give up."
-Babe Ruth

"...it is as hard to do your duty when men are sneering at you as when they are shooting at you."
-Woodrow Wilson

"The school of hard knocks is an accelerated curriculum."
-Menander

""...I know it's hard when you're up to your armpits in alligators to remember you came here to drain the swamp. (February 10, 1982)."
-Ronald Reagan

"I blame the politicians, ... The Air Force has a manual on how to fight a war. You hit them as hard as you can right at first."
-Lyndon B. Johnson

"The image is one thing and the human being is another, it's very hard to live up to an image."
-Elvis Presley