Be hard on yourself, easy on others.
To believe something strongly when it is clearly hard to define and prove, and has not been proven, is to be prejudiced.
I have tried so hard to do the right.
I die hard but am not afraid to go.
Dying is a really hard way to learn about life.
When it's too hard for them, it's just right for us.
The best thing you can say about any coach is his players play hard for him.
I worked hard at becoming a professional football player, just like society says you should. It said you had to be fierce. I was fierce. Tough. I was tough.
Running is so natural to me. When I was running track, people used to ask me, "When are you gonna start running hard?" The wind hits me in the face, and I feel so smooth - Man, I love to run!
When it comes to your life's work, you can't take yourself too seriously. Even Jesus had an occasional joke with the boys, take walking on water, for instance - but there's a time and place for fun. Jesus never faltered when it came time to tip over the money stalls or to take his hard walk up the mountain.
You hear all this stuff about inner peace. Hey, there's nothing wrong with it, but I say, hit that line hard. Crack that book - Do your very best all the time and inner peace will take care of itself. The Deacon guarantees it.
Somebody told me when Abe Lincoln was a young man, studying by firelight, he said, "I will work hard. I will prepare myself. And my time will come." And you know, that's exactly what I said about myself and football - What do you think? Were Abe and I both just lucky ducks?
The three things that are most essential to achievement are common sense, hard work and stick-to-it-iv-ness.
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've worked hard all my life.
When you have a dream you have to work hard to achieve that dream. Your dreams when you are young can be the force that keeps you going.
Training is principally an act of faith. The athlete must believe in its efficacy; he must believe that through training he will become fitter and stronger; that by constant repetition of the same movements he will become more skilful and his muscles more relaxed...He must be a fanatic for hard work and enthusiastic enough to enjoy it.
I wasn't born a world champion. I just worked really hard to become one.
It's a hard life as a professional cricketer. It's not as easy as everyone makes out. To survive you need a tough hide.
I don't think I'll take the medal as the minute and a half of the race I actually won. I'll take it as the last decade of the hard slog I put in.
Over the Christmas period, I spent time with both Bob Hawke and Paul Keating, and you listen to stories and tales of how hard it can be when it's really hard, and I think we easily all talk ourselves into the proposition that it's never been as hard as this. Well it's been hard in the past. It's been really hard. So you keep doing it and, the more you do it, the more you gain strength and confidence that you can do it.
Leadership is an elusive concept, hard to describe and impossible to prescribe. It is more evident in its absence, so that when leadership is needed, its lack is sorely felt.
Some people are born with the necessary gift, and some work hard to build on the few gifts they have.
Becoming yourself is really hard and confusing, and it's a process. It's often not cool to be the person who puts themselves out there.
Hard days are the best because that's when champions are made.
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