Easy Things Quotes

• Nothing in the world is worth having or worth doing unless it means effort, pain, difficulty… I have never in my life envied a human being who led an easy life. I have envied a great many people who led difficult lives and led them well.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Success, Pain, Mean

  Theodore Roosevelt, Paul H. Jeffers (1998). “The Bully Pulpit: A Teddy Roosevelt Book of Quotations”, p.120, Taylor Trade Publications

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• According to the ancient Chinese proverb, A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.

  John F. Kennedy

  Travel, New Beginnings, Journey

  Limited Nuclear Test Ban Treaty Address to the Nation, delivered 26 July 1963

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• Doing the easy thing makes you popular. Doing the hard thing makes you a leader.

  Rick Warren

  Leader, Easy, Hard

  FaceBook post by Pastor Rick Warren from Aug 29, 2012

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• A person of responsibility can trust himself to choose the right thing over the easy thing.

  John C. Maxwell

  Responsibility, Easy, Persons

  John C. Maxwell (2007). “There's No Such Thing as "Business" Ethics: There's Only One Rule for Making Decisions”, p.43, Hachette UK

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• It is an easy thing for one whose foot is on the outside of calamity to give advice and to rebuke the sufferer.

  Aeschylus

  Feet, Giving, Advice

  Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides (1956). “The complete Greek tragedies”

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• Think about how much it costs to learn more. Sometimes you want to build confidence by knocking off the easy things.

  Scott D. Anthony

  Thinking, Cost, Want

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• To act well isn't an easy thing.

  Philip Seymour Hoffman

  Easy, Wells

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• Easy things should be easy, and hard things should be possible.

  Larry Wall

  Easy, Should, Hard

  Larry Wall, Tom Christiansen, Jon Orwant (2004). “Programming Perl: 3rd Edition”, p.4, "O'Reilly Media, Inc."

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• Flip-flopping is kind of an easy thing to identify. During a recent convention, we heard an irate Senator make an angry speech declaring that it is not what you say but, rather, what you do that counts. You flip-flop when you make promises and fail to fulfill them.

  Frank Lautenberg

  Promise, Speech, Flip

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• It is easy to follow, but it is uninteresting to do easy things. We find out about ourselves only when we take risks, when we challenge and question.

  Magdalena Abakanowicz

  Challenges, Risk, Easy

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• When I need my wife or when I need companionship or someone to talk to, I need it, like, now. So my wife will have to give up whatever she's doing at that moment to tend to my needs. And in the same way, I would tend to hers. That's not such an easy thing to do.

  Neil Diamond

  Giving Up, Wife, Way

  "Neil Diamond: I'm a High Maintenance Husband" by Marla Lehner, people.com. May 31, 2012.

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• There's a real purity in New Zealand that doesn't exist in the states. It's actually not an easy thing to find in our world anymore. It's a unique place because it is so far away from the rest of the world. There is a sense of isolation and also being protected.

  Elijah Wood

  Real, Unique, Our World

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• Noise is an easy thing to hide behind. If you make a lot of noise and shout behind that, nobody can tell what you're singing.

  Jarvis Cocker

  Singing, Noise, Easy

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• It is not an easy thing to inflate a dog.

  Edward Abbey

  Funny, Dog, Easy

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.54, RosettaBooks

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• I'm almost reluctant to say it because it sounds superficial, but when you lose your hair, it just affects the way that you look at yourself in the mirror. You feel less feminine, pretty or desirable, and it's not an easy thing to go through.

  Joan Lunden

  Mirrors, Hair, Sound

  "Joan Lunden reveals battle with breast cancer". www.foxnews.com. September 24, 2014.

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• The people who support me are so great! They all say such nice things that make me feel really great. I love it when people compliment me on the way I act, because it is not an easy thing, and there is so much criticism out there.

  Austin Butler

  Nice, People, Support

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Making a film, setting it up and getting it cast and getting it together, is not an easy thing

  Daniel Day-Lewis

  Fog, Together, Film

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• To be married in our profession is not an easy thing. Theres too many beautiful people around, very interesting people. Its just a matter of really having-being patient and probably having the capacity and the faith of falling in love with your own wife again. That happens to me.

  Antonio Banderas

  Beautiful, Falling In Love, Love You

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• It's one thing to tell a front man to drop off and fill in the hole behind, but if they don't know why they are doing it, it is not an easy thing to teach. But Rooney's just got it.

  John Toshack

  Men, Easy, Holes

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• It is not an easy thing for a parent of today to bear always in mind that every child of his is as truly an individual as he was when he was a child.

  Henry Clay Trumbull

  Children, Parent, Mind

  Henry Clay Trumbull (1893). “Hints on Child-training”

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• It's not an easy thing to be let go.

  Alice Barrett

  Letting Go, Easy

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• We are not filled with the Spirit of God to do easy things. He fills us with His Spirit so we can do impossible things.

  Joyce Meyer

  Impossible Things, Spirit, Easy

  Joyce Meyer (2012). “Joyce Meyer Ebook Value Bundle”, p.43, Hachette UK

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• The process of finding the truth may not be a process by which we feel increasingly better and better. It may be a process by which we look at things honestly, sincerely, truthfully, and that may or may not be an easy thing to do.

  Adyashanti

  Looks, May, Easy

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• It was just this crazy craziness, and the fact that it was shot in Paris, and it had these incredible people in it. It was an easy thing to say yes to.

  Dianne Wiest

  Crazy, Paris, People

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• Many good people, being influenced by the bold spirit of the times, are now seeking surgery for the wife or the husband so they may avoid pregnancies and comply with the strident voice demanding a reduction of children. It was never easy to bear and rear children, but easy things do not make for growth and development. But loud, blatant voices today shout 'fewer children' and offer the Pill, drugs, surgery, and even ugly abortion to accomplish that. Strange the proponents of depopulating the world seem never to have thought of continence!

  Spencer W. Kimball

  Husband, Children, Pregnancy

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