Hard Things Quotes

• A brand for a company is like a reputation for a person. You earn reputation by trying to do hard things well.

  Jeff Bezos

  Inspirational, Success, Business

  "Online Extra: Jeff Bezos on Word-of-Mouth Power". Interview with Robert D. Hof, www.bloomberg.com. August 2, 2004.

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• Procrastination makes easy things hard, hard things harder.

  Mason Cooley

  Inspirational, Procrastination, Literature

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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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  God has allowed hard things in your life so you can show the world that your God is great and that knowing Him brings peace and joy, even when life is hard.

  Francis Chan

  Knowing, Life Is Hard, Joy

  Francis Chan, Preston Sprinkle (2014). “The Francis Chan Collection: Crazy Love, Forgotten God, Erasing Hell, and Multiply”, p.30, David C Cook

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• To look in the face of hard things and keep moving forward - that's what one has to do.

  Anna Godbersen

  Moving, Looks, Faces

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• I think that all of us are 5-year-olds and we don't want to be embarrassed in the schoolyard.

  Helen Hunt

  Thinking, Years, Want

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• Often, our most rewarding dreams are staring us right in the face, but for some reason we focus on how hard things are, how we are scared of the unknown and what would happen if we failed.

  Joel Brown

  Dream, Focus, Faces

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• If you say hard things you must expect to hear them in return.

  Plautus

  Return, Hard, Ifs

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• But guilt is guilt. It doesn't go away. It can't be nullified. It can't even be fully understood, I'm certain - it's roots run too deep into private and long-standing karma. About the only thing that saves my neck when I get to feeling this way is that guilt is an imperfect form of knowledge. Just because it isn't perfect doesn't mean that it can't be used. The hard thing to do is to put it to practical use, before it gets around to paralyzing you.

  J. D. Salinger

  Karma, Running, Mean

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• When we begin to set boundaries with people we love, a really hard thing happens: they hurt. They may feel a hole where you used to plug up their aloneness, their disorganization, or their financial irresponsibility. Whatever it is, they will feel a loss. If you love them, this will be difficult for you to watch. But, when you are dealing with someone who is hurting, remember that your boundaries are both necessary for you and helpful for them. If you have been enabling them to be irresponsible, your limit setting may nudge them toward responsibility.

  Henry Cloud

  Hurt, Responsibility, Loss

  FaceBook post by Henry Cloud from Mar 03, 2016

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• You can never predict what kind of tough decisions are going to come in front of a President's desk. But if you can trust they will do the right thing, and maybe the hard thing, and maybe not the popular thing, and if you really want to know how a person will operate, look at how they've lived their life.

  Ann Romney

  Decision, President, Looks

  "Romney features wife, touts 'character' in new ad" by Cameron Joseph, thehill.com. December 21, 2011.

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• Choosing wealth as a goal requires facing everything about your money bravely, honestly, with courage -- which is a very, very hard thing for most of us to do.

  Suze Orman

  Goal, Wealth, Honestly

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• And behold! He cometh with ten thousands of His holy ones To execute judgment upon all, And to destroy all the ungodly: And to convict all flesh Of all the works of their ungodliness which they have ungodly committed, And of all the hard things which ungodly sinners have spoken against Him.

  Enoch

  Flesh, Judgment, Holy

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• It's a hard thing to hold a civil conversation after recalling that one party has used a Taser on the other, so both of them finished the walk in silence.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Party, Silence, Tasers

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• If we don’t allow ourselves to experience joy and love, we will definitely miss out on filling our reservoir with what we need when. . . . hard things happen.

  Brené Brown

  Joy, Missing, Challenges

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• What do you think dignity's all about?' The directness of the inquiry did, I admit, take me rather by surprise. 'It's rather a hard thing to explain in a few words, sir,' I said. 'But I suspect it comes down to not removing one's clothing in public.

  Kazuo Ishiguro

  Thinking, Few Words, Inquiry

  Kazuo Ishiguro (2010). “The Remains of the Day”, p.210, Vintage

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• It's so easy to love. The only hard thing is to be loved. [Vincent Van Gogh]

  Irving Stone

  Easy, Vans, Hard

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• That stirring which had fluttered in her on first glimpsing the sea—that stirring landlocked children know so well—moved in her now, with the golden stars over head, and the green fireflies glinting on the wooded shore. She carefully unfolded the stirring that she had so tightly packed away. It billowed out like a sail, and she laughed, despite herself, despite hunger and hard things ahead.

  Catherynne M. Valente

  Stars, Children, Firefly

  Catherynne M. Valente (2011). “The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making”, p.176, Feiwel & Friends

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• Not the least hard thing to bear when they go from us, these quiet friends, is that they carry away with them so many years of our own lives.

  John Galsworthy

  Dog, Loss, Animal

  John Galsworthy (2013). “Delphi Works of John Galsworthy (Illustrated)”, p.3602, Delphi Classics

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• It’s a hard thing to explain to somebody who hasn’t felt it, but the presence of death and danger has a way of bringing you fully awake. It makes things vivid. When you’re afraid, really afraid, you see things you never saw before, you pay attention to the world. You make close friends. You become part of a tribe and you share the same blood- you give it together, you take it together.

  Tim O'Brien

  Blood, Giving, Together

  Tim O'Brien (2009). “The Things They Carried”, p.183, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• How my eyes see, perspective, is my key to enter into His gates. I can only do so with thanksgiving. If my inner eye has God seeping up through all things, then can't I give thanks for anything? And if I can give thanks for the good things, the hard things, the absolute everything, I can enter the gates to glory. Living in His presence is fullness of joy- and seeing shows the way in.

  Ann Voskamp

  Eye, Keys, Giving

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• I say to my students that I can't teach them how to write a good song, but I can teach you how to write a better song. Talking about this idea of it being a process. By going back and not settling for something and find a way to step back from your songs-which is a very hard thing to do-but when you're stuck or you can't move forward, start doing some polishing.

  Andy Wilkinson

  Song, Moving, Writing

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• I’ve always been a black sheep. That’s a hard thing to be until you find your calling in life. I was bullied a lot at school, probably because I was perceived to be different from everyone else.

  Natalie Dormer

  School, Sheep, Black

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• When life is good and we have no problems, we can almost let ourselves believe we have no need for God. But in my experience, sometimes the richest blessings come through pain and hard things.

  Anne Graham Lotz

  Pain, Believe, Life Is Good

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• Always do the right thing even when the right thing is the hard thing

  Bryan Stevenson

  Hard, Right Thing

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