Hard Things Quotes - Page 3

• Swimming upstream in the music business is a hard thing to do.

  John Oates

  Swimming, Music Business, Things To Do

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• I don't know what the future holds, but I know that God holds tomorrow, so it is exciting. Even when I have hard things happen, He loves me so big, so much. I come through it and I grow from it, because He has got me.

  Barbara Mandrell

  Tomorrow, Bigs, Exciting

  "Barbara Mandrell: Sweetness Through Suffering". Interview with Scott Ross, www.cbn.com.

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• A man of true science... thinks, that by mouthing hard words, he proves that he understands hard things.

  Herman Melville

  Communication, Men, Thinking

  "White-Jacket" by Herman Melville, (Ch. 64), 1850.

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• I don't think I'm unlike a lot of people. I am just someone who is trying to find that mate, and I think it's a really hard thing to do.

  Halle Berry

  Thinking, People, Trying

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• Waiting and hoping is a hard thing to do when you've already been waiting and hoping for almost as long as you can bear it.

  Jenny Nimmo

  Patience, Long, Waiting

  Jenny Nimmo (2012). “Children of the Red King #2: Charlie Bone and the Time Twister”, p.179, Scholastic Inc.

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• Human nature is such that monogamy is a really hard thing to achieve.

  Sienna Miller

  Human Nature, Achieve, Monogamy

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• It's a hard thing to age a character because you can't really suddenly give someone gray hair.

  Alison Bechdel

  Character, Hair, Giving

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• I think love is a really hard thing to define. I think it's multifaceted.

  Sienna Miller

  Thinking, Love Is, Hard

  "Sienna Miller Interview - Edge of Love , G.I. Joe, Keira Knightley, and Old Boy". Interview with Amanda Meyncke, www.mtv.com. March 11, 2009.

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• I think pain is a very - it's an extremely hard thing to empathize moment to moment. And you often don't remember your own pain, you know, that moment that you broke a limb or you burned yourself or, I think, this is a common thing that women talk about with childbirth, that the memory of the pain is hard to summon up and relive, thankfully.

  Hugh Laurie

  Pain, Memories, Thinking

  "Hugh Laurie's 'House': No Pain, No Gain". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. April 25, 2012.

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• I have worked very hard on being aware of my childhood but moving forward and not letting it bring me down emotionally. That is a hard thing - especially when you have children of your own and you remember what happened to you at that age.

  Samantha Morton

  Children, Moving, Childhood

  "The Unloved: An Interview with Samantha Morton". Birds Eye View Interview, www.birds-eye-view.co.uk. February 15, 2010.

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• Any privacy in public is a hard thing to negotiate.

  Benedict Cumberbatch

  Privacy, Hard

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• In creating, the only hard thing is to begin: a grass blade's no easier to make than an oak.

  James Russell Lowell

  Inspirational, Creativity, Play

  James Russell Lowell (1871). “The poetical works of James Russell Lowell”, p.138

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• Endurance is not just the ability to bear a hard thing, but to turn it into glory.

  William Barclay

  Endurance, Bears, Glory

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• It is not so bad being ignorant if you are totally ignorant; the hard thing is knowing in some detail the reality of ignorance.

  Lewis Thomas

  Ignorance, Knowledge, Science

  Lewis Thomas (1990). “A Long Line of Cells Collected Essays”

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• Because Jesus Christ suffered greatly, He understands our suffering. He understands our grief. We experience hard things so that we too may have increased compassion and understanding for others.

  Joseph B. Wirthlin

  Jesus, Grief, Compassion

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• We've got to learn hard things in our lifetime, but it's love that gives you the strength. It's being nice to people and having a lot of fun and laughing harder than anything, hopefully every single day of your life.

  Dag Hammarskjold

  Fun, Nice, People

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• It is a hard thing to let go of mistakes we've made and sins. God wants us to do that because He knows the guilt and the condemnation will keep us from becoming who He has created us to be. Salvation and Christ's love is a gift. You don't earn it. You've got to receive that gift. I think one of the most important things is starting off the day forgiving others and forgiving yourself. You learn from your mistakes, but I don't think you have to drag them back into today.

  Joel Osteen

  Forgiveness, Letting Go, Mistake

  "Joel Osteen on Power of Prayer, Forgiveness, Trusting in God's Timetable". Interview with Melissa Barnhart, www.christianpost.com. September 24, 2013.

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• What you need to do, is to put your will over completely into the hands of your Lord, surrendering to Him the entire control of it. Say, "Yes, Lord, YES!" to everything, and trust Him to work in you to will, as to bring your whole wishes and affections into conformity with His own sweet, and lovable, and most lovely will. It is wonderful what miracles God works in wills that are utterly surrendered to Him. He turns hard things into easy, and bitter things into sweet. It is not that He puts easy things in the place of the hard, but He actually changes the hard thing into an easy one.

  Hannah Whitall Smith

  Change, Trust, God

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• The key to teaching anything is to remember what it was like not to understand that thing. That's a very hard thing to do. Every time you come to understand something you didn't understand before, you are transformed. You become a different person from who you were before. The key to teaching someone else to understand that same thing is to remember your former, untransformed self. If you can do that, I think you can teach anything, even physics.

  David Goodstein

  Teaching, Thinking, Keys

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• Mercies and blessings come in different forms-sometimes as hard things. Yet the Lord said, 'Thou shalt thank the Lord thy God in all things' (D&C 59:7). All things means just that: good things, difficult things-not just some things. He has commanded us to be grateful because He knows being grateful will make us happy. This is another evidence of His love.

  Bonnie D. Parkin

  Grateful, Mean, Blessing

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• It's a hard thing to describe. It's just this sense that you got something to say.

  Jonah Lehrer

  Hard

  Jonah Lehrer (2008). “Proust Was a Neuroscientist”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• A thought is a hard thing to control.

  Susanna Kaysen

  Hard

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• Once we agree with God that we exist for His pleasure and His glory, we can accept whatever comes into our lives as a part of His sovereign will and purpose. We will not resent, resist, or reject the hard things, but embrace them as friends, sovereignly designed by God to make us more like Jesus and to bring glory to Himself.

  Nancy Leigh DeMoss

  God, Religious, Jesus

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• It took a lot of guts to change it and say 'I don't like the life that I'm living and I don't like the swimmer I am', so let's change it completely and say 'Look, I've got to learn to love myself'. And that's been a really hard thing to do because when you've done a performance that you're not proud of and the public and the media have criticized you.....people are really quick to make judgements so it was tough to say 'Well I don't care what you have to say. I'm going to do this for myself and if you don't like me after this, well then, it's too bad'.

  Leisel Jones

  Motivational, Sports, Swimming

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• Cast changes are a hard thing. For two years, we had this little family. We weren't together when these changes were decided upon. It all happened during our hiatus.

  Victoria Pratt

  Years, Two, Together

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