Harder Quotes - Page 2

• Try a little harder to be a little better.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Inspirational, Insperational, Trying

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• Yes, it's hard to write. But it's harder not to.

  Carl Clinton Van Doren

  Writing, Hard

  "Writing with Authors Kids Love: Writing Exercises by Authors of Children's Literature". Book by Kathryn L. Johnson, 1998.

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• It is even harder for the average ape to believe that he has descended from man.

  H. L. Mencken

  Funny, Witty, Humorous

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• Hard work certainly goes a long way. These days a lot of people work hard, so you have to make sure you work even harder and really dedicate yourself to what you are doing and setting out to achieve.

  Lakshmi Mittal

  Motivational, Commitment, Hard Work

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• All men are created equal. Some work harder in preseason.

  Emmitt Smith

  Hard Work, Men, Work Harder

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• One of the hardest decisions you'll ever face in life is choosing whether to walk away or try harder.

  Ziad K. Abdelnour

  Perseverance, Giving Up, Choices

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• That's been one of my mantras - focus and simplicity. Simple can be harder than complex: You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple. But it's worth it in the end because once you get there, you can move mountains.

  Steve Jobs

  Change, Inspiring, Life Changing

  "The 13 Most Memorable Quotes From Steve Jobs" by Dylan Love, www.businessinsider.com. October 5, 2011.

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• Being a good actor isn't easy. Being a man is even harder. I want to be both before I'm done.

  James Dean

  Men, Actors, Done

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

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• Freedom isn't free. It shouldn't be a bragging point that 'Oh, I don't get involved in politics,' as if that makes someone cleaner. No, that makes you derelict of duty in a republic. Liars and panderers in government would have a much harder time of it if so many people didn't insist on their right to remain ignorant and blindly agreeable.

  Bill Maher

  Liars, Government, People

  Bill Maher (2003). “When You Ride Alone You Ride with Bin Laden: What the Government Should Be Telling Us to Help Fight the War on Terrorism”, New Millenium

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• If you don't have time, the truth is, you don't have priorities. Think harder; don't work harder.

  Tim Ferriss

  Hard Work, Thinking, Priorities

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• [T]here is a vast difference in the attitude of a man with a gun in his hand and that of one without a gun in his hand. When a man does not have a gun in his hand, or a woman for the matter, he or she tries harder to use his or her mind, sense of compassion, and intelligence to work out a solution.

  Aung San Suu Kyi

  Attitude, Men, Compassion

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• Painting is a lot harder than pickin' cotton. Cotton's right there for you to pull off the stalk, but to paint, you got to sweat your mind.

  Clementine Hunter

  Sweat, Mind, Cotton

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• Basically, I'm going to take what you did, the bare-bones structure of what you were trying to do, how you were attacking the song, and attack it in pretty much the same way, just with more intensity to show you that you could've come harder. Like, I've been in situations where I've had to tell a cat how to rhyme his rhyme.

  Bun B

  Song, Cat, Trying

  Interview with Jon Caramanica, believermag.com. June 1, 2006.

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• I don't like seeing the stuff that's not polished. It's harder for me to step away from it and watch that.

  Ryan Reynolds

  Watches, Stuff, Steps

  Source: collider.com

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• Obviously, when I came to do the movie I knew that I was going to have to take my clothes off so I might have worked a little bit harder to keep myself fit. But I think that's the irony of it - you see all these fit and healthy people, and I'm not making any comments on it, but everybody deep down is a f**k up somewhere.

  Daniel Craig

  Thinking, Clothes, People

  "Flashbacks Of A Fool - Daniel Craig interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• Pedigree matters: if you break your shoulder trying to open a door, it's much harder to play the game once you get in the room.

  Audra McDonald

  Doors, Games, Play

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• It is easy to find truth, though it is hard to face it, and harder still to follow it.

  Fulton J. Sheen

  Faces, Easy, Stills

  Fulton J. Sheen (2017). “Go to Heaven: A Spiritual Road Map to Eternity”, p.24, Ignatius Press

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• The first rule for prayer, the most important first step, is not about how to do it, but to just do it; not to perfect and complete it but to begin it. Once the car is moving, it's easy to steer it in the right direction, but it's much harder to start it up when it's stalled. And prayer is stalled in our world.

  Peter Kreeft

  Prayer, Moving, Our World

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• It's hard to drive at the limit, but it's harder to know where the limits are.

  Stirling Moss

  Limits, Knows, Hard

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• Writing is like sex. The more you think about it, the harder it is to do. It's better not to think about it so much and just let it happen.

  Stephen King

  Sex, Writing, Thinking

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• Perhaps the safest thing to do at the outset, if technology permits, is to send music. This language may be the best we have for explaining what we are like to others in space, with least ambiguity. I would vote for Bach, all of Bach, streamed out into space, over and over again. We would be bragging of course, but it is surely excusable to put the best possible face on at the beginning of such an acquaintance. We can tell the harder truths later.

  Lewis Thomas

  Technology, Space, Would Be

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

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• We have had so many years of prosperity, we have passed through so many difficulties and dangers without the loss of liberty - that we begin to think that we hold it by divine right from heaven itself ... It is harder to preserve than to obtain liberty.

  John C. Calhoun

  Loss, Thinking, Years

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• For the greater a man's works for the future, the less the present can comprehend them; the harder his fight, and the rarer success. If, however, once in centuries success does come to a man, perhaps in his latter days a faint beam of his coming glory may shine upon him. To be sure, these great men are only the Marathon runners of history; the laurel wreath of the present touches only the brow of the dying hero.

  Adolf Hitler

  Hero, Fighting, Men

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• Tranquility is like quicksilver. The harder you grab for it, the less likely you will grasp it.

  Bernard Williams

  Tranquility

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• I divide the word into learners and nonlearners. There are people who learn, who are open to what happens around them, who listen, who hear the lessons. When they do something stupid, they don't do it again. And when they do something that works a little bit, they do it even better and harder the next time. The question to ask is not whether you are a success or a failure, but whether you are a learner or a nonlearner.

  Benjamin Barber

  Stupid, People, Littles

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