Harder Quotes - Page 40

• Every time you compete, try harder to improve on your last performance. Give nothing short of your very best effort.

  Elgin Baylor

  Motivational, Basketball, Sports

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• When I'd get tired and want to stop, I'd wonder what my next opponent was doing. I'd wonder if he was still working out. I'd tried to visualize him. When I could see him working, I'd start pushing myself. When I could see him in the shower, I'd push myself harder.

  Dan Gable

  Motivational, Sports, Tired

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• After a loss like this we just have to go back and work harder. We got outplayed and that's all there is to it. You have to let it go, move on and just work harder.

  Peyton Manning

  Moving, Hard Work, Athlete

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• Whenever you compete, trying harder is truly the game of diminishing returns and a losing one at that

  Jan Garavaglia

  Athlete, Games, Trying

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• To make astute people believe one is what one is not is, in most cases, harder than actually to become what one wishes to appear.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Believe, Character, People

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• It's hard to win a pennant, but it's harder losing one.

  Chuck Tanner

  Baseball, Winning, Mlb

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• How to hit home runs: I swing as hard as I can, and I try to swing right through the ball... The harder you grip the bat, the more you can swing it through the ball, and the farther the ball will go. I swing big, with everything I've got. I hit big or I miss big. I like to live as big as I can.

  Babe Ruth

  Baseball, Running, Home

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• You'll never succeed in idealizing hard work. Before you can dig mother earth you've got to take off your ideal jacket. The harder a man works, at brute labor, the thinner becomes his idealism, the darker his mind.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Mother, Hard Work, Men

  D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.8255, Delphi Classics

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• Good work is no done by "humble" men. It is one of the first duties of a professor, for example, in any subject, to exaggerate a little both the importance of his subject and his own importance in it. A man who is always asking "Is what I do worth while?" and "Am I the right person to do it?" will always be ineffective himself and a discouragement to others. He must shut his eyes a little and think a little more of his subject and himself than they deserve. This is not too difficult: it is harder not to make his subject and himself ridiculous by shutting his eyes too tightly.

  G. H. Hardy

  Eye, Hard Work, Humble

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• I find I'm luckier when I work harder.

  Denton Cooley

  Hard Work, Achievement, Work Harder

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• Humility is the most difficult of all virtues to achieve; nothing dies harder than the desire to think well of self.

  T. S. Eliot

  Philosophical, Humility, Thinking

  "Shakespeare and the Stoicism of Seneca" (1927)

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• Savages and modern artists are alike strangely driven to create something uglier than themselves. but the artists find it harder.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Art, Savages, Literature

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• Women have to work much harder to make it in this world. It really pisses me off that women don't get the same opportunities as men do, or money for that matter. Because lets face it, money gives men the power to run the show. It gives men the power to define our values and to define what's sexy and what's feminine and that's bullshit. At the end of the day, it's not about equal rights, it's about how we think. We have to reshape our own perception of how we view ourselves.

  Beyonce Knowles

  Inspiring, Running, Sexy

  "Beyonce Documentary Quotes: Lessons We Learned From ‘Life Is But A Dream’". www.huffingtonpost.com. February 16, 2013.

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• Whenever I feel bad, I use that feeling to motivate me to work harder. I only allow myself one day to feel sorry for myself. When I'm not feeling my best I ask myself, 'What are you gonna do about it?' I use the negativity to fuel the transformation into a better me.

  Beyonce Knowles

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Sorry

  "Photo: Beyonce wears granny panties for complex, remains super fly" by Jenna Sally Rubenstein, www.mtv.com. July 19, 2011.

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• That diploma you hold in your hands today is really just your learner's permit for the rest of the drive through life. Remember, you don't have to be smarter than the next person, all you have to do is be willing to work harder than the next person.

  Jimmy Iovine

  Life, Graduation, Smart

  Jimmy Iovine's Commencement Address at University of Southern California in Los Angeles, California, news.usc.edu. May 17, 2013.

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• How much harder it is to bear one's splendor than one's miseries!

  Douglas Harding

  Spiritual, Bears, Splendor

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• He has a heart of gold - only harder.

  Adolphe Menjou

  Funny Inspirational, Funny Life, Heart

  "Fictional character: Oliver Niles". "A Star Is Born", www.imdb.com. 1937.

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• We have the can-do factor, and us doing what we do I think inspires people to just try that little bit harder, whether they are able-bodied or disabled.

  Lee Pearson

  Athlete, Thinking, People

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• You can't really discover the most interesting conflicts and problems in a subject until you've tried to write about them. At that point, one discovers discontinuities in the data, perhaps, or in one's own thinking; then the act of writing forces you to work harder to resolve these contradictions.

  Anthony F. C. Wallace

  Hard Work, Writing, Science

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• What I meant by that is, any time you have adversity, now you've got a chance to see all of these guys play every game the rest of the way like it's a playoff game. What you want guys to do when there's adversity is to play harder and play better, and that's when you see what kind of guys you have in your locker room.

  Mike Shanahan

  Adversity, Games, Play

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• Golf is the only game I know of that actually becomes harder the longer you play it.

  Bobby Jones

  Golf, Games, Play

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• Life's hard. It's even harder when you're stupid.

  John Wayne

  Inspirational, Life, Stupid

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• What is harder than rock, or softer than water? Yet soft water hollows out hard rock. Persevere.

  Ovid

  Life, Motivational, Rocks

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• C makes it easy to shoot yourself in the foot; C++ makes it harder, but when you do it blows your whole leg off.

  Bjarne Stroustrup

  Funny, Witty, Humorous

  Bjarne Stroustrup's FAQ: Did you really say that?, www.stroustrup.com.

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• We believe that people should wait their time, and people should be able to be accepted here - over a million a year - in an orderly process, not a disorderly process, and that we should not be rewarding those who violate the law, and making even harder for those who try to comply with the law.

  Jeff Sessions

  Believe, Years, Law

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