Hardest Quotes

• The most important things are the hardest things to say. They are the things you get ashamed of, because words diminish them - words shrink things that seemed limitless when they were in your head to no more than living size when they're brought out.

  Stephen King

  Feelings, Important, Size

  "The Body". Book by Stephen King, 1982.

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• Explore your limits and get to know yourself. You'll never feel more real than after the hardest workout, the longest run, the toughest week, or the best race of your life. Constantly make your own standards tougher.

  Luke Watson

  Motivational, Running, Workout

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• The worst, the hardest, the most disagreeable thing that you may have to do may be the thing that counts most, because it is the hard discipline, and it alone, that makes possible the highest efficiency.

  Elihu Root

  Discipline, May, Efficiency

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• I'm inspired by failure. The process of defeat – picking yourself back up again is the hardest thing in the world.

  Lolo Jones

  World, Inspired, Defeat

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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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• Singin' in the Rain (1952) and childbirth were the two hardest things I ever had to do in my life.

  Debbie Reynolds

  Rain, Two, Childbirth

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

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• The most important things are the hardest to say

  Stephen King

  I Love You, Valentines Day, Communication

  Stephen King (2016). “Different Seasons”, p.309, Simon and Schuster

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• If we took just 5 minutes to recognize each other's beauty, instead of attacking each other for our differences. That's not hard. It's really an easier and better way to live. And ultimately, it saves lives. Then again, it's not easy at all. It can be the hardest thing, because loving other people starts with loving ourselves and accepting ourselves. I know many of you have struggled with this. I draw upon your strength and your support, and have, in ways you will never know.

  Ellen Page

  Differences, People, Support

  Ellen Page's speech at the Human Rights Campaign's Time to Thrive conference at Bally's Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA, www.youtube.com. February 14, 2014.

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• The hardest tumble a man can make is to fall over his own bluff.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Wisdom, Clever, Lying

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• To be nobody-but-yourself - in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else - means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.

  e. e. cummings

  Inspirational, Motivational, Graduation

  "A Miscellany (A Poet's Advice to Students)". Book by E. E. Cummings edited by George James Firmage, 1958.

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• I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self.

  Aristotle

  Inspirational, Life, Success

  Socrates, Plato, Aristotle (1967). “Wit and Wisdom of Socrates, Plato, Aristotle: Being a Treasury of Thousands of Glorious, Inspiring and Imperishable Thoughts, Views and Observations of the Three Great Greek Philosophers, Classified Under about Four Hundred Subjects for Comparative Study”

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• The hardest thing to understand in the world is the income tax.

  Albert Einstein

  Love, Life, God

  Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.479, Princeton University Press

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• The misfortunes hardest to bear are these which never came.

  Christopher Morley

  Christian, Anxiety, Literature

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• But the waiting time, my brothers,
  Is the hardest time of all.

  Sarah Doudney

  Patience, Brother, Waiting

  Sarah Doudney (1871). “Psalms of life”, p.91

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• The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody had decided not to see.

  Ayn Rand

  Inspirational, Live Life, Teaching

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• Sometimes the hardest thing and the right thing are the same.

  Isaac Slade

  Sometimes, Fray, Right Thing

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• The hardest years in life are those between ten and seventy.

  Helen Hayes

  Funny, Life, Witty

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes".

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• The hardest struggle of all is to be something different from what the average man is.

  Robert H. Schuller

  Inspirational, Crazy, Struggle

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• The easiest kind of relationship for me is with ten thousand people. The hardest is with one.

  Joan Baez

  Friendship, Relationship, Peace

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• Having a baby is one of the most wonderful things in your life, as well as the hardest thing in your life.

  Nuno Bettencourt

  Baby, Wonderful, Wells

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• Let us be of good cheer, however, remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never come.

  James Russell Lowell

  Inspirational, Life, Success

  James Russell Lowell (1892). “Literary and political addresses”

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• Motherhood is the greatest thing and the hardest thing.

  Ricki Lake

  Motherhood, Being A Mom, Inspirational Motherhood

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• The first hundred years are the hardest.

  Wilson Mizner

  Birthday, Years, Firsts

  "Dreamers, Schemers and Scalawags". Book by Stuart B. McIver, 1994.

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• Each Warrior wants to leave the mark of his will, his signature, on important acts he touches. This is not the voice of ego but of the human spirit, rising up and declaring that it has something to contribute to the solution of the hardest problems, no matter how vexing!

  Pat Riley

  Basketball, Sports, Determination

  Pat Riley (1993). “The winner within: a life plan for team players”, Putnam Adult

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• Writing novels is the hardest thing I've ever done, including digging irrigation ditches.

  Thomas Harris

  Writing, Digging, Done

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