Hard Quotes - page 8

Truth is so hard to tell, it sometimes needs fiction to make it plausible. (Francis Bacon)

Judges must beware of hard constructions and strained inferences, for there is no worse torture than that of laws.

Francis Bacon

Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work.

Stephen King

Come let us mock at the great That had such burdens on the mind And toiled so hard and late To leave some monument behind, Nor thought of the leveling wind.

William Butler Yeats

Water continually dropping will wear hard rocks hollow.

Plutarch

I soothe my conscience now with the thought that it is better for hard words to be on paper than that Mummy should carry them in her heart.

Anne Frank

Gravity is a habit that is hard to shake off.

Terry Pratchett

Speak what you think today in words as hard as cannon-balls, and tomorrow speak what tomorrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said today.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Can anybody remember when the times were not hard, and money not scarce.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

You have to have funny faces and words, you can't just have words. It is a powerful thing, and I think that's why it's hard for people to imagine that women can do that, be that powerful.

Ellen DeGeneres

It has taken me years of struggle, hard work and research to learn to make one simple gesture, and I know enough about the art of writing to realize that it would take as many years of concentrated effort to write one simple, beautiful sentence. (Isadora Duncan)

Dying, dying, someone told me just recently, dying is easy. Living is hard. for everyone.

James Hetfield

Our policies must be premised on, and must reinforce, values such as family, hard work, integrity and personal responsibility.

Dan Quayle

Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger.

Franklin P. Jones

Without hard work, nothing grows but weeds.

Gordon B. Hinckley

Leaders are made, they are not born. They are made by hard effort, which is the price which all of us must pay to achieve any goal that is worthwhile.

Vince Lombardi

Attempt the end, and never stand to doubt; Nothing's so hard but search will find it out.

Robert Herrick (poet)

It's very hard to find critics or a magazine today that will publish material that is genuinely independent and written without any concern about being cut off some distributor's list or not be invited or flown into screenings.

Wim Wenders

In order to acquire a growing and lasting respect in society, it is a good thing, if you possess great talent, to give, early in your youth, a very hard kick to the right shin of the society that you love. After that, be a snob.

Salvador Dalí

I find it hard to believe that the machine would go into the creative artist's hand even were that magic hand in true place. It has been too far exploited by industrialism and science at expense to art and true religion.

Frank Lloyd Wright

One has to grow hard but without ever losing tenderness. (Che Guevara)

There are times when you come across somebody that's really impressive, someone that's got a proper living and really does make a difference to people's lives. Then I do feel a bit of a wanker, admitting I'm an actress. That's hard to say to someone who may be making a difference. But I don't know how I could change things.

Michelle Gomez

As I understand it, sport is hard work for which you do not get paid.

Irvin S. Cobb

In the past, it was easier to believe in my own effectiveness. If I worked hard, with good colleagues and good ideas, we could make a difference. But now, I sincerely doubt that.

Margaret Wheatley

I do not know anyone who has got to the top without hard work. That is the recipe. It will not always get you to the top, but should get you pretty near.

Margaret Thatcher

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