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True courage is not the absence of fear; it is refusing to let fear control your actions. ~ from the book "Do Hard Things -- Alex & Brett Harris
Addiction is a really hard thing to kick. -- Nikki Sixx
Any privacy in public is a hard thing to negotiate. -- Benedict Cumberbatch
Swimming upstream in the music business is a hard thing to do. -- John Oates
Endurance is not just the ability to bear a hard thing, but to turn it into glory. -- William Barclay
It's a hard thing to age a character because you can't really suddenly give someone gray hair. -- Alison Bechdel
In creating, the only hard thing is to begin: a grass blade's no easier to make than an oak. -- James Russell Lowell
An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way. -- Charles Bukowski
I think the hard thing about all these tools is that it takes a fair amount of effort to become proficient. -- Bill Joy
People say keeping it real is a hard thing to do. Keeping it real is easy. Being fake and being soft is hard to do. -- Trick Daddy
As creatives, it's a hard thing to push, to make something you're truly excited about, especially if you've written 100 different concepts and they keep getting shot down. -- Spike Jonze
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
Man, born of woman, has found it a hard thing to forgive her for giving him birth. The patriarchal protest against the ancient matriarch has borne strange fruit through the years. -- Lillian Smith
My journey is about believing that people will actually stick around. It's a hard thing to believe when you don't have a prototype for it. I've had to develop that for myself. -- Jake Weber
Christmas movies, it's a hard thing to do. The danger is you just end up with a Hollywood star with a Santa beard. You risk it being fake and cheesy and not real. -- Peter Baynham
I myself am frustrated in just where sports are at. It's a hard thing when you're out there working every day, and you know that someone else is cheating and they may not necessarily get caught. -- Allyson Felix
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. -- Joel Osteen
My dad turned me onto Peter Sellers as a kid. I loved the fact that he was a unique combination of being extremely subtle and over-the-top all at the same time, and that's a hard thing to do. I admire that. -- Will Ferrell
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
I love doing emotional scenes. As I've had a perfect life, I don't really have much to pull from. But it's really fun and not that challenging. It's almost pretty easy. The hardest thing is to try and make people laugh. That's a really hard thing. -- Hilary Duff
I found out that total creativity involves a certain intellectual rebellion - not to become a criminal, but somehow. to be totally creating, you have to do things that are a little bit forbidden. You have to feel free, and we know freedom is a hard thing to get. -- Philippe Petit
The world is not made up of particles and waves and beams of light with a definite existence. Instead, the world works in a much more exploratory way. It is aware of all the possibilities at once and trying them out all the time. That is a hard thing to picture. -- Neil Turok
Cooking a piece of fish and cooking it right. Knowing the fish, knowing the properties of the fish. That's a hard thing to do rather than covering it with a lot of sauces and foams or other cooking methods that might be high wire acts and look good on the outside. -- Geoffrey Zakarian
It's a very hard thing for all of us to accept ourselves at all the different stages - the horrible side, the wonderful side, the adorable side - and who you are as a grownup. And then to bring what you learned as a child to that grownup: that is the magic of creativity. -- Ellen Greene
The ability to take pleasure in one's life is a skill and is a kind of intelligence. So intelligence is a hard thing to evaluate and it manifests itself in so many different ways. I do think the ability to know how to live a life and not be miserable is a sign of that. -- Todd Solondz
It's a hard thing for me to wrap my mind around the C word: celebrity. Rock stars are celebrities because they're larger than life. As an actor, you have to play the everyman and the everygirl. If you start treating people in the real world like assistants, that's not a good look. But my friends keep me grounded. -- Channing Tatum
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
Freedom is a hard-bought thing. -- Paul Robeson
A thought is a hard thing to control. -- Susanna Kaysen
Putting off a hard thing makes it impossible. -- George Horace Lorimer
Hatred must be a hard thing to learn. -- Margarita Engle
Trust is a hard thing to win back. -- Behnam Rajabpoor
The body is a damn hard thing to kill. -- Anne Sexton
There's no such thing as simple. Simple is hard. -- Martin Scorsese
How hard a thing 'twould be to please you all. -- William Congreve
Ambiguity in directors is a hard thing to deal with. -- Skeet Ulrich
The only thing that overcomes hard luck is hard work. -- Harry Golden
A constant FRIEND is a thing rare and hard to find. -- Mary Engelbreit
The broad comedy thing is really hard to do on film. -- Paul Giamatti
The only thing that could pull me away, was hard work. -- Ray Lewis
Moving on, is a simple thing, what it leaves behind is hard. -- Dave Mustaine
Working on the right thing is probably more important than working hard. -- Caterina Fake
Don't chase people. Be yourself, do your own thing and work hard -- Will Smith
People who try hard to do the right thing always seem mad. -- Stephen King
It is hard for a flat thing to understand a round one. -- Arthur Dove
Trust in this life is a hard thing to earn and keep. -- Jonathan Burkett
It's hard to explain and best thing to do is not be false. -- Jack Kerouac
There's no such thing as talent; you just have to work hard enough. -- David Mamet
One thing that founders always underestimate is how hard it is to recruit. -- Sam Altman
Sisterhood is a funny thing. It's easy to recognize, but hard to define. -- Pearl Cleage
Fame is a funny thing, like a secret, both are hard to keep. -- Richard Peck
Human nature is such that monogamy is a really hard thing to achieve. -- Sienna Miller
A strange thing, words. Once they're said, it's hard to imagine they're untrue. -- Lauren DeStefano
In Wall Street, the only thing that's hard to explain is next week. -- Louis Rukeyser
A strange thing, words. Once they're said, it's hard to imagine they're untrue. -- Lauren DeStefano
It's hard to just kinda get some privacy and do your own thing. -- Shaun White
It's hard to do that, to decide to believe one thing over another. -- Carol Rifka Brunt
I wouldn't trade or change a thing, and I've had some hard times. -- BeBe Winans
The hardest thing to do is work hard when no one is watching. -- Ray Lewis
We try so hard to instruct our children in all the right thing -- Richelle E. Goodrich
I think life is a wondrous thing. I'm happy to try pretty hard. -- Andrew Bird
Happiness is a hard thing because it is achieved only by making others happy. -- Stuart Cloete
That's evolution. Evolution's always hard. Hard and bleak. No such thing as happy evolution -- Haruki Murakami
The really important thing to be was yourself, just as hard as you could. -- Neil Gaiman
I think love is a really hard thing to define. I think it's multifaceted. -- Sienna Miller
Reality is hard. It is no walk in the park, this thing called Life. -- Patty Duke
The one thing I've always done is work hard. That's not going to change. -- Chamique Holdsclaw
Yeah, the first thing that comes to mind is not to try too hard. -- Leo Kottke
Always do the right thing even when the right thing is the hard thing -- Bryan Stevenson
Sometimes a thing that's hard is hard because you're doing it wrong. (Point Omega) -- Don DeLillo
There's only one thing we can control, and that is how hard we play. -- Don Meyer
In the end you should always do the right thing even if it's hard. -- Nicholas Sparks
Accepting your flaws is a hard thing to do when you're constantly reminded of them. -- Auliq Ice
We're really up against it, we poor women: A bachelor's a hard thing to convert -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
I've always worked really hard, and the hardest thing I've ever done is have kids! -- Gwen Stefani
It's a hard thing to leave any deeply routine life, even if you hate it. -- John Steinbeck
Something gets lost when you translate. It's hard to keep straight. Perspective is every thing. -- Aimee Mann
Doing the easy thing makes you popular. Doing the hard thing makes you a leader. -- Rick Warren
Look, Rose. You don't have to keep up with the hard-to-get thing. You already got me. -- Richelle Mead
Putting off an easy thing makes it hard. Putting off a hard thing makes it impossible. -- George C. Lorimer
If you don't back it up with performance and hard work, talking doesn't mean a thing. -- Michael Jordan
Casting ethnic characters is a very hard thing to do, but it's important. It's also interesting. -- Darren Aronofsky
It's a hard thing to describe. It's just this sense that you got something to say. -- Jonah Lehrer
It hasn't been hard getting nominated, but winning it is another thing. The competition is tough. -- Gary Burton
Money is that thing that you work so hard to save but gets spent so easily. -- Jang In-hwan
The thing I would like most to leave behind is to be remembered for trying hard. -- Pete Rose
I find it hard to pre-plan every element of everything I do. It's not my thing. -- John Malkovich
It must be a hard thing to kill a man you don't know and don't hate. -- John Steinbeck
It's so easy to love. The only hard thing is to be loved. [Vincent Van Gogh] -- Irving Stone
The best thing you can say about any coach is his players play hard for him. -- Terry Bradshaw
I think life too complex a thing to be settled by these hard and fast rules. -- Oscar Wilde
Prepare, You lovers, to know Love a thing of moods: Not like hard life, of laws. -- George Meredith
A heart's a hard thing to live without. I should know. I've tried it," he said. -- P. C. Cast
It was a very hard thing to have crushed the heart, and the hopes, of a friend. -- Kristin Cashore
Endurance is not just the ability to bear a hard thing, but to turn it into glory -- William Barclay
He loves deep... hates hard, ever'thing's that killed what he loves. All great warriors are sich men. -- Forrest Carter
Television is a very different thing from video games. It's kind of hard for me to compare. -- Will Wright
The most important thing in business is honesty, integrity, hard work familynever forgetting where we came from, -- Frank Lucas
Don't blame me. That's evolution. Evolution's always hard. Hard and bleak. No such thing as happy evolution. -- Haruki Murakami
The only thing worse than being misquoted is being sentenced to two years' hard labour for buggery -- Oscar Wilde
Falling hard and fast. And there didn't seem to be a thing I could do about it. -- Lisa Kleypas
Comedy teams are a real hard thing to do. That's why you don't see any of them. -- Cheech Marin
Saying 'yes' to one thing means saying 'no' to another. That's why decisions can be hard sometimes. -- Sean Covey
It's hard to invent a new thing, and it's just as hard to invent another new thing. -- Steve Ballmer
I still feel like I'm trying to make it. It's hard to shed the struggling actor thing. -- Mark Ruffalo
Working hard is one thing, but working hard with purpose is what separates the good from the great -- Thad Matta
The nice thing about animation is that you can realise your inventions without understanding all the hard theory. -- Nick Park
Hard words are very rarely useful. Real firmness is good for every thing. Strut is good for nothing. -- Alexander Hamilton
There is no substitute for hard work. There is no such thing as overnight success or easy money. -- Henry Sy
If hard work were such a wonderful thing, surely the rich would have kept it all to themselves. -- Lane Kirkland
Success in business doesn't come without passion, vision, hard work, and knowing that you're doing the right thing. -- Lynn Forester de Rothschild
It is a tremendously hard thing to pray aright, yea, it is verily the science of all sciences. -- Martin Luther
The important thing is to keep the fire in your heart and be strong to overcome hard moments. -- Paulo Coelho
My dad said I did the right thing. I hope I did, but it's hard to tell sometimes. -- Stephen Chbosky
It is as hard and severe a thing to be a true politician as to be truly moral. -- Francis Bacon
It is awfully easy to be hard-boiled about everything in the daytime, but at night it is another thing. -- Ernest Hemingway
It's a hard thing to explain, but the more I arrange for strings, the more I realize the possibilities. -- M. Ward
I think trying too hard to be sexy is the worst thing in the world a woman can do. -- Christian Bale
It is a hard, embittering thing to have one's kind feelings and good intentions cast back in one's teeth. -- Anne Bronte
I tell myself relationships are hard work. No one is perfect. There's no such thing as happily ever after. -- Laura Nowlin

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