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Procrastination makes easy things hard, hard things harder. -- Mason Cooley
A man thinks that by mouthing hard words he understands hard things. -- Herman Melville
If you would only recognize that life is hard, things would be so much easier for you. -- Louis D. Brandeis
A brand for a company is like a reputation for a person. You earn reputation by trying to do hard things well. -- Jeff Bezos
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
Easy things should be easy, and hard things should be possible. -- Larry Wall
Hard things take time to do. Impossible things take a little longer. -- Percy Cerutty
Doing the easy thing makes you popular. Doing the hard thing makes you a leader. -- Rick Warren
The hard things in life, the things you really learn from, happen with a clear mind. -- Caroline Knapp
Casting ethnic characters is a very hard thing to do, but it's important. It's also interesting. -- Darren Aronofsky
Endurance is not just the ability to bear a hard thing, but to turn it into glory. -- William Barclay
There are only two hard things in photography; which way to point the camera and when to release the shutter. -- Ralph Steiner
An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way. -- Charles Bukowski
It is easy to love people in memory; the hard thing is to love them when they are there in front of you. -- John Updike
I love life. I think it's fantastic. Sometimes it deals hard things, and when it deals great things, you have to seize them. -- Sam Taylor-Wood
The difference between a serial killer and a saint is environment. That's a very hard thing to accept because that raises a lot of questions -- Jacque Fresco
Sesame Street's' genius lies in finding gentle ways to talk about hard things - death, divorce, danger - in terms that children understand and accept. -- Nancy Gibbs
There's always a point where you get knocked down. But I draw on what I've learned on the track: If you work hard, things will work out. -- Lolo Jones
The fundamental level of success is doing the hard things first - If you go for the feared thing first, then the rest of the day is easy. -- Robert G. Allen
I guess the hard thing for a lot of people to accept is why God would allow me to go running through their yards, yelling and spinning around. -- Jack Handey
It's a hard thing to hold a civil conversation after recalling that one party has used a Taser on the other, so both of them finished the walk in silence. -- Maggie Stiefvater
God has allowed hard things in your life so you can show the world that your God is great and that knowing Him brings peace and joy, even when life is hard. -- Francis Chan
When life is good and we have no problems, we can almost let ourselves believe we have no need for God. But in my experience, sometimes the richest blessings come through pain and hard things. -- Anne Graham Lotz
You have to always continue to strive no matter how hard things get, no matter how troubled you feel. No matter how tough things get, no matter how many times you lose, you keep trying to win. -- LL Cool J
Like a plant that starts up in showers and sunshine and does not know which has best helped it to grow, it is difficult to say whether the hard things or the pleasant things did me the most good. -- Lucy Larcom
One of the hard things in my life has been balancing my education with my acting career, because I've been acting since the age of seven, on and off, just doing little parts and things. I've always been very keen to stay in school. -- Anna Popplewell
I don't know what the future holds, but I know that God holds tomorrow, so it is exciting. Even when I have hard things happen, He loves me so big, so much. I come through it and I grow from it, because He has got me. -- Barbara Mandrell
I know that I'm going to have to work hard, keep working hard, and not because of this victory think, 'I'm back.' I don't think like that. I'll definitely work hard. Things are not going to be easy. I might lose first round next week. You never know. -- Kim Clijsters
I think that all of us are 5-year-olds and we don't want to be embarrassed in the schoolyard. I've gone through things in my life. People say it must be so hard to do it in the public eye, but the truth is, when you go through hard things, it's just hard. -- Helen Hunt
There is something to be said for people who have to work hard, be creative, produce what they have with little - or no - means. Those of us from poor homes have the advantage of thinking for ourselves and of knowing that when times get hard, things could always be worse. -- Beth Ditto
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
You read these management books that say, 'These are the hard things about running a company.' But those aren't really the hard things. The hard things are when you have to layoff half your company, or you have to fire your best friend. Or you have to figure out a way not to go bankrupt. -- Ben Horowitz
Mercies and blessings come in different forms-sometimes as hard things. Yet the Lord said, 'Thou shalt thank the Lord thy God in all things' (D&C 59:7). All things means just that: good things, difficult things-not just some things. He has commanded us to be grateful because He knows being grateful will make us happy. This is another evidence of His love. -- Bonnie D. Parkin
You can never predict what kind of tough decisions are going to come in front of a President's desk. But if you can trust that they will do the right thing, and maybe the hard thing, and maybe not the popular thing. And if you really want to know how a person will operate, look at how they've lived their life. -- Ann Romney
It took time to learn that the hard thing about writing is to let the story write itself, while one sits at the typewriter and does as little thinking as possible. It happened over and over again, and the beginner learned - when you start puzzling over an idea, and slowing down on the keys, the writing gets worse and worse. -- Richard Bach
Years ago, while I was watching a baseball game between the Baltimore Orioles and the Texas Rangers, I remember staring in awe at Cal Ripken. I realized during this game that 'you don't have to be flashy' or have 'power numbers' to be great. It's about the simple things that are the hard things. It's about leadership, work ethic and commitment. -- Ron White
I am prepared to discuss the things that I believe we need to do not just to raise the debt limit. Raising the debt limit is the easiest thing. That's one vote away. The hard thing is to show the world we are serious about putting our spending in order so we can show people we'll able to pay our bills down the road. -- Marco Rubio
I was raised in a reform synagogue. I think we all bring with us a sense of when hard things happen to us, we find ourselves asking questions of why are these things happening to me at this time in my life. I think in that sense, there's a certain resonance that I carry. It's more of a spiritual resonance as opposed to particularly of Judaism. -- Michael Stuhlbarg
All important things are hard. -- Toni Morrison
Making things easy is hard. -- Ted Nelson
Work hard to make things easier. -- Pete Carril
Hope and change are hard-fought things. -- Michelle Obama
You have to work hard at things. -- Derek Fisher
Hard and impossible are two different things! -- Eric Thomas
It's a hard world for little things. -- Davis Grubb
It's a hard world for little things, -- Lillian Gish
When you work hard, good things happen -- Allen Iverson
A great teacher makes hard things easy. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I learn things late-and only the hard way. -- James Ellroy
I find it hard to deliver straightforward things. -- Ang Lee
I just have a hard time displaying things. -- Cary Fukunaga
Some things are hard to let go of. -- Veronica Roth
Remember these two things: play hard and have fun. -- Tony Gwynn
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It's hard to find things that won't sell online. -- Jeff Bezos
I have a hard time waiting for things to happen. -- Zoe Lister-Jones
Much dearer be the things which come through hard distress. -- Herbert Spencer
It's believable because great things don't happen without hard work -- Robert Griffin III
Things are so easy to do, so hard to undo. -- Catherine Ryan Hyde
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I think making things that appear simple is incredibly hard. -- Zoe Leonard
Great things come from hard work and perseverance. No excuses. -- Kobe Bryant
Few things feel as unbelievably great as working out hard. -- Robin Sharma
It's hard to look at things that are too close. -- Carrie Underwood
You are what you repeatedly do when things get hard. -- Jamie Foxx
Things that were hard to bear are sweet to remember. -- Seneca the Younger
Working hard and working smart sometimes can be two different things. -- Byron Dorgan
People and their rituals. They cling to things so hard sometimes. -- Garth Stein
With the absence of pressure, it's hard to do great things. -- Geno Auriemma
Remember, things extremely hard to come by are not necessarily good. -- Joe Chung
I don't like to say mean things about people's hard work. -- Jonah Hill
I was always hard on myself for taking things too personally. -- Melanie Martinez
Some things just won't go away, no matter how hard you scrub. -- Ruta Sepetys
I try very hard to handle things equally: ideas, materials, and images. -- Dan Colen
Make the right things easy and the wrong things hard to do. -- Kathy Sierra
Belief, hard work, love"?you have those things, you can do anything. -- Mitch Albom
The paradox of simplicity is that making things simpler is hard work. -- Bill Jensen
It's hard enough to get things to work in a musical way. -- Girl Talk
Some old-fashioned things like fresh air and sunshine are hard to beat. -- Laura Ingalls Wilder
The important things are to train hard, and not give up hope. -- Lasse Viren
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Visiting old haunts is hard on memory. Things shrink, change, and disappear. -- Shirley Temple
You combine hard work, creativity, and self-determination, and things start to happen. -- Sophia Amoruso
Children build self-esteem by doing things that are hard and learning what works. -- Clayton Christensen
You have to drink when it's hard dealing with things when you're sober. -- Na Hae Ryeong
There are very few things that are purely conceptual without any hard content. -- Kevin Bacon
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Sixteen is a hard time. A lot of kids are experimenting with things. -- Leslie Mann
It would be very hard for me to do things somebody else's way. -- Giorgio Armani
You don't get any points in life for doing things the hard way. -- Tim Fargo
Life is a river always flowing. do not hold onto things. work hard. -- Gautama Buddha
If you say hard things you must expect to hear them in return. -- Plautus
It's hard to make strangers care about the good things in your life. -- Stephen King
Work hard, do things the right way, and things will go your way. -- Tony Romo
The man (or woman) who can make hard things easy is the educator. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
There's few things that get you over your own crap more than working hard. -- Adam Savage
When things are taking their ordinary course, it is hard to remember what matters. -- Marilynne Robinson
There are three things extremely hard: steel, a diamond, and to know one's self. -- Benjamin Franklin
Prayer and hard work are a pretty good one-two punch to get things done. -- Rick Santorum
It's very hard to find things that rhyme with North American Free Trade Agreement. -- Chris Martin
I know that good things will happen for me if I keep working hard. -- Michael Redd
It's too easy to give up on the things that are hard to accomplish. -- C. R. Johnson
I think in defeat you grope for things that are happy, and it's hard. -- George H. W. Bush
It was getting hard to keep all the things I didn't know inside me. -- Jonathan Safran Foer
If you don't have jobs, it's hard to have other things like health and education. -- Michael Dell
I've learned enough things the hard way to know we humans can make a difference. -- Richard Patrick
Theres 3 things you need to remember in boxing, work hard, work harder, and work hardest -- Manny Pacquiao
Relationships are like farting, If you push too hard things could get messy real fast. -- Kevin Hart
It's hard keeping everything the same when the same things look and feel so different -- Simone Elkeles
Think about the most important things in life and set hard boundaries to protect them. -- Chris Yeh
It's hard to write music for specific things, because I'm always writing just to write. -- Kris Allen
Roller-skating and ice-skating are two different things - I found that out the hard way. -- Todd Bridges
It is hard to write about physically difficult things without causing the reader to disengage. -- Akhil Sharma
Look! Look! If you look really hard at things you'll forget you're going to die. -- Montgomery Clift
Individual responsibility, hard work, paying attention in school, faith, family all these things are important. -- J. C. Watts
It's hard to see things when you're too close. Take a step back and look. -- Bob Ross
I've spent my whole life learning how to do things that were hard for me. -- Sonia Sotomayor
If you don't accept there is a problem, then it is hard to debate things. -- Johann Lamont
In life, all good things come hard, but wisdom is the hardest to come by. -- Lucille Ball
I been through some things but I worked hard to get to where I'm at. -- Fantasia Barrino

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