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Harden your heart. -- James Patterson
If you twisted my arm today, I would probably vote for James Harden, he's single-handedly put that Houston Rockets team in the position they are in today. It would be tough. -- Mark Jackson
Harden our hearts to the innocents in the womb, and we have hardened our hearts to the need for compassion, and mercy, and fellow-feeling, and charity, and decency in this world. -- Alan Keyes
I was cast in a movie [originally] called Mr. Spreckman's Boat, starring Marcia Gay Harden and Jennifer Connelly. I felt like an "actress." Both of them have won Oscars - maybe that means I might one day. -- Tracee Ellis Ross
You don't have the game you played last year or last week. You only have today's game. It may be far from your best, but that's all you've got. Harden your heart and make the best of it. -- Walter Hagen
Wealth and want equally harden the human heart. -- Theodore Parker
Spoon the sauce over the ice cream. It will harden. This is what you have been working for. -- Nicholson Baker
I think men, growing up, you have to go through some form of hardship. You've got to harden the metal. -- Ice T
But if we continue in sin, and rebel and harden our hearts, we shall become so inured and fixed in it, that it will be natural, and we shall choose it from time to time. -- Elias Hicks
I believe in greater self-sufficiency. International sport is tough, no doubt, but there shouldn't be too many crutches. In most cases sports psychologists are crutches, and they tend to soften rather than harden the players. -- Glenn Turner
When I'm home, I spend Sunday with my husband. If we're not cooking, we travel around in our camper, stop at fast-food restaurants, and picnic. We love that stuff that will harden your arteries in a hurry. -- Dolly Parton
A man is as old as his arteries and his interests. If he permits his economic, religious, or social arteries to harden, or loses interest in whatever concerns mankind... he will need only six feet of earth. -- Josephus Daniels
Sorrow for sin is indeed necessary, but it should not be an endless preoccupation. You must dwell also on the glad remembrance of God's loving-kindness; otherwise, sadness will harden the heart and lead it more deeply into despair. -- Saint Bernard
If you see most people neglect the Bible, and many that can read never look into it, let it not harden you and make you think lightly of it, and that it is a book of no worth. -- Jupiter Hammon
Over the years you encounter just about every kind of crime. It doesn't harden you, but you become capable of reporting on just about anything human beings can do. However, any time we're dealing with the murder of a child it is always difficult. -- Catherine Crier
As the game enters its glorious final weeks, the chill of fall signals the reality of defeat for all but one team. The fields of play will turn brown and harden, the snow will fall, but in the heart of the fan sprouts a sprig of green. -- John Thorn
God, harden me against myself! -- Amy Carmichael
Under attack, sentiments harden into dogma. -- Mason Cooley
Hardships can harden even the best person. -- Amy Tan
Don't let hard lessons harden your heart. -- Carlos A. Rodriguez
Things can harden meaningfully in the moment of indecision -- John Ashbery
Thought-habits can harden into character. So watch your thoughts. -- Gautama Buddha
We must always change, renew, rejuvenate ourselves; otherwise, we harden. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
But perhaps a heart takes experience and time to harden. -- Morgan Rhodes
This is life! It can harden and it can exalt! -- Henrik Ibsen
From passions grow opinions; intellectual laziness lets these harden into convictions. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
If you want good roses, sharpen your knife and harden your heart. -- Patience Strong
I'll never harden my heart but I've toughened the muscles around it. -- Dolly Parton
The light would show (if it could harden) Eternities of kitchen garden -- Edith Sitwell
Circumstances form the character; but, like petrifying matters, they harden while they form. -- Walter Savage Landor
Direct pressure always tends to harden and consolidate the resistance of an opponent. -- B. H. Liddell Hart
You must really begin to harden yourself to the idea of being worth looking at. -- Jane Austen
Rage and bitterness do not foster femininity. They harden the heart and make the body sick. -- Marion Woodman
Why has a religious turn of mind always a tendency to narrow and harden the heart? -- Robert Burns
I have to not harden my heart, because I want to stay open to feel things. -- Dolly Parton
dont harden your heart; because of the past, it'll block your sight, of a positive future. -- Nikki Rowe
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And when wind and winter harden All the loveless land, It will whisper of the garden, You will understand. -- Oscar Wilde
I never wanted to be away from the family. Intuitively, I knew how easily distances could harden and become permanent. -- Junot Diaz
Don't think being 'religious' means becoming harsh or hard. When Allah enters a heart, He softens it--He doesn't harden it. -- Yasmin Mogahed
All that God had to do to harden Pharaoh's heart, or to harden your heart, is to withhold His own grace. -- R. C. Sproul
Be merciful until you can't be.Until you feel your heart begin to harden into a bullet.Then use that bullet. -- Clementine von Radics
Surely it's better to love others, however messy and imperfect the involvement, than to allow one's capacity for love to harden. -- Karen Armstrong
One doesn't lose a self, like a pair of gloves or a pine. We learn and change, or we harden into stone. -- Sherwood Smith
The trouble with selfish motives is that they harden into principles, and you end up sending your kids to war for them. -- Robert Breault
I don't believe artists should be subjected to experiences that harden the sensibilities; without sensibility no fine work can ever be done. -- Janet Scudder
Tears only dry up as a result of hardness of the heart, and the hearts only harden as a result of frequent sinning. -- Hazrat Ali Ibn Abu-Talib A.S
Age plays cruel tricks on the human face; all our repressed feelings become visible on the surface, where they harden like a mask. -- Sue Grafton
Unforgiveness is the most prolific cause of disease. It will harden arteries or liver, and affect the eye-sight. In its train are endless ills. -- Florence Scovel Shinn
You don't tell someone who's mentally ill or struggling, who's having a low time in their lives, to harden up, because it doesn't work. -- John Kirwan
And when your back stops aching and your hands begin to harden, You will find yourself a partner in the Glory of the Garden. -- Rudyard Kipling
Life is unjust, people can be cruel, and yet if you harden your heart, you will lose what little love there is in this world. -- Rita Mae Brown
I was like many another who starts an intrigue timidly. Once into it, I had to go on, and therefore I had to harden my sensibilities. -- Elizabeth Borton de Trevino
Since the great foundation of fear is pain, the way to harden and fortify children against fear and danger is to accustom them to suffer pain. -- John Locke
Chaos, if it does not harden into a pattern of disorder, may be more fruitful than a regularity too easily accepted and a success too easily achieved. -- Lewis Mumford
Some people say they will follow their conscience..many of us have dead consciences. Your conscience is no longer a safe guide. You've harden it, you've deaden it. -- Billy Graham
What is a loving heart? A loving heart is sensitive to the whole of life, to all persons; a loving heart doesn't harden itself to any persons or things. -- Anthony de Mello
The real test is not whether you avoid failure, because you won't. It's whether you let it harden or shame you into inaction, or whether you learn from it. . . -- Barack Obama
She's letting out her feelings. The scary thing is not being able to do that. When your feelings build up and harden and die inside, then you're in big trouble. -- Haruki Murakami
I am certain that to preach the wrath of God with a hard heart, a cold lip, a tearless eye, and an unfeeling spirit is to harden men, not benefit them. -- Charles Spurgeon
Want and wealth equally harden the human heart, as frost and fire are both alien to the human flesh. Famine and gluttony alike drive away nature from the heart of man. -- Theodore Parker
He who thinks with difficulty believes with alacrity. A fool is a natural proselyte, but he must be caught young, for his convictions, unlike those of the wise, harden with age. -- Ambrose Bierce
Avoid the politic, the factious fool, The busy, buzzing, talking harden'd knave; The quaint smooth rogue that sins against his reason, Calls saucy loud sedition public zeal, And mutiny the dictates of his spirit. -- Thomas Otway
Very often, what is meant to be a stepping stone turns out to be a slab of wet cement that will harden around your foot if you do not take the next step soon enough. -- Richelle E. Goodrich

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