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Hard times don't create heroes.
It is during the hard times when the 'hero' within us is revealed.
- Bob Riley

If we could all just laugh at ourselves,
in hard times or good times, it would be an incredible world.
- Jena Malone

Look well into thyself; there is a source of strength
which will always spring up if thou wilt always look there.
- Marcus Aurelius

People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.
- Emily Dickinson

When I hear somebody sigh, "Life is hard,"
I am always tempted to ask, Compared to what?
- Sydney Harris

Know that life is as easy or as hard as you think it is.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

I have no regrets in my life.
I think that everything happens to you for a reason.
The hard times that you go through build character,
making you a much stronger person.
- Rita Mero

I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure.
I make mistakes, I am out of control
and at times hard to handle.
But if you can't handle me at my worst,
then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best.
- Marilyn Monroe

I know the game wasn't a classic, but the night was
about more than that-it was about bringing back the
memories and raising money for former heroes who have
now fallen on hard times.
- David Ginola

Many children work hard to please their parents,
but what I truly longed for was good times that were about us,
not about me.
That is the real hole the Dodgers filled in my life.
- Gil Hodges

Racism is always there underneath, but usually it is
exploited in these times of economic crisis,
and it's hard to find out when one slides into another.
- Iris Chang

It's hard enough to get any movie made,
and when you take on these tough genres -
and I've done it a couple times -
it just makes the whole struggle more.
- Lawrence Kasdan

It's hard to know really how it's going to happen,
but the career ebbs and flows and now there's a nicer
feeling of interest than there has been at other times.
- Gretchen Mol

I was taken in by what might be called the Hard Times
version of the Communists' advertising or recruiting technique.
- Elia Kazan

In difficult times, it's so hard to look around and
to see what to be grateful for.
- Alice Barrett

In the business world, lower profits reflect less demand for your product.
But in government the opposite is true -
demand for our services increases in hard times.
- Sonny Perdue

It's hard for me to get used to these changing times.
I can remember when the air was clean and sex was dirty.
- George Burns

I had a lot of growing up to do.
A lot of times, I learned the hard way.
- Allen Iverson

I struggled many times when maybe it didn't look like I was struggling,
and I had to work hard every day.
- Ryne Sandberg

When I wasn't the flavor of the week or month or day,
those were hard times.
- Kiefer Sutherland

A lot of times, when a band finds success with a certain style or sound,
they have a really hard time breaking away from that to grow as artists.
- Matt Cameron

I've been hit hard a few times, been hit really hard a few times,
but I don't think I've ever left a memorable,
lasting impression on anyone I've ever hit.
- Steve Yzerman

Let every man, every corporation, and especially let every village,
town, and city, every county and State,
get out of debt and keep out of debt.
It is the debtor that is ruined by hard times.
- Rutherford B. Hayes

My parent's divorce and hard times at school,
all those things combined to mold me,
to make me grow up quicker.
And it gave me the drive to pursue my dreams that I
wouldn't necessarily have had otherwise.
- Christina Aguilera

As a working actor, all I want to do is work.
That's it.
It's terrifying when you don't work.
It's very hard when you don't work.
There have been times when I've been out of work for like six months.
I feel theatre to me is like manna.
- Sandra Oh

Getting in shape for this role, which is incredibly demanding,
vocally, has been a lot of hard work,
but I'm nailing it.
I'm even kind of, at times, blowing my own mind,
because I am even able to talk right now.
- David Hasselhoff

I knew what my times were and how my practices were
progressing and how close I was to the goals I had set for the year.
I swam hard.
I always swam hard.
If I didn't, I knew I would pay for it either the next day or the next meet.
- Debbie Meyer

'Through the times I've gone through the last couple of weeks -
and I'm still trying to help a friend -
I got attacked pretty hard through the media,
and it hurt and it was devastating, but I really found
out who was with me and who was there for me.
- Michael Irvin

What helps luck is a habit of watching for opportunities,
of having a patient but restless mind,
of sacrificing one's ease or vanity,
or uniting a love of detail to foresight,
and of passing through hard times bravely and cheerfully.
- Victor Cherbuliez

You are capable of more than you know.
Choose a goal that seems right for you and strive to be the best,
however hard the path.
Aim high.
Behave honorably.
Prepare to be alone at times, and to endure failure.
Persist!
The world needs all you can give.
- E. O. Wilson

It is hard to play Blue Suede Shoes.
I know everyone has heard it 10 million times,
and that makes it even harder to play it,
but there's a very laid back tempo on that.
I was surprised at how slow it really was.
- Brian Setzer

But it's very difficult, I can tell you I played the
Czech Open a few times and it's very difficult just
to go on to a scene where the course is prepared differently
when the greens are fast and he's not used to it and
they're hard as a rock and he's not used to it.
- Ivan Lendl

I think what it takes to succeed remains the same.
You have to have a real love of your sport to carry
you through all the bad times,
you still want to go ski even when things aren't working.
You must have a commitment to work hard and to never give up.
- Nancy Greene

Do you know what directors go through? It's just hell.
Like, why do I work so hard - to think I'm only going
to see this movie five times and then never see it
again 'cause I'm so sick of it? What is it worth,
honestly?
- Michael Bay

That first week, I also went to Washington.
That was really tough.
I sympathize with those Washington figures who have
to face 40 Times Washington bureau reporters.
They ask hard questions and they're relentless.
And they were quite suspicious and quite dubious about me.
- Daniel Okrent

After hurting myself like that, I could not go back immediately to racing.
I was in no condition, mentally or physically.
That helped me to strengthen myself to go through the
hard times that were ahead with my business,
and to be successful.
- Nelson Piquet

It's hard to compare.
Different times, different players.
The administration four years ago did not have 9/11.
I could tell you this; this particular administration
was better suited to handle that than the former.
- Montel Williams

At times those skills were really hard to do because
not only was I having to contend with the camera,
but I was having to learn these new skills and the
ball was always kind of doing what you didn't want it to do.
So it got a little bit frustrating at times but we got there.
- Parminder Nagra

I studied chemical engineering.
I was a good student, but these were the hard times of the depression,
my scholarship came to an end, and it was necessary
to work to supplement the family income.
- Jack Steinberger

I know you've heard it a thousand times before.
But it's true - hard work pays off.
If you want to be good, you have to practice,
practice, practice.
If you don't love something, then don't do it.
- Ray Bradbury

The DC 9/11: Time of Crisis film was hard to get the part;
I had to audition three times.
It was very serious and very sobering.
We studied and tried to re-create all the stuff that we all saw that day.
- Timothy Bottoms

Live with intention.
Walk to the edge.
Listen hard.
Practice wellness.
Play with abandon.
Laugh.
Choose with no regret.
Appreciate your friends.
Continue to learn.
Do what you love.
Live as if this is all there is.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

Far and away the best prize that life has to offer
is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.
- Theodore Roosevelt

In the world there is nothing more
submissive and weak than water.
Yet for attacking that which is hard and strong,
nothing can surpass it.
- Lao Tzu

Football is like life - it requires perseverance,
self-denial, hard work, sacrifice,
dedication and respect for authority.
- Vince Lombardi

There are no secrets to success.
It is the result of preparation,
hard work, and learning from failure.
- Colin Powell

It is awfully hard to be brave, when you're only a Very Small Animal.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)

Bad habits are like a comfortable bed,
easy to get into, but hard to get out of.
- Proverb

The truth of the matter is that
you always know the right thing to do.
The hard part is doing it.
- Norman Schwarzkoff

When love beckons to you, follow him,
Though his ways are hard and steep.
- Khalil Gibran

Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work,
so most people don't recognize them.
- Ann Landers

Some things will never seem adequate
no matter how hard we try.
- from the movie White Man's Burden

Work Hard. Do your best. Keep your word.
Never get too big for your britches.
Trust in God. Have no fear;
and Never forget a friend.
- Harry S. Truman

I know the price of success: dedication, hard work,
and an unremitting devotion to the things you want to see happen.
- Frank Lloyd Wright

Some people dream of success
while others wake up and work hard at it.
- Anonymous

The price of success is hard work,
dedication to the job at hand,
and the determination that whether we win or lose,
we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand.
- Vince Lombardi

Leaders aren't born they are made.
And they are made just like anything else, through hard work.
And that's the price we'll have to pay
to achieve that goal, or any goal.
- Vince Lombardi

Life is a series of experiences,
each one of which makes us bigger,
even though sometimes it is hard to realize this.
- Henry Ford

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

A wise one said, "We are most like God when we forgive."
It is easy for us to blame, but hard for us to forgive.
Yet that is what we are called upon to do -
to forgive everyone for everything.
And the reward?
In this life, the reward for forgiveness
is your own happiness.
Unconditional universal forgiveness is
the key to your own happiness.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

You hold onto religion, you know,
rules, regulations, traditions.
I think what God is interested in
is people's hearts, and that's hard enough.
- Bono

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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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