Top 202 Hardest Thing Quotes

Words matter. These are the best Hardest Thing Quotes from famous people such as Michael Bastian, Frank Deford, Vanessa Diffenbaugh, Tom Cairney, Mike Nichols, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.

The hardest thing in the world to do is to take somethi

The hardest thing in the world to do is to take something everyone already knows and make it a little better.
Michael Bastian
The hardest thing in the world is to write something critical about someone and then show up the next day in the locker room. I mean, that is not fun, and that takes an awful lot of guts. And I never enjoyed that.
Frank Deford
I think that the hardest thing about working with young people in foster care who’ve been through this kind of neglect and abuse is really to convince them that they are worthy of being loved. And I think because often they don’t feel worthy of it, that’s why they push people away.
Vanessa Diffenbaugh
When you bring a lot of new players in, that is the hardest thing, getting everyone playing together.
Tom Cairney
It’s the hardest thing on earth to like yourself, and then when you do, it’s a catastrophe. I mean, the people I know who like themselves – I don’t want to see them!
Mike Nichols
I always knew I had a voice and I’ve always known I could sing, but I was too shy to let it come out. I think it’s the hardest thing to do, to sing in front of people. When I finally let go and did it, I realized it’s what I’m most talented at and what I love to do the most.
Paris Hilton
The hardest thing to walk away from, over a long-form TV show, is the comradery of the company, both with the crew and the group of actors.
Joshua Jackson
I was a stepchild in two different families. The hardest thing about being a stepchild is you know that in some way everything would be easier if you didn’t exist.
Jennifer Egan
The hardest thing to do is be a point guard, learn how to be a point guard in the NBA as a young player because you gotta earn your respect first of all the old guys, all the old heads. You gotta command where to go, know the plays.
Shaun Livingston
In September of 2015, I did the unthinkable: I used my second-ever runway show to bring awareness to the Black Lives Matter movement. It was the hardest thing I’ve ever had to do professionally. It was lonely.
Kerby Jean-Raymond
The hardest thing is having to do selfies even when you’re on your period and you’re queuing at Superdrug to get ibuprofen. That’s when I’m like, ‘You know what? I don’t feel like Shura today.’
Shura
The language is the hardest thing. My technical Russian is much better than my conversational Russian, and it has to be good enough to explain problems to them in their technical control center.
Shannon Walker
I think to an extent every human being needs to be redeemed somewhat or at least needs to look at themselves and say, ‘I’ve made mistakes, I’m off course, I need to change.’ Which is probably the hardest thing for a human being to do, and maybe that’s why it interests me so.
Joss Whedon
That was the hardest thing for me. When it was published that I was going to play Tommen, all the fans of the books were like, ‘Oh, he’s turning 16’ – that was the hardest thing: to play younger and show that.
Dean-Charles Chapman
Looking back, I can genuinely say that I am truly grateful that my parents sheltered us from the public eye. This may sound like an easy task, but it was probably the hardest thing they had to figure out as parents – how to give their kids a normal childhood even though they were always in the spotlight.
Katherine Schwarzenegger
The hardest thing to do is to fail and keep pushing at the same time.
Christen Press
A lot of people who do drama say comedy is the hardest thing, but, not wanting to sound like a bighead, comedy is easy for me, as I’ve always been fairly funny.
Nick Frost
One of the reasons I wanted to do a show about Nashville in Nashville was because when I lived here, the hardest thing to go out and hear was country music. Country was taking place inside the studio and it was an export.
Callie Khouri
The hardest thing in life to learn is which bridge to cross and which to burn.
David Russell
If you’re a reporter, the easiest thing in the world is to get a story. The hardest thing is to verify. The old sins were about getting something wrong, that was a cardinal sin. The new sin is to be boring.
David Halberstam
The hardest thing to find in life is balance – especially the more success you have, the more you look to the other side of the gate. What do I need to stay grounded, in touch, in love, connected, emotionally balanced? Look within yourself.
Celine Dion
Working pretty much nonstop as an artist, the hardest thing is to know what to do with yourself when you have some time off. You struggle with yourself to take a vacation.
Karen O
Finding your place as an artist is the hardest thing. You come out of college with what feels like a Mickey Mouse degree that qualifies you for nothing in the real world.
Sam Taylor-Johnson
Finding that balance between work and family is the hardest thing I’ve ever done – by far.
Gwen Stefani
To entertain looks very flippant, but it is the hardest thing in the world.
Kirron Kher
I’m a 27-year-old freshman, and returning to college after a seven-year break from high school was by far the hardest thing I’ve ever done in my life.
Hannah Kearney
The hardest thing for me is not to keep laughing. Jennifer particularly is like a clown.
Victor Garber
Scaring someone’s the hardest thing to do, and that’s why most of these scary movies are not scary. They’re sick, but not scary. There’s a lot of sickness out there, of people who then sit there and watch it, which I think is absolutely dismaying.
Ridley Scott
Leaving Australia was the hardest thing I have ever done.
Barry Gibb
The hardest thing about writing, for me, is facing the blank page.
Octavia Spencer
The hardest thing is not caring about other people’s opinions.
Natalia Dyer
My back went out and I gained 40 pounds while sweating

My back went out and I gained 40 pounds while sweating over ‘Perestroika.’ It was incredibly hard, the hardest thing I had to do before the screenplay to ‘Lincoln.’
Tony Kushner
The hardest thing about ‘Mulan’ is to put yourself in that circumstance and to have the answer be organic, and not be acting.
Liu Yifei
I’ve often heard people say that managing creative people is the hardest thing in the world. ‘They’re never happy, they drive up the cost of things, blah blah blah.’ I just manage people the way I always wanted to be managed. That is, to be creatively challenged, but never to be told what to do.
John Lasseter
The hardest thing I have done is given up power.
Ronald Lauder
I think the hardest thing is that all of us would love to just stick to sports – but if you want us to be role models to kids, then you need to stand for more than just sports.
Elana Meyers
I’ll be doing stand-up for the rest of my life. The opportunities that it grants you can’t be denied. Stand-up is both the hardest thing I do and the thing I enjoy most.
Jon Richardson
Saturday afternoon is the hardest thing. I can go out and watch games, but I’m constantly on my phone looking at results: what score is this, what score is that. You have no real involvement, but you’re obsessed with it.
Paul Scholes
I’ve let a lot of things go, and obviously football is one of them. I think the hardest thing to let go is your self-image. That’s what I’m working on now.
Ricky Williams
I think for a woman, the hardest thing about growing old is becoming invisible. There’s something very front and center about being young.
Amy Grant
Wrestling was the hardest thing I’ve ever done.
Cat Zingano
What feels most productive to me isn’t to think so much in terms of how I can be alternative, but how I can be subversive in a way that feels organic, how I can connect with people, and how I can just be myself, which may be the hardest thing to be.
Tavi Gevinson
The hardest thing about skateboarding is consistency: The slightest flick of your foot or gust of wind can send your board flying, so it’s really anybody’s game out there.
Shaun White
I want to work with Will Ferrell. I want to do, like, an action-comedy with him. How do I get the project for that? It’s killing me. I’ve got all these great ideas, and the hardest thing is getting the material, the screenplay, you know.
Jason Statham
This is the hardest thing I’ve ever done. The rehab has not gone as expected.
Jennifer Capriati
I guess getting used to sleeping on the tour bus has been the hardest thing – that and settling for whatever food you can get on the road.
Tiffany Darwish
Researching real people and doing them, I think, is harder than anything else. You don’t want to do a caricature of them and you don’t want to do an impression. You just want to do the best you can, in terms of presenting their views and a general impression of the guy. That’s the hardest thing to do, real people.
Stephen Root
The hardest thing to see is what is in front of your eyes.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Breaking up is the hardest thing we do. It’s the most important thing we do, in a way. You’ve got to embrace rejection, or you’ll maintain a very limited life. It’ll be very nice and neat – and very, very small.
Laurie Helgoe
Directing film is the hardest thing I have ever done.
Anton Corbijn
The hardest thing which I’ve experienced is calling up my father, Rance Howard, who’s a wonderful actor, and telling him I’ve had to cut him out of the movie, which I’ve had to do twice. That’s a lump-in-the-throat phone call.
Ron Howard
Being an alternate is probably the hardest thing I’ve ever had to do in gymnastics.
MyKayla Skinner
Comedy is the hardest thing to get right. I remember a joke we did in ‘What’s Up, Doc?’ that didn’t get a single laugh. So we moved the shot a foot-and-a-half to one side, and all of a sudden, the laugh was there. It drives you crazy; the balance is so delicate.
Peter Bogdanovich
The hardest thing for me is walking. Can you imagine you’ve got a metal pole and if you put pressure on it like a strong walk, you can walk.
Heather Mills
Fashion is very complicated for machines to learn – something that is intuitive for a human is usually the hardest thing to teach a computer.
Christopher Wylie