Top 30 Hard Things Quotes

Words matter. These are the best Hard Things Quotes from famous people such as Jeff Bezos, Dak Prescott, Nancy Gibbs, Dee Rees, Louis D. Brandeis, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.

A brand for a company is like a reputation for a person

A brand for a company is like a reputation for a person. You earn reputation by trying to do hard things well.
Jeff Bezos
I’ve always wanted to play quarterback, and I lucked out to be able to play for my favorite team – America’s team. I’m just living the moment. I feel like all of this was supposed to happen. When you work hard, things work your way.
Dak Prescott
‘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
When you choose the hard things, it takes longer than you think to get it done, and if you choose the hard thing and have a very particular way you want to do them and are uncompromising in that, then sometimes it takes even longer.
Dee Rees
If you would only recognize that life is hard, things would be so much easier for you.
Louis D. Brandeis
Hard things make me happy. You get upset, but you mature and improve: the quicker you reach your best level, the longer you stay there. They say players peak at 28; I wanted to be there at 22, 23.
Saul Niguez
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
One of the hard things coming from an immigrant family – or any family that doesn’t believe in the arts – is that you have to disappoint your parents. That’s hard for people to do if you’re a good kid.
Jimmy O. Yang
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
I’m always choosing the hard things, the things that aren’t easy.
Dee Rees
What we do at NASA is inspiring. It’s reaching, it’s visionary, and it inspires people on Earth to try hard things.
John M. Grunsfeld
You have to learn to live with the hard things in life and go on.
Gary Rossington
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
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
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-Johnson
There are people who can’t bear to fail. Those people are on the short track as far as their careers go. You have to push hard, do hard things. But you also have to be able to say, ‘OK, today’s not the day.’
Alex Lowe
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
Procrastination makes easy things hard, hard things harder.
Mason Cooley
Books have literally powered most of my life. Whether as a stress relief when doing hard things or as vacation fodder, they are a constant and important part of my life.
Harper Reed
It hasn’t always been easy. There’s a lot of hard moments. Sometimes you learn from the end of the bench. Sometimes you learn from injuries. Sometimes you learn the most through the hard things. If you can keep a good attitude and keep on working, eventually situations change, and you can put those things to use.
Kyle Korver
Every entrepreneur has to deal with hardship, but if we’re tough enough and thoughtful enough, we can find a way to make hard things make us better.
Eric Greitens
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
It’s easy to play pretty well if you play hard. Things start working in your favor.
Terry Rozier
I seek out hard things. I tried to imitate other singers. It was a self-discovery for me to move from imitating others to me growing to sing in my own voice. The opera was difficult and it felt like a personal conquest.
Daniela Vega
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
I’m someone who has come through situations where I saw hard things.
Davinson Sanchez
A man thinks that by mouthing hard words he understands hard things.
Herman Melville
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
The hard things in life, the things you really learn from, happen with a clear mind.
Caroline Knapp
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