Top 55 Hard Way Quotes

Words matter. These are the best Hard Way Quotes from famous people such as Lisa Edelstein, Paul Lambert, Nick Wooster, E. Joseph Cossman, James DeGale, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.

It's important to be gentle about my routines. I've lea

It’s important to be gentle about my routines. I’ve learned that the hard way. When I’m really stressed out, I can take it out on my body and hurt myself. Sometimes I need to be as loving and soft with myself as possible. I’ve had to learn how to pay attention. It’s a kind of mind-set.
Lisa Edelstein
I’ve never been spoon-fed for my whole career, I have always done it the hard way as a player and a manager.
Paul Lambert
I did this the hard way. I have worked my entire life in this business, and I’ve done the work – from being on the selling floor to learning to speak Italian to work with manufacturers with John Bartlett. I’ve done it all. I’ve paid my dues.
Nick Wooster
If you try to make money doing something you’re not enjoying, it’s a hard way to make money.
E. Joseph Cossman
I’ve done it the hard way – first Olympic gold medallist from Great Britain to win a world title, the ‘road warrior.’ I love that tag because I do travel.
James DeGale
The older you get, the easier it is to get injured. But what I’ve learned the hard way is that the more excess weight you have, the more likely you are to get injured doing everyday things.
Steve Howey
My parents keep me grounded. I’ve spent a lot of time on my own in my life, and I’ve learnt the hard way.
Atif Aslam
Acting is a hard way to make a living, and there’s a kind of dark, somewhat seedy side to the whole aspect of fame and celebrity that’s not really something I would want for my child – or want him to want, if that makes any sense.
Pablo Schreiber
I never had little brothers, so I was totally not used to hearing a lot of cussing at a young age! I learned what ‘pull my finger’ meant the hard way.
Danica McKellar
We share a common planet, and the world has learned the hard way that we have to get along and work together. We have learned, too, that cooperation can benefit all.
Joseph Stiglitz
An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way.
Charles Bukowski
I find composition difficult. I never thought of myself as someone who can crank it out. I can’t crank it out – I have to dig it out the hard way. In some sense, you become more confident in your technical apparatus, but it becomes harder to do something you haven’t done already.
Steven Stucky
Basic training was hard, but I made it – because I wanted to be the best me. Sometimes you have to learn that being the best you is being the second best you. I learned the hard way that the army doesn’t want people who always come first. Otherwise, there would be only one person in the army.
Ant Middleton
The United States – aspiring India’s favourite country – had to learn the hard way that you ignore the world outside your door at great cost to your own survival.
Barkha Dutt
When I was younger, if I got into arguments, I’d become aggressive and violent, but I learnt the hard way that was only going to end negatively.
Ant Middleton
We have been so successful in the past century at the art of living longer and staying alive that we have forgotten how to die. Too often we learn the hard way. As soon as the baby boomers pass pensionable age, their lesson will be harsher still.
Terry Pratchett
Being thrown into the fire and getting the thing turned around in a hurry made it more difficult. Things have been done the hard way. I think you learn better when things are done the hard way.
John Elway
People who come up through life or literature the hard way must inevitably carry their scars with them into composition.
Heywood Broun
People will do anything for ratings and that’s the scary part, and I learned the hard way.
Erica Mena
There’s a big difference between wanting to work and having to work. And I had to learn that the hard way. Now money is very important to me, because I ain’t got it.
James Caan
I realized a very long time ago, that I was never going to be the guy who, ‘Oh, you look so big, let’s push him in the main event and see,’ or, ‘Oh, this guy’s got the best physique ever, let’s put him in the main event and see.’ It was always going to be the hard way.
Kofi Kingston
You learn the hard way. That’s the thing with social media. Nobody knows what they’re doing.
Cameron Dallas
I had a lot of growing up to do. A lot of times, I learned the hard way.
Allen Iverson
Mistakes are a part of being human. Appreciate your mistakes for what they are: precious life lessons that can only be learned the hard way. Unless it’s a fatal mistake, which, at least, others can learn from.
Al Franken
I’ve learned that whether it’s with your skin or your hair, less is more. People go and do so much to it, I don’t think that’s good. Too much product is not good, so I think that’s probably the best thing. And not the most expensive thing is the best thing. That’s for sure. I’ve learned that the hard way.
Kyle Richards
We often learn the hard way that our world is ruled by external factors. We don’t always get what is rightfully ours, even if we’ve earned it.
Ryan Holiday
I can’t watch my movies at their premieres – I learned that lesson the hard way.
David Lowery
I’ve always done things the hard way. I was born like a piece of tangled yarn. The job is trying to untangle it, and I’ll probably go on doing it for the rest of my life.
Karen Allen
There were so many lessons I learned the hard way: missing out on a raise because I didn’t know to ask, having colleagues consistently get credit for my ideas because of how I spoke up in meetings. When I looked for a resource that addressed the challenges I was facing, I couldn’t find it. There was nothing.
Kathryn Minshew
Humans are possessed, to some degree, with the power of foresight. Yet we so often learn things the hard way, through disaster.
David Grinspoon
Boxing has been around for a while and there’s a lot of great examples of what to do and what not to do. You can look at those examples and learn from other people’s mistakes without having to go through it the hard way.
Caleb Plant
Many people suggest using mathematics to talk to the al

Many people suggest using mathematics to talk to the aliens, and Dutch computer scientist Alexander Ollongren has developed an entire language (Lincos) based on this idea. But my personal opinion is that mathematics may be a hard way to describe ideas like love or democracy.
Seth Shostak
I have learnt the hard way that neither success nor failure last forever.
Abhimanyu Singh
I never had any financial support or sponsors, and so I always had to, at every level, prove myself the hard way. I was five years in Japan before I got my debut at Le Mans. And I think this is a humble way to get through as a racing driver.
Tom Kristensen
Pretty much everything I carry with me, I learned I needed the hard way. I sweated, dry-lipped, dry-mouthed, soaked-to-the-skinned my way through all of these lessons.
Janet Varney
I’ve learned a lot the hard way.
Nigel Benn
There are two ways to go when you hit that crossroads in your life: There is the bad way, when you sort of give up, and then there is the really hard way, when you fight back. I went the hard way and came out of it okay. Now, I’m sitting here and doing great.
Matthew Perry
I am Dusty’s son, but I learned the hard way I was never going to be ‘The American Dream.’ That was difficult for me, and I made some molehills into mountains.
Goldust
Governments of all stripes want to deliver growth and rebalance their economies now that they have learned the hard way that, left to their own devices, markets pick expensive banking losers.
Frances O’Grady
Everything does not happen according to a plan, and you learn your lessons the hard way.
Juhi Chawla
When it comes to space, I see it as my job, I’m building infrastructure the hard way. I’m using my resources to put in place heavy lifting infrastructure so the next generation of people can have a dynamic, entrepreneurial explosion into space.
Jeff Bezos
It is super important to know what you are getting yourself into when signing a deal. I learned that the hard way.
Yo Gotti
I learned the hard way that taking shortcuts and living for free is not really living free.
Sophia Amoruso
Most of us have learned the hard way that there are very few things you can absolutely count on in life.
Graydon Carter
I’m blessed that I’m not content. Whenever I work with kids, which I’m passionate about, I want them to know that, yes, two World Cups, two Asian Cups, but I’ve done it the hard way.
Timothy F. Cahill
I think Jameis Winston will be a superstar in the NFL. I think all his off-the-field problems that he’s had will push him in a position to grow up and learn the hard way.
Kirk Herbstreit
Many’s the audition I waltzed into unprepared and wondered why I didn’t get it. I learned the hard way.
Deirdre O’Kane
All my memories with my mother have been special. Even the time she rebuked or taught me things the hard way.
Rubina Dilaik
I learned everything the hard way – like, literally, everything. I know that God does that to people that he has lessons for. I just wish that I had learned less extreme lessons.
SZA
We earned our dollars in a hard way;, nobody gave us a feast or gave it on a plate. We worked hard and we have innovated; we have made things in a better way at a cheaper rate and gave it to the people of India.
Kallam Anji Reddy
When I started training, I just started running every day, which you shouldn’t do. I learned that lesson the hard way by getting a stress fracture.
Sophia Bush
I think most fiction writers naturally start by writing short stories, but some of us don’t. When I first started writing, I just started writing a novel. It’s a hard way to learn to write. I don’t recommend it to my students, but it just happens that way for some of us.
Andrea Barrett
There are no shortcuts, and you can’t wing your way through real hard work. I learned the hard way by not taking auditions seriously when I first came out to L.A. and probably wasted a good seven years.
Rick Hoffman