Top 655 Harder Quotes

I seriously don’t take praise to my heart or to my head. I only want to work harder and never get complacent.

Politics only makes the difficult challenge of marriage even harder, with the demands of the job and the public spotlight it casts on a union.

You set your goals to a point where they’re attainable, but far enough away that you have to really go get them. And every year I push my goals a little bit farther away, and every year I work a little bit harder to get them.

I’ve worked with Bette Davis, John Wayne, Jimmy Stewart, Henry Fonda. Here’s the thing they all have in common: They all, even in their 70s, worked a little harder than everyone else.

Even buying a swimsuit is super difficult. And then making one is even harder.

He’s working a lot harder than I am. I tell these people that we really appreciate what they’re doing for us.

Modernism, rebelling against the ornament of the 19th century, limited the vocabulary of the designer. Modernism emphasized straight lines, eliminating the expressive S curve. This made it harder to communicate emotions through design.

I was one of those lucky people with only one talent. It is harder for people with many talents to decide what to do.

One who works for his own profit is likely to work hard. One who works for the use of others, without profit to himself, is likely not to work any harder than he must.

Nothing is harder to direct than a man in prosperity; nothing more easily managed that one is adversity.

The harder the struggle, the more glorious the triumph. Self-realization demands very great struggle.

I think doing period piece is easier, because after a certain distance, everybody is equal, I think. The relative contemporary is harder. I think that’s the way it is.

The only thing that’s changed is the competitiveness of the series. It’s only become harder to win in our series as the years have gone by. Competition breeds good things, and that’s what’s happened here.

It’s almost like a lot of black people in America, a lot of young black men, are born with this cloud over their heads. It’s their penitentiary cloud, this philosophy we all have, that it’s harder for us.

We have a harder way to succeed in life as Serbs because of the past that we had and because of the history we had.

The more harder you work, the less you’re out spending your money.

I simply seem to drift. But I sort of allow the drift, because it has a kind of check – it forces me to work harder at what I’m interested in.

Be prepared, work hard, and hope for a little luck. Recognize that the harder you work and the better prepared you are, the more luck you might have.

A merger is hard to pull off under any circumstances. It’s harder when everybody is against you.

I think reviewers have become particularly venomous because, in a way, the power has been sucked from them. A 15-year-old can write a review on the Internet and it means as much as Roger Ebert’s review, and that just makes Roger Ebert mad, so he comes out harder and stronger.

The only thing harder than leaving show business is coming back.

I think it’s a lot harder for the pros to have a long career in ice dance and in pairs. It seems the singles have a little bit of a longer career.

It’s a shame to call somebody a ‘diva’ simply because they work harder than everybody else.

I don’t set out to win awards. I don’t think any musician does, but when you receive an award, it’s an affirmation: it means that people appreciate what you do. Every award I have received is a confirmation of something I have done, and that motivates me to push a little harder.

I would recommend the short story form, which is a lot harder to write since you have to be so careful with words, until there is plenty of time to doodle through a novel.

I guess I never had a better experience than working on The Long Riders, and at the same time, I never had a harder time than what I did making Southern Comfort.

I like being the underdog so they don’t expect what’s going to happen. It pushes me to work harder and do the things I’m not doing better.

I personally don’t think you can love two things like dancing and singing the same exact amount. There is always one that you like more, and that is most likely the one that you’re better at, because you try harder in it.

It’s always so nerve-wracking being up there on stage. It’s even harder playing in your hometown – and I have a couple of home towns – but, you’re playing for all the people you knew in high school, so it causes no small degree of panic in my mind.

My dad’s family is part British and Austrian, and my mother’s family is from Goa, which is in the south of India. I looked different from everyone else, which now is such a blessing. It was harder at the beginning of my career.

Having a second chance makes you want to work even harder.

My actions speak harder than words.

I’d quite like to do a film but I’d also love to do more theatre. I want to keep challenging myself with good roles. It’s harder for women because there aren’t as many challenging roles.

The way to put oneself in a position to take the harder, more honorable political path is to argue for one’s virtues in a vigorous way.

I’m sure like everyone else I’m not always the happiest if I don’t do a good job in quali or the race or whatever, so I think beating myself up sometimes makes me work harder.

People work harder when conditions are worse.

The hardest thing in my industry is longevity, getting your next job. It’s hard to get the first job, but it’s so much harder to get the sixth or seventh as a woman.

No player in baseball history worked harder, suffered more, or did it better than Andre Dawson. He’s the best I’ve ever seen.

The truth is, successful people are not ten times smarter than you. They don’t really work ten times harder than you. So why are they successful? Because their dreams are so much bigger than yours!

Now, we love our auto industry. But if we had worked harder on diversifying this economy long ago, then if one of the legs of the stool starts to get wobbly, at least you’ve got three other legs to stand on.

Carbon is probably a bit harder to wrap since it’s procedural.

‘Dream Act’ kids are like all other American kids, with the exception that they have to work harder to excel in school, they live in fear of deportation, and they worry about their future.

As you grow older, it’s harder to stay fit. Every day you wake up with pain, muscle aches which you don’t know you had. I have to work harder on me than I used to when I was 18 years old. It takes me longer to recover now.

There’s nothing harder than defining oneself.

For me, it’s a bigger challenge, it’s much harder to do and much more rewarding to do well, then just to think up stuff of your own, hit or miss, because you’ve got to see to it that you don’t torpedo any of his punch lines.

We will have bigger bureaucracies, bigger labor unions, and bigger state-run corporations. It will be harder to be an entrepreneur because of punitive taxes and regulations. The rewards of success will be expropriated for the sake of attaining greater income equality.

I would like to try harder to establish my thought and philosophy strongly and to go back to the universe with my love.

Each novel is harder than its predecessor because I must work harder at not repeating myself. However, I enjoy the challenge. This is the greatest job in the world.

Don’t make your journey through life harder by placing rules on yourself like, ‘I can’t get married till I get promoted to your dream job.’

It is actually a lot harder to sit down and write from A to Z. But for me at least, it’s the only way I can do it, at this point, with any moderate success.

We put stereotypes on ourselves. Everybody does that. But I think it’s just a little harder for black kids to just be who they are.

The perfect winter’s night for me would be with all the family together. As you get a little older and everybody has their jobs and then families and kids, it definitely becomes harder to get everybody together at once.

Repeating is harder than anything else.

I think like any marriage, especially when you’ve had divorced parents like myself; you want to try even harder to make it work.

I think every relationship has a point where you stop and reevaluate. Are you happy? Have you grown together or apart? What do you share interests in? I think that’s a normal thing to do, but it’s so much harder when it’s done publicly.

I went to MIT. I do rocket science. Being a mom is much harder.

I can easily come up with ten really iconic stories/trade paperbacks for Superman, Batman, others… name me ten equally big, iconic Wonder Woman stories. Much harder. That ain’t the character’s fault, that isn’t sexism, that’s just not servicing the character.

It’s a funny thing because you look at the careers of other filmmakers, and you see them sort of slow down, and you realize, maybe this becomes harder to do as you get older. That’s sort of a cautionary thing. I hope it doesn’t happen to me.

Indifference is harder to fight than hostility, and there is nothing that kills an agitation like having everybody admit that it is fundamentally right.