Quotation Explorer - 'Harder'

The longer a person's twitter @username is, the harder it is to argue with them on twitter. - Mokokoma Mokhonoana
There is nothing easier than lopping off heads and nothing harder than developing ideas. - Fyodor Dostoevsky
The harder you work, the harder it is to surrender. - Vince Lombardi
The more you pay for a rubber flower, the harder it is to say it's not real.
Learn to work harder on yourself than you do on your job. - MATTHEW AUBERT
It gets harder as times go by, because memory is the first casualty of manic depression. When I'm manic, all I remember is the moment. When I'm depressed, all I remember is the pain. The surrounding details are lost to me. - Terry Cheney
It takes far less courage to kill yourself than it takes to make yourself wake up one more time. It is harder to stay where you are than to get out.
Enzymes are things invented by biologists that explain things which otherwise require harder thinking.
Bad habits are like comfort zones; easier to get into, but harder to get out of. - Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha
Our freedom of mobility has helped keep this nation free. We are eagles, not herds of cattle. Eagles are much harder to corral with fences. - Tom King
Why couldn't my heart have picked him? Life would have been so much easier.""Because hearts are ornery, sneaky little bastards, designed to cause misery. They want what they want, and they don't give a damn about what would make life easier or harder for the heart's owner." Della snapped. - C.C. Hunter
I want to be thoroughly used up when I die for the harder I work the more I live. I rejoice in life for its own sake. - George Bernard Shaw
Be like a branch of a tree; flex your body to face 'wind of sorrow'; flex little harder to dance in the 'wind of happiness'. - Santosh Kalwar
Being a superhero is hard work. You have to save the world. But going to school is even harder. You have to save yourself. - Lenore Look
Figuring out what you want in life is hard, having the courage to fulfill it is even harder! - Stephanie Kingsmore
And he writhed inside at what seemed the cruelty and unfairness of the demand. He had not yet learned that if you do one good deed your reward usually is to do another and harder and better one. - C.S. Lewis
I want a tattoo over my heart that reads TRY HARDER YOU LAZY PARAMEDIC SHITBAG OR I WILL HAUNT YOUR BEDROOM FOREVER - Warren Ellis
The harder I work, the luckier I become. - Sir Terry Pratchett
Thinking harder is more important than working harder. - Debasish Mridha
These guys are tough, this world is crazy and the wind here is crazy strong! However if I want a normal life for once I have to try harder! Angel - From Revenge of the Gloobas. Coming soon! - Angel Ramon Medina
I fight cynicism. It`s too easy. It`s really boring. It`s much harder to be positive and see the wonder of everything. Cynicism is a bunch of people who aren`t as talented as other people, knocking them because they make them feel even more untalented. - Ewan McGregor
As you grow older, it becomes harder to feel 100 percent happy; you learn all the things that can go wrong, you become superstitious about tempting fate, about bringing disaster upon your life by accidentally feeling too good one day. - Douglas Coupland
When you are nearer, you will understand how much your eyesight is deceived by distance. Therefore, push yourself a little harder. - Dante Alighieri
For some it is harder to wake up to the truth of life than it is to fall into the sleep of death - Dean Cavanagh
Figuring out what you want in life is hard, having the courage to full fill it is even harder! - Stephanie Kingsmore
That is the hardest thing of all. It is much harder to judge yourself than to judge others. If you succeed in judging yourself, it's because you're truly a wise man. - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Hatred is a boomerang which is sure to hit you harder than the one at whom you throw it.
Nothing is harder to direct than a man in prosperity; nothing more easily managed than one is adversity. - Plutarch
Nothing in this world is harder than speaking the truth, nothing easier than flattery. - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
I hated discussing ideas with investors," he said, "because I then become a Defender of the Idea, and that influences your thought process." Once you became an idea's defender you had a harder time changing your mind about it. - Michael Lewis
The tides are in our veins, we still mirror the stars, life is your child, but there is in meOlder and harder than life and more impartial, the eye that watched before there was an ocean. - Robinson Jeffers
Virtue is harder to be got than knowledge of the world; and, if lost in a young man, is seldom recovered. - John Locke
The harder you try to gain approval from others the more you push them away - Shellie Palmer
To disbelieve is easy; to scoff is simple; to have faith is harder. - Louis L'Amour
If anyone hits me, they can expect to be hit back, and harder. I never turn the other cheek because in my experience that doesn’t work. - Alice Bag
Wisdom is harder to DO than it is to know.
Are you going to spank me, daddy? I'm a very bad girl! (bending over naked)"Oh yeah daddy - spank my ass harder!!! - Alanah Skye
It has never been easier to get books but never harder to find the quiet needed to study them. - John Mark Reynolds
Work harder on yourself than you do on your job. - Jim Rohn
Envy can be a positive motivator. Let it inspire you to work harder for what you want. - Robert Bringle
So, let us summon a new spirit of patriotism, of responsibility, where each of us resolves to pitch in and work harder and look over not only ourselves, but each other. - Barack Obama
You know, I'm like Avis rent-a-car: Because I'm insignificant, I try harder. - Mike Carey
Dream a little harder and act with wonder. - Debasish Mridha
The harder you work, the luckier you are, and I worked like hell. - Gerald R. Ford
Harder you Try, Luckier you get - Steve Martin
The moon is considered a relatively easy object to land humans on, everything else is much harder by orders of magnitude. It is the reason why we have not been to Mars and will likely never go there successfully with humans. - Steven Magee
Writing doesn’t get easier with experience. The more you know, the harder it is to write. - Tim O'Brien
By the time the last few notes fade, his hope will be restored, but each time he's force to resort to the Adagio it becomes harder, and he knows its effect is finite. There are only a certain number of Adagios left in him, and he will not recklessly spend this precious currency. - Steven Galloway
The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly; it is dearness only that gives everything its value. I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress and grow. - Thomas Paine
Mom, I feel good. This dress makes me feel like someone I didn't know I could be. I've never owned anything like it. But if when you see this - when you see me- you think it's a pity, that it's a shame I didn't lose a few, then screw you, Mom. Try harder. - Julie Murphy
I'm not concerned about all hell breaking loose, but that a PART of hell will break loose... it'll be much harder to detect. - George Carlin
If you need to know courage then you personally is the courage you discovered by yourself, try harder things and it will show up. - Auliq Ice
The mud of this body-complex (pudgal - that which charges and disharges) is such that the harder one tries to get out, the deeper and deeper he sinks into it. - Dada Bhagwan
The farther you go, however, the harder it is to return. The world has many edges, and it's easy to fall off. - Anderson Cooper
You think maybe if you just work harder and faster, you can hold off the chaos, but then one day you’re changing a patio light bulb with a five-year life span and you realize how you’ll only be changing this light maybe ten more times before you’ll be dead. - Chuck Palahniuk
Changing one's personality is as simple as stopping the earth's rotation; changing another's is even harder. - Maximus Freeman
Nothing is harder on the nerves than hope. - Forrest Carr
Carved deep into my veins but didn't bleedOverdosed on sleeping pills but didn't sleepWhen your heart is heavy, it gets increasingly harder to breatheClearly there's a GodBut why has he forsaken me? - Nomzamo Nhlumayo
The paradox of choice; the more options there are, the harder it is to chose and the higher the expectations and so, the satisfaction is diminished. - R.A.Delmonico
I've learned from experience that if you work harder at it, and apply more energy and time to it, and more consistency, you get a better result. It comes from the work. - Louis C.K.
Love hard--forgive harder. - Debasish Mridha
The harder they fall, the harder they become. - Nancy Glynn
adulthood is depressing. for me at least. i cried at the death of every illusion harder than i cried at the death of friends. - Darnell Lamont Walker
For men, the answer was always the same and never farther away than the nearest sword. For a woman, a mother, the way was stonier and harder to know. - George R.R. Martin
I’m happiest when I’m with young people. Their wisdom, grief, and optimism motivates me to work harder and inspires me to be better, more thoughtful and to move with increased reverence. I find joy in children. - Lateefah Simon
I believe in the 20/80 rule. That's where working an extra 20% faster, harder, or smarter gets you an extra 80% of the rewards. - Brandon David Hastings
Work and you’ll get what you need, work harder and you’ll get what you want. - Prabakaran Thirumalai
You have to work harder to achieve your goals - Lailah Gifty Akita
It hurts to let go. Sometimes it seems the harder you try to hold on to something or someone the more it wants to get away. You feel like some kind of criminal for having felt, for having wanted. For having wanted to be wanted. - Henry Rollins
A dialysis patient's life is hard. Laugh harder. - Bob Northam
Your wishes doesn't come true, because there is someone else who is wishing harder and trying harder for the same wish. - Amit Kalantri
If your gonna screw up, do it while you're young. Older you get, the harder it is to bounce back. - Winston Groom
When Mandela passed away, the long walk to freedom will be longer and harder. I wish with my tears that every parent tell about Mandela to their children, shall their children grow up firmly and with faith. - Professor Pezhman Mosleh
You are the grace of my life So tender, so undeserved Hard to believe you're my wife Even harder to put what I feel into words If I need evidence God is good Just looking at you is enough You are the grace of my life For you grace my life with your love - Brian Littrell
Work It Harder Make It BetterDo It Faster, Makes Us strongerMore Than Ever Hour AfterOur Work Is Never Over-Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger, lyrics and music by - Daft Punk
Girls at war opt for a quieter cruelty than fistfights and drive-by shootings. Girls circumvent the corporeal and go straight for each other's souls. The bleeding is harder to stanch. - Jillian Lauren
I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it. - Thomas Jefferson
Sometimes it is harder to deprive oneself of a pain than of a pleasure. - F. Scott Fitzgerald
It's harder to make something good when you can't curse all the time. - Tina Fey
Do not be satisfied by just getting what you need, strive and work harder to get what you want. - Auliq Ice
Killing is easy," said Mo, "Dying is harder... - Cornelia Funke
Pain and love cannot be in the same space. You can never love anyone in pain. You cannot truly love yourself in pain. The more pain you carry in your heart, the harder it becomes to love anyone including yourself. - Kemi Sogunle
You can't make people work harder. People have to want to work hard and make a difference. Purpose matters. - Ziad K. Abdelnour
In this hospitable world it is much harder to be unsuccessful than successful. - Debasish Mridha
What is heroic is not making life any harder that it has to be. - Marty Rubin
It's better to teach people than to scare them, Lauren. If you scare them and nothing happens, they lose their fear, and you lose some of your authority with them. It's harder to scare them a second time, harder to teach them, harder to win back their trust. Best to begin by teaching. - Octavia E. Butler
I’m awake and I can’t sleep. The more I’m awake, the more I see, and the harder to sleep. - Donna Lynn Hope
Work harder to become better person. There is no guarantee how long we are going to be here. Enjoy life. - Independentzen
A few thoughts on crime and punishment:Punishment—either don’t merit it, or learn to embrace it.It is easy to endure punishment, much harder to accept it.Committing a crime is like incurring a debt: you can either pay it off now, or pay it off later—with interest. - Clifford Cohen
Work harder to appreciate your ordinary day. - Gretchen Rubin
Crocodiles are easy. They try to kill and eat you. People are harder. Sometimes they pretend to be your friend first. - Steve Irwin
The more you chase money, the harder it is to catch it. - Mike Tatum
I was recently on a tour of Latin America, and the only regret I have was that I didn't study Latin harder in school so I could converse with those people. - Dan Quayle
A child playing with its father screams louder, laughs harder, jumps more eagerly, puts more faith in everything. - Lydia Netzer
You can always make enemies of your friends,' said Sumael. 'Making friends of your enemies is harder labor. - Joe Abercrombie
The harder it gets, the closer you are. - Steven Chopade
I'm a great believer in luck and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it. - Stephen Leacock
Life is harder than you thought, you must face the challenges that comes to your life and fight with Love and Dignity in-order to have a successful life. - Lenny Ramirez
I have learned that the harder you fall…the higher you bounce! - John Paul Warren
People say, 'It's hard to forgive...et al'. I think it's much harder to live peacefully. So, forgive and focus on living peacefully. - m.ralte
Understanding comes out of immense love, which is harder to get in life. - Debolina Bhawal
That’s been one of my mantras focus and simplicity. Simple can be harder than complex: You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple. But it’s worth it in the end because once you get there, you can move mountains. [BusinessWeek, May 25 1998] - Steve Jobs
Growing older is certain; growing wiser is harder and optional. - Debasish Mridha
Leaders always choose the harder right rather than the easier wrong. - Orrin Woodward
To me the hardest thing is hating you.Even harder than walking away still loving you. - Wordions
It is hard to struggle for success but harder for survival. - M.F. Moonzajer
David was "a star, the Elvis of the Bible." An unusually for such a rockstar with his lust for power, lust for women, lust for life, he had humility of one who knew his gift work harder than he ever would. - Bono
Perhaps a physicist would know at once why this whole idea was absurd. But then, perhaps a physicist would be so locked into the consensus of his scientific community that it would be harder for him to accept an idea that transformed the meaning of everything he knew. Even if it were true. - Orson Scott Card
Successfult people are two types; those who are meant to be, and those who try so hard and be. If you are not the first, be the second or try harder. - Alahdal A. Hussein
The prospect of a long day at the beach makes me panic. There is no harder work I can think of than taking myself off to somewhere pleasant, where I am forced to stay for hours and 'have fun'. - Phillip Lopate
Everyone is having a harder time than it appears.
Don't whine to your spouse about your daily troubles. He's had a harder day providing for you and your children. This is what you're aspiring to? - Lindsey Leavitt-Going Vintage
Like a tenacious ivy, your presence clings onto the drab wall of my existence. Cling harder onto me love, like a blood sucking bed-bug who is never satiated. - Malak El Halabi
It is far harder to kill a phantom than a reality - Virginia Woolf
The harder the fight, the greater the victory. - Chris Burkmenn
The madder it makes you, the harder you need to laugh at it. - Destiny Booze
[WASHINGTON]It’s alright, you want to fight, you’ve got a hungerI was just like you when I was youngerHead full of fantasies of dyin’ like a martyr?[HAMILTON]Yes[WASHINGTON]Dying is easy, young man. Living is harder - Lin-Manuel Miranda
Write at a pace that doesn't surpass your creative flow. Don't be hasty; don't be sloppy. Don't forfeit impressive writing for an impressive word count. Because eventually it will all have to be edited, and you'll find that it is harder to make bad writing good than to make good writing better. - Richelle E. Goodrich
If for a while the harder you try, the harder it gets, take heart. So it has been with the best people who ever lived. (The Inconvenient Messiah, BYU Speeches, Feb 15, 1982) - Jeffrey R. Holland
Work hard to play harder. - Linda Rawson
Teach us, O Lord, the disciplines of patience, for to wait is often harder than to work. - Peter Marshall
Good friends are hard to find, harder to leave, and impossible to forget. - Anonymous
Being a messenger of love is all about caring for every person in your orbit unconditionally and ceaselessly. The harder the other person makes it for you, the more love you need to send their way. - Pooja Ruprell
Being kind, being compassionate, being respectful does not make you weak. More often, it's the harder path to take. - Liza M. Wiemer
Being happy is harder than being discontent. For happiness we have to roll up our sleeves and knock down houses of cards. Because of this exertion, many prefer to abide by ‘fake’ happiness.( " Happiness blowing in the wind. " ) - Erik Pevernagie
Some Christians believe the harder that one thinks, the colder faith will grow. Augustine grew more brilliant as he grew more pious, more creative as he became more orthodox. His period of heresy was imitative, but his traditional Christianity took mental risks. - John Mark Reynolds
The harder you search the more troubled you become. - Compton Gage
Discovering what you want out of life is hard, having the courage to full fill it is even harder! - Stephanie Kingsmore
Simply pushing harder within the old boundaries will not do.
Simple can be harder than complex: You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple. But it’s worth it in the end because once you get there, you can move mountains. - Steve Jobs
Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle. - Plato
There is nothing I like better than conversing with aged men. For I regard them as travelers who have gone a journey which I too may have to go, and of whom I ought to inquire whether the way is smooth and easy or rugged and difficult. Is life harder toward the end, or what report do you give it? - Plato
It's good to be contented but it's better to strive harder. - Mari Mar Manuel
As we have seen there is some kind of continuity in any case since every experience affects for better or worse the attitudes which help decide the quality of further experiences, by setting up certain preference and aversion, and making it easier or harder to act for this or that end. - John Dewey
the day you are being loved by a possessive women, believe me it's even harder than marriage - A. Bilal
Actions speak louder than voice but words hurt harder than punches - Himmilicious
Figuring out what you want out of life is hard. Having the courage to full fill it, is even harder. - Stephanie Kingsmore
He was withdrawing. I think it was getting harder for him to accept his fate. Like a bird in a cage, he grew silent. - Alice Hoffman
I won't say that all senior citizens who can't master technology should be publicly flogged, but if we made an example of one or two, it might give the others incentive to try harder. - Chuck Lorre
Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. - Thomas Paine
The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. - Thomas Paine
Yes, its hard to write. But its harder not to. - Carl Clinton Van Doren
It's harder to heal than it is to kill. - Tamora Pierce
The better we become, the higher we climb. The higher we climb, the bigger our ego. The bigger the ego, the harder it is for us to look at others the same way we did before as we can get so full of ourselves we lose our true self. Always be humble. Even if you're good. Always. - Lik Hock Yap Ivan
TV takes away our freedom to have whatever thoughts we want. So do photographs, movies, and the Internet. They provide us with more intellectual stimuli, but they construct a lower, harder ceiling. - Chuck Klosterman
Real leaders are people who help us overcome the limitations of our own individual laziness and selfishness and weakness and fear and get us to do better, harder things than we can get ourselves to do on our own. - David Foster Wallace
It’s a lot harder to get someone out of your life than it is to let them in, so take your time! - Robert Tew
A man will fight harder for his interests than for his rights.
but i've slammed the door to my inner self; if he ever wants to force the lock again, he'll have to use a harder crowbar! - Anne Frank
With friends, if you keep making an effort to reach out and you keep getting hurt, you eventually stop trying. But it's much harder to give up on family. Somewhere deep down you want it to work so badly that you keep making the same mistake over and over again. - Tori Spelling
Enemies and easy to get and even easier to keep. But friends are hard to get and even harder to keep. - Sneha Abraham
I sleep hard; I dream harder! - Maria Bamford
Dating is like a game. If someone feels like they have won us over too easily, they won’t see our value and will go elsewhere to find something they have to work a little bit harder for. - Daniel Willey
Practice hard,Train hard,work hard and Play harder. - Alcurtis Turner
It does not seem to be true that work necessarily needs to be unpleasant. It may always have to be hard, or at least harder than doing nothing at all. But there is ample evidence that work can be enjoyable, and that indeed, it is often the most enjoyable part of life. - Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
Look for something good in each person, even if for some people you have to look a little harder. - Matshona Dhliwayo
Our shortcomings drive us, motivate us to work harder or realize another purpose/talent. - Aaron B. Powell
Leadership has a harder job to do than just choose sides. It must bring sides together.
The more you know, the harder it is to take decisive action. Once you become informed, you start seeing complexities and shades of gray. You realize that nothing is as clear and simple as it first appears. Ultimately, knowledge is paralyzing. - Bill Watterson
Yes, it's hard to write, but it's harder not to. - Carl Van Doren
No one knows very much about the life of another. This ignorance becomes vivid, if you love another. Love sets the imagination on fire, and, also, eventually, chars the imagination into a harder element: imagination cannot match love, cannot plunge so deep, or range so wide. - James Baldwin
I was in the biggest breakdown of my life when I stopped crying long enough to let the words of my epiphany really sink in. That whore, karma, had finally made her way around, and had just bitch-slapped me right across the face. The realization only made me cry harder. - Jennifer Salaiz
You must train harder than the enemy who is trying to kill you. You will get all the rest you need in the grave. - Leon Degrelle
It's harder to write in the third person but the advantage is you move around better. - Ernest Hemingway
Who has a harder fight than he who is striving to overcome himself. - Thomas a Kempis
When love comes easy, forgiving is hard and forgetting even harder. - Shampa Sharma
If like fcuks you hard, you fcuk her more harder. If she betrays, put little bit more effort and she will be dead flat. - Santosh Kalwar
Learn to work harder on yourself than you do on your job. If you work hard on your job you can make a living, but if you work hard on yourself you'll make a fortune. - Jim Rohn
Try a little harder to be a little better. - Gordon B. Hinckley
Loving you was hard, wanting you was harder, but kissing your forehead was insanity. - Dominic Riccitello
Disappointments will come, rejection will come, and failures will come in the midst of the fulfilment of your dream. Don't give up, don't give in, try to push little harder; I know it won't be easy to give that push but keep pushing my friend be persistent and you'll see great results. - Euginia Herlihy
Things that are easily done are often much harder to undo. Sometimes, impossible. - Janette Rallison
We are the authors of our destinies. No one can see the vision any clearer, believe in and work any harder to make it a reality more than the visionary. - Nike Campbell-Fatoki
Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example. - Mark Twain
It is even harder for the average ape to believe that he has descended from man. - H. L. Mencken
When you encourage others, you boost their self-esteem, enhance their self-confidence, make them work harder, lift their spirits and make them successful in their endeavors. Encouragement goes straight to the heart and is always available. Be an encourager. Always. - Roy Bennett
It is harder to crack prejudice than an atom. - Albert Einstein
A challenging life isn't impossible to overcome, but it does mean that you might have to work a little harder to overcome it. - Karon Waddell
The harder you fight to hold on to specific assumptions, the more likely there's gold in letting go of them.
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