Hard Way Quotes:

I wanted a perfect ending. Now I've learned, the hard way, that some poems don't rhyme, and some stories don't have a clear beginning, middle and end.

- Gilda Radner

source: Gilda Radner (2015). “It's Always Something”, p.254, Simon and Schuster

topic: Perfect, Stories, Rhyming, I Ll Miss You, Beginnings And Ends

You have to learn the rules of the game. And then you have to play better than anyone else.

- Albert Einstein

topic: Inspirational, Positive, Success, Best Success, About Success

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

source: Al Franken (2002). “Oh, the Things I Know!”, p.14, Penguin

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Success, Learned From Mistakes, Mistakes And Learning

Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

- Confucius

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Best Success, Marathon Runners

Surround yourself with people who are doers!

- Wayne Dyer

topic: Motivational, People, Doers, Surround Yourself With Good People, Surround Yourself With Positive People

Just be you. I've learned the hard way and in the end, some people are just so full of hate that no matter what you say or do, they'll always have something to say.

- Megan Fox

topic: Hater, People, Matter, Hard Way

I've always been my own person. Everything I've ever done in my life I did the hard way.

- Bray Wyatt

source: Source: geektometv.wordpress.com

topic: Done, Way, Persons, Hard Way

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

topic: Giving Up, Fighting, Two, Hard Way

Sin has made us stupid, so that we can only learn the hard way.

- Peter Kreeft

topic: Stupid, Way, Sin, Learning The Hard Way, Hard Way

I have a range, and I'd much rather do things the nice way than the hard way, but sometimes you have to use all the tools at your disposal.

- Susan Rice

source: Source: www.buzzfeed.com

topic: Nice, Tools, Use, Hard Way

You learn lessons. A lot of them the hard way.

- Taylor Swift

topic: Way, Lessons, Hard, Hard Way

Becoming a real researcher has been the ultimate humbling experience for me. Nature is the examiner from hell; if you find new things at all, you always find them the hard way, with sweat and tears. Only then do you notice that there was a really easy way to find them. But this insight rarely arrives before you have been utterly humiliated and reduced to despair.

- Joao Magueijo

source: João Magueijo (2004). “Faster Than the Speed of Light: The Story of a Scientific Speculation”, Penguin Group USA

topic: Nature, Real, Sweat, Sweat And Tears, Humbling Experiences

We can count on so few people to go that hard way with us.

- Adrienne Rich

topic: People, Way, Human Relationships, Hard Way

We are all one - and if we don't know it, we will learn it the hard way.

- Bayard Rustin

topic: Way, Hard Way

What I didn't realize was the severity of the crime, so to speak. I think that's important. That's one of the lessons learned here. You move to a new area, you really need to be sure of what the laws and penalties are. You hear those things. You hear, 'Don't speed in Virginia' when you get here, just in casual conversations. What's left out is why you don't speed in Virginia. I learned the hard way, that's for sure.

- Jayson Werth

topic: Moving, Thinking, Virginia, Hard Way, Severity

He's going to learn the hard way. Hopefully he changes his mentality quick.

- Dwyane Wade

topic: Way, Learning The Hard Way, Hopefully, Hard Way

In life, you learn lessons. And sometimes you learn them the hard way. Sometimes you learn them too late.

- Taylor Swift

topic: Too Late, Lessons, Way, Learning The Hard Way, Hard Way

It’s really simple actually. It’s just, try and make people happy. Maybe you have to learn with time. Maybe you have to learn it the hard way. But as long as you learn it, you’re going to make the world a better place.

- Zach Sobiech

topic: Simple, Long, People, Hard Way

Uri Geller may have psychic powers by means of which he can bend spoons; if so, he appears to be doing it the hard way.

- James Randi

source: "An Encyclopedia of Claims, Frauds, and Hoaxes of the Occult and Supernatural". Book by James Randi, 1995.

topic: Mean, Psychics, Spoons, Hard Way

The easy way is efficacious and speedy, the hard way arduous and long. But, as the clock ticks, the easy way becomes harder and the hard way becomes easier. And as the calendar records the years, it becomes increasingly evident that the easy way rests hazardously upon shifting sands, whereas the hard way builds solidly a foundation of confidence that cannot be swept away.

- Colonel Sanders

topic: Years, Long, Foundation, Swept Away, Easy Way

MAKE ME AN ANGEL THAT FLIES FROM MONTGOMERY, MAKE ME A POSTER OF AN OLD RODEO JUST GIVE ME ONE THING THAT I CAN HOLD ON TO TO BELIEVE IN THIS LIVIN' IS JUST A HARD WAY TO GO.....

- John Prine

source: Song: Angel From Montgomery

topic: Believe, Angel, Giving, Montgomery, Rodeo

My father was a writer; I've known a lot of children of writers - daughters and sons of writers, and it can be a hard way to grow up.

- Caitlin Flanagan

source: "Caitlin Flanagan and Joan Didion: Writers and Mothers". Interview with Nancy Doyle Palmer, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 20, 2012.

topic: Daughter, Mother, Children, Hard Way

Nothing in this world is a gift. Whatever must be learned must be learned the hard way.

- Carlos Castaneda

topic: Reality, World, Way, Hard Way

More than once I've had discussions with persons who say things based on a misunderstanding. 'Oh you Catholics worship images.' No we don't, 'yes you do,' no we don't, 'yes you do,' no we don't! The final retort to that is: I have a doctorate in Catholic theology that I have earned the hard way - by sitting in university classrooms for twelve years. I know what we believe! You get a doctorate in Catholic theology? What do you know about it? Nothing! You don't know anything about it. You're saying things that are born of misunderstanding or ignorance.

- John Corapi

topic: Believe, Ignorance, Years, Retorts, Doctorates

It took me better than a quarter century to learn, the hard way, that hard work at something you want to be doing is the most fun that you can have out of bed . . . to learn that the smart man finds ways to make everything he does be work; to learn that "leisure" time is truly pleasurable (indeed tolerable) only to the extent that is its subconscious grazing for information with which to infuse newer, better work.

- Spider Robinson

topic: Fun, Smart, Hard Work, Grazing, Learning The Hard Way

Maybe tomorrow is counting on me To learn my lessons today I'll start by taking a step at a time And stop throwing my blessings away I'll get myself up and I'll brush myself off And take back some of the pride that I've lost 'Cause you can't always keep your feet on the ground I guess we all learn the hard way and we all fall down

- Bekka Bramlett

source: Song: We All Fall Down

topic: Song, Fall, Pride, My Blessing, Feet On The Ground

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

topic: Hurt, Mind, Stressed, Stressed Out, Hard Way

It [further education] is most essential,otherwise I would not have educated my sons. I learnt the hard way.Maybe if I had some education my success and growth would have been quicker.

- Dhirubhai Ambani

topic: Son, Growth, Essentials, Further Education, Hard Way

Lessons that come easy are not lessons at all. They are gracious acts of luck. Yet lessons learned the hard way are lessons never forgotten.

- Don Williams

topic: Lesson Learned, Luck, Lessons, Hard Way

Most of my colleagues go on backpacking trips when they have to do some thinking. I go to a good hardware store and head for the oiliest, dustiest corners... If they're really good, they don't hassle me. They let me wander around and think. Young hardware clerks have a lot of hubris. They think they can help you find anything... Old hardware clerks have learned the hard way that nothing in a hardware store ever gets bought for its nominal purpose. You buy something that was designed to do one thing, and you use it for another.

- Neal Stephenson

source: "Zodiac: An Eco-Thriller". Book by Neal Stephenson, May 1988.

topic: Thinking, Clerks, Use, Hassle, Hard Way

All great leaders since Moses have known that a feared enemy must be crushed completely. (Sometimes they have learned this the hard way.) If one ember is left alight, no matter how dimly it smolders, a fire will eventually break out. More is lost through stopping halfway than through total annihilation: The enemy will recover, and will seek revenge. Crush him, not only in body but in spirit.

- Robert Greene

topic: Crush, Revenge, Fire, Embers, Hard Way

I learned the hard way. When I started hitting home runs, I thought, I can hit these pitches. Then I started thinking, if I can do this, I can hit the pitch four inches outside or four inches up. I expanded the zone and got myself out. Pitchers are smart. If they find out they don't have to throw strikes, they won't.

- Carlos Delgado

topic: Running, Smart, Home, Hard Way, Hitting Home Runs

To die with elation is a crappy way of dying... A warrior dies the hard way. His death must struggle to take him. A warrior does not give himself to it.

- Carlos Castaneda

source: Carlos Castaneda (2013). “Tales of Power”, p.75, Simon and Schuster

topic: Struggle, Warrior, Giving, Hard Way

I always call niggas fools for wanting to learn the hard way. When I'm really the fool for tryna teach 'em. When the blinds leading the blind. You can't reach 'em. If niggas ain't as hungry as you then why feed 'em? Niggas ain't tryna be lead then why lead 'em? Having big problems with your dogs, why breed em?

- Joe Budden

topic: Dog, Ems, Way, Leading The Blind, Learning The Hard Way

I've learned the hard way how valuable privacy is. And I've learned that there are a lot of things in your life that really benefit from being private. And relationships are one of them.

- Ashton Kutcher

topic: Benefits, Way, Privacy, Hard Way

Over the years, a number of very smart people have learned the hard way that a long string of impressive numbers multiplied by a single zero always equals zero.

- Warren Buffett

topic: Zero, Smart, Years, Hard Way

I have in the past tended to overestimate the amount of change I can affect in the short run and then not fully appreciate the change I can affect in the long run. And so I've learned that it's critical to think carefully about the pace of change, and it's something that I've learned the hard way.

- Harry West

source: Source: bobmorris.biz

topic: Running, Past, Thinking, Pace Of Change, Hard Way

I learned about sex the hard way... from books.

- Emo Philips

topic: Sex, Book, Way, Hard Way

I had no contact with my contemporaries in the photographic field, nor even knowledge of their work. So I was influenced by no-one and there were no short cuts for me. I was self-taught the hard way, by trial and error.

- George Rodger

topic: Cutting, Errors, Self, Hard Way

I'm not the kind of person who could join AA or have rules for myself or on Thursday take this vitamin pill. So, basically, I learned the hard way. I learned by trial and error, and tried to get drugs out of my work. That took about a year. If I was going to work, it was best that I be straight. And I was surprised at what came out.

- Iggy Pop

source: "New Again: Iggy Pop". Interview With Lisa Robinson, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 23, 2016.

topic: Years, Errors, Drug, Hard Way

Showrunning is not a one-man job; it's literally impossible to do for one person. I have learned the hard way now from two seasons, one with Red Widow, and this, I can't control everything. I certainly have tried, but having an incredibly strong team around you, surrounding yourself with incredibly talented people, that is the trick, and I certainly had that for the first season here of Jessica Jones.

- Melissa Rosenberg

source: Source: deadline.com

topic: Jessica Jones, Hard Way

I learned the hard way that not only do you not have to be superwoman, but it's better not to be and not to try to be. What I would like to be is just a good person - someone who tries her best and puts her best foot forward.

- Cindy McCain

source: Source: www.goodhousekeeping.com

topic: Feet, Trying, Way, Superwoman, Super Woman

I learnt the hard way about positioning in business, about catering to the right segments.

- Shaffi Mather

topic: Way, Catering, Hard Way

That's another lesson I've learned the hard way. All relationships will die if they aren't nurtured. Just as a flower will die if it's not watered. Because love is demonstration, not declaration.

- Patti LaBelle

topic: Relationship, Flower, Love Is, Hard Way

You have to earn money the hard way. Because no-one will serve it up to you on a silver platter.

- Gordon Wu

topic: Work, Way, Silver, Hard Way, Silver Platter

I've learned enough things the hard way to know we humans can make a difference.

- Richard Patrick

topic: Differences, Making A Difference, Way, Hard Way

I wasn't smart enough to read relationship books when I was coming up. I learned everything the hard way.

- Michael Ealy

source: "Michael Ealy Breaks Down ‘Think Like A Man,’ Relationships And His Return To Broadway". Interview with Brennan Williams, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 2, 2012.

topic: Smart, Book, Way, Learning The Hard Way, Hard Way

Spain travel tip: If bathroom genders are indicated by flamingos, the boy flamingo is the one with a hat. I learned this the hard way.

- Dave Barry

source: Twitter post from Jul 10, 2009

topic: Funny, Travel, Boys, Flamingos, Hard Way

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

source: "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Humble, Thinking, Japan, Debut, Financial Support