Life is hard; it's harder if you're stupid. — John Wayne
Am I a little rough around the edges? Do I say things that people don't like sometimes? Do I swear a lot? Yes, yes, yes. Life's hard, man. — Dana White
Life is not a bowl full of cherries, there's good and bad stuff. — Fuzzy Zoeller
Life's hard. It's supposed to be. If we didn't suffer, we'd never learn anything. — Ethan Hawke
Short Life Is Rough Quotes
Life is full of challenges and surprises. — Jil Sander
Get used to a rough life, for luxury does not last forever. — Umar
Life at best is bittersweet. — Jack Kirby
Life is never easy for those who dream. — Robert James Waller
Life Sucks,get a helmet — Denis Leary
Life is so hard, how can we be anything but kind? — Jack Kornfield
It's rough to go through life with your contents looking as if they settled during shipping. — Milton Berle
Nobody asked to be born. Life is hard, kinda. — Lil B
Life is like a rose, peeping through the hardships of life to bloom with color. — Stephanie
Life itself is a haphazard, untidy, messy affair. — Dorothy Day
Life Is Rough Image Quotes
For what it's worth: it's never too late to be whoever you want to be. I hope you live a life you're proud of, and, if you find that you're not, I hope you have the strength to start over.
Sometimes Life Is Tough Quotes
Life is about making tough choices. Sometimes you have to go where your career is going. — Bill Maher
Life is sometimes hard. Things go wrong, in life and in love and in business and in friendship and in health and in all other ways that life can go wrong. And when things get tough, this is what you should do. Make good art. — Neil Gaiman
Oh dear, life is pretty tough sometimes, isn't it? — Louisa May Alcott
Never be a prisoner of your past. It was just a lesson, not a life sentence.
I know life sometimes can get tough! And I know life sometimes can be a drag! But people, we have been given a gift, We have been given a road, And that road's name is... Rock and Roll! — Paul Stanley
Life Is Tough Quotes
Nothing is easy, and life can be extremely tough, but there's always a yin to the yang, so to speak. It's up to you to seek it out, embrace it, and live happily ever after. No matter how bad the hand you've been dealt may seem, there's always a way to play it. — Alex Gaskarth
The thing about life is that you must survive. Life is going to be difficult, and dreadful things will happen. What you do is move along, get on with it, and be tough. Not in the sense of being mean to others, but being tough with yourself and making a deadly effort not to be defeated. — Katharine Hepburn
You are the sky. The clouds are what happens, what comes and goes. — Eckhart Tolle
There comes a point in your life when you need to stop reading other people's book and write your own.
Golf is a game that is played on a five-inch course — Bobby Jones
When the going gets tough, the tough reinvent. — RuPaul
You've got to believe that God is in control of your life. It may be a tough time but you've got to believe that God has a reason for it and he's going to make everything good. — Joel Osteen
Some days I wish I could go back in life. Not to change anything, but to feel a few things twice.
Character isn't who you are when life goes your way. Character is who you really are when the bottom falls out. — LeCrae
Life is a cruel, horrible joke and I am the punch line. — Carrie Fisher
When you have exhausted all possibilities, remember this - you haven't. — Thomas A. Edison
Life Is Hard Quotes
If I have accomplished anything in life it is because I have been willing to work hard. — Madam C. J. Walker
Life is a hard battle anyway. If we laugh and sing a little as we fight the good fight of freedom, it makes it all go easier. I will not allow my life's light to be determined by the darkness around me. — Sojourner Truth
The purpose of life is to glorify God in both good and hard times alike. — T. B. Joshua
Getting knocked down in life is a given. Getting up and moving forward is a choice.
It's a terrible thing, I think, in life to wait until you're ready. I have this feeling now that actually no one is ever ready to do anything. There is almost no such thing as ready. There is only now. And you may as well do it now. Generally speaking, now is as good a time as any. — Hugh Laurie
There is one thing sure about life: Life will push us hardly many times! When you are pushed, don't be surprised; stay firm like a plane tree or be elastic like a bamboo! — Mehmet Murat Ildan
The hard thing when you get old is to keep your horizons open. The first part of your life everything is in front of you, all your potential and promise. But over the years, you make decisions; you carve yourself into a given shape. Then the challenge is to keep discovering the green growing edge. — Howard Thurman
The secret to living well and longer is: eat half, walk double, laugh triple and love without measure.
God has allowed hard things in your life so you can show the world that your God is great and that knowing Him brings peace and joy, even when life is hard. — Francis Chan
Times may be hard and people may be demanding, but never forget that life is special. Every single day is a special day. God is at work in you! — Charles R. Swindoll
Like life, basketball is messy and unpredictable. It has its way with you, no matter how hard you try to control it. The trick is to experience each moment with a clear mind and open heart. When you do that, the game - and life - will take care of itself. — Phil Jackson
Bad times, hard times, this is what people keep saying; but let us live well, and times shall be good. We are the times: Such as we are, such are the times. — Saint Augustine
Life Is Difficult Quotes
The most difficult thing in life is to know yourself. — Thales
The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread. — Mother Teresa
I've discovered most Christians don't know what to do with difficult situations because they have bought into the lie that God owes us (for our good behaviour). The reality of life is that if you live long enough you are going to bleed, cry and hurt. AND God is still God IN that. — Matt Chandler
Sometimes the smallest step in the right direction ends up being the biggest step of your life. Tip top if you must, but take the step.
It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are difficult — Seneca
What I treasure most in life is being able to dream.
During my most difficult moments and complex situations
I have been able to dream of a more beautiful future. — Rigoberta Menchu
One of the most difficult things is not to change society - but to change yourself. — Nelson Mandela
Don't wait for everything to be perfect before you decide to enjoy your life.
As we advance in life it becomes more and more difficult, but in fighting the difficulties the inmost strength of the heart is developed. — Vincent Van Gogh
The period of greatest gain in knowledge and experience is the most difficult period in one's life. — Dalai Lama
I think one of life's great milestones is when a person can look back and be almost as thankful for the setbacks as for the victories. — Bob Dole
Life is a difficult game. You can win it only by retaining your birthright to be a person. — A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
Tough Life Quotes
You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. In fact, it may be necessary to encounter the defeats, so you can know who you are, what you can rise from, how you can still come out of it. — Maya Angelou
When Life Puts You in Tough Situations, Don't Say 'Why Me', Say 'Try Me' — Miley Cyrus
If you can't change it.. change the way you think about it — Mary Engelbreit
Be patient and tough; someday this pain will be useful to you. — Ovid
Tough times go away, tough people do not. — Walter Payton
There are no great people in this world, only great challenges which ordinary people rise to meet. — William Halsey
Don't compare your life to others. There's no comparison between the sun and the moon. They shine when it's their time.
These things I wish for you-tough times and disappointment, hard work and happiness. To me, it's the only way to appreciate life. — Paul Harvey
Half of the troubles of this life can be traced to saying yes too quickly and not saying no soon enough. — Josh Billings
The drink? Yes, I've had tough times in my life, especially the last year, regarding my ex-wife, my kids, I nearly broke my neck, I was on death row with pneumonia. — Paul Gascoigne
Life Being Hard Quotes
Don't be pushed by your problems. Be led by your dreams. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
My choice early in life was either to be a piano player in a whorehouse or a politician. To tell the truth, there's hardly a difference. — Harry S. Truman
Do you know what it's like going through life being better than everybody? It's hard. — CM Punk
Life is like a piano, the white keys represent happiness and the black shows sadness, but as you go through life's journey, remember that the black keys also makes music.
Do not pray for an easy life, pray for the strength to endure a difficult one — Bruce Lee
I feel like relationships are a beautiful thing, period. Relationships can be really beautiful, they can be really hard, they can be really rewarding, or they can be bad relationships where it's really detrimental and hurtful, but that's life, period. — J. Cole
Don't chase people. Be yourself, do your own thing and work hard. The right people - the ones who really belong in your life - will come to you. And Stay. — Will Smith
Failure are part of life. If you don't fail, you don't learn. If you don't learn you'll never change.
Human lives are hard, even those of health and privilege, and don't make much sense. This is the message of the Book of Job: Any snappy explanation of suffering you come up with will be horseshit. — Anne Lamott
That diploma you hold in your hands today is really just your learner's permit for the rest of the drive through life. Remember, you don't have to be smarter than the next person, all you have to do is be willing to work harder than the next person. — Jimmy Iovine
Life is sentimental. Why should I be cold and hard about it? That's the main content. The biggest thing in people's lives is their loves and dreams and visions, you know. — Jim Harrison
The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself. — Anna Quindlen
Life Is Cruel Quotes
I'm just a human being trying to make it in a world that is very rapidly losing it's understanding of being human. — John Trudell
When I cannot understand my Father's leading, And it seems to be but hard and cruel fate, Still I hear that gentle whisper ever pleading, God is working, God is faithful-Only wait. — A. B. Simpson
Self-criticism, cruel, unsparing criticism that goes to the very root of the evil, is life and breath for the proletarian movement. — Rosa Luxemburg
As cruel as life might be at times, if you throw in the towel, which is what everyone will expect, then nothing good will happen and your life will fall apart. Be better than that! — Bill Courtney
Forgiveness is an embrace, across all barriers, against all odds, in defiance of all that is mean and petty and vindictive and cruel in this life. — Kent Nerburn
Life can't ever really defeat a writer who is in love with writing, for life itself is a writer's lover until death – fascinating, cruel, lavish, warm, cold, treacherous, constant. — Edna Ferber
You can't expect to draw people into your life who are kind, confident, and generous if you're thinking and acting in cruel, weak, and selfish ways. You must be what it is that you're seeking- that is, you need to put forth what you want to attract. — Wayne Dyer
Of all the animals, man is the only one that is cruel. He is the only one that inflicts pain for the pleasure of doing it. — Mark Twain
Time is a cruel thief to rob us of our former selves. We lose as much to life as we do to death. — Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey
Man is subject to innumerable pains and sorrows by the very condition of humanity, and yet, as if nature had not sown evils enough in life, we are continually adding grief to grief and aggravating the common calamity by our cruel treatment of one another. — Joseph Addison
Sometimes Life Is Hard Quotes
Sometimes life is so hard you can only do the next thing.Whatever that is just do the next thing.God will meet you there. — Elisabeth Elliot
Sometimes a hard day's work is easier than a lot of things you can meet in life. — Chris LeDoux
Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though sometimes it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and grieves which we endure help us in our marching onward. — Henry Ford
Sometimes it is hard to see in life. If the fog rolls in we can't see anything. Most people get caught up in life that they forget the purpose of life is to be happy. — Frederick Lenz
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
Most things will be okay eventually, but not everything will be. Sometimes you'll put up a good fight and lose. Sometimes you'll hold on really hard and realize there is no choice but to let go. Acceptance is a small, quiet room. — Cheryl Strayed
Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though sometimes it is hard to realize this. — Henry Ford
Recovery isn’t easy, at first. It takes time. It takes more work, sometimes, than you think you’re willing to do. But it is worth every hard day, every tear, every terrified moment. It’s worth it, because the trade-off is this: you let go of your eating disorder, and you get back your life. — Marya Hornbacher
The people accusing me of being productive don't know how hard it is for me to just bend my elbow sometimes. — Lena Dunham
Life is a bit hard sometimes, and sometimes you have to step up and fight fights that you never signed up for. — Joel Spolsky
Hard Life Quotes
People know that I have adopted four principles in living my life: simple living, punctuality, hard work and prudence. — Abdul Sattar Edhi
Never give up on a dream just because of the time it will take to accomplish it. The time will pass anyway. — Earl Nightingale
There's nothing inherently dirty about sex, but if you try real hard and use your imagination you can overcome that. — Lewis Grizzard
I've always been my own person. Everything I've ever done in my life I did the hard way. — Bray Wyatt
Success isn't about how much money you make, it's about the difference you make in people's lives. — Michelle Obama
When life seems hard, the courageous do not lie down and accept defeat; instead, they are all the more determined to struggle for a better future. — Queen Elizabeth II
People are strange: They are constantly angered by trivial things, but on a major matter like totally wasting their lives, they hardly seem to notice. — Charles Bukowski
No one will hit you harder than life itself. It doesn't matter how hard you hit back. It's about how much you can take, and keep fighting, how much you can suffer and keep moving forward. That's how you win. — Sylvester Stallone
Nothing has saddened me so much in life as the hardness of heart of educated people. — Mahatma Gandhi
In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer. And that makes me happy. For it says that no matter how hard the world pushes against me, within me, there’s something stronger – something better, pushing right back. — Albert Camus
Life Is Not Easy Quotes
Ups and downs in life are very important to keep us going, because a straight line even in an ECG means we are not alive — Ratan Tata
If she's amazing, she won't be easy. If she's easy, she won't be amazing. If she's worth it, you wont give up. If you give up, you're not worthy. ... Truth is, everybody is going to hurt you; you just gotta find the ones worth suffering for. — Bob Marley
Life is not a problem to be solved, but an experience to be had. — Alan Watts
Life is short. People are not easy to know. They're not easy to know, so if you don't tell them how you feel, you're not going to get anywhere, I feel. — Nina Simone
Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves. — Marie Curie
You need a heart which is in love, not an easy life, to achieve happiness. — Josemaria Escriva
Life is not meant to be easy, my child; but take courage: it can be delightful. — George Bernard Shaw
Life's not easy for unicorns, you know. We're a dying breed. — Meg Cabot
To be happy is easy enough if we give ourselves, forgive others, and live with thanksgiving, No self centered person, no ungrateful soul can ever be happy, much less make anyone else happy. Life is giving, not getting. — Joseph Fort Newton
Life is not an easy matter... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above weakness, above all kinds of perfidy and baseness. — Leon Trotsky
People want to know why the South is so interested in the Civil War. I had maybe, it's a rough guess, about fifty fistfights in my life. Out of those fifty fistfights, the ones that I had the most vivid memory of were the ones I lost. I think that's one reason why the South remembers the war more than the North does. — Shelby Foote
The term of life of a dynasty does not normally exceed three generations. For in the first generation are still preserved the characteristic features of rough, uncivilized rural life, such as hard conditions of life, courage, ferocity, and partnership in authority. Therefore the strength of the 'Asabiya is maintained. — Ibn Khaldun
When people go through something rough in life, they say, "I'm taking it one day at a time." Yes, so is everybody. Because that's how time works. — Hannibal Buress
Her heart is full of joy with love, for in the Lord her mind is stilled. She has renounced every selfish attachment and draws abiding joy and strength from the One within. She lives not for herself, but lives to serve the Lord of Love in all, and swims across the sea of life breasting its rough waves joyfully. — Teresa of Avila
One of the greatest feelings in life is the conviction that you have lived the life you wanted to live-with the rough and the smooth, the good and the bad-but yours, shaped by your own choices, and not someone else's. — Michael Ignatieff
Depression is a real demon in the woods for a lot of creative people, you know? It's part of what the documentary is trying to be about for me, finding balance, where the beauty that is attainable in the creative arts can be matched with the scratchy roughness of regular life. — Ethan Hawke
The truth is that things matter. They have to, they are what we live with and touch each and every day. They represent what we've seen, who we've loved and where we hope to go next. They remind us of the good times and the rough patches and everything in between that's made us who we are. — Nate Berkus
Our path is sometimes rough and sometimes smooth; nonetheless, life is a constant journey... whatever we do is regarded as our journey, our path. That path consists of opening oneself to the road, opening oneself to the steps we are about to take. — Chogyam Trungpa
Life is movement. Movement is change. Every time a sub molecular particle swings through time and space, something is changing. Change, therefore, is inevitable. It is the nature of life itself. The trick in life is not to try to avoid change, but to create change. Then it is the kind of change you choose. — Neale Donald Walsch
I am one of those who believe that spiritual progress is a rule of human life, but the approach to perfection is slow and painful. If a woman elevates herself in one respect and is retarded in another, it is because the rough trail that leads to the mountain peak is not free of ambushes of thieves and lairs of wolves. — Kahlil Gibran
If there be light, then there is darkness; if cold, heat; if height, depth; if solid, fluid; if hard, soft; if rough, smooth; if calm, tempest; if prosperity, adversity; if life, death. — Pythagoras
If you make believe that ten guys in pin-striped suits are back in a kindergarten class playing with building blocks, you'll get a rough picture of what life in a corporation is like. — Lee Iacocca
A rough rule in life is that an organization foolish in one way in dealing with a complex system is all too likely to be foolish in another. — Charlie Munger
The film [Dream of Life], in the end, is life-affirming, and I think it's always useful for people to be reminded that no matter how rough things get, no matter what kind of twists and turns our lives can take, we can keep going, we can create something new. — Patti Smith
They say that life is a highway and its milestones are the years,And now and then there's a toll-gate where you buy your way with tears.It's a rough road and a steep road and it stretches broad and far,But at last it leads to a golden Town where golden Houses are. — Joyce Kilmer
Life is like a roller coaster. It's never going to be perfect - it is going to have perfect moments, and then rough spots, but it's all worth it. — Patti Smith
Christianity is a religion which concerns us as we are here and now, creatures of body and soul. We do not "follow the footsteps of his most holy life" by the exercise of a trained religious imagination, but by treading the firm, rough earth, up hill and down dale. — Evelyn Underhill
The scenes of our life are like pictures done in rough mosaic. Looked at close, they produce no effect. There is nothing beautiful to be found in them, unless you stand some distance off. — Arthur Schopenhauer
Life is not all fun and easy going. Far from it; there are many rough times. But, sadly, we too often let the hard times dull our enthusiasm. And that is dangerous, if not fatal, to our lives. — Norman Vincent Peale
What seems to set apart those at the very top of competitive pursuits from others of roughly equal ability is the degree to which, beginning early in life, they can pursue an arduous practice routine for years and years. — Daniel Goleman
Everything made by human hands looks terrible under magnification--crude, rough, and asymmetrical. But in nature every bit of life is lovely. And the more magnification we use, the more details are brought out, perfectly formed, like endless sets of boxes within boxes. — Roman Vishniac
The real world is not easy to live in. It is rough; it is slippery. Without the most clear-eyed adjustments we fall and get crushed. A man must stay sober; not always, but most of the time. — Clarence Day
I love New York, but it's a rough city. It's not dangerous now the way it was in the 70's or the 80's, but it's still a rough city. It's hard to hack it there. Life is harder than it is on the West Coast. To be able to deal with that, you have to have a lot of aspirational feelings pinned on being there. — Greta Gerwig
Memorial Day orators will say that a G.I.'s life is priceless. Don't believe it. I know what value the U.S. government assigns to a soldier's life: I've been handed the check. It's roughly what the Yankees will pay Roger Clemens per inning once he starts pitching next month. — Andrew Bacevich
There's a cinematic quality that happens in my mind when I hear something that really lands. An album is just a journal of a life moving through time. — Ben Gibbard
There is no employment in the world so laborious as that of making to one's self a great name; life ends before one has scarcely made the first rough draught of his work. — Jean De La Bruyere
Is it worthwhile that we jostle a brother, Bearing his load on the rough road of life? Is it worthwhile that we jeer at each other, In blackness of heart - that we war to the knife? God pity us all in our pitiful strife — Joaquin Miller
People of superior refinement and of active disposition identify happiness with honour; for this is roughly speaking, the end of political life. — Aristotle
Enter through the narrow gate. The gate that leads to damnation is wide, the road is clear, and many choose to travel it. But how narrow is the gate that leads to life, how rough the road, and how few there are who find it. Mathew 7:13-14 — Bible
Life is rough for everyone....Life isn't always fair. Whatever it is that hits the fan, its never evenly distributed - some always tend to get more of it than others. — Ann Landers
Often the lack of clear direction and goals can waste away our time and energy and contribute to imbalance in our lives. A life that gets out of balance is much like a car tire that is out of balance. It will make the operation of the car rough and unsafe. Tires in perfect balance can give a smooth and comfortable ride. So it is with life. The ride through mortality can be smoother for us when we strive to stay in balance. — Sayings
Hey mister, where you goin' in such a hurry? Don't you think it's time you realize There's a whole lot more to life than work and worry All the sweetest things in life are free And they're right before your eyes? You've got to stop and smell the roses You've got to count your many blessings every day You're gonna find your way to heaven is a rough and rocky road If you don't stop and smell the roses along the way — Mac Davis
The rough and ready improvisational quality to life on board the International Space Station is reminiscent of a long trip in a sailboat: privacy and fresh produce are in short supply, hygiene is basic, and a fair amount of the crew's time is spent just on maintaining and repairing the craft. — Chris Hadfield
Moon and Sea You are the moon, dear love, and I the sea: The tide of hope swells high within my breast, And hides the rough dark rocks of life's unrest When your fond eyes smile near in perigee. But when that loving face is turned from me, Low falls the tide, and the grim rocks appear, And earth's dim coast-line seems a thing to fear. You are the moon, dear one, and I the sea. — Ella Wheeler Wilcox
If we are on the outside, we assume a conspiracy is the perfect working of a scheme. Silent nameless men with unadorned hearts. A conspiracy is everything that ordinary life is not. It's the inside game, cold, sure, undistracted, forever closed off to us. We are the flawed ones, the innocents, trying to make some rough sense of the daily jostle. Conspirators have a logic and a daring beyond our reach. All conspiracies are the same taut story of men who find coherence in some criminal act. — Don Delillo
The heart itself is only a small vessel, yet dragons are there, and lions,there are poisonous beasts, and all the treasures of evil,there are rough and uneven roads,there are precipes;but there too is God and the angels,life is there, and the Kingdom,there too is light, and there the apostlesand heavenly cities,and treasures of grace.All things lie within that little space. — Makarios the Great
Roughly speaking, any man with energy and enthusiasm ought to be able to bring at least a dozen others round to his opinion in the course of a year no matter how absurd that opinion might be. We see every day in politics, in business, in social life, large masses of people brought to embrace the most revolutionary ideas, sometimes within a few days. It is all a question of getting hold of them in the right way and working on their weak points. — Aleister Crowley
The golf facet of my life doesn't go with the rest of my life, which is a rough-and-tumble life. I work in real estate development, which is the toughest business, and I do it in the toughest city. I deal with ruthless people. — Donald Trump
I had, early in life, a love for staging, but it is fast dying out. Nine hours over a rough road are enough to root out the most passionate love of that kind. — Maria Mitchell
Film is a great tool to play with time, going back and forth through time, or speeding time up and slowing it down and do stuff like that. That's something you can't experience in real life that you can experience on film, and it takes you to a different place. — Darren Aronofsky
It's always kind of a bit rough having a camera crew documenting your life. And then you just kind of forget that they're there and you get into the flow of things. And away you go. Everything is real, so there's no performing involved. It's just a matter of a comfort level. — Dean McDermott
I commend you, however, for passing the time in as merry a manner as you possibly could; it is assuredly better to go laughing than crying thro' the rough journey of life. — George Washington
Life, is easy. And if yours isn't, quit whining. Oh, wait. unless you're just a head amd then, you do have it pretty rough. I don't know how you roll out of bed every morning. — Christopher Titus
The prompting that goes unresponded to may not be repeated. Writing down what we have been prompted with is vital. A special thought can be lost later in the day through the rough and tumble of life. God should not, and may not, choose to repeat the prompting if we assign what is given such a low priority as to put it aside. — Neal A. Maxwell
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