Leaders are made, they are not born. They are made by hard effort, which is the price which all of us must pay to achieve any goal that is worthwhile.
It's hard not to get depressed when you pay attention to the world and how strangely and corrupt the people in it sometimes behave.
There's no sense in doing something, especially if it's a hard job, if you can't have a little fun.
There are certain things that are too painful for people to even write about sometimes, and there are certain things that are too hard to read about again.
It's hard to give advice. There are so many people, how do you give major advice to a group of people, it's very presumptuous.
I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way around Chinatown.
I feel like I'm kind of a bit of a sponge in a way. Like, if people around me are going through things, I find it very hard not to be empathetic.
Victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory however long and hard the road may be; for without vicory there is no survival.
Folks in the bottom half of the economy are already squeezed hard. They will be bloodied and bankrupt if economic policy inadvertently induces a recession.
Do not imagine that mathematics is hard and crabbed, and repulsive to common sense. It is merely the etherealization of common sense.
There are people out there with an eye on my hard-earned cash who think that I am a pushover. I am not!
Cast aside any column about two subjects. It means the pundit chickened out on the hard decision about what to write about that day.
Take it not amiss, O speech, that I borrow weighty words, and later try hard to make them seem light.
If we don't start playing better on defense, it's going to be hard. We can't just sit there and win shootouts.
What stays with you longest and deepest? Of curious panics, of hard-fought engagements or sieges tremendous what deepest remains?
To be honest, proper recognition has only come from the fans. I don't want to be hard, and I don't want to be negative, but I want to be honest.
When I first came to Guangzhou in 1981, it seemed such a hard and dour place with everyone in Chairman Mao uniforms.
It's hard to say a favorite song of my father's. I listen to all his stuff - a lot of the old stuff before the '70s.
Every weekend we've been trying to go out of town, to let people know about this album. I've been trying to host parties. It's hard, because it's a lot of work to do both.
I really believe that if you want something bad enough, and you work so hard to get it, and you have it inside, then if you just never stop, it's gonna happen.
I have to work extra hard because I am dyslexic. People said that I couldn't be an actress, but I'm proving them wrong. Acting has helped me overcome the challenge.
