Hard Way Quotes

Here, we’ve compiled a list of the best Hard Way Quotes from famous authors such as Sonny Bill Williams, Steve Miller, SZA, Nigel Benn, Shaffi Mather. Let’s look at these pieces of wisdom. We definitely have something to learn from them!

1
I don’t have the runs on the board to trash talk anyone in the boxing sense. I’ve got to do it the hard way and earn that respect.
Sonny Bill Williams
2
Being talented was a hard way to make it. But I made it on my talent and songs.
Steve Miller
3
I learned everything the hard way – like, literally, everything. I know that God does that to people that he has lessons for. I just wish that I had learned less extreme lessons.
SZA
4
I’ve learned a lot the hard way.
Nigel Benn
5
I learnt the hard way about positioning in business, about catering to the right segments.
Shaffi Mather
6
I’ve never had a career of that kind of box office power. I’ve always learned the hard way.
Holly Hunter
7
I’m grateful for every opportunity. I learned the hard way.
DeMarcus Cousins
8
Spare a thought for people like me who sweated it out for our moment of glory and the joy we brought for the country. I had earned my records the hard way.
P. T. Usha
9
I am neither dejected nor depressed because every one has a bad phase in one’s life. I realized it the hard way because the momentum of my social life too slowed down.
Suresh Gopi
10
I had to be intellectually satisfied as well as emotionally because at that time of life one doesn’t just fall into it in adolescent emotion, and I was satisfied at every point that it was the one way and the hard way to do things.
Ruth Pitter
11
Sometimes I do have to find out things the hard way.
Naomi
12
I find with most of my readers are kind of like me, sort of people who were a little bit naive in life and then learned the hard way that this is what’s going on, the political games and most of my readers write to me telling me that the book helped them open their eyes to what other people are doing to them.
Robert Greene
13
I did this the hard way. I have worked my entire life in this business, and I’ve done the work – from being on the selling floor to learning to speak Italian to work with manufacturers with John Bartlett. I’ve done it all. I’ve paid my dues.
Nick Wooster
14
There are so many highs and lows working in TV. I learnt that the hard way when my contract for ‘Big Brother’s Bit On The Side’ wasn’t renewed. Nobody gave me a reason, so I felt rotten.
A. J. Odudu
15
In the pocket, you do have some protections, but you get out of the pocket, and defenders’ eyes get big. Sometimes you learn that the hard way.
Alex Smith
16
We share a common planet, and the world has learned the hard way that we have to get along and work together. We have learned, too, that cooperation can benefit all.
Joseph Stiglitz
17
I learned in an extremely hard way that the accountability falls with me.
Stephen Baldwin
18
Pretty much everything I carry with me, I learned I needed the hard way. I sweated, dry-lipped, dry-mouthed, soaked-to-the-skinned my way through all of these lessons.
Janet Varney
19
Humans are possessed, to some degree, with the power of foresight. Yet we so often learn things the hard way, through disaster.
David Grinspoon
20
I had a lot of growing up to do. A lot of times, I learned the hard way.
Allen Iverson
21
When I was younger, me and my dad worked really hard. We did it the hard way.
Chloe Kim
22
It is super important to know what you are getting yourself into when signing a deal. I learned that the hard way.
Yo Gotti
23
I’ve done it the hard way – first Olympic gold medallist from Great Britain to win a world title, the ‘road warrior.’ I love that tag because I do travel.
James DeGale
24
I’m blessed that I’m not content. Whenever I work with kids, which I’m passionate about, I want them to know that, yes, two World Cups, two Asian Cups, but I’ve done it the hard way.
Timothy F. Cahill
25
I am Dusty’s son, but I learned the hard way I was never going to be ‘The American Dream.’ That was difficult for me, and I made some molehills into mountains.
Goldust
26
I remember I had to go and ask my mom for groceries sometimes because I wasn’t the best person with budgeting. I had to learn the hard way, but you live and learn. It builds character and strength.
Katie Cassidy
27
I can’t watch my movies at their premieres – I learned that lesson the hard way.
David Lowery
28
Boxing has been around for a while and there’s a lot of great examples of what to do and what not to do. You can look at those examples and learn from other people’s mistakes without having to go through it the hard way.
Caleb Plant
29
Acting is a hard way to make a living, and there’s a kind of dark, somewhat seedy side to the whole aspect of fame and celebrity that’s not really something I would want for my child – or want him to want, if that makes any sense.
Pablo Schreiber
30
I’ve always done things the hard way. I was born like a piece of tangled yarn. The job is trying to untangle it, and I’ll probably go on doing it for the rest of my life.
Karen Allen
31
Working at Pixar you learn the really honest, hard way of making a great movie, which is to surround yourself with people who are much smarter than you, much more talented than you, and incite constructive criticism; you’ll get a much better movie out of it.
Andrew Stanton
32
Computers allow us to squeeze the most out of everything, whether it’s Google looking up things, so I guess that tends to make us a little lazy about reading books and doing things the hard way to understand how those things work.
Buzz Aldrin
33
You learn the hard way. That’s the thing with social media. Nobody knows what they’re doing.
Cameron Dallas
34
To me, The Hard Way’ is as raw and vital as anything I was doing when I first started only its way better!
John Waite
35
My parents keep me grounded. I’ve spent a lot of time on my own in my life, and I’ve learnt the hard way.
Atif Aslam
36
I think most fiction writers naturally start by writing short stories, but some of us don’t. When I first started writing, I just started writing a novel. It’s a hard way to learn to write. I don’t recommend it to my students, but it just happens that way for some of us.
Andrea Barrett
37
All my memories with my mother have been special. Even the time she rebuked or taught me things the hard way.
Rubina Dilaik
38
I couldn’t get my first film on the air. The first film I did was called ‘The Race For Space,’ about the U.S.-Soviet space race. The networks had a policy that I found out about the hard way. I even had a sponsor for my program, but the networks wouldn’t put it on because it was independently produced.
David L. Wolper
39
Many people suggest using mathematics to talk to the aliens, and Dutch computer scientist Alexander Ollongren has developed an entire language (Lincos) based on this idea. But my personal opinion is that mathematics may be a hard way to describe ideas like love or democracy.
Seth Shostak
40
I learned the hard way that taking shortcuts and living for free is not really living free.
Sophia Amoruso
41
Trump made his fortune manipulating tax laws and stiffing small businessmen, creating a few well-paying jobs along the way. Vulnerable people looking to master ‘the art of the deal’ learned the hard way that Trump held all the cards.
Stephanie Coontz
42
The older you get, the easier it is to get injured. But what I’ve learned the hard way is that the more excess weight you have, the more likely you are to get injured doing everyday things.
Steve Howey
43
There were so many lessons I learned the hard way: missing out on a raise because I didn’t know to ask, having colleagues consistently get credit for my ideas because of how I spoke up in meetings. When I looked for a resource that addressed the challenges I was facing, I couldn’t find it. There was nothing.
Kathryn Minshew
44
We earned our dollars in a hard way;, nobody gave us a feast or gave it on a plate. We worked hard and we have innovated; we have made things in a better way at a cheaper rate and gave it to the people of India.
Kallam Anji Reddy
45
It’s a cliche, and in a way it’s a conservative idea about fiction, but I did learn the hard way that plot does need to dictate the story.
Rachel Kushner
46
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
47
Basic training was hard, but I made it – because I wanted to be the best me. Sometimes you have to learn that being the best you is being the second best you. I learned the hard way that the army doesn’t want people who always come first. Otherwise, there would be only one person in the army.
Ant Middleton
48
I find composition difficult. I never thought of myself as someone who can crank it out. I can’t crank it out – I have to dig it out the hard way. In some sense, you become more confident in your technical apparatus, but it becomes harder to do something you haven’t done already.
Steven Stucky
49
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
50
I’m glad to have grown up in the countryside and played, and had to use my imagination rather than a TV and had to learn to act the hard way, to have dealt with the rejection. It’s a life as well as a job, at the end the day, we all have to work for a living, but we have to have a life as well.
Jason Clarke
51
I wanted people to know that I’m human, and I’m only successful because I’ve learned the hard way. I’ve been in so many dark places, but I got myself out.
Ant Middleton
52
The United States – aspiring India’s favourite country – had to learn the hard way that you ignore the world outside your door at great cost to your own survival.
Barkha Dutt
53
An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way.
Charles Bukowski
54
One of the things I learned the hard way was that it doesn’t pay to get discouraged. Keeping busy and making optimism a way of life can restore your faith in yourself.
Lucille Ball
55
I have come up the hard way.
Johnny Olson
56
I learned the hard way how desperately primitive is the technology we have for monitoring the health of someone with a chronic illness.
Chris Toumazou
57
Many’s the audition I waltzed into unprepared and wondered why I didn’t get it. I learned the hard way.
Deirdre O’Kane
58
It’s the NHL playoffs, I’m 20 years old, I’m finding it out the hard way that playoffs aren’t easy.
Carey Price
59
There’s a big difference between wanting to work and having to work. And I had to learn that the hard way. Now money is very important to me, because I ain’t got it.
James Caan
60
I have completely tired myself out before – but I think that’s natural, we all find it difficult to find balance. It’s something I’m a great advocate of now, because I’ve had to learn the hard way, but I think 2018 was the year I burnt the candle way too brightly at both ends.
Vick Hope
61
Until ‘Scrubs,’ I didn’t have a business manager. I learned everything on my own – and I learned the hard way.
Donald Faison
62
When it comes to space, I see it as my job, I’m building infrastructure the hard way. I’m using my resources to put in place heavy lifting infrastructure so the next generation of people can have a dynamic, entrepreneurial explosion into space.
Jeff Bezos
63
Absolute certainty is not something I strive for anymore. I’ve learned the hard way that destiny usually looks upon our most strident convictions with amusement, or perhaps even pity.
Elizabeth Gilbert
64
I have learnt the hard way that neither success nor failure last forever.
Abhimanyu Singh
65
I feel like everything in WWE I earn the hard way.
Cesaro
66
I’ve had to learn fast. I’ve kind of come up the hard way in this sport and just a sense of my training partners and my coaches and that’s been something that I’ve been having to deal with since day one.
Travis Browne
67
I think Jameis Winston will be a superstar in the NFL. I think all his off-the-field problems that he’s had will push him in a position to grow up and learn the hard way.
Kirk Herbstreit
68
I have learned the hard way to mind my business, without judging who people are and what they do. I am more troubled by the lack of space being provided for the truth to unfold. Humans cannot seem to wait for or honor the truth. Instead, we make it up based on who we believe people should or should not be.
Iyanla Vanzant
69
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
70
We have been so successful in the past century at the art of living longer and staying alive that we have forgotten how to die. Too often we learn the hard way. As soon as the baby boomers pass pensionable age, their lesson will be harsher still.
Terry Pratchett