Hard Lesson Quotes

To learn to get along without, to realize that what the world is going to demand of us may be a good deal more important than what we are entitled to demand of it - this is a hard lesson.

I learned in an extremely hard way that the accountability falls with me.

I have learned from personal experience that putting trust in God means there will be some unanswered questions. That was a hard lesson for me because I naturally want to understand everything... to know what's going on so I can feel like I'm in control.

Pursue joy, not happiness. This is probably the hardest lesson of all to learn. It probably seems to you that the goal in life is to be happy. Oh, you maybe have to sacrifice and study and work hard, but, by and large, happiness should be predictable.

When I was younger, I'd get very invested in things. It's a hard lesson to learn, but you have to know that if you want to find gold, you've got to love the process of digging.

For an international business such as ours, you can't localise without a local. That was a hard lesson for us. We had to be closer, physically present, which is when we put teams on the ground.

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

Tragedy is a hell of a teacher. It's much too strict, but it's a hell of a teacher.

When will we ever learn, there's nowhere else we can turn.

Sometimes, you need a door slammed in your face before you can hear opportunity knock.

Sometimes you can do all the right things and not succeed. And that's a hard lesson of reality.

It was kind of a hard lesson when I figured out that not everybody is going to be kind, be sweet. So I've learned that I am never going to make everybody happy. There's always going to be someone who can't stand the way I write, and I can't take that personally.

The day I came in and found another actor's name on my dressing room door, and my stuff out in the hall, that was the day I learned my lesson.

I've learned the hard lesson that you can't pin your heart on anything until it's a completely done deal.

Hopefully the new breed of kids won't have to go through that hard lesson - my kids, my grandkids, my fans' kids, hopefully they won't have to go through it.

It's been a hard lesson for me , but contrary quite frankly to what is a common practice in politics, I can tell from my own experience, it is better to stay away from personalities.

What a price we pay for experience, when we must sell our youth to buy it.

I can go into any working circumstance and, simply, I'm prepared to deal with the work. It was a long, hard lesson I learned.

You may learn sooner than most generations the hard lesson that you must always make the path for yourself...There is no secret society out there that will tap you on your shoulder one night and show you the way.

Love is the hardest lesson in Christianity; but, for that reason, it should be most our care to learn it.

Trust can be a hard lesson; hope still more difficult.

Our country has had a hard time learning that lesson with energy.

And what we did with this new company in 1985 is we did start focusing on PCs instead of video game machines, because we learned the hard lesson about bringing a product to market in a consumer world where it's very expensive to build a brand and get distribution and so forth.

Bitter experience has taught us how fundamental our values are and how great the mission they represent.

I told our players at Butler, 'I hate to break it to you, but you aren't playing beyond here. That's reality. So why are you so concerned with yourself?' It's a hard lesson, but I told them, 'How you handle your role on this team will be remembered by your coaches and your teammates. It will define you.'