"One has to grow hard but without ever losing tenderness."
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"I work hard because I love my work."
"If you do what is easy, your life will be hard"
"The more hard lessons you can learn vicariously rather than through your own hard experience, the better."
"I'm far from being god, but I work god damn hard."
"Work, hard work, intelligent work, and then more work."
"It's hard to dream when you're deep inside of one."
"It's hard for me to feel bad for myself because I'm doing what I love to do. I'm in a good position."
"Customers don't measure you on how hard you tried, they measure you on what you deliver."
"I work very hard and I'm worth every cent."
"Keep on keeping on, no matter how hard the going may be."
"To Unlearn is as hard as to Learn"
"When you are dead, it is hard to find the light switch."
"O hard, when love and duty clash!"
"it is hard for anyone who is dissatisfied not to blame some one else, and especially the person nearest of all to him, for the ground of his dissatisfaction."
"All important things are hard."
"Dreams cost nothing. They are free. The hard part is just keeping them going."
"Being a teenager is hard."
"Hard times fall upon everybody. Whatever it is, we're going to get out of it."
"It's my personal perspective that you live as hard and as vigorously as you can."