Hard Things Quotes

“I chose the specialty of surgery because of Matron, that steady presence during my boyhood and adolescence. 'What is the hardest thing you can possibly do?' she said when I went to her for advice on the darkest day of the first half of my life.

I squirmed. How easily Matron probed the gap between ambition and expediency. 'Why must I do what is hardest?'

'Because, Marion, you are an instrument of God. Don't leave the instrument sitting in its case my son. Play! Leave no part of your instrument unexplored. Why settle for 'Three Blind Mice' when you can play the 'Gloria'?

'But, Matron, I can't dream of playing Bach...I couldn't read music.

'No, Marion,' she said her gaze soft...'No, not Bach's 'Gloria'. Yours! Your 'Gloria' lives within you. The greatest sin is not finding it, ignoring what God made possible in you.”
― Abraham Verghese, Cutting for Stone

“Sometimes blessings come in ugly wrapping paper.”
― Richie Norton

“Be brave and do not pray for the hard thing to go away, but pray for a bravery that's bigger than the hard thing.”
― Ann Voskamp, The Broken Way: A Daring Path into the Abundant Life

“Sometimes it all just sucks, as Jesus says somewhere in the Gospels (although off the top of my head I can’t recall chapter and verse.”
― Anne Lamott, Somehow: Thoughts on Love

“To forget hard things try even harder things!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“Do not confuse things that are hard with things that are valuable.
Many things in life are hard. Just because you are giving a great effort does not mean you are working toward a great result.
Make sure that mountain is worth climbing.”
― James Clear

“One of the hardest things to do as a spy, a strategist, or even just as a person, is wait.”
― Holly Black, The Wicked King

“It’s the hardest things in life—the things that stress you out—that build character and make you stronger. Don’t shy away from uncomfortable situations just because they won’t be easy.”
― Brittany Burgunder

“His constant use of the phrase ‘That’s clear’ meant that often even the hardest of things seemed easy and quite natural to him.”
― Karl May, Old Surehand

“Yes, you can.
You can do it.
You can do hard things.
Do the hard.”
― Richelle E. Goodrich, Hope Evermore: Quotes, Verse, & Spiritual Inspiration for Every Day of the Year