Hardest Won

I just smile to myself, remembering my hardest-won lesson: that accepting my vulnerability was the only path toward feeling safe. ❋ Stacy Morrison (2010)

We asked 16 photographers to share their hardest-won images and the wild, sometimes foolish, and invariably bold adventures behind them. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The hardest-won point for me would have probably been the first one, dragging that thirteen-pound turkey across state lines on my back. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Final exams have come and gone this year at the University of Michigan, but the school's hardest-won passing grade didn't arrive until last week. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Two more S.O.S. calls went up before dinner-time, but a day of tremendous heavy fighting ended with our men in glorious possession of some of the hardest-won ground in the history of the Division. ❋ George Herbert Fosdike Nichols (N/A)

Lord Methuen, in congratulating the troops upon their achievement, spoke of 'the hardest-won victory in our annals of war,' and some such phrase was used in his official despatch. ❋ Arthur Conan Doyle (1894)

WITH A FLICK of his pen, President Barack Obama finally laid to rest Freud's most famous question and iterated one of man's hardest-won lessons: Women want what women want. ❋ Unknown (2009)

With a flick of his pen, President Barack Obama finally laid to rest Freud's most famous question and iterated one of man's hardest-won lessons: Women want what women want. ❋ Unknown (2009)

WASHINGTON - With a flick of his pen, President Barack Obama finally laid to rest Freud's most famous question and iterated one of man's hardest-won lessons: Women want what women want.

The woman heading the Women's Resource Centre (WRC) is remarkably upbeat for someone who admits she is watching many of her hardest-won victories systematically dismantled before her eyes. ❋ Unknown (2008)