Best Tough Quotes

Our number one responsibility is to protect Americans from terrorism, that’s our job, so being tough on terrorism is enormously important.

Human kindness has never weakened the stamina or softened the fiber of a free people. A nation does not have to be cruel to be tough.

Be patient and tough; one day, this pain will be useful to you.

One who gains strength by overcoming obstacles possesses the only strength which can overcome adversity.

The thing about life is that you must survive. Life is going to be difficult, and dreadful things will happen. What you do is move along, get on with it, and be tough. Not in the sense of being mean to others, but being tough with yourself and making a deadly effort not to be defeated.

A problem is a chance for you to do your best.

Nonviolence is really tough. You don’t practice nonviolence at conferences; you practice it on picket-lines.

For a tree to become tall it must grow tough roots among the rocks.

The tough thing is figuring out what questions to ask, but […] once you do that, the rest is really easy.

I’m not tough. I’m tenacious.

This is a tough game. There are times when you’ve got to play hurt, when you’ve got to block out the pain.

When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.

When the going gets tough, the tough make cookies.

Linda Hamilton is my hero. She was so tough and so strong and so vulnerable at the same time. I think that’s what woman action figures are allowed to be: vulnerable, in a way that women are.

Life is tough; and if you have the ability to laugh at it, you have the ability to enjoy it.

There is no logical reason why girls shouldn’t play baseball. It’s not all that tough.

Patience is a virtue, and I’m learning patience. It’s a tough lesson.

Children are never too tender to be whipped. Like tough beefsteaks, the more you beat them, the more tender they become.

Once you choose hope, anything’s possible

It is the business of little minds to shrink.

It doesn’t take courage to drink too much and be wild or jump around. That doesn’t take any kind of boldness, just riding a motorcycle or whatever the idea of being tough is. Tough is having four kids. Tough is committing to life and being disciplined.

When you have to face up to the fact that marriage to the man you love is really over, that’s very tough, sheer agony. In that kind of harrowing situation, I always go away and cut myself off from the world. Also, I sober up immediately when there is genuine bad news in my life; I never face it with alcohol in my brain. I just rented a house in Palm Springs and sat there and just suffered for a couple of weeks. I suffered there until I was strong enough to face it.

My father used to say, ‘You can spend a lot of time making money. The tough time comes when you have to give it away properly.’ How to give something back, that’s the tough part in life.

If you own up to your mistakes, you don’t suffer as much. But that’s a tough lesson to learn.

I put my energy into writing songs. I have to carve out a living somehow doing this, and licensing is one way. It’s hard to register what’s too much for other people. I don’t watch TV, so it’s tough for me to gauge. I just take it as it comes, and don’t put a whole lot of thought into it.

Vulnerability is about showing up and being seen. It’s tough to do that when we’re terrified about what people might see or think.

I think I’m his biggest fan. Like, I’m really sorry everybody out there but you have a tough time beating me. I’m like the number one Chris Colfer fan club.

Seize the opportunities life has to offer you. Embrace the changes, and have the courage to travel on roads less travelled, even though what is in front of you could be tough, make it successful. Have determination and courage to kick down the brick walls in front of you, and to go on and achieve bigger success than you ever thought possible.

Forgiving is tough. Excusing is easy. What a mistake it is to confuse forgiving with being mushy, soft, gutless, and oh, so understanding. Before we forgive, we stiffen our spine and we hold a person accountable. And only then, in tough-minded judgment, can we do the outrageously impossible thing: we can forgive.

It’s fun to be at the edges, and tough to be squeezed in between.

I think there’s a ton of things about being Catholic that are hard. Going to Church every week is tough. I’d like to go to church, like, every couple of months. Going to confession is hard. Confessing my sins out loud is a very difficult thing.

Teams make it tough on us, we make it tough on them. When you have two well coached teams that wanna win, it’s going to be a competitive game.

It’s not too bad to be a sort of pop icon, you know? It’s not too tough to handle.

I think the reason why I’m the person who I am today is because I went through those tough times when I was younger.

I couldn’t deal with playing a character who rides motorcycles and has a leather jacket and is a tough kid, y’know?