Best 628 quotes in «tough quotes» category

There are a lot of people who go through a lot of tough things, and it doesn't stop them from wanting to be a better parent.

There are always things that you see that are pretty tough, sure. But what keeps you going is when you see people rise above toughness and rise above really hard conditions, and make something of it.

There are many reasons why the Russians prefer Donald Trump.I think, in the first instance, they wanted to tear down Secretary Clinton. They, I think, despised her remarks about the flawed 2011 elections in Russia. They feared that she would be very tough on Russia in terms of sanctions.

There are tough times and mountains to climb, but you've got to go for it.

There are various tough problems yet to solve, and we must shift to live, betwixt spirit and matter, such a human life as we can.

There have been a lotta tough guys. There have been pretenders. And there have been contenders. But there is only one king.

There's no doubt about it; playing football and how tough it is on the body afterwards.

There is an English saying, "When the going gets tough, the tough get going." Women often become these tough ones.

There never is a good time for tough decisions. There will always be an election or something else. You have to pick courage and do it. Governance is about taking tough, even unpopular, decisions.

There's always a lot of pressure with big projects and so as a writer you have to be robust and flexible, with a tough hide.

There is so little time on a set to build up a working relationship with a new member of crew. It is tough to be polite, especially in an extreme location where we will not get a second chance to get the scene. It is such a stressful process that I like to work with people I know and can trust.

There's always the things that you think are going to be tough. I've been nude once, and I was like, "Oh, that's going to be a nightmare," and actually that was fine.

There's no room for failure performing [stand-up] for a black audience. If you don't get them right away it's tough winning them back even if you're doing top-notch material. If you didn't win them right when you walked out there, it's tough.

The thing about Proust is his combination of the utmost sensibility with the utmost tenacity. He searches out these butterfly shades to the last grain. He is as tough as catgut and as evanescent as a butterfly's bloom.

The Scots are a very tough people. They have drive-by headbuttings. In Glasgow a sweatband is considered a silencer.

The second episode of any new show can be tough. You have about a week to top the well-crafted and polished pilot episode that was written over six months.

These are tough and unusual times and I don't see the negative global economic situation abating anytime soon.

The threat is there. It's very real and it's continuing. And what the Obama people are doing, in effect, is saying, well, we don't need those tough policies that we had. That says either they didn't work, which we know is not the case - they did work, they kept us safe for seven years - or that now somehow the threat's gone away. There's no longer a threat out there, we don't have to be as tough and aggressive as the Bush administration was.

The tough competition among German manufacturers makes us fundamentally strong.

The tough thing about a campaign being over is, you lose your enemy.

The tough thing is how to cultivate a life where the paramecium of happiness gets a lot of chances to get out and swim and make more paramecia. That seems like an obvious universal goal for most humans.

The tough player is the one who is difficult to play against and easy to play with

The world has been very careful to pick very few diseases for eradication, because it is very tough.

Things don't get tough in the studio. Sometimes things get tough outside the studio and going in the studio is a relief, a sanctuary, therapy.

Things happen to us and reaction is sometimes tough to measure.

This is a tough, tough life when things aren't going your way.

This is a tough environment, and it's tough for everybody.

Those who avoid the tough choices of life, live a life they never chose.

Those people don't know how tough that really was.

Those who successfully go through tough times do so because they keep insisting.

This world's a tough place to live in and you have to have something to fall back on.

To love one's neighbor is a tough command. It works better for people who live far away.

To be thoroughly lazy is a tough job, but somebody has to do it. Industrious people build industry. Lazy people build civilization.

To be a survivor as an African American man - maybe any man - you have to be pretty tough. Or at least that's what we all understand.

To be in this business and have tremendous integrity and only make distinguished choices is very tough.

To have kids and not be there every night is tough.

To run a successful business, you have to be tough.

To the student I would say, "Life is principally multiple choice, but at the end there's a tough essay question.

Tough minded enough to do the necessary things--this is the epitome of what a team is.

Tough like a Ukulele.

Tough talk often draws headlines, but war rarely conforms to slogans.

To those who would criticize our tough stance, I would point out that the United States has demonstrated not merely with words but with its actions that we stand firmly behind Article 5, the mutual defense commitment.

Tough and funny and a little bit kind: that is as near to perfection as a human being can be.

Toughness is a skill. I don't think we're all born tough. You learn about toughness through your experience.

Touring used to be hard. Early on in my career when I was more in grind mode, I was doing two or three shows a day. It was tough because you start feeling like you have no life. That being said, I do enjoy actually doing the shows.

Tragic heroes always moan when the gods take an interest in them, but it's the people the gods ignore who get the really tough deals

Tough times teach trust.

'Tough' meant it was an uncompromising image, something that came from your gut, out of instinct, raw, of the moment, something that couldn't be described in any other way. So it was tough. Tough to like, tough to see, tough to make, tough to understand. The tougher they were the more beautiful they became.

Tough times make tough people.

Tough women who don't take sh*t are also put in positions that are really scary for them. It's important that they feel supported, but it's also important that we allow people to come to things on their own time. It's a very scary thing when you're a woman who's been assaulted or harassed to come forward. And it takes a lot of courage.