Best 628 quotes in «tough quotes» category

Oh dear, life is pretty tough sometimes, isn't it?

Once you create a loyal customer base, it's tough for a competitor to take that away.

One of the toughest guys in the world is Randy Couture - he is the true epitome of what a tough guy is.

O, let him pass. He hates him That would upon the rack of this tough world Stretch him out longer.

Only a fool or a fraud talks tough or romantically about war.

Optimism....is neither weak nor naive. It can be tough and pure and earned just as clearly as any brooding existential despair.

One way to make tough decisions is to take incremental steps that don't commit you to anything yet.

Oh, wouldn't it be wonderful if some manufacturer would make a toy as tough, as staunch, as hard to crack open as the carton it comes in!

Philip Larkin has a tough honesty and sense of humor that I find irresistible, as a contemporary poet.

Peter is an old friend. I'm heartbroken, but he's also a tough guy. I'm counting on him getting through this very difficult passage.

Physically touring is tough on me, not that I am weakling. I lose weight. I can't always find the things I need to keep my strength up. It is very draining physically. It is taxing for my mind and body, but in a good way. It feels healthy in a way to purge things out of my system every night.

Presidential leadership is a really tough job, does come not easily.

Passing a tough resolution or threatening Iran will not bring about the desired outcome.

Playing Chelsea is as tough a test as you'll get in Europe these days.

Poets are like baseball pitchers. Both have their moments. The intervals are the tough things.

Private charity can apply 'tough love' but government charity can't.

Producing good stuff can be quite tough, and it involves a lot of frustration, but I always like things to be jolly and happy, and I forget thats actually not the point at the end of the day.

Putin is a tough guy. I met him once.

Sell is tough. It's the worst, it's the most difficult thing of all.

Room 10 [a short film she codirected with Andrea Buchanan] nailed my personal theme: love and choosing to stay in the room when the going gets tough.

Saints have to be tough as well as tender because saints are like Christ, and Christ was the toughest and the tenderest man who ever lived.

She needs to seem tough, and whatever Hillary's weaknesses, tough is a pretty good word to describe her.

Skating alone is an art. Doing it on a substance? I don't know. That's got to be tough.

Solutions to tough problems should be made as simple as possible - and no simpler.

So many people comment that I'm much more mature than average. In this business, you can get taken advantage of if you're not aware and you're not tough.

Someone asked me the other day, "Oh your story is like Cameron Crowe's, he has the same thing of having been a teenage journalist," but he was a guy and you just add gender into the mix, it's a 16-year-old girl with adults and rock stars, and it's tough.

Some said he couldn't take on the insurance companies that were ripping us off. But President Obama made the tough and right call to save lives, save Medicare and ensure no one goes broke just because they get sick.

Sometimes it was tough doing take after take upside down! I did a lot of that sort of thing.

Sometimes - this is a tough one - not everyone can handle the truth. Sometimes you have to take a beat. But if you can take that beat, and take the high road, it'll serve you in the long run.

Sometimes success breeds apathy. Sometimes when you're doing quite well for yourself you're not as tough as you need to be.

Spring being a tough act to follow, God created June.

Stallone is a pretty tough director. You don't mess with him.

So are we going to continue glaring angrily at each other while we pose in our tough stances? Or use our time to work out a plan that hopefully doesn’t end with our mutual deaths? (Acheron)

Stand-up comedy is tough right now. Anybody can come to a concert, tape you, and put you up on the Internet. You either fight it or embrace it.

Take free speech: most of the tough cases on free speech involve very unpleasant people saying very obnoxious things.

TAKE A DEEP BREATH EVERY MORNING; SAY THANK YOU FOR YOUR HEALTH. THE ALTERNATIVE IS UNBELIEVABLY TOUGH.

Taxes shouldn't be higher; they should be fairer. We must be a party that's disciplined. We must make tough choices.

Talking with Ken Shamrock was almost a one-way conversation. I knew Ken was a tough guy, one of the toughest in the world at one time and still tough as nails. I had heard he had a tough background, but there are two times in that interview when I teared up. I'm "Stone Cold" Steve Austin, and I didn't cry, but I teared up. Ken saw me, and he almost started tearing up, too. I'd never experienced anything like that. To hear some of the things that he went through, my jaw was on the floor.

The administration [of Barack Obama] is going to have to figure out, you know, a tough response on the basis of this [Russian] hacking.

Television is a tough business. It's not that easy to jump shops.

The Barack Obama administration had been negotiating with the Canadians to come up with a permanent solution on lumber tariff. And they failed. And so even though this is being portrayed as the first salvo by Donald Trump's tough trade regime, in fact, it's quite possible that, if Hillary Clinton were president, we would be in the same place.

The battle is tough but if you reach where you want to go, then at least in some sense it is worth it.

The Broadway schedule is so tough, so relentless there was almost no time to enjoy all the stuff.

[Steven Spielberg makes] human movies. Movies [...] that reflect the life we wish it would be, not necessarily as it is. And the happy ending, you know. Life is a tough thing to begin with, and I like the happy ending.

The attributes you need to be a travel writer are somewhat contradictory. For travel you need to be tough and resilient and to write you must be sensitive and sympathetic.

The endorsement was a really gracious statement. I am greatly honored by the endorsement of Senator [Ted] Cruz. We have fought the battle and he was a tough and brilliant opponent.

The docks were said to be quite tough, but there were pubs you didn't go into if you were a respectable... but um, I never felt a sense of danger in Liverpool.

The habeas corpus business, that's to show that he [Bill Clinton] is not tough on crime.

The Houston Astrodome was kind of a tough field.

The best way to become a mentally tough runner is to believe that you're a mentally tough runner