Rough Quotes

Pay little attention to discouragement as possible. Plough ahead as a steamer does, rough or smooth - rain or shine. To carry your cargo and make your port is the point.

As in nature, as in art, so in grace; it is rough treatment that gives souls, as well as stones, their luster.

A thankful outlook smoothes the rough edges off life.

If you make believe that ten guys in pin-striped suits are back in a kindergarten class playing with building blocks, you'll get a rough picture of what life in a corporation is like.

I have never been remotely ashamed of having been depressed. Never. What's to be ashamed of? I went through a really rough time and I am quite proud that I got out of that.

Spirituality doesn't look like sitting down and meditating. Spirituality looks like folding the towels in a sweet way and talking kindly to the people in the family eve though you've had a rough day.

I've gone for each type: the rough guy; the nerdy, sweet, lovable guy; and the slick guy. I don't really have a type. Men in general are a good thing.

Well, I won't give up on us, Even if the skies get rough I'm giving you all my love, I'm still looking up

We all go through rough times. We have those obstacles that seem too large to overcome or that current that you never seem to swim out of. We have to decide what matters most to us - our passions.

Football is all very well as a game for rough girls, but is hardly suitable for delicate boys.

Nothing does more to lubricate the rough spots than a good dose of encouragement.

A banjo will get you through times of no money, but money won't get you through times of no banjo

The stones of a river start out rough, but with the current continually bumping and polishing them, they end up being beautiful.

There are rough players and there are dirty players. I'm rough and dirty.

I'm not the kind of guy who deserves to play a vintage guitar because I'm too rough on instruments.

Autism, like a rainbow, has a bright side and a dark side and even though it can mean rough weather, it can be beautiful!

I am rough around the edges, and I am not a polished girl.

The dictionary is, however, only a rough draft.

When I tested for Billy Budd, I had that kind of confidence that comes with the certainty that you're not going to get something. I was very rough around the edges.

Having a rough day? Place your hand over your heart. Feel that? It's called purpose. You're alive for a reason. Don't give up

I may drink too much and play too loud, hang out with a rough and rowdy crowd. That don't mean I don't respect my mama or Uncle Sam.

I chart a little first-list of names, rough synopsis of chapters, and so on. But one daren't overplan; so many things are generated by the sheer act of writing.

Cowboy boots with a suit? You're a rough, tough businessman. Chaps with a bow tie? You're in the rough, tough man business.

If I profane with my unworthiest hand This holy shrine, the gentle fine is this: My lips, two blushing pilgrims, ready stand To smooth that rough touch with a tender kiss.

Slowly those who create the wealth of the world are permitted to share it. The future is in labor's strong, rough hands.

I was little impressed with this rough and ready way of persuading people to renew their contracts and decided that I was now quite free of any obligations.

Any man who can hitch the length and breadth of the galaxy, rough it, slum it, struggle against terrible odds, win through, and still know where his towel is is clearly a man to be reckoned with.

I knew I was weird by the time I was four. I knew I wasn't like other boys. I knew I was more fearful. I didn't like the rough and tumble most boys were into. I knew I was a sissy.

A rough rule in life is that an organization foolish in one way in dealing with a complex system is all too likely to be foolish in another.

I used to always work in, like, warehouses, because if my boss gave me a rough time, I could just get on a forklift and just, like, drive away from him.

Sometimes, God uses difficult people, like sandpaper, to rub the rough edges off us.

I was in the South of France. I saw a Brownie on a school trip. She was holding up a book. It said on the front 'rough guide'. I thought: 'Yeah' she's not a looker.

A chic type, a rough type, an odd type - but never a stereotype

Rough, boisterous, stormy and altogether warlike, I am born to fight against innumerable monsters and devils.

Because the road is rough and long, Should we despise the skylark's song?

I come from Detroit where it's rough and I'm not a smooth talker.

The writer's way is rough and lonely, and who would choose it while there are vacancies in more gracious professions, such as, say, cleaning out ferryboats?

Everyone journeys through character as well as through time. The person one becomes depends on the person one has been.

The cool kindliness of sheets, that soon smooth away trouble; and the rough male kiss of blankets.

God is with you, and He'll help you make spiritual progress-strengthening and encouraging you to keep on keeping on during rough times. It's easy to quit, but it takes faith to press on to victory.

Real, rough and rugged, shine like a gold nugget, Every time I pick up the microphone, I drug it.

These days, teachers have it rough. Kids can be hyperactive, disobedient, and obnoxious. It must feel like being locked in a room of drunk midgets.

We're all traveling through time together, every day of our lives. All we can do is do our best to relish this remarkable ride.

Every human being has within him an ideal man, just as every piece of marble contains in a rough state a statue as beautiful as the one that Praxiteles the Greek made of the god Apollo.

The best pastas are cut with bronze dies that give them a rough texture and allow the sauce to cling.

I was looking at a bottle of water; they have nutritional facts printed on the side. You know, I'm no chemist, but I have a rough idea what's in water.

Life is like a roller coaster. It's never going to be perfect - it is going to have perfect moments, and then rough spots, but it's all worth it.

Human relationships are the perfect tool for sanding away our rough edges and getting at the core of divinity within us.

My friends, no matter how rough the road may be, we can and we will, never, never surrender to what is right.

Humor makes our heavy burdens light and smoothes the rough spots in our pathways.