Tough Quotes

Scheduling is always tough, no matter what the budget size is, and we had our own run-ins with that, on 'Fading of the Cries.'

I'm not Mr. Nice Guy, I'm a tough cookie

I think just the music industry sometimes is a very tough business. But still, if it's just something you just love dearly, you really can't just put it down.

I can't imagine just dusting my pants off and going about my life like, "Phew! I sure made it through a tough spot, now where am I headed?" I feel more of an obligation to be helpful.

It always feels good to win, it's always tough to lose.

Hillary Clinton knows how to sit down at a table and negotiate tough deals.

[Hillary Clinton] worked a tough negotiation with nations around the world to eliminate the Iranian nuclear weapons program without firing a shot.

I understood the workmanlike quality of a good stand-up. They all have this. There's a technique for everything you do. But boy, it's tough, 'cause there ain't anybody else out there but you.

There are guys over in Iraq that have been there for up to 14 months. It has been really tough on them. So any support that I can give; I'll give as much as I can.

Sometimes laughter is the only way to process tough times

I'm very tough on myself. I definitely look at the negative too much.

Take characters that Nicholson or De Niro play: they're not always tough

That's pretty tough talk from a guy who has fewer days at work this year than he has houses.

I'm a big baby. I'm not tough at all.

I play tough guys in movies and behaved like one in front of the press because I thought that was what a man did.

In a broken marriage, it can be challenging and tough to get that work/life balance. I love performing but I also love being a mum, and I hate having to choose between them.

The argument [behind climate change] is absolute crap. However, the politics of this are tough for us. Eighty per cent of people believe climate change is a real and present danger.

Where radical Islamism is going to be a factor, it's going to be very, very tough.

Ten episodes goes by really quickly, especially when you've got a really tough shooting schedule of seven-day episodes.

I saw in the Nineties that we were increasing police power with get tough policies and 3 strikes laws, but without additional oversights.

I guess my mantra is you have to work really hard if you want something. You have to be committed to hard work and persistence even when it gets tough.

Ruby Stevens was determined, ambitious and tough. She had to fend for herself in so many ways as a child and always felt apart, on her own.

I am pretty tough as a boss.

I wonder now how tough you have to be to get big things done.

Investing is not as tough as being a top-notch bridge player. All it takes is the ability to see things as they really are.

I think that trying to invest through 535 people is a tough job, you know, and so I would give more latitude.

It's going to be tough because the economy is going to be getting worse for a while. And it might fall off a cliff if this doesn't pass. But nobody will ever know that if it does.

Mental rehab is way tougher than the physical part... [You think] I'm tired of doing the same thing [exercising] all day. It's tough, but you've got to overcome it.

It's not hard to read about death abstractly. I do find it tough when a character I love dies, of course. You can truly miss characters. Not like you miss people, but you can still miss them.

President Obama is going to have to run against himself. In tough times, nobody can defeat himself.

George Washington had a tough second term.

You need to laugh more. Life is filled with too many problems, to not laugh every day... We need to have a sense of humor going into this because it's too tough without it.

It's hard to start and think about having balance. Music is a tough industry, and you have to work your way to that luxury.

I wouldn't change anything for the world, although the fame part of this [entertainment] industry is tough to handle at times.

I did theater for a few years while I was in New York, but it was tough having to perform scripts worse than what I knew I could write.

I mean, nobody's ever thrown a big rock at me or my friends, but we're all pretty tough guys and could probably handle it.

I really believe deep in my soul that we're going to have to step up and face these challenges and be tough and pull together and unify and be creative and be willing to sacrifice.

The strongest storms make the best sailors. The strongest games make the best players. Tougher challenges make the best leaders.

However, if you fail to prepare, you will either go through stress to win your race or you may quit when the battle becomes tougher than you ever imagined.

On the inside, the copycats of the ruffians are more delicate than the copycats of prudes.

Life is very tough sometimes, but never tougher than a highly determined positive mind.

Tough times are opportunities to prove to yourself that your mind is tougher than all challenges.

We all go through some tough times, but unfortunately, some of us let theirs define the rest of their lives instead of growing from them.

The world was a tough and unfair place, but even the most hardened soul likes to chew on fruit.

Even in the tough times, He's still a good God.

A best friend is the only one that walks into your life when the world has walked out.

The devil has not vanished simply because people refuse to believe he exists, no more than God has...

Sometimes the Lord allows us to go through tough times so we learn to rely upon Him.

Tough times don't define you, they refine you. ‪

... what you think is right isn't the same as knowing what is right.