Tough Quotes

If you're not in love with what you do, business will be really tough. You can do good one day, and bad the next. You can have a great year, and a bad year that wipes away all of your success.

A board member should be perfectly willing to leave at any time and willing to make the tough calls.

I'm tough, ambitious and I know exactly what I want.

Actors need steely determination. It's a tough profession with plenty of knocks along the way. You have to be very determined and never take 'no' for an answer.

Future is an unknown country which requires tough visas for anyone to enter. Not all of us will get the chance to visit it.

I think God has a sense of humor, and the way my lessons come from God is very funny. I have to laugh at myself even if it's a tough lesson.

I'm not a fighter. I'm not a tough guy at all. I walk away from fights.

Every actress has to face the facts there are younger, more beautiful girls right behind you. Once you've gone beyond the vanity of the business, you'll take on the tough roles.

Who is in your life asking you the tough questions?

Interviewing friends is a tough one. Your duty to the interview must transcend your friendship. Occasionally you'll lose a friend.

There are two bowlers who I think are very tough to play against - Dale Steyn and Morne Morkel.

I never knew Kurt to be suicidal. I just knew that he was going through a really tough time.

I urge you to set a tough, quantitative target for adding "differentiators" as I call them, to every service you provide.

Thanks to my father, I didn't have to face the tough side of life. Probably that's why I always chose love over money.

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

A tough fight against evil is the duty of good man.

I have made the tough decisions, always with an eye toward the bottom line. Perhaps it's time America was run like a business.

Getting older is tough. I remember the last time I felt an erection. It was at the movies. The only trouble is, it belonged to the guy sitting next to me.

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.

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.

Look for a tough wedge for a tough log.

Dont worry about people telling you to stop doing too much and that you will burn out. Burning out is mental, and if you are tough you can do anything.

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

I've always been taught to play the game hard. Baseball is such a tough game, it really humbles you at times, you just have to try not to get too high or too low.

We have to have a special insight, or we'll put it in the 'too tough' basket. All of you have to look for a special area of competency and focus on that.

I always tell my clients to be tough, to be strong. Never weaken yourself. I believe God favors only strong persons.

Be tough in the way a blade of grass is: rooted, willing to lean, and at peace with what is around it.

Everybody thinks this is a tough man's sport. This is not a tough man's sport. This is a thinking man's sport. A tough man is gonna get hurt real bad in this sport.

I have to say it's been tough to leave the Ferrari family, which has been a big part of my career.

It's tough when you're No. 1. You don't have any private life, you can't even walk anywhere. I think that was one reason why I lost my motivation to play tennis.

Strong managers who make tough decisions to cut jobs provide the only true job security in today's world. Weak managers are the problem. Weak managers destroy jobs.

There will be beautiful times and tough times, as such is life, but if your heart is in it, then it is worth it all the way.

I always wanted to have my own farm. I've never been able to achieve that. It's kinda tough.

God has the tough end of the deal. What if instead of planting the seed you had to make the tree? That would keep you up late at night, trying to figure that one out.

All relationships are tough. Just like with music, sometimes you have harmony and other times you have cacophony.

The words a leader speaks are important, of course. But how they're delivered can make all the difference, especially in tough times.

The theater is the only institution in the world which has been dying for four thousand years and has never succumbed. It requires tough and devoted people to keep it alive.

I'm very much of the "make it dark, make it grim, make it tough", but then, for the love of God, tell a joke.

Center is a very tough position to play.

Where can we take no the product, but the idea?

Going through tough times is a wonderful thing, and everybody should try it. Once.

It's tough having the last name Rickles. Luckily, my kids handled it great.

Trying to be funny is one of the hardest things on the planet. I think that's tough for everyone. If you're just naturally funny it's a hell of a lot easier.

It's good to learn early that every show is a family - -complete with dysfunctional relationships, tough love, and plenty of occasion for forgiveness.

Your job as a parent is to listen. And to dole out as much love as you can. That includes tough love.

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

Assume life will be really tough, and then ask if you can handle it. If the answer is yes, you've won.

Business is tough; you need tough guys.

When I need to work up my nerve to write a tough column, I try to think of myself as Emma Peel in a black leather catsuit.

It is very hard to be a female leader. While it is assumed that any man, no matter how tough, has a soft side... and female leader is assumed to be one-dimensional.