Tough Quotes

I stay off the booze for a whole 12 weeks before a fight, it can be tough!

My childhood was extremely lonely. I was dyslexic and lots of kids make fun of me. That experience made me tough inside, because you learn to quietly accept ridicule.

If you listen long enough you can hear my skin grow tough love is painful to the touch must be made of stronger stuff.

This is a tough situation. But it is what it is, and time has an amazing way of knitting together solutions as long as everybody stays calm and resolves to be as gentle and patient as possible.

When the going gets tough, the tough go drinking.

I believe that when the going gets tough, you should just hit pause. Assimilate what is happening for 10 minutes. Your thoughts will be much clearer.

People have a natural tendency to flee to the mountains when things get tough.

I'm not that tough; I'm not that smart. I need life telling me who I am, showing me my mind constantly. I wouldn't see it in a cave.

The musical stuff I'd go up for was always funny, sexy, tough-as-nails, heart-of-gold characters.

They [Tom Hanks and Paul Newman] were simply always high level masters, and taught me as a kid actor never to be an a*shole to anybody, because it would be very tough to get past where they are.

It's a hard life as a professional cricketer. It's not as easy as everyone makes out. To survive you need a tough hide.

It was tough to try to be serious in front of Halle Berry and Pierce Brosnan with all this stuff in my face. There's never been a character that's looked this extreme.

The friend in my adversity I shall always cherish most.

A soft answer breaks the rage, a tough answer encourage the fury.

Most people say I look mean, and because I play so many tough roles and because of my size and my martial arts background, they think I am, but I'm really not.

I was 17 and the whole thing was very confusing at the time. It was a great job and I loved it, and to lose the role was definitely tough for me. I was devastated when I lost the role.

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

You couldn't beg, borrow, or steal a job in 1931, 1932... it was really tough.

You win by working hard, making tough decisions and building coalitions.

​W​e're so used to having everything we want at our fingertips so I think that when things get tough it's ​difficult ​for people to persist through that.

Nobody ever said that growing old would be easy. Just having to hold the newspaper out in your forties and then hair growing out of unusual parts of your body in your fifties. It's tough on the ego.

If we were really tough on crime, we'd try to save our children from the desperation and deprivation that leave them primed for a life of crime.

Ignorance is a tough evil to conquer.

As an adolescent, Spider-Man was what got me through tough times in terms of being a skinny kid.

I'm not tough. I'm tenacious.

Great witch, tough woman.

That's part of the curse: If you're gonna play the song, you better play it. I've tried to phone in 'Jeremy' a few times, and it's tough. It doesn't work.

Don't bemoan your fate. Everybody's not going to be dealt the same hand. Everybody's going to go through tough times.

I learned there are troubles of more than one kind. Some come from ahead and some from behind.

I know it's tough. Everybody in baseball knows its tough. I'm just going to give it my best shot.

Mostly, Texas women are tough in some very fundamental ways. Not unfeminine, nor necessarily unladylike, just tough!

You have to be pretty tough to be an actor, and you have to be pretty certain what you want. You can't waffle through this business.

I just loved being in the gym. It was tough at times. Sometimes I wanted to quit, but I'm glad I stuck with it.

Very few people around the world know that cancer kills more people than HIV/AIDS, malaria, and tuberculosis combined - until we get everyone to realize that, it will be tough to get them to act.

Vulnerability is about showing up and being seen. It's tough to do that when we're terrified about what people might see or think.

When the going gets tough, the tough take a nap.

If you own up to your mistakes, you don't suffer as much. But that's a tough lesson to learn.

The key to growing up well, is being tough enough.

Tough times make tough people.

People hand over the power to you withimmense faith. It's your job to ensure tough implementation of laws.

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

I definitely use my music to kind of alleviate my stress and get me through specific moments in time where I'm just being really tough on myself.

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

To escape the cycle of tragedy, we (searchers) have to be tough on the ideas of the planners, even while we salute their goodwill.

To me, Jeb Bush is hitting his stride. He was the most composed, the most endpoint, the most in control, I've seen him in an interview yet. And it's not because I wasn't asking him tough questions

Why is composing symphonies tough? I don't know. It's just very few people in the world can do it well. And I think that's the case with upfront design. It is very hard to do well.

It's a tough thing-you get in a situation where you feel you have to be perfect all the time and it sucks.

I'm tough on the outside and soft on the inside [...] I'm really a shy guy.

Golfers have a tendency to be very masochistic. They like to punish themselves for some reason. A lot of them like tough courses.

You run for forty-five minutes, you train for an hour and a half, and the rest of the time you hang out and talk tough