Top 1200 Going Gets Tough Quotes & Sayings - Page 5

Sometimes you need to have a tough conversation or face a tough situation, and take it head on.

It was tough going to boarding school. It was very hard work.

My son's going to have a job, and if he wants to get a car when he gets his license, he's going to pay for it on his own like I did.

I'm so happy that I finished college. Going into this crazy vortex of scrutiny is tough. If I was younger than I was now and I was going to fashion shows, I might have this distorted sense of self. I might rely on those cameras. Because when I was 18, I was half-baked.

It was a really tough transition going from rugby league to AFL.

When you are tough on yourself, life is going to be infinitely easier on you.

Don't sit around playing Mr. Tough Guy. Don't say 'It's going to go away'... It's just important - just go get checked out. It's not like you're going to lose your manhood.

Back before our civilization despised itself, we applauded tough men. But you can't produce tough men - or honorable women - without tough love. If you want to keep civilization, you better start by insisting that boys grow up, instead of trying to infantilize them so they're afraid to stop sucking their thumbs.

It's a tough job to be the owner in a rebuild, to be the GM, to be the coach. These are tough jobs.

Retiring was very tough, it's tough at the best of times. Nothing can prepare you for it.

I am tough, and sometimes I tell it like it is. Tough love can work wonders.

It's not my fault Snow didn't have any other options coming out of high school. If going to college gets you a career backup goaltender job, and my route gets you a thousand points and a thousand games, and compare the two contracts, it doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out whose decision was better.

I didn't think I was so tough until I did 'Champion'; then I was a tough guy.

Westminster is no joke. I took some tough classes there. It prepared me for a tough career.

But my friends, these people in Egypt have stood by us in a tough, tough neighborhood.

No matter what the trends are in the NBA - teams going big, going small, getting more efficient with analytics - the ability for a player to create his own shot, then convert tough shots, will always be a weapon, particularly when you get to the playoffs.

Tough times call for tough choices and pinching every penny.

Condi Rice talks tough but she cannot be tough herself.

You couldn't play if you weren't tough. You'd get bullied. Everybody who comes through the Civitan Recreation Center has to be tough. It's what we breed.

There's nothing easy about running for president, I can tell you. It's tough, it's nasty, it's mean, it's vicious, it's beautiful. When you win, it's beautiful. And we are going to start - we are going to start winning for our country.

At a meeting in her office in the late summer of 2002, months before the war in Iraq, prisoner abuse at Guantanamo is discussed. Condoleezza Rice brings in Donald Rumsfeld for a meeting, and they all agree they have to do something. Nothing gets done. Did everybody understand we were going to be as tough as we could be people we thought were Al Qaeda? Is there a better way to get information, get their trust, establish rapport, try to change their views? Nobody wants to think about that. It's just, let's beat them up. And that attitude was widespread throughout the Administration.

On 'Tough Enough' you're in a house with your competitors, living, eating and breathing with them. That's really tough.

Mania can be as terrifying as it gets. It is certainly as insane as one gets and so it's frightening when it gets out of control, but there are periods of mania when it can be extremely attractive.

The truly bold thing for Obama to do would be to tell the panic-mongers and boondoggle-seekers to shove it, and to tell taxpayers to ride out the rest of the tough times while he gets Washington's own economic house in order.

The mental is more important than the physical. You know, that voice in your head telling you to give up if it gets tough. That's my main opponent - making sure that if your body wants to stop, your mind won't let you.

Everybody is going to have tough shooting nights. It's natural.

Courage is what you earn when you've been through the tough times and you discover they aren't so tough after all.

God forbid if David Crosby gets sick again and I can't tour anymore, or something happens where I can't get around, what am I going to live on? I'm going to be living on mechanicals. So I don't want to hear it

God forbid if David Crosby gets sick again and I can't tour anymore, or something happens where I can't get around, what am I going to live on? I'm going to be living on mechanicals. So I don't want to hear it.

I don't mind being called tough, since I find in this racket it's the tough guys who lead the survivors.

If you're upset with how you look at 25, life's going to be tough.

It's really tough to get happy music going, you know?

Tough times don't last. Tough people do. I preach that, and I guess you have to live to it.

I try to take it and leave it in God's hands. I try to do what He wants me to do and come out here and perform the best I can for my teammates. That's my responsibility. This is a tough league. Outside of basketball, the lifestyle is tough - the travel. Honestly, I think that responsibility is pretty tough but I don't believe that God gives us anything we can't handle.

Stick with the optimists. It's going to be tough enough even if they're right.

Seeing Pax get extra-nervous about which shirt he is going to wear when he meets Aung San Suu Kyi, I get very moved. He rightfully doesn't get nervous going to a movie premiere; he gets nervous going to meet her.

I would rather be tough on myself than have other people be tough on me.

C'mon Pudge. I'm teasing. You have to be tough. I didn't know how bad it was-- and I'm sorry, and they'll regret it-- but you have to be tough.

There are so many tough opponents out there and tough competitors so I've never liked to look ahead.

A lot of tough players come out of Jersey. Tough-minded kids. That's what I was.

I decided to be a smarter fighter. I already knew I was tough, so if I was smart and tough, I was more likely to be a champion.

All runners are tough. Everyone has to have a little fire in them, that even in tough times, can’t be turned off.

I think that as actresses - and I've definitely gone through this in a really bizarre way, because I worked so much and was really lucky with the roles that I got when I was younger - I remember hearing the older actors saying, "It gets tough," and thinking, "Really? I can't imagine."

You've got to accept in this game that there are going to be tough times.

Fame is something that is tough when it comes. It's a weird thing to take on in real life. I was a little bit afraid and, as a result, kind of turned my back on it. You should embrace it because it's going to be a part of who you are, and it's going to be a part of what this business is about.

If a man is wise, he gets rich an' if he gets rich, he gets foolish, or his wife does. That's what keeps the money movin' around.

I mean, we'll be pounding on the guy's chest, you know, on the floor, and you know, he's not going to just jump up all of a sudden. So it makes it tough. I mean, it's tough to be in the legislature, you know, and vote for something and then people say, well, you voted all this money and you know, it's all getting spent. It isn't getting spent. It's getting invested. But it's all getting spent. Nothing's happening.

Hard work is the only way to success. You have to be tough, stay tough.

You have to be tough. All these guys are tough. But at some point, you have to outsmart and outhink and outplan these top fighters.

But I do realize I'm going to have to go through the pregnancy again. Mine was a really difficult pregnancy. It's tough. Of course I want to have another child. We'll see. I'm going to have one more, and see what it's like.

It's tough at the top. It's tough at the bottom. But in between you could use them for horse-shoes.

It's a tough world out there and all the guys are fighting hard and the competition is really tough.

The Internet is such a tough marketplace because everyone is a click away from going back to a cat photo, or going back to whatever else they were doing. You have to win them over, and do it quickly, and do it by making something people actually want.

Nature has no mercy at all. Nature says, "I'm going to snow. If you have on a bikini and no snowshoes, that's tough. I am going to snow anyway."

My father died when I was young, and after he did, my mother had it tough. Very tough.

I'm going to be honest, playing in D-League games is tough.

I want the Iraqis to understand that we are with them and that they have to make tough decisions, and we'll help them make those tough decisions for this country, for this democracy to survive. And they've made some tough decisions.

Oh man, nobody is as tough as Mr T. Ice T is pretty tough though as well.

It's tough going out as the opening act of a band especially when you're solo.

He's a good tough producer, yes. But I don't think that he's unreasonable unless he feels threatened. And when somebody's in your home, I think everybody in the home gets threatened.