Top 1200 Going Gets Tough Quotes & Sayings - Page 8

When I get on a course that's not very good, that's not tough, I fall asleep. Mentally I must be lazy, like a little kid, but I always seem to do well when there's a tough situation.

It's like, on my solo stuff, every single person who buys the record, gets it. On the other stuff, the masses... when you have a hit on the radio, not everyone's going to get it. They are going to buy it for the hit.

When the going gets weird, anchormen punt.

That's the way to live - around people who care. It may be a tough ride, but something is going to come out of it.

If the girl is good looking and talented, and for some reason the film doesn't work, she gets a second chance. But if subsequent films don't work, she gets branded as an 'iron leg.' The whole thing gets negative.

I feel compassionate, because I know [students] all have to go down this road of suffering and it's going to be tough.

I like to be easy-going but if someone wants me to be tough, I can put on that image as per the situation demands.

Everybody knows, when you have a band, there's always going to be a hierarchy, and there's always going to be some issue where ego gets involved and causes some kind of shake-up.

Motivation gets you going, but discipline keeps you growing.

I'm as pro-life as a person gets. You're not going to have a truce.

I spend my afternoons painting and working on my Open Hearts jewelry line for Kay Jewelers. I designed an image of a heart that isn't completely closed. My mom always told me to live with an open heart - when life gets tough, you should go out and help someone else.

That's the great thing about golf is you never know who is going to win. On good, tough golf courses, it brings it back to the best players. But it's always the best player that week is going to win. I mean, so it could be anybody.

You can't fight human nature. Ego is going to get the best of everyone. You're going to think you can trust someone when you can't. People who come in the Big Brother house have a strong sense of self and often it gets handed to them when they get evicted.

There's a bluebird in my heart that wants to get out but I'm too tough for him, I say, stay in there, I'm not going to let anybody see you.

I call it extreme vetting right? Extreme vetting. I want extreme. It's going to be so tough, and if somebody comes in that's fine but they're going to be good. It's extreme.

No traveller ever sets out with so little idea of where he is going or how he is going to get there than an artist does. And no traveller ever gets to a more wonderful place.

It is going to get worse before it gets better.

Sometimes I don't want to have to be the guy that gets the party going.

And it's tough traveling. You know, the hotels and the airports and all that. That part, eating and getting around to the hotel room and then going on.

When you are small, and you have to try and prove yourself, it is tough. When others are catching up and copy you, that's tough. We constantly need to change ourselves to stay ahead of the game.

You are going to hit some good shots and not get rewarded, but that's just U.S. Open golf. It's tough; it's hard.

Every time you come to Glasgow, it is going to be tough because the crowd don't like me. When they are swearing at you and booing, it's hard.

It was just really, really tough getting anything when you were a female. Basically, I just took advantage of everything I could. But when people are going to flat out tell you they're not going to hire anyone that's female, there's not much you can do about it.

As a presidential candidate, Mr. Trump is going to get tough questions from the press and has to answer them.

I'm inspired by whatever I see, feel, hear about, watch on the TV...anything. It can be something that I really need to get off my chest so I write or something a friend is going through which gets my thoughts going.

That's what representative democracy is about, is members going to Washington but coming home and answering the tough questions.

If a carpenter makes a chair that's comfortable for the person who's going to sit in it, he's done his job. If a train engineer gets a train in on time, he's going to make someone happy who's waiting at the station. And if an artist draws the kind of a picture that people are going to enjoy looking at, or he makes a visual story which people are going to enjoy reading, he's done his job.

New York City is a very tough place. I'm tough, too. When people give me a punch in the nose, I react by getting even tougher.

I've made tough calls and tough times and been held accountability. I think that is the kind of leadership that the American people need now to produce results.

I really love to help kids that are struggling and going through a tough time, and I want to be a positive light on them.

I'm not going to lie: it's tough. There were a couple of games where you're down, and you're in a really dark place, and you don't know if you're ever going to come out of it. You realize, 'Hey, I'm having a bad day,' but you realize there are people out there having worse days.

Everybody in the world has to compromise. I don't know one person that gets everything they want, so the politicians are going to have to figure that out and stop pointing out, "He shook hands with a Democrat in 1989. He ate with a Republican last week." It's petty high school, even junior high stuff going on. It's junior high politics going on, so it's a shame.

A good director's not sure when he gets on the set what he's going to do.

You always feel for your fellow players when they are going through tough times, losing and things like that.

The administration [of Barack Obama] is going to have to figure out, you know, a tough response on the basis of this [Russian] hacking.

If you give all your effort and all the fight and all the heart you got, it doesn't necessarily mean you're going to win, and that's what's tough about sports.

Pat Toomey has worked to allow suspected terrorists to buy guns in this country, and that is just an outrageous position. Of all the kind of tough issues, this one should not be a tough call.

Sometimes on a film you just become taken with the fact that, all right this is as rough as it gets, but I'm going to support my general and I'm going to do the very best I can for him because he's a good general and I like him.

To kids, I've always been more than just some big tough black guy. I train to be tough - I box and do karate - but underneath all that toughness is a tender man.

For a person that's on tour, the environment is difficult. I don't want to come off sounding like, "Oh, it's so hard!," but it gets tough, after awhile. You need to take care of yourself. You need to sleep and you need to eat. Those things are hard to keep on any kind of routine.

I thought I was going to be a Bruin my whole career, so it was really tough to leave. But you just have to pick up and move on, and I've done that.

Everybody's going to play in tough-weather games - snow, rain, sleet - but you've got to hold onto the football.

You've just got to keep going through the tough times and try your best every time you play.

Unless I've got Katy Perry on the cover of my CD, it's going to be tough to sell a lot of records.

I guess if a person never quit when the going got tough, they wouldn't have anything to regret for the rest of their life.

Green Screen was a total experiment. I'm glad we did it, but it was just tough on that network to get it going.

If you're miserable and someone flies by looking like they have everything in the whole world and it's never going to be you, that's tough to deal with.

Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.

You try to stay as even-keel as possible; obviously, it's always more difficult when you're going through a tough season.

Tough times don't last but tough people do. No matter how slow you go, you are still lapping everybody on the couch. Men are born to succeed, not fail.

A manager may be tough and practical, squeezing out, while the going is good, the last ounce of profit and dividend . . .

And you know what? At the end of the day, it gets down to Obama and Romney. And what it's going to get down to is this. Obama is going to say, 'I inherited a mess and I'm making it better.' And Romney is going to say, 'you haven't made it good enough. And I can do far better than you have done.'

I'm going to let people know that it's cool to have a child and be young and still be a good mom. It's really tough, but I'm doing it.

You can't just go in and say, 'I'm going to be tougher that you,' you know? Heavy bags are tough, but I've never been beat by one.

You're going to feel every bit of Stan Van Gundy's frustration if his team had a tough quarter.

Going through all of this physical stuff, it's been a tough job. But I've loved every second of my life.

You need someone there that gets what you're going through.

Recruiting is tough because you have to stay in the battle. You've got so many guys that are going after a certain amount of kids.

Today when a man gets married he gets a home, a housekeeper, a cook, a cheering squad and another paycheck. When a woman marries, she gets a boarder. To define it rudely but not ineptly, engineering is the art of doing that well with one dollar, which any bungler can do with two after a fashion.

Be the buffalo. Wilma Mankiller, the first female principal chief of the Cherokee nation, once told me how the cow runs away from the storm while the buffalo charges directly toward it—and gets through it quicker. Whenever I'm confronted with a tough challenge, I do not prolong the torment. I become the buffalo.