Top 1200 Tough Decisions Quotes & Sayings

It's part of, I guess, one of the harder parts about coaching is you have to make some tough decisions.

Sometimes you have to make tough decisions to hold the line on spending.

'Tough' meant it was an uncompromising image, something that came from your gut, out of instinct, raw, of the moment, something that couldn't be described in any other way. So it was tough. Tough to like, tough to see, tough to make, tough to understand. The tougher they were the more beautiful they became.

I was obliged to take tough, painful and bold decisions to ensure a manageable tomorrow.

Sometimes when you are a professional footballer, you have to deal with tough decisions.

There never is a good time for tough decisions. There will always be an election or something else. You have to pick courage and do it. Governance is about taking tough, even unpopular, decisions.

You don't make spending decisions, investment decisions, hiring decisions, or whether-you're-going-to-look-for-a-job decisions when you don't know what's going to happen.

I think my greatest virtue is that I have the courage to take tough decisions. As for my greatest fault, I guess I should be a little tougher. The feedback I get always is that I am not as tough and demanding as I should be.

The country needs someone with experience and determination to make tough decisions. All the money aside, it is important that Greece restore its reputation.

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

Of all the tough decisions in life, choosing between the job you need and the family you love should not be one of them.

If we don't make tough decisions today our children are going to have to make much, much tougher decisions tomorrow.

I don't care how much talent a team has - if the boys don't think tough, practice tough, and live tough, how they play tough on Saturday.

[Court] is an institution that depends on making tough decisions in close cases for reasons that it explains well and that, in the past at least, have proven satisfactory to the public.

I'm going to make decisions that I think are best for me and my family. So, when I make these decisions, of course I'm going to ask people for advice, but at the end of the day, Brandon Jennings makes the decisions. And I feel like the decisions that I've made so far have been successful.

When it comes to making tough decisions, I'm ready to make them.

People are yearning for a politics that tells it straight: that being in government is difficult, that there are tough decisions that we have to make sometimes.

As we face tough decisions in Washington, we must never forget our responsibility to protect Medicare and preserve it for future generations.

If we do not make tough decisions now, future Americans will have to make even tougher ones.

Tough times call for tougher decisions.

You must avoid the investigation trap. You can't postpone tough decisions by studying them to death.

We're on the verge of a financial collapse unless we balance the budget, and that means some really, really tough decisions.

I understand everybody in this country doesn't agree with the decisions I've made. And I made some tough decisions. But people know where I stand.

That's why I made decisions; they were tough decisions but we shouldn't feel bad at all - don't look back with any regrets, that's how I made decisions as governor.

The New Zealand sense of humor is tough and realistic. Jokes are not surreal; they are about life and death and tough decisions.

Well there are tough decisions necessary in budgets. I agree there are tough decisions necessary to ensure the long-term health of the budget. What I don't accept and will never accept is that those decisions must be unfair as a matter of course.

My job is to get people back to work and make tough decisions. I've been willing to do it.

Clinton took very tough decisions on the economy.

Women oftentimes are the ones making those economic decisions, sitting around the kitchen table and trying to figure out how to pay for rising gas prices or food prices or the health insurance costs. And I think that they see where they expect their leaders in Congress to also make those tough decisions.

You know, I think when you coach or you manage, you make decisions, and there's some that are really, really tough.

Commanders-in-chief make really tough decisions.

You can make tough decisions that I believe voters for years have asked us to do.

I think that's what we like to explore and see on TV these days especially in long form, is complicated people who have to make tough decisions.

I'm not going to get into details, but every band has their moments when things are tough. Just logistically, tough on your body, stress levels, psychologically tough, relationships can be tough.

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

Tough decisions are never popular to make and even less popular to force upon the U.N.

Government should make tough decisions in the larger national interests, even if it upsets the people.

As a legislator, I was elected to make the tough decisions and produce solutions to the problems facing our country.

...experience should warn us that tough and unpopular decisions are only made under intense political pressure produced by urgent necessity.

Making tough decisions that may make someone unhappy is something to get good at doing.

In an effort to devote more time, energy and focus to fewer projects, I've had to make some tough decisions, and one such decision was 'retiring' from 'Speakeasy.'

If you make the tough decisions, people will hate you today. But they will thank you for generations.

I have to be honest about this: I wouldn't tell a lot of kids to go and be writers. It's a tough, tough business. It's not a business. It's more like a tough road. It's a really tough road.

In sports and in business, the greatest leaders are those who make the best decisions in the most crucial of situations. They are the ones who focus their energy on turning tough decisions into winning decisions.

Being hip, being popular, being cool, that's really easy. Until you have to make tough decisions. And when you have to make tough decisions, that veneer of coolness comes off real quick.

And it took to "The Devil Wears Prada" to play someone tough, who had to make hard decisions, who was running an organization, and sometimes that takes making tough decisions for a certain kind of man to empathize. That's the word - empathize. Feel the story through her. And that's the first time anybody has ever said that they felt that way.

One of the things I learned at the Naval Academy and the Marine Corps is we have to make tough decisions.

I like to push characters to extremes so they have to make really tough decisions and there is no life more extreme than that of an athlete.

As a mama and a grandma, I appreciate, understand and absolutely believe in the sanctity of life. But I recognize that there are those tough situations where heartbreaking decisions have to be made.

In my experience, growing up in Brooklyn and all that, the real tough guys didn't act tough. They didn't talk tough. They were tough, you know? I think about these politicians who try to pose as tough guys - it makes me laugh.

The Muse should be a trusted destination for answers. A hand when you need one. Someone to talk you through tough decisions or situations. A starting point.

Leadership is tested not by one's capacity to survive politically but by the ability to make tough decisions in trying times.

One way to make tough decisions is to take incremental steps that don't commit you to anything yet.

I realise that sometimes you have to make tough decisions and football doesn't wait for people.

Often when I'm trying to make tough decisions, I rely on the lessons my father taught me and ask myself, 'What Would Tony Say?'

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.

You've got to make tough decisions, sometimes unpopular decisions... Whatever it is, if it's the right move at the right time, you've got to be also willing to make mistakes.

You mustn't confuse the need for effective chairmanship, which is part of the job of the boss, along with the ability to take tough decisions and to lead people.

I'm tough when I have to be, tender when I should be. When you find a really tough guy, he's not a predator. He doesn't have to prove himself. Guys who have to pretend to be tough, they ain't. I'm tough.

Parts of you die with every decision you have to make. It becomes about making decisions between bad decisions and worse decisions.