Top 1200 Tough Things Quotes & Sayings - Page 16

I'm really tough. It's a state of mind.

Ignorance is a tough evil to conquer.

Being leader is a tough gig.

This is a tough business to run for president.

Life is tough, but mothers are tougher.

People are always going to be tough on you.

It's tough being a teenager, man!

But life is tough and if you're creative, it's tougher.

Performing is really close to being in studio but performing takes over because being in the studio is two things; the first thing is that it is really beautiful to improvise and jam, but afterwards it becomes hard because it's very rare that a song will come together quickly. Most of the time it's back and forth and trial and error. You start questioning whether the song is good or not. So that can be quite tough.

It is difficult to realize the true Way just through sword-fencing. Know the smallest things and the biggest things, the shallowest things and the deepest things.

I am pretty tough as a boss.

I want to be the Tough Justice Secretary.

The people in southern Georgia are tough.

I don't actually read that much. I like movies a bit more. That's how I come up with ideas - by seeing things, hearing things, recycling things. Stealing things!

I make no conscious effort to be tough, or hard-boiled, or grim, or any of the things I am usually called. I merely try to write as the character would write, and I never forget that the average man, from the fields, the streets, the bars, the offices and even the gutters of his country, has acquired a vividness of speech that goes beyond anything I could invent, and that if I stick to this heritage, this logos of the American countryside, I shall attain a maximum of effectiveness with very little effort.

We're so trained to be 'mentally tough,' in sports.

I think I was pretty tough as a youngster.

I think, ultimately, the problem with something like this is that you actually have so many more opportunities to say something than you actually have things worth saying. And then, as an artist who doesn't want to do bad work, gosh, how do you fill up all that space when you really don't have anything actually worthwhile to say? And that's what makes the job tough, because the fans get mad - "That's not funny," or "You've been sucking for several months now." And you go, "It's not my fault! I'm trying."

I'm in the business, as a journalist, of asking tough questions.

It's tough to control the ball on the clay.

Great witch, tough woman.

Washington State was a tough recruiting spot.

Life is supposed to get tough.

Canada can be tough for urban music.

Making predictions is tough. Especially for the future.

It's tough to lose every day.

The Champions League is such a tough competition.

Interviewing is tough, especially if you don't know what you're looking for.

I had a tough career in college.

Sitting presidents are very tough to beat.

I've had to be tough my whole life.

No sense in talking tough unless you do it.

Leadership is about tough choices.

I was pretty tough and serious in my 20s.

I had a lot of tough times.

Living ain't easy, loving's twice as tough.

I think I'm a really tough player.

I've got a tough act to follow.

There are three things we cry about in life, things that are lost, things that are found, and things that are magnificent.

I'm just a tough old woman.

Don't ever forget that you're a citizen of this world, and there are things you can do to lift the human spirit, things that are easy, things that are free, things that you can do every day: civility, respect, kindness, character.

If you throw four interceptions, it's tough to win.

It's just that if you're not disruptive everything seems to be repeated endlessly - not so much the good things but the bland things - the ordinary things - the weaker things get repeated- the stronger things get suppressed and held down and hidden.

We all know that campaigns are necessarily tough.

I've already beat Henry Corrales, but he was a tough one.

When the going gets tough, you have to lie.

I'm tender when I need to be. I'm tough when I should to be.

I think when you start to do well and get your confidence back, everything becomes more fun. When you're playing with not your full capacity of confidence, I think things get a little tough. I knew I could be doing better than what I was doing. Even though I was ranked 5 or 4 or whatever it was, I wanted to get back to the level I thought I could play at.

I want to support young girls who are in their 20s now and tell them: You're not just imagining things. It's tough. Everything that a guy says once, you have to say five times. Girls now are also faced with different problems. I've been guilty of one thing: After being the only girl in bands for 10 years, I learned - the hard way - that if I was going to get my ideas through, I was going to have to pretend that they - men - had the ideas.

I have thin skin. I'm not a tough guy.

Little things do matter. Sometimes, little things matter the most. Everybody pays a lot of attention to big things, but nobody seems to understand that big things are almost always made up of little things. When you ignore little things, they often turn into big things that have become a lot harder to handle.

It's tough to negotiate from a position of weakness.

It's tough to reenter the work force.

You had to be tough in our neighborhood.

Investing intelligently in those of us who are marginalised means fewer people in jail, fewer homeless, fewer unemployed, fewer of us who are forlorn and depressed, fewer people addicted to things that drag us down... Because as we invest in those that do it tough, we will see more Australians taking pride in themselves, having realisable dreams and aspirations and making their own positive contribution to the world's greatest nation.

Comedy is tough. It is a serious business.

The playoffs are tough. It's a different game.

We had a great childhood and boyhood. It was a wonderful time through those years. A lot of it was through the Depression years, when things were tough, but my dad always had a job. But I had a great time. I was kind of restless, and I had a hard time staying in school all day, so me and a few pals would duck out and go out on these various adventures.

You have to be a tough gay person in the South.

When you know for yourselves, 'These things are wholesome; these things are blameless; these things are praised by the wise; these things, if undertaken and practiced, lead to welfare and happiness,' then you should engage in them.