Top 506 Tougher Quotes & Sayings

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There's hockey and football players tougher than me, there's gangbangers tougher than me. But my toughness is more, Jesus said "Be of tough mind, but tender heart; be tough as a serpent, but tender as a dove." That's who I am and what I do.

Cigarettes, cigarettes were much tougher. Booze was tough And I had a real drinking problem before as we discovered in the hospital really, but the cigarettes are much tougher and to tell you the truth.

We have to get a lot tougher if we're going to win this war [with ISIS]. If we're not going to be tougher, we're never going to win this war. This is only going to get worse.

I think even with women who come across with a tough exterior, the interior is the same. I think you'll find this with women around the word: some women, because of their circumstances, are forced to be tougher, forced to cultivate tougher exteriors.

I am gradually building my career fighting tougher and tougher opponents.

I think any type of setback you have, any tough time you've got, getting through it is what makes you who you are. It makes you a tougher person. I think whatever you've been through in your life makes you a tougher person. I'm very grateful for the background I have, every tough situation I've been through because it's made me who I am.

Hedge funds are other hedge funds' toughest competition. And there are just more of them, and it's tougher and tougher all along.

Life is tough, but if you are stupid, it's a lot tougher.

I think the tougher the challenge the better.

Life is tough, but mothers are tougher.

I think it's getting tougher and tougher, all the big teams are getting stronger and there's more of them.

You make yourself tougher in the offseason.

It's tougher to be vulnerable than to actually be tough.

Golf is tougher than my first wife.

It's a lot tougher to play soccer and make it look believable. But in boxing, it was easier for me. I got injured a lot more in the soccer world. In soccer, I pulled muscles. I thought boxing was going to be tougher.

Life is tough, but it's tougher when you're stupid.

I've learned... That life is tough, but I'm tougher.

A real man has no tougher judge than himself.

I know some bands that don't like touring and are able to make a living producing other bands. There are a lot of ways of carving a living out, but it's become tougher and tougher to figure out what that means.

I've gotten tougher.

My band persona is 25% tougher than I am.

It's a tougher program for tougher customers.

Regulations about environments are going to get tougher and tougher.

Movies are - all I've found is that they're just tougher and tougher to make.

The thing is the game is getting tougher and tougher and we have to ask a lot of our bodies.

Life is tough, but I'm tougher.

What the Democrats do with income inequality is punish the people at the top of whatever bracket we're talking about. If it's income, they want to raise taxes. They want to impugn, punish, institute more regulations, just make it tougher and tougher and do what they can to take money from them.

It's getting tougher and tougher to defeat ISIS, because they're in more and more places, more and more states, more and more nations.

Life is tough pilgrim, it is even tougher if you're stupid

As a human, you don't have to be too conscious of your movement. I think it's tougher playing a robot than a human, and even tougher playing a robot who begins showing traces of being a human.

Never stop asking yourself whether you can do things better. Keep testing every aspect of your business to the nth degree, and challenge every one of your assumptions. The tougher you are on yourself now, the tougher your business will be out there in the real world.

Life is tough, but it's tougher if you're stupid.

I'm like a bumper car. When I did an infomercial I was fodder for every TV comedy show. I couldn't get a job. People said I was a huge joke. I've been a joke so many times. I've been on my way out since I started, but I'm strong-willed. My mother is so much tougher than I am and my grandmother is so much tougher than my mother.

My first time alone in Spain playing basketball - that kind of made me tougher, especially for my character and my personality. It's not easy when you're alone. Some nights you have bad games or bad days and it's not easy. I think that is the one thing that changed me, to make me a better person, a tougher guy.

Being Vice President is difficult. Don't make it tougher.

A lot of people have it tougher than I do.

When things are tough, you get tougher.

Tough times call for tougher decisions.

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

Life's tough. It's even tougher when you are stupid.

When you think life is tough, it can get a lot tougher.

That's life. The older you get, the tougher it is to score.

Every year it gets tougher and tougher. Mentally and physically. That's why you need to train and prepare.

Track and field is tougher physically, but golf is tougher mentally.

As our eyes age, they have a tougher and tougher time adjusting to rapid changes in lighting, and we need to be aware of this.

I will tell you that Hillary [Clinton] will tell you to go to her website and read all about how to defeat ISIS, which she could have defeated by never having it, you know, get going in the first place. Right now, it's getting tougher and tougher to defeat them, because they're in more and more places, more and more states, more and more nations.

The tougher the job, the greater the reward.

I think I do better when things are a little tougher.

It's a tougher gig than what people think it is. The proper, real, genuine, worldwide movie stars don't get a lot of downtime from the world outside. That's a tougher price, I think, than what people's fantasy of fame account for.

Overall we need to get tougher and bigger.

I wish I had tougher skin, but I don't.

There is a greater Christian faith than one which settles for the temporal happiness, and that is the augmentation of faith. The more faithful you become, the harder the obstacles get; but the harder the obstacles get, the tougher your spine grows; and the tougher your spine grows, the less dependent you are on man's approval. I came to know this about Christianity when valuing faith before comfort.

When the President picks someone who is his ideological soul mate, that's his right, in my reading of "advise and consent." I do think, though, the more you get up the ladder, when someone is no longer accountable to the President, and more importantly, will stay in office after the President, the standard gets tougher and tougher.

Politics is a lot tougher than physics.

I think that one thing that I've prided myself on is that tough situations make for tougher people and that was one of my goals as well getting into this sport, I wanted to be a tougher human. I wanted to be a tougher man and basically when I had kids I'd be able to be like a superhero to them, and I feel like I'm accomplishing that.

The thing that happens is that politicians run on tough-on-crime rhetoric. You appeal to the public and say, 'Let's put more money into taller fences, tougher laws, tougher sentencing, handcuffs,' and where does that money come from? Well, immediately, it comes out of all the money needed for corrections.

Everybody has their ups and downs, and that's what makes you tougher.

It's interesting, the worse things get in cities, the tougher that cities get, the more brutal the humor is. The tougher things people face, the darker the sense of humor gets and I find that incredibly optimistic.

I can take it. The tougher it gets, the cooler I get.