Tough Quotes
86 quotes
"It's alright, just wait and see, your string of lights is still bright to me. Who you are is not where you've been. You're still an innocent. It's okay life is a tough crowd, 32 is still growing up now."
"Smartass Disciple: Master, what did you do to earn wisdom ?Master of Stupidity: Well, I forget. Shit happened, life goes on."
"Vulnerability really means to be strong and secure enough within yourself that you are able to walk outside without your armor on. You are able to show up in life as just you. That is genuine strength and courage. Armor may look tough, but all it does is mask insecurity and fear."
"To make your Opinion Count,you have to do something morethan just making Money."
"Helping People is Fun. Getting to a Position to help is Not."
"The distance between your Dreams and Reality is inversely proportional to your Efforts."
"It's Hard, Not to Fail, but, there is Always a Chance of Success. Of course, there is No Chance of Success, if You didn't Try."
"Sometimes in life, you have to take difficult steps and make tough decisions, in order to achieve something extraordinary."
"Thanks to you my toughest life lessons.. it may appear that I'm falling, ... but, I' m stronger than I have ever been"
"The actuality that the heart does not want to feel, doesn't negate the certitude that it once felt and will still feel."
"You get a medal for being tough."
"A hand is not enough...to never let go"
"When the going gets tough, people bail. When the going gets easy, people get lazy. Honest, smart, hard work is the way to get results."
"Maxim 36: When the going gets tough, the tough call for close air support.-The Seventy Maxims of Maximally Effective Mercenaries"
"It is as difficult for most poor people to truly believe that they could someday escape poverty as it is for most wealthy people to truly believe that their wealth could someday escape them."
"The strongest storms make the best sailors. The strongest games make the best players. Tougher challenges make the best leaders."
Israelmore Ayivor, Leaders' Frontpage: Leadership Insights from 21 Martin Luther King Jr. Thoughts
"The idea that Love Must Be Tough dictates that we be willing to set another person free- even if it causes us great pain to let go. When we do this, we maximize the chances that that loved one will not leave, because the cage door has been opened and self-respect has been affirmed."
"No Student can stand the Gruel of Sports Training unless she has a Passion for Fame."
"Nothing is tough but your skull so think out of the skull box and let the thoughts fly."
"When the tough get going, the going gets easier."
"Well, there is no sin in being gay. The immorality comes from engaging in forbidden behavior. Therefore, the Christian homosexual is in the same situation as the unmarried heterosexual. He (or she) is expected to control his or her lusts and live a holy life. I know this is a tough position to take, and some will argue with it. But I stand on the authority of Scripture, and I have no license to edit it."
James C. Dobson, Life on the Edge: The Next Generation's Guide to a Meaningful Future
"What I want is irrelevant. This is your life, Faith."
"The decisions that take you to your highest points in life are the toughest decisions you'd have to make."
"I’m all you have in this world Mariam, and when I’m gone you’ll have nothing. You ARE nothing!"
"Language and reality are kept strictly apart—reality is tough, unyielding stuff, and it doesn’t care what you think or feel or say about it. Or it shouldn’t."
"To every guy who tries to say that we have already achieved equality for the sexes, if this were true, you wouldn't be told to "man up", "be a man", "stop being a p*#%y", "harden the fuck up", "toughen up", "boys don't cry", "don't be such a girl", "stop being a wimp". As long as this type of language still exists in our society, then gender equality, my friends, has in fact not been achieved after all."
Miya Yamanouchi, Embrace Your Sexual Self: A Practical Guide for Women
"A man's level of "toughness" (as assessed by other men), will determine whether or not his girlfriend will get hit on by other guys right in front of him in public places. If you're deemed a "p*#%y" by other guys and they want your girlfriend, even in your company she'll be considered "fair game"."
Miya Yamanouchi, Embrace Your Sexual Self: A Practical Guide for Women
"Both men and women experience pressure to conform to social standards of attractiveness. Men to look strong and be tough, women to look pretty and soft. Men to be masculine, women to be feminine. Men get judged for being "too feminine", women get criticized for being "too masculine". Gender policing affects us all."
Miya Yamanouchi, Embrace Your Sexual Self: A Practical Guide for Women
"The hard part about one being tough yet meek is the illusion of being a punching bag."
"Her scar tissue, which she seems to amass both physically and mentally, may not be pretty, but they have become tougher than if she had never been wounded at all."
"You either learn to play hard ball or you become the ball."
"Simplicity comes at a cost; the rich can't stand for, forget affording."
"When you encounter obstacles, don’t turn your back on them. Face them, confront them and your will see them dissolving in front of your eyes."
"The road may be rough, the journey may be tough and the experience may be bitter, but they are stepping stones to our future thrones."
"Being tough today might cause you to be weak in the future."
"Listening is a tough skill, but one who practice it becomes The Successful Leader!!!"
"Trust is tough since it involves that quixotic mix of integrity, vulnerability, and intimacy. But trust anyway."
"What he wanted was Megan wanting him... but not needing him. Not vulnerable to him. Sure as help not trying to leave him over and over again... and simply failing."
"War doesn't have heroes, it only has the men who lost so many things in their life that they just keep going and do the most unthinkable things, just because they don't care anymore."
"A man without enemies is a dishonest man."
"Desire to always be on the right way no matter how tough it gets. A very slow movement on the right way is better than overwhelming speed on the wrong path!"
"The strongest people are people who faced the toughest situations in life. People who are defeated by the toughest battles are stronger than those who have won by using the escape route!"
"However, if you fail to prepare, you will either go through stress to win your race or you may quit when the battle becomes tougher than you ever imagined."
Israelmore Ayivor, Michelangelo | Beethoven | Shakespeare: 15 Things Common to Great Achievers
"Thoughts make life tough."
"The road to recovery may be tough, but I've closed all the doorsthat lead to giving upWith only one choice in hand, I am focused on healing"
"On the inside, the copycats of the ruffians are more delicate than the copycats of prudes."
"We don’t just believe that God is real, but in tough circumstances we believe that he knows the way out"
"I forced my weary body up from the ground, my eyes burning with rage. I'd had enough of nearly dying. I'd had enough of secrets and mysteries. I was filled to the brim with pain and misery. It had taken its toll on me. It was hard to hold on to the very things that made you human, when there was nothing good left inside of you. In fact, I no longer felt human. I didn't feel anything except anger. It was time to find Kellan."
"wounds make you awake in the memories but tears makes tough and dry in real life."
"Retaining Character is the Toughest Challenge for Humans when they Level Up."
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