Tough Quotes

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

Life, Stupid, Tougher

Few things in the world are more powerful than a positive push. A smile. A world of optimism and hope. A 'you can do it' when things are tough.
Richard M. DeVos

Hope, Positive, Smile

Approximately 80% of our air pollution stems from hydrocarbons released by vegetation, so let's not go overboard in setting and enforcing tough emission standards from man-made sources.
Ronald Reagan

Air, Standards, Pollution

If you think your teacher is tough, wait until you get a boss. He doesn't have tenure.
Bill Gates

Teacher, Wait, Until

You know, fame is a funny thing, man, especially, you know, actors, musicians, rappers, rock singers, it's kind of a lifestyle and it's easy to get caught up in it - you go to bars, you go to clubs, everyone's doing a certain thing... It's tough.
Eminem

Funny, Rock, Everyone

Tough times never last, but tough people do.
Robert H. Schuller

Poets are like baseball pitchers. Both have their moments. The intervals are the tough things.
Robert Frost

Baseball, Both, Moments

Human kindness has never weakened the stamina or softened the fiber of a free people. A nation does not have to be cruel to be tough.
Franklin D. Roosevelt

Kindness, Human, Free

When you are tough on yourself, life is going to be infinitely easier on you.
Zig Ziglar

Life, Yourself, Easier

A life-long blessing for children is to fill them with warm memories of times together. Happy memories become treasures in the heart to pull out on the tough days of adulthood.
Charlotte Davis Kasl

Happy, Heart, Children

All women do have a different sense of sexuality, or sense of fun, or sense of like what's sexy or cool or tough.
Angelina Jolie

Women, Cool, Fun

I have been up against tough competition all my life. I wouldn't know how to get along without it.
Walt Disney

Life, Against, Along

Again and again, the impossible problem is solved when we see that the problem is only a tough decision waiting to be made.
Robert H. Schuller

Waiting, Decision, Made

In fact, the best thing we could do on taxes for all Americans is to simplify the individual tax code. This will be a tough job, but members of both parties have expressed an interest in doing this, and I am prepared to join them.
Barack Obama

Best, Job, Fact

It's tough to stay married. My wife kisses the dog on the lips, yet she won't drink from my glass.
Rodney Dangerfield

Wife, She, Married

Part of the reason that our politics seems so tough right now and facts and science and argument does not seem to be winning the day all the time is because we're hardwired not to always think clearly when we're scared. And the country's scared.
Barack Obama

Politics, Time, Science

People in tough times - it doesn't mean they don't have a great attitude.
Joel Osteen

Great, Attitude, Mean

I came from a real tough neighborhood. I put my hand in some cement and felt another hand.
Rodney Dangerfield

Real, Put, Another

When somebody challenges you, fight back. Be brutal, be tough.
Donald Trump

Fight, Somebody, Challenges

I seem to be getting a lot of things pushed my way that are strong women. It's like people see Hackers and they send me offers to play tough women with guns, the kind who wear no bra and a little tank top. I'd like to play strong women who are also very feminine.
Angelina Jolie

Women, Strong, Play

I say find one true friend to help you get through the tough times.
Kelly Osbourne

True, Help, Friend

The world has been very careful to pick very few diseases for eradication, because it is very tough.
Bill Gates

Few, Pick, Careful

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

Time, Business, Made

Drinking bear is easy. Trashing your hotel room is easy. But being a Christian, that's a tough call. That's rebellion.
Alice Cooper

Christian, Easy, Call

The measure of success is not whether you have a tough problem to deal with, but whether it is the same problem you had last year.
John Foster Dulles

Success, Same, Problem

A tough lesson in life that one has to learn is that not everybody wishes you well.
Dan Rather

Life, Learn, Everybody

Leadership is getting players to believe in you. If you tell a teammate you're ready to play as tough as you're able to, you'd better go out there and do it. Players will see right through a phony. And they can tell when you're not giving it all you've got.
Larry Bird

Leadership, Giving, Through

Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at a touch; nay, you may kick it about all day like a football, and it will be round and full at evening.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

Truth, Football, Evening

My mom was such a strong character. I don't want to say she was like a man, but she was tough.
Lance Armstrong

Mom, Strong, Character

Tough times don't last, tough people do, remember?
Gregory Peck

Remember, Last, Times

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