When somebody challenges you, fight back. Be brutal, be tough.
And so rock bottom became the solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life.
The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
The brick walls are there to stop the people who don't want it badly enough. They are there to stop the other people!
If you aren't in over your head, how do you know how tall you are?
Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.
When you are tough on yourself, life is going to be infinitely easier on you.
Again and again, the impossible problem is solved when we see that the problem is only a tough decision waiting to be made.
If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude.
When the going gets tough, the tough take a nap.
When the going gets tough, the tough get a librarian.
When the going gets tough, the tough make cookies.
When the going gets tough, the tough eat ribs.
When the going gets tough, the tough go drinking.
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.
All women do have a different sense of sexuality, or sense of fun, or sense of like what's sexy or cool or tough.
Many people think in terms of either/or: either you're nice or you're tough. Win-win requires that you be both. It is a balancing act between courage and consideration. To go for win-win, you not only have to be empathic, but you also have to be confident. You not only have to be considerate and sensitive, you also have to be brave. To do that-to achieve that balance between courage and consideration-is the essence of real maturity and is fundamental to win-win.
You carry on no matter what are the obstacles. You simply refuse to give up - and, when the going gets tough, you get tougher. And, you win.
This journey then, is nothing more, yet nothing less than a period of acclimating to a new way of seeing, a time of transition and revelation as it gradually comes upon "that" which remains when there is no self. this is not a journey for those who expect love and bliss, rather, it is for the hardy who have been tried by fire and have come to rest in a tough, immovable trust in "that" which lies beyond the known, beyond the self, beyond union and even beyond love and trust itself
Anything worthwhile is tough.
How do you convince someone they're not thinking clearly, when they're not thinking clearly? What we're actually saying is no magic, no afterlife, no higher moral authoritative father-figure, no security, and no happy ever after. This is a tough sell.
Madison Square Garden, November 1984. I don't recall taking too much fear into the ring. I knew I could fight. But I got a big shock. They put me in with this rough, tough veteran called Lionel Byarm. He tested me to the limit. But I fought my heart out and, in the end, I prevailed. The story of my life, in my very first fight.
Even if times are tough and you're enduring a terrible heartache, it's important to focus your anger on a vibrator, not another person.
I started running track when I was 13 years old, as a freshman in high school. I ran the 400 meters, which is a very tough race and a full sprint.
There are so many tough opponents out there and tough competitors so I've never liked to look ahead.
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