Life Is Tough Quotes - Page 2

• When the going gets tough, the tough make cookies.

  Erma Bombeck

  Naps, Tough Times, Chocolate

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• And above all, children need our unconditional love - whether they succeed or make mistakes; when life is easy and when life is tough.

  Barack Obama

  Children, Dad, Mistake

  "Obama talks of fatherhood". "Obama talks of fatherhood" by Mj Lee, www.politico.com. June 18, 2011.

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• The most reliable way to predict the future is to create it.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Positive, Being Happy, Uplifting

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• The brick walls are there to stop the people who don't want it badly enough. They are there to stop the other people!

  Randy Pausch

  Perseverance, Wall, Inspirational Life

  Randy Pausch (2008). “The Last Lecture”, p.71, Hachette UK

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

  John Wayne

  Stupid, Tough, Life Is

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• Life is tough and it's tough whether you're famous or not famous. And in the end it's probably better to be famous because the perks are better. You get better seats at the basketball game, and you get better tables and reservations places. If I call a doctor on Saturday morning I can get him. There's a lot of things, indulgences that you don't get, if you're not famous. Now I'm not saying it's fair. But I can't say that I don't enjoy it.

  Woody Allen

  Basketball, Morning, Doctors

  "Woody Allen Interview to Rome with Love". Interview, www.moviesonline.ca.

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

  John Wayne

  Stupid, Tough, Life Is

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• A lot of people say, 'Well, I like a challenge. 'I don`t like challenges. Life is tough enough without any challenges.

  Jackie Gleason

  People, Challenges, Tough

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• Life is tough - and you have to be tougher than life to change the world.

  Sebastian Pinera

  Inspirational, World, Tough

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• The best way to predict the future is to study the past, or prognosticate.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Twitter post from Jan 30, 2017

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• Sitting around on your big fat gluteus maximus talking about the good old days. The good old days are right this second. You've got to exercise VIG-OR-OUSLY! Life is tough. Life is a challenge. Life is a battlefield... . Life is an athletic event, and you must train for it.

  Jack LaLanne

  Exercise, Talking, Athletic

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• Life is tough and brimming with loss, and the most we can do about it is to glimpse ourselves clear now and then, and find out what we feel about familiar scenes and recurring faces this time around.

  Roger Angell

  Loss, Glimpse, Faces

  Roger Angell (2007). “Let Me Finish”, p.2, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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  Never let your head hang down. Never give up and sit down and grieve. Find another way.

  Satchel Paige

  Inspirational, Encouraging, Sports

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• If you're going through hell, keep going.

  Winston Churchill

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

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• Life is tough, and if we don't laugh, we're going to - our head will explode.

  Jeff Ross

  Laughing, Tough, Life Is

  "Having Thick Skin Is A 'Survival Technique,' Says Comic Jeff Ross". "Fresh Air", www.npr.org. September 13, 2016.

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• The best way to predict the future is to invent it.

  Alan Kay

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Walter Isaacson (2011). “Steve Jobs”, p.95, Simon and Schuster

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  Don't pray when it rains if you don't pray when the sun shines.

  Satchel Paige

  Thanksgiving, Thank You, Baseball

  Quoted in Deirdre Mullane, Words to Make My Dream Children Live: A Book of African American Quotations (1995)

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• I don't believe in revenge. When people are bullies it's because of a deeper-rooted issue - either their family life is tough or they're being bullied by someone bigger than they are.

  Khloe Kardashian

  Revenge, Believe, Issues

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• The more you believe it, the more it starts to become real for you. This is why it is so very important to believe in positive things, rather than negative things. Whatever you believe, you will find that you are correct. The universe has a way of presenting to you exactly what you believe. If you think life is great, you are correct. If you think life is tough, you will be proved correct too.

  Anita Moorjani

  Real, Believe, Thinking

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• Never let your head hang down. Never give up and sit down and grieve. Find another way. And don't pray when it rains if you don't pray when the sun shines.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• When the going gets tough, the tough take a nap.

  Tom Hodgkinson

  Sleep, Naps, Tough Times

  "Idle thoughts" by Tom Hodgkinson, www.theguardian.com. July 28, 2006.

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• A problem is a chance for you to do your best.

  Duke Ellington

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

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  Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it's always your choice.

  Wayne Dyer

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  FaceBook post by Dr. Wayne W. Dyer from Jul 12, 2010

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• If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude.

  Maya Angelou

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

  Twitter post from Jan 15, 2017

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• When the going gets tough, the tough get a librarian.

  Joan Bauer

  Reading, Book, Naps

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