Tough Life Quotes - Page 2

• When the going gets tough, the tough reinvent.

  RuPaul

  Change, Naps, Tough Times

  RuPaul (2010). “Workin' It!: RuPaul's Guide to Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Style”, p.22, Harper Collins

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

  Erma Bombeck

  Naps, Tough Times, Chocolate

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• When the going gets tough, the tough go drinking.

  Bret Easton Ellis

  Drinking, Naps, Tough Times

  FaceBook post by Bret Easton Ellis from Jan 01, 2014

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• You have to trust in something - your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.

  Steve Jobs

  Life, Motivational, Success

  Steve Jobs (0101). “Motivating Thoughts of Steve Jobs”, p.41, Prabhat Prakashan

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• When the going gets tough, the tough eat ribs.

  Nora Roberts

  Naps, Tough Times, Chocolate

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• And so rock bottom became the solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life.

  J. K. Rowling

  Inspirational, Life, Change

  J.K. Rowling (2015). “Very Good Lives: The Fringe Benefits of Failure and the Importance of Imagination”, p.38, Hachette UK

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• Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "From Telegraph to Light Bulb with Thomas Edison". Book by Deborah Headstrom-Page, 2007.

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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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• I had no one to help me, but the T. S. Eliot helped me. So when people say that poetry is a luxury, or an option, or for the educated middle classes, or that it shouldn’t be read at school because it is irrelevant, or any of the strange stupid things that are said about poetry and its place in our lives, I suspect that the people doing the saying have had things pretty easy. A tough life needs a tough language – and that is what poetry is. That is what literature offers – a language powerful enough to say how it is. It isn’t a hiding place. It is a finding place.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Powerful, Stupid, School

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• When I was growing up in Monrovia, the capital of Liberia, I sold doughnuts, popcorn and Kool Aid every day after school so that my family had some money and I could pay my school fees. It was a tough life.

  George Weah

  Growing Up, School, Popcorn

  "Africa's World Cup can make education a reality for all" by George Weah, www.theguardian.com. May 26, 2010.

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• Jesus had a tough life. I read about that guy. Jesus is the only guy that ever came back from the dead that didn't scare the F- out of everybody!

  Sam Kinison

  Jesus, Guy, Scare

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• I had spent some time in the outback, but to meet Aboriginals and work with them was wonderful. It gave me a great appreciation of how tough life is and about the indomitable spirit that the Aboriginal people have always possessed.

  Hugh Jackman

  Appreciation, People, Spirit

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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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• Baseball life is a tough life on the family.

  Nolan Ryan

  Sports, Baseball, Tough

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• This is a tough, tough life when things aren't going your way.

  Chauncey Billups

  Way, Tough

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• I was handed a tough life lesson at a very early age.

  Boomer Esiason

  Life Lesson, Age, Lessons

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• It's a tough life being a pop star. You know, at the end of the day when you've paid all the bills and put the kids through college and that, you know, there's only enough left for a small island off the South Pacific.

  Larry Mullen, Jr.

  Stars, Kids, College

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• It's a tough life if you don't weaken.

  Stephen King

  Tough, Ifs

  Stephen King (2016). “Different Seasons”, p.77, Simon and Schuster

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• I come from a family of very strong women, women who have endured very tough lives in hopes of a better one for their children.

  Afia Nathaniel

  Strong Women, Children, Tough

  "TIFF Women Directors: Meet Afia Nathaniel – ‘Dukhtar’". Interview with Laura Berger, www.indiewire.com. September 4, 2014.

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• We can live tough lives, but the human spirit is stronger, seemingly, than anything. There is redemption, hope, and love. All different forms of heartbreak, but beyond all that there is hope, there is love. There is beauty and bliss.

  Hugh Jackman

  Stronger, And Love, Different

  "OSCARS Q&A: Hugh Jackman". Interview with Pete Hammond, deadline.com. December 29, 2012.

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• I wasnt born with a golden spoon in my mouth. It was a really tough life.

  Yohan Blake

  Golden, Spoons, Mouths

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• You don't have to know anything about baseball to respond to Babe Ruth because he's just this magnificent human being. And a really good story because he was this kid who grew up essentially as an orphan, you know, had a tough life, and then he became the most successful baseball player ever. But he was also a really good guy.

  Bill Bryson

  Baseball, Kids, Successful

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• I worry when athletes are simply used by their universities to produce revenue, to make money for them, nothing to show at the back end. I grew up with a lot of players who had very, very tough lives after the ball started bouncing for them. And that's why I'm going to continue to fight.

  Arne Duncan

  Athlete, Fighting, Player

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• A Tough life with God is better than a good life without Him

  David Asscherick

  Good Life, Tough

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• I wouldn't say that I've had a tough life by any stretch of the imagination.

  Duncan Sheik

  Imagination, Tough

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