Tough Quotes - Page 3

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

  Donald Trump

  Life, Fighting, Hard Times

  Twitter post from Sep 28, 2014

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• Marriage is really tough because you have to deal with feelings... and lawyers.

  Richard Pryor

  Marriage, Funny Love, Love You

  Quoted in Robert Byrne, The Third and Possibly the Best 637 Things Anybody Ever Said (1986)

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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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• 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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• If you aren't in over your head, how do you know how tall you are?

  T. S. Eliot

  Adversity, Hard Times, Tough Times

  " Valerie Eliot's death deprives poetry of its strongest advocate" by David Morley, www.theguardian.com. November 13, 2012.

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  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.

  Dale Carnegie

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Dale Carnegie (2017). “How to enjoy your life and your job”, p.59, Diamond Pocket Books Pvt Ltd

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

  Zig Ziglar

  Inspirational, Leadership, Life Is

  FaceBook post by Zig Ziglar from Mar 06, 2014

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• 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

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

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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 take a nap.

  Tom Hodgkinson

  Sleep, Naps, Tough Times

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

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

  Joan Bauer

  Reading, Book, Naps

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

  Nora Roberts

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

  Erma Bombeck

  Naps, Tough Times, Chocolate

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• 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

  Sexy, Fun, Different

  "Angelina Jolie and the Torture of Fame". Interview with John H. Richardson, www.esquire.com. January 29, 2007.

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• 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 Sr.

  Football, Truth, Lying

  1857-8 The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table, ch.5.

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• 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.

  Stephen Covey

  Real, Nice, Maturity

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• 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.

  Vince Lombardi

  Motivational, Sports, Giving Up

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• 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

  Bernadette Roberts

  Love, Inspirational, Life

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• 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.

  Phil Plait

  Father, Thinking, Afterlife

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• Anything worthwhile is tough.

  Emily Giffin

  Worthwhile

  Emily Giffin (2012). “Where We Belong: A Novel”, p.291, Macmillan

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• 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.

  Evander Holyfield

  Heart, Fighting, Garden

  FaceBook post by Evander Holyfield from Nov 15, 2015

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• 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.

  Chelsea Handler

  Heartache, Focus, Important

  Chelsea Handler (2005). “My Horizontal Life: A Collection of One-Night Stands”, p.52, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• 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.

  Norah O'Donnell

  Running, School, Race

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• There are so many tough opponents out there and tough competitors so I've never liked to look ahead.

  Caroline Wozniacki

  Opponents, Looks, Competitors

  "The Busted Racquet Interview: Caroline Wozniacki". Interview with Chris Chase, sports.yahoo.com. March 8, 2011.

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