Top 100 Gets Tough Quotes
#1. Stroll on. When the going gets tough, the postmodern analyst goes shopping.
Chris Jenks
#2. In 1963, while my brothers were engaged in their lives, I call this period of my life 'my character-building years.' I adhered to the saying, 'When the going gets tough, the tough get going.
Marc Ashton
#3. When the going gets tough: the poor close their eyes, the rich open their wallets.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
#4. Perseverance is demonstrated by those who keep going when the going gets tough, who don't give up even when others say, It can't be done.
James E. Faust
#5. Being a successful trader also takes courage: the courage to try, the courage to fail, the courage to succeed, and the courage to keep on going when the going gets tough.
Michael Marcus
#6. Trump appeals to right-wingnuts because when the going gets tough, they wig out.
Michael R. Burch
#7. When the going gets tough, the tough eat ribs.
Nora Roberts
#8. If a woman gets tough in negotiations, she's difficult, whereas a man would be considered a brilliant businessman.
Tamara Mellon
#9. Fatigue makes fools of us all. It robs you of your skills and your judgment, and it blinds you to creative solutions. It's the best-conditioned athlete, not the most talented, who generally wins when the going gets tough.
Harvey MacKay
#10. When the going gets tough . . . you kick the going in the nuts!
John Box
#12. All mothers love their own children as best they can, according to their temperament and circumstances, and all mothers should have done better, in their children's eyes, when the going gets tough for the children.
Fay Weldon
#13. When the wind blows in your face,
when you feel you are losing your head,
when the going gets tough,
and when all else fails,
look inside you,
you are not alone.
Malak El Halabi
#14. When the going gets tough that should be your inspirational reason to drive on.
Jon Jones
#15. For a person that's on tour, the environment is difficult. I don't want to come off sounding like, "Oh, it's so hard!," but it gets tough, after awhile. You need to take care of yourself. You need to sleep and you need to eat. Those things are hard to keep on any kind of routine.
Patty Schemel
#16. When the going gets tough, the tough reinvent.
RuPaul
#17. If you can't stand your own company alone in a room for long hours, or, when it gets tough, the feeling of being in a locked cell, or, when it gets tougher still, the vague feeling of being buried alive
then don't be a writer.
Graham Swift
#18. Character produces endurance and persistence when the going gets tough, and life truly is an endurance race, not a sprint.
Zig Ziglar
#19. Don't make me sad, don't make me cry. Sometimes love is not enough and the road gets tough, I don't know why.
Lana Del Rey
#20. Hey I think the urban meyer rule is in effect right now, When the going gets tough..QUIT.
Maurice Jones-Drew
#21. When life gets tough, when you're overwhelmed with doubt, or when you wonder if living for Christ is worth the effort, remember that you are not home yet. At death you won't leave home - you'll go home.
Rick Warren
#22. When the going gets tough, let the tough get going.
Frank Leahy
#24. When the going gets tough, the prospect of delegating half your responsibilities to a willing volunteer, either to play a supporting role or take over the breadwinning, certainly holds allure.
Mariella Frostrup
#25. If you change partners every time it gets tough or you get a little dissatisfied, then I don't think you get the richness that's available in a long-term relationship.
Jeff Bridges
#26. There's an old saying that when it gets tough the tough get going. You have to work your way through these things.
Ed Belfour
#27. The restorative effect of a tasty dinner is quite remarkable. When the going gets tough, the tough get cooking.
Roz Savage
#28. When the going gets tough in Washington, presidents appoint 'blue ribbon' commissions.
Christopher Buckley
#29. When life gets tough, just love it a bit harder.
Mounia Bagha
#30. How can we make sure we wind up behind the right door when the going gets tough? The answer is: craftsmanship.
Robert C. Martin
#31. I think you have a right to whine. Honestly, Lucy. We all have the right to whine when life gets tough.
Nancy Werlin
#32. I believe Government should encourage competition, NOT prop up the weak when the going gets tough.
Ziad K. Abdelnour
#33. When the going gets tough, everyone leaves.
David Lynch
#35. [Boris]Johnson, [Nigel] Farage, they are retro-nationalists, not patriots. Patriots don't abandon ship when the going gets tough. They stay on board.
Jean-Claude Juncker
#36. I spend my afternoons painting and working on my Open Hearts jewelry line for Kay Jewelers. I designed an image of a heart that isn't completely closed. My mom always told me to live with an open heart - when life gets tough, you should go out and help someone else.
Jane Seymour
#37. I'd like to be your safe place to land, when life gets tough, or if ever you should fall. I want to be there for you, to ease your load and carry your burden.
Deborah Ann
#38. You have to stay strong when it gets tough.
Demi Lovato
#39. It can be very jarring for others to see this introverted individual withdraw so completely when the going gets tough, and they may view them, incorrectly, as weak. They aren't, but they have to do what needs to be done in order to bounce back and get back in the saddle.
Diana Jackson
#40. It's very important for us all to understand that we are interconnected and we need to hold hands together, especially when the going gets tough.
Michelle Yeoh
#41. Room 10 [a short film she codirected with Andrea Buchanan] nailed my personal theme: love and choosing to stay in the room when the going gets tough.
Jennifer Aniston
#42. Now, I didn't approve of this marriage, but you've made your decision and you can't come running back home just because the going gets tough.
A. O'Connor
#43. When the going gets tough, the tough make cookies.
Erma Bombeck
#44. Don't quench the courageous spirit you begun with; you'll still need it when the going gets tough and all things seem impossible on your journey!
Israelmore Ayivor
#45. The challenge in all intimate relationships is to preserve both the "I" and the "we" without losing either when the going gets tough. If we're faced with a choice, we need to choose speech over silence, keep our behavior in line with our stated values and beliefs - and save ourselves first.
Harriet Lerner
#46. The test of any relationship is, when the going gets tough, whether your partner stays with you or 'gets going'.
Kenneth Eade
#47. A leader, once convinced that a particular course of action is the right one, must ... be undaunted when the going gets tough.
Ronald Reagan
#48. Always be careful of where you run to. When the going gets tough, take it easy and slow down, else you venture into the den of lions.
Michael Bassey Johnson
#49. I enjoy what I do every minute of the day, even when the going gets tough. When I first began writing, I used to work at a desk in the bedroom, of a small development house. My three sons all under the age of 3 would come running in and out of the room every minute.
Evan Hunter
#50. 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
#51. Certain management policies-stretching of credit resources, for example-may lead to great progress in good conditions; but, like the Grand Prix car in comparison with the Land Rover, they may not be robust enough to survive when the going gets tough.
Anthony Stafford Beer
#52. You know what a callus teaches us? When life gets tough, you have to be even tougher. A callus is tough skin that comes from years of hard work.
Valerie Testa Almquist
#53. Sometimes when the going gets tough, people give up.
Rob Mariano
#54. When the going gets tough ... the sensitive people smooth the path for others, and take the small children gently by the hand. We'll catch up to the tough in time ...
Tom Althouse
#55. When the going gets tough, I'm not always sure what you do. I'm not saying that I know how to fix everything when the going gets tough, but I do know this: when the going goes tough, you don't quit. And you don't fold up. And you don't go in the other direction.
John Madden
#56. I believe that when the going gets tough, you should just hit pause. Assimilate what is happening for 10 minutes. Your thoughts will be much clearer.
Shreya Ghoshal
#57. The key to life when it gets tough is to keep moving. Just keep moving.
Tyler Perry
#58. Persistence is what keeps you hanging on when hanging on gets tough.
Debasish Mridha
#59. When the going gets tough, the tough get salted caramel cappuccinos.
Dani Harper
#60. I think that as actresses - and I've definitely gone through this in a really bizarre way, because I worked so much and was really lucky with the roles that I got when I was younger - I remember hearing the older actors saying, "It gets tough," and thinking, "Really? I can't imagine."
Winona Ryder
#61. When you do a film, you know you're shooting for 6 or 9 weeks, you've got your cast and crew. Overall, no one can just pull the plug and say, 'This isn't working.' There's just no security on television, especially for African Americans. It's a tough market.
Vivica A. Fox
#62. My goal is to leave the producer with so many good takes, that he or she has a tough time deciding on the best one.
Rob Paulsen
#63. I think summer, at least as I've experienced it, can be joyous but it can also be tough emotionally. Physically, it can be hot to the point of being unbearable and I think you want to capture that frustration, but also the release.
Rostam Batmanglij
#64. I won't say ours was a tough school, but we had our own coroner. We used to write essays like What I'm Going to be If I Grow Up
Lenny Bruce
#65. Boy, it's a tough planet if you want it to be. But a great planet if you let it.
Gary Busey
#66. A board member should be perfectly willing to leave at any time and willing to make the tough calls.
Charlie Munger
#67. Overloading the HPA axis, especially in infancy and childhood, produces all kinds of serious and long-lasting negative effects - physical, psychological, and neurological.
Paul Tough
#68. Again and again, I learn how much friendship enriches my life, bringing warmth, assurance, humour, inspiration, a sense of security. It depends on honesty, trust, loyalty. It's about giving. It's for sharing the good times, but also the tough times, hurt, grief, sadness.
Quentin Bryce
#69. Migration is a feature of globalisation. You can't stop it; so every time a political party says it is going to be tough on immigration, it fails to deliver and loses trust.
Margaret Hodge
#70. I like songs that make me feel tough. Like 'Back in Black.' You want to hear it again and get in a fight.
Chris Stapleton
#71. It's interesting how we often can't see the ways in which we are being strong - like, you can't be aware of what you're doing that's tough and brave at the time that you're doing it because if you knew that it was brave, then you'd be scared.
Lena Dunham
#72. Change is always proceeded by a little pain. Some people can change and they don't have to go through so many painful things. But I think that I'm of a personality that I'm a little stubborn, so it's always tough for me.
Mel Gibson
#73. It's important to preach like there's a broken heart on every pew. That's always been a phrase that stuck with me. Not everybody is having a tough time, but you can bet your buck that there's a good tenth of your church that's going through a hard season. There really is a broken heart on every pew.
Max Lucado
#74. There's a vulnerability about Rose, even a sweetness in her eyes, but there's no mistaking her priorities. Smart, tough, determined, she is essential, but rarely the dog that people melt over or want to take home. Yet she's a great dog.
Jon Katz
#75. You have to be really strong in the music industry, and I'm naturally very timid. That was really hard for me. You have to be tough. You have to make decisions and be a businesswoman.
Rebecca Ferguson
#76. The constant movement of a military life can be tough on children. My father was an officer in the army, and I was forced to change elementary schools six times.
Kim Young-ha
#77. The touch of your flesh
is tough to resist
Planets collide, collide
at the smack of your kiss
But you can kiss your brother
because we will not be lovers
The Waterboys
#78. Marriage is really tough because you have to deal with feelings ... and lawyers.
Richard Pryor
#79. It may have been my youth that forged my heart but it is my adulthood that defines me now." ~quote by Roe'vaash in "Then'diel's HEART
K. Farrell St. Germain
#80. Hon, falling in love is easy. Staying in love is the tough part." ~Faith Barnett from Texas Tangle
Leah Braemel
#81. People that are brilliant and successful, we think they've just always been that way. That's not the case. Most of them have had some tough adversity in their life. It's prepared them. I've never felt like you could develop character without adversity.
Bobby Bowden
#82. As a parent with a child with autism, it's been really tough to experience your child having autism.
Deron Williams
#83. It was tough to get up for teams from the West. This will put a lot of interest back in the game.
Martin Brodeur
#84. When we win, it will tell every politician in America that if you are bold, if you do the right thing, if you tackle the tough issues, there will be people standing there right with you.
Scott Walker
#85. If the garden of Eden really exists it does so moment by moment, fragmented and tough, cropping up like a fan of buddleia high up in the gutter of a deserted warehouse, or in a heap of frozen cabbages becoming luminous in the reflected light of roadside snow.
Helen Dunmore
#86. My mom was such a strong character. I don't want to say she was like a man, but she was tough.
Lance Armstrong
#87. If only the sun-drenched celebrities are being noticed and worshiped, then our children are going to have a tough time seeing the value in the shadows, where the thinkers, probers and scientists are keeping society together.
Rita Dove
#88. You mustn't confuse the need for effective chairmanship, which is part of the job of the boss, along with the ability to take tough decisions and to lead people.
Charles Kennedy
#89. The gifts we treasure most over the years are often small and simple. In easy times and tough times, what seems to matter most is the way we show those nearest us that we've been listening to their needs, to their joys, and to their challenges.
Fred Rogers
#90. 'Whale Talk' is a tough book, but it is also a compassionate book about telling the truth and about redemption. I didn't draw the tough parts out of thin air; they are stories handed to me by people in pain.
Chris Crutcher
#91. I do think that people who are now in their sixties and their seventies are living a different kind of life than their grandparents led, even in these tough times. A lot of them are more active, a lot of them are still working, which was not the case when our grandparents were in their sixties.
Anna Quindlen
#92. Life's tough. It's a challenge. So think of love as your hard earned reward. Don't let doubt take that away from you.
Riley Murphy
#93. We spend too much time telling girls that they cannot be angry or aggressive or tough, which is bad enough, but then we turn around and either praise or excuse men for the same reasons.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
#94. I never knew Kurt to be suicidal. I just knew that he was going through a really tough time.
Mark Lanegan
#96. Markets need not be in sync with one another. Simultaneously, the bond market can be priced for sustained tough times, the equity market for a strong recovery, and gold for high inflation. Such an apparent disconnect is indefinitely sustainable.
Seth Klarman
#97. We play a tough game. If people want to whinge, they can go to a different sport. It's part of the game, it's what I love about it ... and I'd hate to see it go.
Ben Hannant
#98. I don't need to be liked, but I need to be vital - on set or on stage - and I think that probably would be my advice: Stay vital. It's about saying 'no' and asking the tough questions and believing in yourself when no one else will, but you have to know the rules to break them.
Logan Marshall-Green
#99. 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
#100. The Law of Unconditional Loving is a tough taskmaster. Once we taste the fruits of unconditional loving, we cannot go backward, we cannot become "unaware" ever again.
Greg Anderson
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