Top 100 Life Is Tough Quotes
#1. 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
#2. Life is overwhelming. Life is not easy. Life is tough. And you need something that really works and helps you actually, not promises to help you, then fail.
John Travolta
#3. Life is tough, and it's really tough when you're stupid.
Damon Runyon
#4. Part of my act is meant to shake you up. It looks like I'm being funny, but I'm reminding you of other things. Life is tough, darling. Life is hard. And we better laugh at everything; otherwise, we're going down the tube.
Joan Rivers
#5. They say that life is tough enough. But I guess I like to make things difficult on myself, because I do that all the time. Every day and on purpose. That's because I believe in disrupting my comfort zone.
Brian Grazer
#6. It's jarring to go from one amazing experience to another that feels ordinary. I don't quite know how to explain it. You see the uniqueness of what you've been doing, and disassociating yourself from it and going back to the 'normal' life is tough.
Nat Wolff
#7. LIFE IS TOUGH WHEN YOU ARE ALWAYS TALKING TO PEOPLE SMARTER THAN YOU ...
Chetan Bhagat
#8. When you think life is tough, it can get a lot tougher.
Kate Gosselin
#9. Life is tough, but it's tougher if you're stupid.
John Wayne
#10. Life is tough, but if you are stupid, it's a lot tougher.
John Wayne
#11. Life is tough, but it's tougher when you're stupid.
John Wayne
#12. Life is tough enough without having someone kick you from the inside.
Rita Rudner
#13. Life is tough, man. No one is spared from obstacles and trials, but there is such a beautiful plan for each of us. Just gotta let it happen.
Taylor York
#14. Above all, children need our unconditional love, whether they succeed or make mistakes; when life is easy and when life is tough.
Barack Obama
#15. I've learned ... That life is tough, but I'm tougher.
Andy Rooney
#16. 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
#17. 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
#18. Life is tough; and if you have the ability to laugh at it, you have the ability to enjoy it.
Salma Hayek
#19. Striking a balance in life is tough, but trying to strike balance and remain fair in the face of imbalance and oppression is even tougher.
Aisha Mirza
#21. If things are going bad and life is tough, hang in there. Ride it out. Come out on top.
Ashton Irwin
#22. Life is tough, then you die. The sooner you accept that and move on with your life, the better off you'll be.
Michael Murphy
#23. But life is tough and if you're creative, it's tougher.
Bobby Short
#24. Life is tough - and you have to be tougher than life to change the world.
Sebastian Pinera
#25. Don't lose faith in the good things, even when life is tough. The good things come in waves, along with the bad.
Julianne MacLean
#26. Life is tough pilgrim, it is even tougher if you're stupid
John Wayne
#27. Desperate times call for desperate measures. That's a saying, or a bit of advice, or a catchprase, or a string of words used to confuse people less intelligent than you. In any case, it means: Life is tough, so you'd better fight hard-or something like that.
Obert Skye
#29. Life is tough. If you're stupid, it's even tougher.
Dick Burleson
#31. 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
#32. If life is so bad, how come you're so happy?" "Did I say bad? I said it was tough. Nothing to make you happy like doing good on a tough job, now is there?
Katherine Paterson
#33. There are areas of official life in the United States that are similar to Russia. For example: disbursement of protest, and the way American prisons are run, which is pretty tough.
Nadezhda Tolokonnikova
#34. My secret to survival has been embracing life's challenges and not letting them dictate my frame of mind or determine my fate ... Learning to stand strong in the face of challenge and adversity is the only way to get through the tough times.
Sandra Lee
#35. When you're going through a tough spell, it's easy to think that's all your life is about. You forget the good things, forget the quiet places. But they're always inside of us and we can pull them up when we need to set ourselves right.
Joan Bauer
#36. Life was tough for me. When I was a kid, nobody played with me because they thought I looked ugly with my extra thumb. It pained me. So once I thought of getting it surgically removed. But I didn't. Slowly, I realized that the exterior is not the criterion for love and success.
Hrithik Roshan
#37. In life you'll face difficulties that postpone some of your dreams. Regardless, life goes fast by reminding us youth is finite and old age is stable. So you mustn't stop dreaming and running while your strength is yet tough.
Darmie Orem
#38. Sometimes LIFE is rough and tough. That's still NO excuse for you to be.
Tanya Masse
#39. Wars are Spinach. Life in general is the tough part. In war all you have to do is not worry and know how to read a map and co-ordinates.
Ernest Hemingway,
#40. Whenever someone calls me ugly I get super sad and hug them, because I know how tough life is for the visually impaired.
Will Ferrell
#41. Wearing fake happiness is as good as smearing foundation. A bit of moisture drains it all.
Aniruddha Sastikar
#42. A game is where you win and lose, and both are part of it. When there is more chance of losing, it is more charming. The game has value when it is tough. So some little problems that come in life are part of the whole game.
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
#43. Standup is tough; if you are going through a hard period in your life, it is very hard to get up in front of people and be the happy guy in the room.
Doc Brown
#44. When you commit your life to something and it doesn't work out, it is a tough place to be. Suicide can be the spiritual reprieve of a faithless person. I knew I could always just end it, and there was solace in that.
Marc Maron
#45. It's so pathetic, the tough-guy posturing, but so sinister, because, to put it plainly, that's how black men die. Insecure, pee-pants white men assume that any disagreement is a life-threatening situation.
Lindy West
#46. I like to push characters to extremes so they have to make really tough decisions and there is no life more extreme than that of an athlete.
Chris Cleave
#47. The message I'm trying to say is that I'm tough because of life experience.
DJ Khaled
#48. These guys are tough, this world is crazy and the wind here is crazy strong! However if I want a normal life for once I have to try harder! Angel - From Revenge of the Gloobas. Coming soon!
Angel Ramon Medina
#49. To the student I would say, Life is principally multiple choice, but at the end there's a tough essay question.
Robert Breault
#50. Life is a tough journey, an educational process that takes us to the place of survival and to the place of growth and development.
Euginia Herlihy
#51. ... what kind of life do we live if we let fear break us down? The truth is there will be tough times, we've certainly been through them before; but good things happen everyday. Great things. We just have to open our eyes and see them.
Christene Houston
#52. No matter what the day brings and no matter how hard life hits you, if you can breathe, smile and keep moving on! Once you have life, know that God is alive!
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#53. The thing about life is that you must survive. Life is going to be difficult, and dreadful things will happen. What you do is move along, get on with it, and be tough. Not in the sense of being mean to others, but being tough with yourself and making a deadly effort not to be defeated.
Katharine Hepburn
#54. Life can be tough and harsh at times. That's what makes it great. Every day is a celebration of survival.
Jonathan Heatt
#55. A life-long blessing for children is to fill them with warm memories of times together. Happy memories become treasures in the heart to pull out on the tough days of adulthood.
Charlotte Kasl
#56. Anything that lifts responsibility for our actions is addictive, I've found. So really, looking back, I'd have to say that was not the hard moment. The tough bit is always later, when you're held responsible for yourself again, and your life is expected to go on.
Catherine Ryan Hyde
#57. It's alright, just wait and see, your string of lights is still bright to me. Who you are is not where you've been. You're still an innocent. It's okay life is a tough crowd, 32 is still growing up now.
Taylor Swift
#58. I think the bottom line is that if you get through a childhood like mine, it's not at all bad. Obviously, you come out a pretty tough turkey, and you have had all the inoculations you need to keep you on a level keel for the rest of your life. The sad part is, most of us don't come out.
James A. Michener
#59. I've kind of realised life is meant to be tough and everybody is in psychic and spiritual discomfort of some sort and has a burden to carry. I've realised I'm not special.
Marian Keyes
#60. Two weeks ago, I was in a fantastic situation, winning at Roland Garros. Now, losing in the first round, it's tough. The tour continues. Life continues. This is a sport of victories, not a sport of losses. Nobody remembers the losses. I don't want to remember the loss.
Rafael Nadal
#61. I know some people say I can be funny. But there is always a deeper meaning to what I say. I am a socialist at heart and have the interests of the poor in mind. When people see how I manage to work my way out of tough situations, it gives them hope in their own life.
Lalu Prasad Yadav
#62. I have a great need for affection from an audience. I don't know whether this is because I had such a tough life when I was a child.
Eartha Kitt
#63. Walking with the projected chest
Feeling like you just won
The race has been tough
But the joy of winning is too good;
Priscilla Koranteng
#64. The toughest fucking moments in life are the ones where the whole world is a big, fat unkown, where chance has more power to change your fate than you do. It's then that you're gonna want me, Sali, because me, I'm a sure thing.
C.M. Stunich
#65. Life is an obstacle course. You succeed at one thing and then you move on to the next. When an obstacle is tough, you try harder. When an obstacle is insurmountable, you change course. But you never sit down and refuse to finish.
Bethenny Frankel
#66. There will be beautiful times and tough times, as such is life, but if your heart is in it, then it is worth it all the way.
Irena A. Hoffman
#68. Life is a matter of really tough choices.
Joe Biden
#69. Go God's way! His is the most reliable route to follow when life gets complicated. It will have its tough moments, but you will never regret it.
Charles R. Swindoll
#70. Growing up in the public eye was really tough. When you're 14 and your body is changing, your life is changing, and people are watching every step you make, it's really hard to deal with. But I was pretty lucky, people didn't watch me that closely.
Mandy Moore
#71. Slow down. Enjoy life. It's tough to slow down if your mind is going a million miles a second. It's tough to slow down if you think what these people do here matters.
Frederick Lenz
#72. One thing I am really dying to do, while I'm still young and in shape, is an action movie. I would love to do a Lara Croft type of thing that's really physical and tough. I want to have a gun and do martial arts. I would love to get paid to get into the best shape of my life.
Megalyn Echikunwoke
#73. For everything in life there is always a beginning and an end. This is the tough part the most difficult thing when you see that it's coming: The end.
Seve Ballesteros
#74. Life is about making tough choices. Sometimes you have to go where your career is going.
Bill Maher
#75. Life is so freaking hard. How do people do it? How do people get up every day and deal with the shit? It really makes you understand why there are so many messed-up people in the world. I mean, it's tough, trying to deal with demands coming at you from all sides.
Lisa Schroeder
#76. When you makes movies, you usually make good money. But it is also a very tough job. Once you enter the public's eye, you have to be aware that you give up a huge part of your own life. And it is never a job from nine to five.
Brigitte Nielsen
#77. You need to laugh more. Life is filled with too many problems, to not laugh every day ... We need to have a sense of humor going into this because it's too tough without it.
Ysabella Brave
#78. A Tough life with God is better than a good life without Him
David Asscherick
#79. Everyone is going through tough times. The irony in it is that everyone thinks what they're going through is harder than what you are. Life isn't about surviving these things, it's about understanding this- We are all struggling.
Jose N. Harris
#80. There was a time in my life that my mother told me that they didn't know whether they were going to send me to college or an institution, and it's rough to hear that ... Childhood is tough.
Ellen Greene
#81. Baseball life is a tough life on the family.
Nolan Ryan
#82. It is attitude, infinitely more than circumstance, that determines the quality of life. Life is often quite tough, challenging us to choose between seemingly esoteric, intangible ideals and getting goodies or good vibes right now. You have character when you most often choose ideals.
Laura C. Schlessinger
#83. Life gives you a chance and lots of opportunities to drop it, you might be either the best one or the rest one, choice is all yours.
M.H. Rakib
#84. Nobody gets through life without facing challenges. What's important is how we handle them. Tough times can be excellent opportunities to grow and become a better person.
Sandra Vischer
#85. Character produces endurance and persistence when the going gets tough, and life truly is an endurance race, not a sprint.
Zig Ziglar
#86. Life is so tough. I don't know how old you are, but I've seen so much in a wink. One phone call and your life is changed forever. We all know that. You better laugh at everything.
Joan Rivers
#87. Adolescence is a tough time for parent and child alike. It is a time between: between childhood and maturity, between parental protection and personal responsibility, between life stage- managed by grown-ups and life privately held.
Anna Quindlen
#88. Life is full of tough decisions, and nothing makes them easy. But the worst ones are really your personal koans, and tormenting ambivalence is just the sense of satori rising. Try, trust, try, and trust again, and eventually you'll feel your mind change its focus to a new level of understanding.
Martha Beck
#89. Accepting the facts is always tough, so we search for forgiveness to this universe everyday to break the shackles, hurt is a prison and I from a very young young age refused to be held prisoner or even conform.
Aidan McNally
#90. Life can be impossibly tough. At times it seems like there is no escape from either the pressure or monotony of a world where you are corralled into being something or someone you are not. But there is an escape, to more peaceful and gentler places, and a happier state of mind.
Fennel Hudson
#91. Life is not that tough if you have a perfectionist sub-ordinate; life is a bit tough when you have a perfectionist peer; life is toughest when you have a perfectionist supervisor!
Abhishek Ratna
#92. I have four kids; three girls and a boy. The oldest girl is 13, and has her own social life now, so there's a bit of begrudging cooperation there. It's tough.
Gregory Harrison
#94. Turning down the Lakers was tough, but it is always good to renew your vows to the loves of your life.
Mike Krzyzewski
#95. I began going to juvenile prisons. And some of these kids face some very, very tough lives. How do they handle these lives? Do they even know that if their life is bad, that they're still OK? Do they know that? Do they know that someone is thinking the same way that they're thinking?
Walter Dean Myers
#96. 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
#97. A tough lesson in life that one has to learn is that not everybody wishes you well.
Dan Rather
#99. Nothing is easy, and life can be extremely tough, but there's always a yin to the yang, so to speak. It's up to you to seek it out, embrace it, and live happily ever after. No matter how bad the hand you've been dealt may seem, there's always a way to play it.
Alex Gaskarth
#100. Hughes' debut novel, At Dawn, follows a former All-American wrestler, and is there any better metaphor for contemporary American life? We're all wrestling, tussling with the economy, no jobs, doing the best we can. Hughes doesn't flinch from the tough existential questions. He embraces them.
Joshua Mohr
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