Top 100 Toughest Quotes

#1. Strict gun laws are about as effective as strict drug laws ... It pains me to say this, but the NRA seems to be right: The cities and states that have the toughest gun laws have the most murder and mayhem.

Mike Royko

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#2. The toughest thing about the power of trust is that it's very difficult to build and very easy to destroy. The essence of trust building is to emphasize the similarities between you and the customer.

Thomas J. Watson

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#3. Strong people are the ones who've come through the toughest times.

Steven Aitchison

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#4. It's very painful for us to feel we deserve a life. That's the toughest thing. That we deserve to have a life. That can take a lifetime.

Dustin Hoffman

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#5. Anyone who believes in the essential role government can play in improving people's lives must also be the toughest critics of those who abuse the public trust.

Eric Schneiderman

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#6. Wolfe scowled at her. I could see he was torn with conflicting emotions. A female in his kitchen was an outrage. A woman criticizing his or Fritz's cooking was an insult. But corned beef hash was one of life's toughest problems, never yet solved by anyone.

Rex Stout

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#7. Paolo Maldini and John Terry are two of the toughest men I have met on the field.

Ronaldinho

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#8. Great men must go through great pain
The strongest storms
The hardest rain
The toughest climbs
The roughest terrain
Great men must go through great pain

Calvin W. Allison

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#9. Everyone has an idea, but it's taking those first steps toward turning that idea into a reality that are always the toughest.

Daymond John

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#10. Toughest job in baseball is the general manager. Second toughest is the hitting coach.

Ken Harrelson

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#11. The call that always seemed the toughest to me was the slide and tag play at second. You can see it coming, but you don't know which way the runner is going to slide, where the throw is going to be, and how the fielder is going to take the throw.

Cal Hubbard

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#12. As athletes, we're used to reacting quickly. Here, it's 'come, stop, come, stop.' There's a lot of downtime. That's the toughest part of the day.

Michael Jordan

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#13. Always speak first to the toughest person in the room.

Jess Walter

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#14. Everyone who deals with teens seems to agree that the most important and toughest job is staying in connection and conversation ... not delivering a lecture but saying what we think.

Ellen Goodman

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#15. For me, the toughest thing for kids to deal with is when the parents are fighting. It's not violence on them - it's the feeling of violence in the family.

Avi Arad

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#16. MY TOUGHEST MATCH; is not on the mat. It's at the dinner table and it's at fast food restaurants. It's hearing about the party I can Never go to. It's realizing being a Great Wrestler isn't a sport, It's a LIFE.

Stephen Neal

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#17. They thrive in the toughest circumstances because they know that impossible odds set the stage for amazing miracles.

Mark Batterson

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#18. The toughest decision is always whether to open a restaurant. Two or three bad months, and you could be out of business.

Jean-Georges Vongerichten

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#19. No one got the better of Kaz. He was the toughest, scariest thing walking the alleys of the Barrel.

Leigh Bardugo

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#20. My toughest fight was with my first wife.

Muhammad Ali

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#21. The golden child may be the oldest one, unless it's the youngest. It may be the toughest one, unless it's the most sensitive. It's not even necessary that Mom and Dad have the same favorite - and typically they don't.

Jeffrey Kluger

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#22. 'Pathological liar' is absolutely the toughest individual to deal with as a psychiatrist. Because you can't take anything they say at face value. And you can't, you know, fill in their personality. You don't know what's real and what's not.

Dale Archer

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#23. I would say the referees have the toughest game to call. I would say that there's a lot of officiating done by announcers, local announcers. Sometimes you should listen to a game from both feeds, and you'd think you were listening to completely different games.

David Stern

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#24. One of the toughest guys in the world is Randy Couture - he is the true epitome of what a tough guy is.

Jason Statham

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#25. Even the toughest of brothers can't make their sister change the things they think they are entitled to. They can't move you away from the jerks. They can simply hold their breath and their baseball bat.

Alida Nugent

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#26. My father, Philip Fisher, was the toughest guy I ever knew. An example: He had terrible teeth, yet he got his fillings done without ever using a painkiller. Now, that's tough!

Kenneth Fisher

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#27. One of the toughest battles in intelligence is combating conventional wisdom.

Robert M. Gates

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#28. I love touring Canada, and our Calgary fans are among the roughest and toughest.

Tommy Lee

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#29. The toughest thing for a homeschooler is the same as for a school teacher - shifting from a weak tea vision of math being grinding calculations to a rich frothy mug of math as an active way of thinking.

John Golden

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#30. The best of Donald Westlake's pseudonymous thrillers about Parker, the toughest burglar who ever lived ... Out of print for years and years, Butcher's Moon is the ultimate Parker novel, best read as an installment in the series as a whole but comprehensible and wholly satisfying on its own.

Terry Teachout

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#31. The toughest nights when I was a young, unknown comedian were opening for these real old-time Italian singers. I'm like Grace Jones to them. "This guy is nuts-talking about socks. Where's the wife jokes, where's the fat jokes?"

Jerry Seinfeld

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#32. I grew up in the '50s, a tough time for African Americans. I had friends whose fathers would openly say, 'Just bite your tongu;, don't cause any problems.' My father was not like that. Even in the toughest times racially, if somebody disrespected his family, they were in trouble.

Gregory Hines

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#33. Officials from the soccer organization FIFA, which decides which cities get to host the World Cup, are accused of accepting bribes when making their decision. Of course the toughest part for the soccer officials was taking bribes without using their hands.

Jimmy Fallon

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#34. I went to the Wharton School of Finance, the toughest place to get into. I was a great student.

Donald Trump

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#35. You play 30 instruments. What's the toughest? Drums, just because I don't get to play them a whole lot. I

Anonymous

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#36. The toughest feeling is when you need to be emotionally sophisticated.

Upasana Banerjee

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#37. I was too young, then, to know that dead lovers are the toughest rivals.

Gregory David Roberts

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#38. I know what it's like to feel that fear and the need of affirmation and appreciation. To build confidence in yourself is the toughest thing.

Shakira

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#39. But the pain, the memories--those were the toughest. They'd come at you out of nowhere.

Marsha Cornelius

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#40. Humor is the easiest to achieve; the 'heart' is always the toughest, because you can't tell people to feel a certain way.

John Lasseter

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#41. Scriptwriting is the toughest part of the whole racket ... the least understood and the least noticed.

Frank Capra

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#42. With more and more states legalizing marijuana, companies are lining up to create the first marijuana breathalyzer. Officials say the toughest part is getting stoners to stop trying to inhale off the breathalyzer.

Jimmy Fallon

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#43. Time is the fairest and toughest judge.

Edgar Quinet

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#44. Remember Tupperware? That was the toughest stuff ever. Why can't they make a phone out of Tupperware?

J. B. Smoove

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#45. I think I'm always trying to challenge myself. I'm definitely going a new direction and trying to write more concisely, but that's the toughest part for me and I definitely think I'm growing in that way, which feels exciting.

Stacey King

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#46. One of the things that sells music is when the artist is looked at as someone who's come up from the streets. Not just any streets, but the toughest, meanest streets of the urban ghetto. And that's called 'street credibility.'

Geoffrey Canada

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#47. The players I respected most were the toughest players, not those who talked a good game or blocked a shot and acted like a fool.

Jay Bilas

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#48. Every fighter is my toughest challenge to date. After I get done with one fight, the next challenge is the toughest.

Andre Ward

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#49. Parents teach in the toughest school in the world - The School for Making People. You are the board of education, the principal, the classroom teacher, and the janitor ...

Virginia Satir

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#50. I think my expectations for myself are much more severe and much more direct. You can't work on a film for six years without being your own toughest critic. So you can't really be distracted by the expectations based on your previous performance.

Ken Burns

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#51. Forgiving is love's toughest work, and love's biggest risk.

Lewis B. Smedes

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#52. My toughest opponent has always been me.

Muhammad Ali

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#53. The toughest guys have the biggest hearts. The biggest hearts - because they have to be tough to protect it.

DMX

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#54. My best career decision was probably not giving up when I wanted to. God as well as my family and friends were there for me during my toughest times.

Jeremy Lin

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#55. I wanted to make a home that was similar to the kind of home that my mother made. To be able to create something like that in my adopted city, New York City, one of the toughest cities on the planet, is really special.

Tamara Tunie

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#56. My toughest enemy is in the mirror - would you look at that.

Ludacris

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#57. Toughest [lineup] I've faced. Hopefully, if it comes down to the playoffs, I can get my revenge.

Mark Buehrle

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#58. You can only learn so much from books. You can only learn so much from education. Ultimately, it is the wisdom of God that will carry you through in the toughest situations of life.

Ravi Zacharias

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#59. Writing is a master craft in the finest art,
the loneliest profession in the most social science,
the most influential medium in the toughest industry,
yet is the most under-rated profession.

Grant McLachlan

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#60. Telling my children was the toughest part. But that's when you get strong, because you have to be strong for other people.

Amy Robach

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#61. You want your kids to grow with the right culture and values, and the toughest part would be finding out how to instill those values in your kids.

Madhuri Dixit

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#62. Seeing the world differently is one of the toughest incompatibilities to reconcile in a relationship.

Mariella Frostrup

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#63. The old man calls out, Listen. Who doesn't have a hard time with what life throws at them when they're young? It's the toughest when you're young. Just persevere. That will bring luck to you later.

Anonymous

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#64. Inside your soul is the ability to survive even the toughest storms, and that paradise can always be found
even in the middle of a hurricane
if you are willing to look.

Denise Hildreth Jones

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#65. The softest hearts always have the toughest shields.

Claire Cross

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#66. I have heard from people that the first year of marriage is the toughest. Brie [Bella] and I have definitely had our share of life difficulties with me having neck surgery and that sort of thing, but things are going really well and it is getting better after year one and that is phenomenal.

Daniel Bryan

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#67. Thinking is the toughest kind of work which is why so many people avoid it.

Orrin Woodward

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#68. My toughest fight was myself. For me to disclose and let things out was not easy because we don't want to seem weak or like we are different, but I learned that it's okay.

Sugar Ray Leonard

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#69. Discovering what your goals are can be the toughest part of achieving them.

John Care

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#70. The Marine Corps is supposed to be the toughest and most rigorous of its class.

Adam Driver

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#71. 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

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#72. The Five Points was the toughest street corner in the world. That's how it was known. In fact, Charles Dickens visited it in the 1850s and he said it was worse than anything he'd seen in the East End of London.

Martin Scorsese

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#73. Being a good artist is the toughest job you could pick, and you have to be a little nuts to take it on.

Charles Saatchi

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#74. I wouldn't take anything away from Tampa Bay. We're in one of the toughest divisions there is.

Scott Kazmir

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#75. I know you did, lass. You're the toughest girl I know." "'Lass'? Where did that come from?" "I don't know. I just felt the urge to call you that.

Gabrielle Zevin

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#76. This is my toughest time but the greatest.

Lailah Gifty Akita

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#77. At the toughest times I recalled how the children and the elderly looked at me with trustful eyes. Your faith has given me strength.

Viktor Yushchenko

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#78. New York was the toughest place in the world if you couldn't afford your rent. On the other hand, if you could afford not only your own rent but the rent of a thousand other people, New York was the greatest city in the universe.

Kami Garcia

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#79. I think it's a tough road if you're a stay-at-home mom, a working mom, if you have a partner, if you don't. It's the best job in the world, and the toughest job in the world all at the same time.

Angela Kinsey

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#80. The real winners are not those at the top but those who have come the farthest over the toughest roads. Your victory may never make the headlines. But you will know about it, and that's what counts.

Ernest A. Fitzgerald

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#81. You know I vowed when I became President not to talk about the loneliest toughest job in the world and I didn't.

George H. W. Bush

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#82. One of the toughest things for leaders to master is kindness. Kindness shares credit and offers enthusiastic praise for others' work. It's a balancing act between being genuinely kind and not looking weak.

Travis Bradberry

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#83. poets. have
the toughest job
in the universe-

of turning silence
into eloquence.

Sanober Khan

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#84. One of the things I love about directing is I love actors, because no matter how complex they are, once you get down to working and talking to them and the toughest guy will want you to open them up and he wants to show you stuff he was afraid to show anybody before.

James Brolin

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#85. A war of ideas can no more be won without books than a naval war can be won without ships. Books, like ships, have the toughest armor, the longest cruising range, and mount the most powerful guns.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

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#86. In video games and animation, you find that the toughest things to make different are the things that aren't words: grunts, groans, gasps.

Phil LaMarr

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#87. The toughest part of decluttering is deciding where to start and then getting motivated to actually get started.

Michael Kershaw

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#88. You know, I really don't think you learn from teachers. You learn from work. I think what you learn, really, is how to be- you have to be your own toughest critic, and you only learn that from work, from seeing work.

Garry Winogrand

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#89. I'm still number one and I just recently won a major tournament ahead of my toughest rivals so I think I had a few years ahead of me if I decided to stay.

Garry Kasparov

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#90. The toughest thing about homework is getting mom and pop to agree on the same answer.

Joey Lauren Adams

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#91. Hope is actually rising and refusing to give up ... during your toughest times.

Timothy Pina

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#92. Discipline and constant work are the whetstones upon which the dull knife of talent is honed until it becomes sharp enough, hopefully, to cut through even the toughest meat and gristle.

Stephen King

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#93. We need patient people who are able to endure the toughest disciplines.

Samael Aun Weor

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#94. We all know that there are these exemplars who can take the toughest students, and they'll teach them two-and-a-half years of math in a single year.

Bill Gates

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#95. Loving without judgment or fear of abandonment is. . . . the toughest activity known to mankind and I think with best friend that can be even more pronounced because you aren't my mom, we don't have kids together - but we do have matching tattoos.

Rebecca Traister

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#96. I always think the toughest commentary is on a bad goalless draw. If I were assessing a young commentator, I would rate him on a game where nothing is happening.

Ian Darke

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#97. Old habits die hard, and sometimes the toughest addictions to shake are the ones that control our hearts.

Dannika Dark

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#98. Roland La Starza was tough, but Ezzard Charles was the toughest man I ever fought. I learned what pain was all about when I fought him.

Rocky Marciano

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#99. When people ask me, "Who was the toughest pitcher you ever faced?", I have to say that there has never been a pitcher who over-impressed me. That's not meant to be a bragging statement. It's just that I get up for good pitchers.

Pete Rose

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#100. They say golf came easy to me because I was a good athlete, but there's not any girl on the LPGA Tour who worked near as hard as I did in golf. It's the toughest game I ever tackled.

Babe Didrikson Zaharias

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