Top 76 When Things Are Tough Quotes
#1. Teams that are moved by great purpose become tighter still when things are tough.
Eric Greitens
#2. Looking back, I remember my family laughing a lot. We were never the kind of people that dwelled on hard times. My family laughs when things are tough. Growing up like that, I got used to making jokes about things that were difficult. So when I started doing stand-up, that's what I went towards.
Cristela Alonzo
#3. When we're struggling, we don't need a book in our hands. We need the right words in our minds. When things are tough, a mantra does more good than a manifesto.
Eric Greitens
#4. You become a champion by fighting one more round. When things are tough, you fight one more round.
James J. Corbett
#5. When things are tough, and when I don't think I can last another minute, if I just hold on, hold on tight and with everything I got, the shit gets better.
James Frey
#6. Few things in the world are more powerful than a positive push - a smile. A word of optimism and hope, a 'you can do it!' when things are tough
Richard M. DeVos
#7. I'm not going to get into details, but every band has their moments when things are tough. Just logistically, tough on your body, stress levels, psychologically tough, relationships can be tough.
Andrew Wyatt
#8. If we praise God when things are tough, we show our trust in Him.
Shirley Corder
#9. Players who are committed to the team first will find a way to help when things are going bad, they will do whatever it takes. Kids that are more into themselves will not do that. They will take care of themselves and get more individual when things are tough.
Dick Bennett
#10. A single mom tries when things are hard. She never gives up. She believes in her family, even when things are tough. She knows that above all things ... a mother's love is more than enough.
Deniece Williams
#12. I would say I'm a boss who's learning, and I hope people have the patience for the fact that I'm learning along the way because that's a tough thing.
Sophia Amoruso
#13. 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
#14. Start going to bed earlier! It is a tough adjustment when you have had a summer of staying up late and waking up late.
Bella Thorne
#15. Before I started Code for America, I spent my career around startups. First it was game developers, small teams trying to make hits in a tough business. Then, when I started working on the Web 2.0 events, it was web startups during times of enormous opportunity and investment.
Jennifer Pahlka
#16. My father was a successful real estate developer, and he was a very tough man but a good man. My father would always praise me. He always thought I was the smartest person.
Donald Trump
#17. I think everybody has tragedy in their life. Everybody has hurdles in their life. Everybody has tough things to overcome. My kids say to me, 'This isn't fair.' I said, 'Life isn't fair.' Everybody has their issues. It's how you handle your issues that distinguishes you.
Maria Shriver
#18. Passion pulls you. It's the sense of connection you feel when the work you do expresses who you are. Only passion will get you through the tough times.
Randy Komisar
#19. 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
#20. 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
#21. 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
#22. 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
#23. 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
#25. I never knew Kurt to be suicidal. I just knew that he was going through a really tough time.
Mark Lanegan
#26. When the going gets tough: the poor close their eyes, the rich open their wallets.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
#27. I'm not seeing tough questions asked on American television. I'm not seeing those correspondents that would question those in power. It's like a club. We are not asking the tough questions.
Jorge Ramos
#28. It was tough to write. We had the shadow of "Lost" hanging around and I just kept saying, "Guys, we need to take a really wide birth around 'Lost.' We're going to get lots of comparisons anyway, but we need to prove, within a couple episodes, that it's not 'Lost.'"
Remi Aubuchon
#29. In tough economic times, desperate people do desperate things, and the abortion rate goes up.
Jesse Jackson
#30. What is more tragic than to see a person who has risen to the disciplined heights of tough-mindedness but has at the same time sunk to the passionless depths of hard-heartedness?
Martin Luther King Jr.
#31. Well, I like to - the game of serve and volley, but it's very tough, you know, against the best players because they return so good and their passing shots are really good. So it's really tough to get there with those players.
Daniela Hantuchova
#32. Just keep in mind that sometimes when you tell yourself things are fine, you're really just driving the tough stuff even deeper.
Tera Lynn Childs
#33. Happiness is about being proud of who you are. Be a good friend, be a good daughter, be reliable, be willing to laugh when things get tough, compliment other girls, care about your job, believe in yourself, be vulnerable, tell the truth, apologize when needed, forgive people ...
Erin Foster
#34. When something happens, I always check myself and know it's going to go away. So be prepared for it. This is a tough business for actors who are sensitive. If you try to hold on to things, you'll go crazy.
Jessica Chastain
#35. Children are amazing. Believe in yourself and stay strong. And remember that there are people out there who can help you when things get tough.
Stephen Mulhern
#36. There are always things that you see that are pretty tough, sure. But what keeps you going is when you see people rise above toughness and rise above really hard conditions, and make something of it.
Michael Elliott
#37. If you, like me, lived through 1973-74 or even the early 1990s ... There was a waiting list to get OUT of the country club - that's when you know things are tough. If you live long enough, you'll see it.
Charlie Munger
#38. When things get tough, there are two things that make life worth living: Mozart, and quantum mechanics
Victor Frederick Weisskopf
#39. In these difficult times, when tough decisions are required, the differences between Labour and the Tories are becoming much clearer. One party believes in intervention to reduce social and economic costs and the other believes in market forces and letting things take their course.
Lucy Powell
#40. Never stand around saying 'Poor thing' and being pitiful
when things are being killed. It makes them tough and harder to kill.
Remember that!
Knut Hamsun
#41. Humans are creatures of habit. If you quit when things get tough, it gets that much easier to quit the next time. On the other hand, if you force yourself to push through it, the grit begins to grow in you.
Travis Bradberry
#42. I think that when you're kind of just shoved out there and you have to be tough and you're facing tough people and people are saying bad things about you, that all of a sudden, you have to become a little less sweet.
Farrah Fawcett
#43. There are these important things in some people's lives that can make you laugh even when you're going through a tough time or a stressful week.
Gillian Jacobs
#44. 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
#45. 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
#46. 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
#47. 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
#48. 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
#49. Stroll on. When the going gets tough, the postmodern analyst goes shopping.
Chris Jenks
#50. 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
#51. 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
#52. 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
#53. 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
#54. 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
#55. A board member should be perfectly willing to leave at any time and willing to make the tough calls.
Charlie Munger
#56. Boy, it's a tough planet if you want it to be. But a great planet if you let it.
Gary Busey
#57. 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
#58. 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
#59. 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
#60. 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
#61. 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
#62. 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
#63. 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
#64. Marriage is really tough because you have to deal with feelings ... and lawyers.
Richard Pryor
#65. 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
#66. Hon, falling in love is easy. Staying in love is the tough part." ~Faith Barnett from Texas Tangle
Leah Braemel
#67. 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
#68. As a parent with a child with autism, it's been really tough to experience your child having autism.
Deron Williams
#69. It was tough to get up for teams from the West. This will put a lot of interest back in the game.
Martin Brodeur
#70. 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
#71. My mom was such a strong character. I don't want to say she was like a man, but she was tough.
Lance Armstrong
#72. 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
#73. 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
#74. 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
#75. '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
#76. 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
