Tough Quotes

“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, Taylor Swift - Speak Now Songbook: Piano/Vocal/Guitar

“No matter how strong you are, no matter how smart you are or tough you can be, the world will find a way to break you. And when it does, the only thing you can do is hold on.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, Forever, Interrupted

“This isn’t a one-and-done thing for me. So, if you think you’re going to use me to scratch an itch, then you’d better think again.”
― Lotchie Burton, Gabriel's Fire

“Sometimes love is not enough and the road gets tough.
I don’t know why.”
― Lana Del Rey

“I’m tougher than you think. You just need to believe in me. You know, like a fairy.”
― Becca Ritchie & Kristia Ritchie, Long Way Down

“I’m tough, I’m ambitious, and I know exactly what I want. If that makes me a bitch, okay.”
― Madonna

“Coming out of your comfort zone is tough in the beginning, chaotic in the middle, and awesome in the end...because in the end, it shows you a whole new world !!
Make an attempt..”
― Manoj Arora, From the Rat Race to Financial Freedom

“It's your eyes. They're ... more serious than they used to be. Like they've seen things they shouldn't have.”
― Nicholas Sparks, Dear John

“Vulnerability really means to be strong and secure enough within yourself that you are able to walk outside without your armor on. You are able to show up in life as just you. That is genuine strength and courage. Armor may look tough, but all it does is mask insecurity and fear.”
― Alaric Hutchinson, Living Peace: Essential Teachings For Enriching Life

“Some people make a bad bed, they just have to lie in it.”
― Virginia Euwer Wolff, Make Lemonade

“When tough times come, it is particularly important to offset them with much gentle softness. Be a pillow.”
― Vera Nazarian, The Perpetual Calendar of Inspiration

“I think you have a right to whine. Honestly, Lucy. We all have the right to whine when life gets tough.”
― Nancy Werlin, Impossible

“I’m all you have in this world Mariam, and when I’m gone you’ll have nothing. You ARE nothing!”
― Khaled Hosseini, A Thousand Splendid Suns

“It's tough when anyone is hurt, it's painful and awful.”
― CLAMP, Kobato 04

“If you were easier on yourself, you wouldn't be so tough on everyone else.”
― Kate McGahan

“There’ll be guys who were in wars hearing what we did and thinking, ‘Whoa.’ You and me, we can say, ‘You got yourself some medals solider? Yeah, well, I lived through the FAYZ.”
― Michael Grant

“Maxim 36:
When the going gets tough, the tough call for close air support.

-The Seventy Maxims of Maximally Effective Mercenaries”
― Howard Tayler

“A man don't need to act tough if he is. Men that put on a show are spineless more often than not.”
― Eric Powell, The Goon, Volume 10: Death's Greedy Comeuppance

“Smartass Disciple: Master, what did you do to earn wisdom ?
Master of Stupidity: Well, I forget. Shit happened, life goes on.”
― Toba Beta [Betelgeuse Incident], Betelgeuse Incident: Insiden Bait Al-Jauza

“A nightmare might force you awakened.
The tough life might force you awakened.”
― Toba Beta, My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut

“Diamond being the toughest thing known to us is also the most prettiest object”
― Peiyansh Shah

“She wasn’t soft or pretty; she was hard-edged and cold, like one of those cold bronze statues surrounded by high fences and crowned in razor wire. Don’t touch me, such defenses said, but it wasn’t enough to halt a breach, no. She had thought people only picked the soft-petaled, sweet-smelling flowers, but some people took thorns as a challenge.”
― Nenia Campbell, Escape

“Do you really think this unease will stop me? Or this chaos inside me? It seems like you don’t know me that well after all.”
― Adam Scythe, Immortals, Vol. III.

“And you can't see around corners. so you just have to deal with it, and try to stay afloat.
And things get tough.
And you're supposed to grow up.
And it's all a bunch of bullshit.
Sorry.”
― Andrew Smith

“I drive a beat-up Mercury Cougar, with the windows down and the music up. I seek my identity in toughness - but it is Morrie's softness that draws me, and because he doesn't look at me as a kid trying to be something more than I am, I relax.”
― Mitch Albom, Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson

“Sớm hay muộn trong cuộc đời mình mỗi người sẽ khám phá ra rằng hạnh phúc hoàn hảo là không có thật, nhưng ít ai chịu ngẫm nghĩ về điều ngược lại: rằng một sự bất hạnh hoàn hảo cũng không hề có. Những vật cản để tiến tới hai thái cực này đều cùng một dạng: đều là vì đặc trưng của con người vốn luôn phản kháng lại những điều tuyệt đối, vô hạn. Những đặc trưng ấy bắt nguồn từ hiểu biết chẳng bao giờ đủ của chúng ta về tương lai mà ta vẫn gọi khi thì hi vọng, khi thì là sự bất trắc về ngày mai; là cái chết rồi sẽ đến của mỗi đời người, chết là chấm hết mọi niềm sung sướng cũng như mọi nỗi khổ đau; là những nỗi lo vật chất không tránh khỏi, có thể làm vẩn đục bất cứ hạnh phúc lâu dài nào cũng như có thể làm lãng đi những nỗi thống khổ, làm gián đoạn ý thức con người về nỗi bất hạnh của mình và khiến nó trở nên chịu đựng được.”
― Primo Levi, Survival in Auschwitz

“When things get tough, just hit ‘global emergency’ button.”
― Dipti Dhakul, Quote: +/-

“You break in motions because sometimes our emotions get the best of us.”
― Dominic Riccitello

“We hid behind our wounds and threw blame around the moment things got tough.”
― Catharina Maura, The Broken Vows

“Coach told the team, 'You're going to take a hit. How you respond is more important than taking the hit. Toughness is not what young players think it is. Its not just beating the hell of the guy across the line. That's why I talked about commitment and discipline before i got to the toughness.

The definition of toughness is not merely physical. You've got to be mentally tough on and off the field. Being committed to the process and having discipline and effort to do it is going to be tough. Being able to not look at the scoreboard is going to be tough. Being able to not talk back to coaches will be tough. Not ever talking to an official will be tough.”
― Scott Cochran, Skull Session: Mastering the Mental Game in Sports, Work, and Life