Tough Love Quotes

“An acquaintance merely enjoys your company, a fair-weather companion flatters when all is well, a true friend has your best interests at heart and the pluck to tell you what you need to hear.”
― E.A. Bucchianeri, Brushstrokes of a Gadfly

“Because the whole world loves to tell us what we can’t do, that we aren’t good enough. The people in your own house should be on your side. It’s the people who never learn the word impossible who make history, because they’re the ones who keep trying.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Wonder Woman: Warbringer

“Kaderin didn't believe, as a whole, the nymphs were more beautiful than the Valkyrie, but everything about them screamed, "Easy lay! When you don't want to work for it!" And curiously, many males found that more appealing than the Valkyrie's "Do it and die, simian".”
― Kresley Cole, No Rest for the Wicked

“It can’t be done for you; it must be done by you.”
― Frank Sonnenberg, Listen to Your Conscience: That's Why You Have One

“Stop begging God to increase your territory when you can't even maintain the territory you already have. Work with what you got first.”
― Nakia R. Laushaul

“Mal dragged the last few inches of the sword free of his flesh, wincing at the raw pain. She's stabbed him. She'd f**king pinned him to the wall like a bug. She'd fed from him and used his own blood and power against him. He hadn't seen that coming. He was both affronted by - and admiring of - her resourcefulness.”
― Eve Silver, Sins of the Flesh

“What’s the importance of family, my love?” Mother stroked my hair as I was curled up in her lap. It was late out, the fireplace keeping us warm as an unremarkable movie played in front of us. Dad had just left us a couple of months ago.

I remember my eyes being glued to the television screen as we had the conversation, even though I wasn’t paying attention to it. Even before this was brought up, I wasn’t listening and instead paying attention to the sound of my mother’s heartbeat and the way her breathing moved in sync with it as well as her chest, moving up and down. “I don’t know, momma. So you grow up kind?”

She chuckled, placing her finger on the tip of my nose, “So that you grow up loved.”
― Beariem

“All my life, used the best lotions, finest soaps, nicest oils, and fanciest perfumes to keep my skin nice, only to find out I need thick, hard skin to survive. Oh, the irony.”
― Liz Faublas-Wallace

“They say life is more than money,
Screw LOVE! If there’s no LOVE back!
⋆MillYentei”
― Deshawn Yeldell

“Often when we speak of exercising 'tough love'...we think of it being tough on the adult child, when in reality it's tough on the parent.”
― Bill Taylor

“We must love our adult children enough to let them go. This is what tough love is.

We must hope that their future, as well as ours, can be filled with positive changes and abundant love.”
― Allison Bottke, Setting Boundaries with Your Adult Children: Six Steps to Hope and Healing for Struggling Parents

“If you find yourself thinking: “But whatever I do, no one wants me,” the problem is you”
― Simone Collins, The Pragmatist's Guide to Relationships

“You fed us, washed us, forced that vile medicine down our throats. By sheer force of will you made some of us live who would have died if you hadn't bullied us, threatened us, maybe sweet-talked some of us that I don't know about”
― Maggie Osborne, Silver Lining

“Trust in tough love. You're given the poison but also the antidote. The lessons get sweeter after the sweating.”
― Mitta Xinindlu

“The lessons get sweeter after the sweating.”
― Mitta Xinindlu

“Trust in tough love. You're given the poison but also the antidote.”
― Mitta Xinindlu

“Love without responsibility is murder.”
― Mitta Xinindlu

“Unfortunately, we've rewarded a sort of cowardice by calling it 'kindness', and this has made us utterly spineless when truth finally hits.”
― Criss Jami

“The house was burning. The kitchen was on fire. All I smelled were the coffee beans from Tuesday morning. You stand between the thought of staying and leaving because toxicity is a dangerous electricity.”
― Dominic Riccitello

“I broke you to find you.”
― Dominic Riccitello

“It’s hard to leave toxic relationships because you become dependent on the action of how they treat you. You depend on manipulation because the emotionally abused no longer comprehend self worth. You understand it, but your mind tells you otherwise and become afraid to leave the situation. You don’t think you’re worthy which makes you question leaving it.”
― Dominic Riccitello

“Just because every problem has a solution doesn’t mean that you should purposefully keep making the same mistakes. In that way, you will never reach the ultimate solution”
― Nadine Cynthia Alora

“Maybe the lawyer could get your divorce dealt with in another county."
"A change of venue for a divorce? You watch too much television."
"And you have way too little faith in God."
I rolled my eyes. "That's a leap. How did we get all the way to my faith?"
"I'm not wrong. It's been more than a week since you received that email with that pitiful offer. Call your attorney and stop acting like you don't have any power."
Hope didn't give me a second to say a thing.
"Losing everything to him will only give you something else to mope about. You already have a long list.”
― Rhonda McKnight, Bitter and Sweet

“Samantha?"
She raises an expectant brow.
"I love you very much."
"I love you too, Dee. I'm glad we got that settled--"
"I love you," I cut in. "But you've been a crap sister. Call me when you decide to grow the fuck up."
I leave her and her ranting protests behind.”
― Kristen Callihan, Dear Enemy

“Just recognize that the words aren’t made of stone and you’re not made of glass. Recognize that you are safe, you are whole, and you have nothing to worry about.”
― Kassandra Dick

“Being broke isn’t always your fault. Staying broke usually is.”
― Joseph C. Kunz Jr., Money's Dirty Little Secrets: How to Break the Rules, Get Filthy Rich, and Laugh All the Way to the Bank

“Waiting for the right moment is the slowest way to go broke.”
― Joseph C. Kunz Jr., Money's Dirty Little Secrets: How to Break the Rules, Get Filthy Rich, and Laugh All the Way to the Bank

“You won’t always be motivated. Train yourself to move anyway.”
― Joseph C. Kunz Jr., Money's Dirty Little Secrets: How to Break the Rules, Get Filthy Rich, and Laugh All the Way to the Bank

“Success isn’t complicated. It’s just not convenient.”
― Joseph C. Kunz Jr., Money's Dirty Little Secrets: How to Break the Rules, Get Filthy Rich, and Laugh All the Way to the Bank

“You don’t need permission to succeed. But you do need discipline.”
― Joseph C. Kunz Jr., Money's Dirty Little Secrets: How to Break the Rules, Get Filthy Rich, and Laugh All the Way to the Bank