Tough Quotes - Page 10

What keeps us from achieving our heart's desires is not anything outside of us, it's the conflict inside.

I always wanted to have my own farm. I've never been able to achieve that. It's kinda tough.

All relationships are tough. Just like with music, sometimes you have harmony and other times you have cacophony.

Trying to be funny is one of the hardest things on the planet. I think that's tough for everyone. If you're just naturally funny it's a hell of a lot easier.

Don't let anything or anyone define you. You are what you are because of what you make of tough situations in your life.

Your job as a parent is to listen. And to dole out as much love as you can. That includes tough love.

Assume life will be really tough, and then ask if you can handle it. If the answer is yes, you've won.

Business is tough; you need tough guys.

The friendship that we established early on in our marriage ... that carries you through tough times. That and a good sense of humor.

One of the things about being raised British in Africa is that you get this double whammy of toughness. The continent in place itself made you quite tough. And then you've got this British mother whose entire being rejects 'coddling' in case it makes you too soft. So there's absolutely nothing standing between you and a fairly rough experience.

To escape the cycle of tragedy, we (searchers) have to be tough on the ideas of the planners, even while we salute their goodwill.

During inflation, Goodwill is the gift that keeps on giving.

Always staying focused is something that's been very tough for me. I'm still working on it.

The key to growing up well, is being tough enough.

I'm not tough. I'm tenacious.

Tough and funny and a little bit kind: that is as near to perfection as a human being can be.

Television is a tough business. It's not that easy to jump shops.

It's a tough thing-you get in a situation where you feel you have to be perfect all the time and it sucks.

I just loved being in the gym. It was tough at times. Sometimes I wanted to quit, but I'm glad I stuck with it.

To me, Jeb Bush is hitting his stride. He was the most composed, the most endpoint, the most in control, I've seen him in an interview yet. And it's not because I wasn't asking him tough questions

Windbags can be right. Aphorists can be wrong. It is a tough world.

Golfers have a tendency to be very masochistic. They like to punish themselves for some reason. A lot of them like tough courses.

Tough times don't last but tough people do. No matter how slow you go, you are still lapping everybody on the couch. Men are born to succeed, not fail.

Her heart was heavy because it was open, and so things filled it, and so things rushed out of it, but still the heart kept beating, tough and frighteningly powerful and meaning to shrug off the rest of her and continue on its own.

Always expect the best. Then if you have to hurdle a few tough problems, you will have generated the strength and courage to do so.