Quotes and Sayings About Tough
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There is an English saying, "When the going gets tough, the tough get going." Women often become these tough ones.
-- Dalia Grybauskaite -
When you're playing a tough guy, all the other guys want to be tough right back at you and it amps them up.
-- David Hayter -
This world's a tough place to live in and you have to have something to fall back on.
-- David Ragan -
The docks were said to be quite tough, but there were pubs you didn't go into if you were a respectable... but um, I never felt a sense of danger in Liverpool.
-- Derek Taylor -
A good coach is interested in how tough you are, how you react to adversity, how quickly you get back on defense.
-- Dick Devenzio -
Mr. Tillerson has always been quite a tough negotiator and we understand that he's using lots of information and materials that have been prepared by people in State of Department who, well modestly, speaking are not the fans of my country and of revival of bilateral relationship between America and Russia.
-- Dmitry Peskov -
I'm always trying to make the music sexier with every album, every tour. I just try to inch my way toward just a little sexier. I know it's tough for me.
-- Eef Barzelay -
I'm fearful when I push myself. It's a tough thing to do, but you need to acknowledge that you have what it takes to succeed.
-- Gretchen Bleiler -
We all know Gael - when he's at his best, it's tough to play.
-- Grigor Dimitrov -
Most of my work is very temporary, very provisional. You can take it with you or you can leave it. Which is a tough sell for art. Because part of what art is supposed to do is make you immortal, either by making it or owning it.
-- Jack Pierson -
These are tough and unusual times and I don't see the negative global economic situation abating anytime soon.
-- James McNerney -
[Steven Spielberg makes] human movies. Movies [...] that reflect the life we wish it would be, not necessarily as it is. And the happy ending, you know. Life is a tough thing to begin with, and I like the happy ending.
-- Janusz Kaminski -
Hillary Clinton is a tough person. She's diplomatic, and I would've felt safe with her as the president. Now we have an individual who doesn't know the diplomatic process and refuses to learn it. Even President Trump's campaign slogan, "Make America Great Again," is a very offensive statement. Only a person who has never studied American history would say "great again." It took us a very long time to get to the progressive nature we're at. We still have a great deal of work to do.
-- Jason Bailey -
In both places [Paraguay and Newfoundland] people rise despite everything - both are pretty tough environments.
-- John Gimlette -
The Donald Trump phone call with the president of Taiwan seems very much in line with his rhetoric during the campaign that he intended to be tough on China. And don't forget, we have seen a lot of presidential candidates, memorably, Bill Clinton, who used to criticize George Herbert Walker Bush for coddling dictators and then take the much softer line with China once he's in office.
-- Karen Tumulty -
When you think life is tough, it can get a lot tougher.
-- Kate Gosselin -
It was tough. I told [my kids] mommy is on her semester abroad, which is still going on apparently.
-- Kellyanne Conway -
I'm not a tough guy. I'm just delivering the truth and only the truth and if you can't deal with it, too bad.
-- Kevin O'Leary -
Building fast-growing, globally competitive companies is tough.
-- Kevin O'Leary -
My tough and grotesque images were thrown on the roads and were stepped on by my critics, and I was talked about with scorn. I felt regret that readers only seemed to like something they were accustomed to.
-- Kim Hyesoon -
Love is a tough, ever hopeful thing, not easily destroyed.
-- Kirby Wright -
The way I was raised, if something wasn't tough it was not a valuable or enriching experience.
-- Lynn Forester de Rothschild -
The tough competition among German manufacturers makes us fundamentally strong.
-- Martin Winterkorn -
Who has not first tried to get out of a tough situation before truly dealing with it?
-- Mary O'Neill -
The more I've walked through tough times, the stronger I've become.
-- Matt Sorum -
Above all else, deep in my soul, I'm a tough Irishwoman.
-- Maureen O'Hara -
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 -
I don't know what is happening to people but they are not as tough as they used to be.
-- Michael Snow -
To run a successful business, you have to be tough.
-- Noel Wells -
It's amazing to see there aren't boundaries around gender. My menswear business has changed over the years as far as what men are daring to wear. And women, too. Men wanted to look tough, but now they realize you don't have to look like your granddad or dad. You can show a more feminine side.
-- Olivier Rousteing
