Tough Day Quotes:

When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.

- Henry Ford

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Positive, Difficult Life, Leaders Motivational

Tough times never last, but tough people do.

- Robert H. Schuller

source: Robert H. Schuller (1993). “Robert H Schuller: The Inspirational Writings : Tough Times Never Last, But Tough People Do/Tough Minded Faith for Tender Hearted People”, Bbs Publishing Corporation

topic: Motivational, Positive, Funny Inspirational, Daily Work, Just Stay Strong

There are no great people in this world, only great challenges which ordinary people rise to meet.

- William Halsey

topic: Bad Day, People, Challenges, Daily Challenges, Having A Bad Day

In times of great stress or adversity, it's always best to keep busy, to plow your anger and your energy into something positive.

- Lee Iacocca

source: Lee Iacocca, William Novak (2011). “Iacocca: An Autobiography”, p.16, Bantam

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Positive, Keep Busy, Inspirational Adversity

Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.

- Thomas A. Edison

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Positive, Thought Of The Day, Try Again

When the going gets tough, the tough reinvent.

- RuPaul

topic: Tough, Inspirational Office, Moving On In Life, Change Agent, When Life Is Hard

If you're going through hell, keep going.

- Winston Churchill

topic: Positive, Hell, Keep Going, Way In Life, Pushing On

Problems are guidelines, not stop signs!

- Robert H. Schuller

source: "Move Ahead with Possibility Thinking" by Robert H. Schuller, (p. 90), 1967.

topic: Inspirational, Positive, Moving On, Solved Problems, Having A Bad Day

If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it.

- Michael Jordan

source: Michael Jordan (1994). “I can't accept not trying: Michael Jordan on the pursuit of excellence”

topic: Running, Wall, Giving Up, Favorite Sports, Inspirational Football

Never let your head hang down. Never give up and sit down and grieve. Find another way.

- Satchel Paige

topic: Giving Up, Athlete, Grieving, Favorite Sports, Inspirational Athlete

If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude.

- Maya Angelou

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Change, Make People Feel Better, Live For Yourself

Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.

- Michael Jordan

topic: Motivational, Sports, Figures, Favorite Sports, Inspirational Football

When the going gets tough, the tough go drinking.

- Bret Easton Ellis

source: FaceBook post by Bret Easton Ellis from Jan 01, 2014

topic: Drinking, Naps, Tough Times, Inspirational Office, Getting Through Hard Times

When the going gets tough, the tough take a nap.

- Tom Hodgkinson

topic: Sleep, Naps, Tough, Inspirational Office, Libraries And Librarians

A problem is a chance for you to do your best.

- Duke Ellington

topic: Inspirational, Life, Positive, Solved Problems, Jazz Musician

If you're trying to achieve, there will be roadblocks. I've had them; everybody has had them

- Michael Jordan

topic: Basketball, Trying, Achieve, Hurdling Obstacles, Inspirational Adversity

An Airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.

- Henry Ford

topic: Airplane, Wind, Difficult Life, Inspirational Perseverance, Leaders Motivational

Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

- Confucius

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Best Success, Marathon Runners

To be tested is good. The challenged life may be the best therapist.

- Gail Sheehy

topic: Life, Bad Day, Challenges, Having A Bad Day, Life Challenges

I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.

- Michael Jordan

source: "Nike Culture : The Sign of the Swoosh". Book by Robert Goldman, Stephen Papson (p. 49), 1998.

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Favorite Sports, Best Success

Never let your head hang down. Never give up and sit down and grieve. Find another way. And don't pray when it rains if you don't pray when the sun shines.

- Richard M. Nixon

source: Quoted in Deirdre Mullane, Words to Make My Dream Children Live: A Book of African American Quotations (1995)

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Just Give Up, Strength In Hard Times

Don't pray when it rains if you don't pray when the sun shines.

- Satchel Paige

topic: Thank You, Thanksgiving, Baseball, Just Give Up, Strength In Hard Times

Life's challenges are not supposed to paralyze you, they're supposed to help you discover who you are.

- Bernice Johnson Reagon

topic: Motivational, Stay Strong, Business, Inspiring Business, Daily Challenges

When the going gets tough, the tough eat ribs.

- Nora Roberts

topic: Ribs, Tough, Inspirational Office, Libraries And Librarians, Getting Through Hard Times

When the going gets tough, the tough make cookies.

- Erma Bombeck

source: RuPaul (2010). “Workin' It!: RuPaul's Guide to Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Style”, p.22, Harper Collins

topic: Cookies, Tough, Inspirational Office, Libraries And Librarians, Life Is Tough

When the going gets tough, the tough get a librarian.

- Joan Bauer

topic: Reading, Book, Thought Provoking, Inspirational Office, Life Is Tough

If you can’t run, walk; if you can’t walk, crawl, but keep moving forward!

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

source: "When King made history at UChicago" by Susie Allen and Michael Drapa, www.uchicago.edu. January 9, 2012.

topic: Perseverance, Determination, Kings, Forward In Life, Just Keep Moving

If you can't change it.. change the way you think about it

- Mary Engelbreit

topic: Thinking, Way, Live For Yourself, Good Thoughts, My Attitude

Every relationship has tough days. Don't let the grudge last. Be the first to try to make things right and stop waiting for an apology.

- Nouman Ali Khan

topic: Couple, Apology, Waiting, Make Things Right, Tough Day

A life-long blessing for children is to fill them with warm memories of times together. Happy memories become treasures in the heart to pull out on the tough days of adulthood.

- Charlotte Sophia Kasl

topic: Children, Memories, Heart, Happy Memories, Time Together

We shot ['Sailcloth'] five days down in Cornwall, and you couldn't have asked for a more beautiful place. It was a couple of tough days at sea, but when I say tough it was still enjoyable.

- John Hurt

source: Source: www.filmslatemagazine.com

topic: Beautiful, Couple, Sea, Tough Day, Cornwall

I would always love to be an athlete, but it's got to be a tough day when you have to hang up those cleats.

- Kevin James

source: Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

topic: Cleats, Tough Day, Hang Ups

When Jimmie Johnson goes out early and finishes 35th, as he did Sunday, he can look at the cameras, lament about it being a tough day, and then say, 'We'll just try to get them next week at Darlington'.

- Kurt Busch

topic: Sunday, Next Week, Trying, Tough Day

Even as we do all that's necessary to ensure Israel's security, even as we are clear-eyed about the difficult challenges before us, and even as we pledge to stand by Israel through whatever tough days lie ahead, I hope we do not give up on that vision of peace. For if history teaches us anything, if the story of Israel teaches us anything, it is that with courage and resolve, progress is possible. Peace is possible.

- Barack Obama

source: Remarks by the President at the AIPAC Policy Conference at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center in Washington, D.C., obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. May 22, 2011.

topic: Giving Up, Lying, Israel, Difficult Challenges, Tough Day

When I'm home, the heart and soul of our family is in the kitchen. Growing up, my parents both worked, so dinnertime was for family - the TV was off. I think it's important to grab that time and really make it special, even after a tough day.

- Cat Cora

topic: Growing Up, Home, Heart, Tough Day

On tough days, you gotta have heart. Don't quit, whatever you do. Persevere.

- Charles R. Swindoll

topic: Christian, Heart, Religion, Tough Day