Tough Life Quotes:

A Tough life with God is better than a good life without Him

- David Asscherick

topic: Good Life, Tough, Tough Life

I wouldn't say that I've had a tough life by any stretch of the imagination.

- Duncan Sheik

topic: Imagination, Tough, Tough Life

This is a tough, tough life when things aren't going your way.

- Chauncey Billups

topic: Way, Tough, Tough Life

It's a tough life if you don't weaken.

- Stephen King

source: Stephen King (2016). “Different Seasons”, p.77, Simon and Schuster

topic: Tough, Tough Life, Ifs

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

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

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

The brick walls are there to stop the people who don't want it badly enough. They are there to stop the other people!

- Randy Pausch

topic: Wall, Inspirational Life, People, Inspirational Hard Work, Cards You're Dealt

The best way to predict the future is to study the past, or prognosticate.

- Robert Kiyosaki

topic: Past, Way, Study, Way In Life, Young Entrepreneurs

You miss 100% of the shots you don't take.

- Wayne Gretzky

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Fitness, Thought Of The Day, Self Determination

Brick walls are there for a reason. They give us a chance to show how badly we want

- Randy Pausch

topic: Happiness, Success, Peace, Inspirational Hard Work, Motivational Work

Don't worry about what anybody else is going to do. The best way to predict the future is to invent it.

- Alan Kay

topic: Worry, Way, Live By, Way In Life, Young Entrepreneurs

The best way to predict the future is to create it.

- Peter Drucker

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Way In Life, Young Entrepreneurs

You have to trust in something - your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.

- Steve Jobs

topic: Life, Motivational, Karma, Future Success, Innovation And Leadership

I get it now; I didn't get it then. That life is about losing and about doing it as gracefully as possible... and enjoying everything in between.

- Mia Farrow

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

topic: Hard Times, Losing, Life Is, Tough Life, Pulling Through Tough Times

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

The brick walls are there for a reason. The brick walls are not there to keep us out. The brick walls are there to give us a chance to show how badly we want something. Because the brick walls are there to stop the people who don’t want it badly enough. They’re there to stop the other people.

- Randy Pausch

source: YouTube Channel "Carnegie Mellon University"/"Randy Pausch Last Lecture: Achieving Your Childhood Dreams", www.youtube.com. December 20, 2007.

topic: Inspirational, Strength, Perseverance, Inspirational Hard Work, Last Lecture

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

- Joan Bauer

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

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

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

Again, you can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something - your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.

- Steve Jobs

topic: Inspirational, Life, Trust, Future Success, Innovation And Leadership

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

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

I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.

- Thomas A. Edison

topic: Inspirational, Funny, Positive, Daily Work, Social Entrepreneurship

The bravest sight in the world is to see a great man struggling against adversity.

- Seneca the Younger

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

topic: Motivational, Positive, Cheer, Feeling Down, Rough Day

If you're going through hell, keep going.

- Winston Churchill

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

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

Once you choose hope, anything's possible

- Christopher Reeve

topic: Inspirational, Positive, Hope, Hope And Faith, Inspirational Cancer

When the going gets tough, the tough reinvent.

- RuPaul

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

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 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 eat ribs.

- Nora Roberts

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

And so rock bottom became the solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life.

- J. K. Rowling

source: J.K. Rowling (2015). “Very Good Lives: The Fringe Benefits of Failure and the Importance of Imagination”, p.38, Hachette UK

topic: Inspirational, Life, Change, Inspirational Addiction Recovery, Stripping Away

Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.

- Thomas A. Edison

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, About Success, Innovation Inspiration

The most reliable way to predict the future is to create it.

- Abraham Lincoln

topic: Inspiration, Way, Way In Life, Young Entrepreneurs, Creating Worlds

I had no one to help me, but the T. S. Eliot helped me. So when people say that poetry is a luxury, or an option, or for the educated middle classes, or that it shouldn’t be read at school because it is irrelevant, or any of the strange stupid things that are said about poetry and its place in our lives, I suspect that the people doing the saying have had things pretty easy. A tough life needs a tough language – and that is what poetry is. That is what literature offers – a language powerful enough to say how it is. It isn’t a hiding place. It is a finding place.

- Jeanette Winterson

topic: Powerful, Stupid, School, Tough Life

When I was growing up in Monrovia, the capital of Liberia, I sold doughnuts, popcorn and Kool Aid every day after school so that my family had some money and I could pay my school fees. It was a tough life.

- George Weah

source: "Africa's World Cup can make education a reality for all" by George Weah, www.theguardian.com. May 26, 2010.

topic: Growing Up, School, Pay, Kool Aid, Tough Life

Jesus had a tough life. I read about that guy. Jesus is the only guy that ever came back from the dead that didn't scare the F- out of everybody!

- Sam Kinison

topic: Jesus, Guy, Scare, Tough Life

I had spent some time in the outback, but to meet Aboriginals and work with them was wonderful. It gave me a great appreciation of how tough life is and about the indomitable spirit that the Aboriginal people have always possessed.

- Hugh Jackman

topic: Appreciation, People, Spirit, Indomitable, Indomitable Spirit

Sitting around on your big fat gluteus maximus talking about the good old days. The good old days are right this second. You've got to exercise VIG-OR-OUSLY! Life is tough. Life is a challenge. Life is a battlefield... . Life is an athletic event, and you must train for it.

- Jack LaLanne

topic: Exercise, Talking, Athletic, Life Is Tough, Tough Life

Baseball life is a tough life on the family.

- Nolan Ryan

topic: Sports, Baseball, Tough, Tough Life

I was handed a tough life lesson at a very early age.

- Boomer Esiason

topic: Life Lesson, Age, Lessons, Tough Life

It's a tough life being a pop star. You know, at the end of the day when you've paid all the bills and put the kids through college and that, you know, there's only enough left for a small island off the South Pacific.

- Larry Mullen, Jr.

topic: Stars, Kids, College, Tough Life

I come from a family of very strong women, women who have endured very tough lives in hopes of a better one for their children.

- Afia Nathaniel

source: "TIFF Women Directors: Meet Afia Nathaniel – ‘Dukhtar’". Interview with Laura Berger, www.indiewire.com. September 4, 2014.

topic: Strong Women, Children, Tough, Tough Life

We can live tough lives, but the human spirit is stronger, seemingly, than anything. There is redemption, hope, and love. All different forms of heartbreak, but beyond all that there is hope, there is love. There is beauty and bliss.

- Hugh Jackman

source: "OSCARS Q&A: Hugh Jackman". Interview with Pete Hammond, deadline.com. December 29, 2012.

topic: Stronger, And Love, Different, Hope And Love, Tough Life

I wasnt born with a golden spoon in my mouth. It was a really tough life.

- Yohan Blake

topic: Spoons, Mouths, Golden, Tough Life

You don't have to know anything about baseball to respond to Babe Ruth because he's just this magnificent human being. And a really good story because he was this kid who grew up essentially as an orphan, you know, had a tough life, and then he became the most successful baseball player ever. But he was also a really good guy.

- Bill Bryson

topic: Baseball, Kids, Successful, Tough Life

I worry when athletes are simply used by their universities to produce revenue, to make money for them, nothing to show at the back end. I grew up with a lot of players who had very, very tough lives after the ball started bouncing for them. And that's why I'm going to continue to fight.

- Arne Duncan

topic: Athlete, Fighting, Player, Tough Life