Tough Quotes

My mom was such a strong character. I don't want to say she was like a man, but she was tough.

Strong managers who make tough decisions to cut jobs provide the only true job security in today's world. Weak managers are the problem. Weak managers destroy jobs.

Some said he shouldn't save Detroit. But President Obama made the tough and right call to save more than a million American jobs in an important, iconic industry.

Center is a very tough position to play.

I thought it was time for a tough, smart, likable female private investigator, and that's how VI came to life.

I'm strong, I'm tough, I still wear my eyeliner.

Life is tough; and if you have the ability to laugh at it, you have the ability to enjoy it.

Broadway is a tough, tough arena for singing.

Still, it's tough trying to combine my acting career with my college career.

I realized that I would have some very tough sledding, and I was very discouraged because I didn't see much hope of getting into the field I wanted to get into with no college education.

When the going gets tough, the tough get going.

You have to have confidence in your ability, and then be tough enough to follow through.

I don't think Donald Trump is a conservative. I think his line on China for example, that he's going to talk tough to China. China didn't create Social Security, Medicare. China isn't spending a fifth of a billion dollars every hour that it doesn't have.

I don't know what makes a marriage work. My husband and I don't have it right at all; it's very tough on him. From the outside it looks like it's all about me - I have a glorious career and he doesn't.

Well, I like to - the game of serve and volley, but it's very tough, you know, against the best players because they return so good and their passing shots are really good. So it's really tough to get there with those players.

Whiskey's to tough, Champagne costs too much, Vodka puts my mouth in gear. I hope this refrain, Will help me explain, As a matter of fact, I like beer.

Most men act so tough and strong on the outside because on the inside, we are scared, weak, and fragile. Men, not women, are the weaker sex.

I think the media makes it tough to play in New York. There are so many papers and TV channels covering the Knicks and the expectations for the Knicks are so high.

I would rather be tough on myself than have other people be tough on me.

And still the time, especially in the economy, is very tough, very difficult. It's necessary to be active still, to work, to fight, to make our economy more competitive.

You become a champion by fighting one more round. When things are tough, you fight one more round.

The measure of success is not whether you have a tough problem to deal with, but whether it is the same problem you had last year.

If you think you have it tough, read history books.

We've had some tough times, but we've hung in there.

A lot of musicians have a tough time hearing what we're doing in a trio format.

What created democracy was Thomas Paine and Shays' Rebellion, the suffragists and the abolitionists and on down through the populists and the labor movement, including the Wobblies. Tough, in your face people... Mother Jones, Woody Guthrie... Martin Luther King and Caesar Chavez. And now it's down to us.

They have some pretty tough gun laws in Japan, as they do in any other civilized country in the world, and they're not killing each other off with firearms. You have very violent films in Europe, yet it's not causing the mayhem we see in our streets routinely here.

'Green Screen' was a total experiment. I'm glad we did it, but it was just tough on that network to get it going.

Life is supposed to get tough.

It's easier when you play. You get your emotion out. You scream. You yell. You do whatever you want. You play. But it's tough to sit.