Top 424 Tough Quotes

When you’re overseas and on a trip for awhile, it’s tough to stay groomed. You miss your routine.
Klay Thompson
It’s tough to lose every day.
Asdrubal Cabrera
The New Zealand sense of humor is tough and realistic. Jokes are not surreal; they are about life and death and tough decisions.
Anthony McCarten
Football is my base; that’s where I learned to be tough. I was a strong safety, and that’s what I do: I hit people. The mentality is football, the wrestling is precision.
Christian Kane
The key to life when it gets tough is to keep moving. Just keep moving.
Tyler Perry
Change is tough, people don’t like it, but it is necessary. Take two aspirins and call me in the morning.
Christopher Bond
I strongly believe that you can’t win in the marketplace unless you win first in the workplace. If you don’t have a winning culture inside, it’s hard to compete in the very tough world outside.
Douglas Conant
Always marry a woman from Texas. No matter how tough things get, she’s seen tougher.
Dan Rather
At Uber, we say, ‘Always be hustling.’ Even if you are an introvert and you haven’t got hustle in you, you better get a co-founder who does. And if you haven’t got enough hustle to find a co-founder who’s got hustle, it’s going to be tough. You’ve got to have a little hustle in you.
Travis Kalanick
I have voted to make tough decisions in budgetary times, I’ve served on two recessionary budgets, my opponent has never served on any a budget committee where there was less money to spend than the year before.
Matt Gonzalez
I was so enamored with the idea of being in show business so everything was bright to me. I mean, I didn’t think of it as being tough and things like that.
Billy Eckstine
When you have tough times, and when you learn you can’t be perfect in every situation, it’s hard to accept, you know, because I still do expect that. But you just have to, because, you know, it’s not about the situation. It’s how you deal with it. You always have a choice.
Ana Ivanovic
When a sports team is doing well in a city that’s going through tough times like New Orleans, like Detroit, it bolsters this real sentiment of ‘we can get through this.’ And when you have that sentiment, it becomes more than feelings: It’s transported into action.
Wendell Pierce
I joined the Indian Police Service as a tough woman, a woman with indefatigable stamina, because I used to run for my tennis titles, etc.
Kiran Bedi
We have to ask the tough questions.
Megyn Kelly
Architecture is unnecessarily difficult. It’s very tough.
Zaha Hadid
It’s been a tough 2020, honestly, for me personally, for a lot of people in the world in general.
C. J. McCollum
A little light on the RPG elements but heavy on action, ‘Mass Effect 2’ was the game that created a world of characters that I actually cared about. When it came down to making those tough decisions during the final mission, I actually had to put the controller down and think about my choices.
Rob Manuel
I’m so grateful to God for allowing my dreams to come true. It was worth going through a few tough times, as I am so appreciative for my many, many blessings.
Ainsley Earhardt
All women do have a different sense of sexuality, or sense of fun, or sense of like what’s sexy or cool or tough.
Angelina Jolie
I’m from Dagestan, I’m born in Dagestan, and Dagestan is a different level for people living a tough life, people living in the mountains.
Khabib Nurmagomedov
If we make the tough decisions now, we will be one year ahead of 80 percent of the states in the race to economic growth. If we fail to act, we will fall even further behind… by going first, we can become first.
Chris Christie
They’re very harsh people, the British: hard to impress, very tough on each other, but I rather like that. It’s not that the British are more honest – you’re just under no illusion with them.
Hugh Laurie
Condi Rice talks tough but she cannot be tough herself.
Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani
I’m reading scripts just like everybody else. Tin cup in hand, knocking on doors, trying to get a job. It’s tough. They don’t make as many films these days, and there’s a lot of guys that are fighting for jobs.
D. J. Cotrona
Sharks are as tough as those football fans who take their shirts off during games in Chicago in January, only more intelligent.
Dave Barry
Being from Serbia makes us tough and eager to prove that we can come from this country that has been through so much and still be successful.
Ana Ivanovic
But I think what happened was that Clinton knew how to

But I think what happened was that Clinton knew how to fight back. And the way he fought back was on the issues – being tough in staying on the things that mattered to people in their lives.
Paul Begala
My father wasn’t a cruel man. And I loved him. But he was a pretty tough character. His own father was even tougher – one of those Victorians, hard as iron – but my dad was tough enough.
Anthony Hopkins
It’s always inspiring when people all come together and be strong as a group. This is why I feel so strongly to put the message to people that we need to stand together in tough times.
Anne-Marie
I had a lot of tough experiences at Bristol City. I came there for a few quid and was getting booed off by fans, got injured. I was out of the team due to injury but also because I was having an awful time playing wise. But they were amazing experiences.
Sean Dyche
You don’t know how to take losses. It’s tough.
Jermall Charlo
The dream is to win a Grand Slam and that is what I’m playing for and training for. It’s tough, but I believe that maybe one day I’ll be lucky enough to win one.
Gael Monfils
As an actor, there’s very little you can do if people don’t want to see you. Just getting yourself into the room to audition is tough.
Domhnall Gleeson
If I have any strength as a dancer, I got it all from Nijinska. Her barre was tough, and there were very difficult combinations.
Cyd Charisse
Of course I am tough, but I am smart, too. I’m more smart than tough. People watching my record and say that this guy is tough. This is not about tough; this is about mind. You think when you fight. This is about everything.
Khabib Nurmagomedov
Everybody likes each other until things get tough. Then you will find out what kind of team you have, and I understand that as much as anyone.
Doc Rivers
I’m really tough. It’s a state of mind.
Brandi Carlile
I had a tough year, losing my dad. And I really needed to have some quiet time, and not be engaged the way I normally would be with the Lakers.
Jeanie Buss
Mourning is tough. But faith and family are the greatest sources of strength.
Kerry Kennedy
Rocket science is tough, and rockets have a way of failing.
Sally Ride
I like taking on the tough guys.
Wanderlei Silva
No amount of extra civil servants recruited to deliver Brexit will make up for a lack of rational debate or for political judgments distorted by a desire to sound tough in order to appeal to narrow sectional interests.
Dominic Grieve
I saw my parents come over. They were immigrants, they had no money. My dad wore the same pair of shoes, I had some ugly clothes growing up, and I never had any privileges. In some ways, I think the person that I am now, I think it’s good that I had that kind of tough upbringing.
Amy Chua
I seem to be getting a lot of things pushed my way that are strong women. It’s like people see Hackers and they send me offers to play tough women with guns, the kind who wear no bra and a little tank top. I’d like to play strong women who are also very feminine.
Angelina Jolie
There are different techniques – some interventionists are really loving, others are very tough.
Drew Pinsky
‘The Fast’ is tough; it’s not easy. It represents too much to too many people. But that’s what also makes it fun.
Paul Walker
You couldn’t beg, borrow, or steal a job in 1931, 1932… it was really tough.
Roy Rogers
Well, in our business, it’s a very tough profession.
Skitch Henderson
I believe, as human beings, we sometimes indulge in self pity more than it’s necessary. Over my life’s journey, I have realised that overthinking about your problems and indulging in self-pity is not the answer to get through tough times.
Sonali Bendre
It’s tough advocating for trans visibility and not being pigeonholed as just a trans actress.
Trace Lysette
If you think you have it tough, read history books.
Bill Maher
It’s very important for us all to understand that we are interconnected and we need to hold hands together, especially when the going gets tough.
Michelle Yeoh
The ‘Tough Man’ contests were for 21-year-olds, but I weighed 150 pounds at 13, so I got a fake ID card and entered. My dad and uncles had given me an edge, so having a boxing background made it easier because a lot of the older guys didn’t know how to fight.
Tommy Morrison
I’ve lived in many things – boats, caravans, and buses. I’ve been homeless, I’ve had no money: everything. But I believe in magic, and having a vision. The tough times made me a warrior. I work hard.
Neon Hitch
We come from a tough, working class background, so we’re very tight.
Tony Scott
As a Christian, I know my life is in God’s hands. He has a plan for me. Therefore, I never worry about tomorrow or never worry about winning or losing football games. That knowledge gives me a lot of composure in tough situations.
Tom Landry
If we were really tough on crime, we’d try to save our children from the desperation and deprivation that leave them primed for a life of crime.
Carrie P. Meek
I remember Agassi playing Federer in Basel, Switzerland

I remember Agassi playing Federer in Basel, Switzerland in 1998, and Andre was already saying at that time that Federer would be tough. Usually at the time players are 17, you can see if they will be great.
Brad Gilbert
It’s not tough at all as long as the fans are yelling, screaming and hollering.
Bill Laimbeer
Locations are all tough, all miserable. I never left the sound stage for 18 years at Warners. We never went outside the studio, not even for big scenes.
Bette Davis
Regulators at the Food and Drug Administration have a tough job.
Scott Gottlieb
Any time you end a relationship, and everyone has ended plenty in their life, it’s always a tough thing and hard to get over.
Adam Brody