Quotes About Tough

Gen X entrepreneurs are frequently smart, tough, tenacious, and self-made. That said, to succeed in their companies, they often have sacrificed being emotionally involved in their marriages and with their children.

Golfers have a tendency to be very masochistic. They like to punish themselves for some reason. A lot of them like tough courses.

For me, the perfect romantic suspense hero has got to be tough on the outside but tender at his core. A take-charge kind of guy who has his own inner strength and a strong sense of right and wrong - which might not dovetail with the conventional wisdom. I mean, he might bend the law if he thinks the ends justify the means.

The schedule is tough in tennis.

I have spent my tenure in office - and, in fact, my adult lifetime - fighting for things that I care deeply about. And as anyone who knows me will tell you, I do not back down from tough fights.

Let there be no doubt: we will be tough on terror wherever it strikes.

Everyone applauds each other's success in Hollywood because they know how tough it is, but it really comes down fundamentally to the process.

I think we need one recognized, respected public figure to make a tough, blunt statement on just what Reagan's record is and what he might do to the country, let alone the Republican Party before Christmas.

It's a tough moment when you have to confront the level of your own complacency.

There's power in humility. It's one of the toughest lessons I've had to learn. Like the other souls in this room, I live on unsteady ground. Each moment is a choice and for all my good choices, I'm a single mistake away from having to start my journey all over again.

I just don't want you to feel uncomfortable about this, he says. Say: Hey. I am a very cool person. I am tough. Show him your bicep.

She was also completely candid about wanting to work with people she could learn from. My first boss, Rosalie Wright, had been much the same. Rosalie is the toughest person I've ever met: She bucked enormous pressure to run major investigative articles in New West.

I just try to stay half way decent looking. Boxing's a rough sport and you get hit a lot.

When I tied the record five years in a row, even over in Europe, it wasn't really talked about. It is disap-pointing because it is one of the toughest things to do in sports.

I'm not going to get into details, but every band has their moments when things are tough. Just logistically, tough on your body, stress levels, psychologically tough, relationships can be tough.

Everyone applauds each other's success in Hollywood because they know how tough it is, but it really comes down fundamentally to the process.

If you say one thing for Logen Ninefingers, and one thing only, say he's a killer.

Well, we're tough," Leonard said. "Ain't nobody tough enough in the end," Reba said.

Cynicism is tough. A cynic's point of view is really pitiful. I derive pleasure out of a lot of things in life. As long as I'm fairly healthy, it's hard to stay dismal for very long.

There are areas of official life in the United States that are similar to Russia. For example: disbursement of protest, and the way American prisons are run, which is pretty tough.

Life is tough - and you have to be tougher than life to change the world.

I loved the guy. He was five feet seven inches tall, meaner than a bear with a sore ass, shaved his head bald, and talked like he had a mouth full of gravel. He was one badass Marine. He weighed in about 210 and wanted no shit from no one.

It takes a tough man to make a tender chicken.

It would have been tough for anyone to adapt 'Push' - an amazing but wrenching novel by Sapphire - for the screen, and I think director Lee Daniels made interesting choices, particularly with Precious' fantasies. In my view, some of them work and some do not, but they are definitely provocative directorial choices.