Tough Quotes
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Business is tough; you need tough guys.
Carlos Ghosn
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Productive givers focus on acting in the long-term best interests of others, even if it's not pleasant. They have the courage to give the critical feedback we prefer not to hear, but truly need to hear. They offer tough love, knowing that we might like them less, but we'll come to trust and respect them more.
Adam Grant
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I embrace everything about Ally... I don't particularly see her as a whiner. One week she's tough, the next she's really weak. I love that. She's human.
Calista Flockhart
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A painting should be tough; it should have muscle, but I have to find some tenderness in it, too. There has to be that dynamic.
Gary Hume
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My dad was a Marine. He was one of the Montford Point Marines. Those are the equivalent of the Tuskegee Airmen for Marines. He's a tough, tough guy.
Larry Elder
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I guess they're tough jokes. But there's lots of things you either laugh or cry at. And you just can't cry.
Sam Kinison
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'Coexist' was tough to make.
Oliver Sim The xx
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No doubt about it. For every player. Thursday nights are very tough for us because it is a short turnaround.
J. J. Watt
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It hasn't been hard getting nominated, but winning it is another thing. The competition is tough.
Gary Burton
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I think it's a tough transition. It's easy to go from comedian to rapper, but to go from rapper to comedian is tougher.
Hannibal Buress
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Perhaps the greatest display of self-discipline is persisting when the going gets tough. Persistence is self-discipline in action.
Brian Tracy
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You know, every family and every business in California knows what it means to go through tough times.
Carly Fiorina
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My dad was a Marine. He was one of the Montford Point Marines. Those are the equivalent of the Tuskegee Airmen for Marines. He's a tough, tough guy. When I was 15 we had a fight, and I didn't speak to him for 10 years.
Larry Elder
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The important thing, once you get 'em laughing, is to keep 'em laughing until you're through. With a 90-minute feature, you've got to stop the laughter and then pick it up again, which is tough.
Hal Roach
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Golfers have a tendency to be very masochistic. They like to punish themselves for some reason. A lot of them like tough courses.
Jack Nicklaus
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I study hard at Russian, which is a tough but most attractive language.
Bayard Taylor
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It's tough campaigning, kissing hands and shaking babies.
Pat Paulsen
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I just was in the second round. That's painful, because always is tough to lose, but well, that's sport. You win, you lose.
Rafael Nadal
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Diebenkorn was a very good critic, a very tough critic, tough on himself, tough on others. He expected the finest.
Wayne Thiebaud
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I want to keep active, so when they called me to fight Nate Diaz, I agreed because I wanted to stay active. I got a little surprised because he was out so long, but he's a tough opponent.
Rafael dos Anjos
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It's tough to write beautifully about ugly things, but Mitchell S. Jackson makes it look easy.
Victor LaValle
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At one point, I had lost my confidence as an actor, and working again was tough. I started stammering due to lack of confidence. It took time, but things became better.
Fatima Sana Shaikh
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There are no tough guys in wrestling.
Randy Savage
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Fashion is very tough, and we shouldn't forget that before designers were money-makers, they were artists.
Carine Roitfeld