These Tough Life quotes will inspire you.
Below you will find a collection of motivating, knowledgeable, and tough life quotes, tough life sayings, and tough life proverbs.
Inspirational Tough Life Quotes
- “Tough times never last, but tough people do.” ~ Robert H. Schuller
- “Never let your head hang down. Never give up and sit down and grieve. Find another way.” ~ Satchel Paige
- “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
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“If you don’t like something, change it. If you can’t change it, change your attitude.” ~ Maya Angelou
- “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
- “When the going gets tough, the tough get a librarian.” ~ Joan Bauer, When life gets tough life quotes
- “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”Don’t pray when it rains if you don’t pray when the sun shines.” ~ Satchel Paige
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“When the going gets tough, the tough take a nap.” ~ Tom Hodgkinson
- “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
- “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
- “A problem is a chance for you to do your best.” ~ Duke Ellington
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“I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.” ~ Thomas A. Edison
- “The bravest sight in the world is to see a great man struggling against adversity.” ~ Seneca the Younger
- “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
- “If you can’t change it.. change the way you think about it” ~ Mary Engelbreit
- “When the going gets tough, the tough go drinking.” ~ Bret Easton Ellis
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“Once you choose hope, anything’s possible” ~ Christopher Reeve
- “If you’re going through hell, keep going.” ~ Winston Churchill
- “When the going gets tough, the tough eat ribs.” ~ Nora Roberts
- “And so rock bottom became the solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life.” ~ J. K. Rowling
- “When the going gets tough, the tough make cookies.” ~ Erma Bombeck
- “Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.” ~ Thomas A. Edison
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“Brick walls are there for a reason. They give us a chance to show how badly we want” ~ Randy Pausch
- “The best way to predict the future is to study the past, or prognosticate.” ~ Robert Kiyosaki
- “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
- “The best way to predict the future is to create it.” ~ Peter Drucker
- “You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take.” ~ Wayne Gretzky
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“The best way to predict the future is to invent it.” ~ Alan Kay
- “To be tested is good. The challenged life may be the best therapist.” ~ Gail Sheehy
- “You have to trust in something–your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever.” ~ Steve Jobs
- “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
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“Baseball life is a tough life on the family.” ~ Nolan Ryan
- “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
- “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
- “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
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“This is a tough, tough life when things aren’t going your way.” ~ Chauncey Billups
- “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
- “I was handed a tough life lesson at a very early age.” ~ Boomer Esiason, Tough life quotes life lessons
- “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.
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“It’s a tough life if you don’t weaken.” ~ Stephen King
- “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
- “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
- “I wasn’t born with a golden spoon in my mouth. It was a really tough life.” ~ Yohan Blake, Really tough life quotes
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“I wouldn’t say that I’ve had a tough life by any stretch of the imagination.” ~ Duncan Sheik
- “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
- “A Tough life with God is better than a good life without Him” ~ David Asscherick
- 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
- “Never give up, and be confident in what you do. There may be tough times, but the difficulties which you face will make you more determined to achieve your objectives and to win against all the odds.” ~ Marta
- “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
- “Whenever someone calls me ugly I get super sad and hug them because I know how tough life is for the visually impaired.” ~ Will Ferrell
