Tough Quotes - page 4

Mob guys had muscle, and where in hell do you think employers got the tough guys when they wanted to break a strike? (Jimmy Hoffa)
The Ricky Hatton that beat Kostya Tszyu in 2005 can beat Floyd Mayweather, he was so focused and in such amazing physical shape that he would have given anybody at that level a tough time. View quote
Sugar Ray Leonard
Even today I meet people who think of me automatically as a tough, insensitive, coarse guy named Stanley Kowalski. They can't help it, but, it is troubling. View quote
Marlon Brando
To me, life is tough enough without having someone kick you from the inside. View quote
Rita Rudner
The argument [behind climate change] is absolute crap. However, the politics of this are tough for us. Eighty per cent of people believe climate change is a real and present danger. View quote
Tony Abbott
Madam, there's no such thing as a tough child - if you parboil them first for seven hours, they always come out tender. View quote
W. C. Fields
I have three daughters, so I can't be as tough as I want to be. When you have kids - especially daughters - they know how to work you. They're a lot smarter than we are, that's for sure. But I'll be more tough on their boyfriends. View quote
Tim McGraw
Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at a touch; nay, you may kick it about all day like a football, and it will be round and full at evening. View quote
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
This fall, and this was a very tough decision for me, but this fall I will be taking my talents to South Beach and play with the Miami Heat. View quote
LeBron James
When you are tough on yourself, life is going to be infinitely easier on you. View quote
Zig Ziglar
If you wanted a safe job, go sell shoes. This is a tough business. (Chuck Hagel)
Marriage is tough, because it is woven of all these various elements, the weak and the strong. "In love-ness" is fragile for it is woven only with the gossamer threads of beauty. It seems to me absurd to talk about "happy" and "unhappy" marriages. View quote
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
I've been described as a tough and noisy woman, a prize fighter, a man-hater, you name it. They call me Battling Bella, Mother Courage, and a Jewish mother with more complaints than Portnoy. There are those who say I'm impatient, impetuous, uppity, rude, profane, brash, and overbearing. Whether I'm any of those things, or all of them, you can decide for yourself. But whatever I am -- and this ought to be made very clear -- I am a very serious woman. View quote
Bella Abzug
It was a mixed blessing to have famous parents. It was tough to go to auditions and be bad, since I couldn't be anonymous. View quote
Ben Stiller
Be willing to be uncomfortable. Be comfortable being uncomfortable. It may get tough, but it's a small price to pay for living a dream. View quote
Peter McWilliams
He 's tough, ma'am, tough is J. B. tough and devilish sly. View quote
Charles Dickens
The press really is not doing its job of holding [the candidates'] feet to the fire. ... The tough questions are not what are you in favor of, but how are you going to get it through Congress? View quote
Michael Bloomberg
Discipline is a symbol of caring to a child. He needs guidance. If there is love, there is no such thing as being too tough with a child. View quote
Bette Davis
Pilgrim's Progress, about a man that left his family, it didn't say why. I read considerable in it now and then. The statements was interesting, but tough. View quote
Mark Twain
A tough lesson in life that one has to learn is that not everybody wishes you well. View quote
Dan Rather
I've been a prima-donna. I was taken care of since I was 13. That's why I am the way I am today. I was spoiled, like a brat. I had anything I wanted. That's crazy to be that way all your life. Everybody's taking care of you, but manipulating you at the same time. Very few people have a life like that. Most people have to work like slaves their whole lives. I've never had a job in my life. What I know how to do is hurt big, tough men - in the street and off. (Mike Tyson)
Certain management policies-stretching of credit resources, for example-may lead to great progress in good conditions; but, like the Grand Prix car in comparison with the Land Rover, they may not be robust enough to survive when the going gets tough. View quote
Anthony Stafford Beer
These cruel, wanton, indiscriminate bombings of London are, of course, a part of Hitler's invasion plans. He hopes, by killing large numbers of civilians, and women and children, that he will terrorise and cow the people of this mighty imperial city ... Little does he know the spirit of the British nation, or the tough fibre of the Londoners. View quote
Winston Churchill
We must combine the toughness of the serpent with the softness of the dove, a tough mind and a tender heart. View quote
Martin Luther King Jr.
It has been said, and only half in jest, that a tough, professionally led union is a great force for improving management performance. It forces the manager to think about what he is doing and to be able to explain his actions and behavior. View quote
Peter Drucker