135 Tough Day Quotes

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Famous Tough Day Quotes

We need tough days to drive us to our knees. — Unknown

Today is hard, tomorrow will be worse, but the day after tomorrow will be sunshine. — Jack Ma

Life is tough, but it's tougher when you're stupid. - John Wayne

Life is tough, but it's tougher when you're stupid. — John Wayne

Life is tough pilgrim, it is even tougher if you're stupid — John Wayne

Hard days are the best because that's when champions are made. - Gabby Douglas

Hard days are the best because that's when champions are made. — Gabby Douglas

Tough times go away, tough people do not. - Walter Payton

Tough times go away, tough people do not. — Walter Payton

Life is tough, and it's really tough when you're stupid. — Damon Runyon

The battle is going very heavily against us. We're being crushed by the enemy weight. We are facing very difficult days, perhaps the most difficult that a man can undergo — Erwin Rommel

when times are tough, the weak bail and the tough get creative. — Kelley Armstrong

We have seen better days. - William Shakespeare

We have seen better days. — William Shakespeare

A good day is a good day. A bad day is a good story. — Glennon Melton

Tough times don't last, tough people do, remember? - Gregory Peck

Tough times don't last, tough people do, remember? — Gregory Peck

Breathe. It's only a bad day not a bad life. — Ashley Purdy

Sometimes a hard day's work is easier than a lot of things you can meet in life. — Chris LeDoux

It isn't hard to be good from time to time in sports. What is tough, is being good every day. — Willie Mays

Short Tough Day Quotes

  • Anyone can have a good day, but you have to be able to perform on a bad day. — Jurgen Klopp
  • Tough times never last, but tough people do. — Robert H. Schuller
  • If you push through the hard days you can get through anything. — Gabby Douglas
  • A bad day for the ego is a good day for the soul. — Michael Beckwith
  • Thanksgiving, man. Not a good day to be my pants. — Kevin James
  • To bad times, a good face. — Mexican Proverbs
  • If things are going bad and life is tough, hang in there. Ride it out. Come out on top. — Ashton Irwin
  • Today was good. Today was fun. Tomorrow is another one. — Dr. Seuss
  • Today is cruel. Tomorrow is crueller. And the day after tomorrow is beautiful. — Jack Ma
  • A bad day for your ego is a great day for your soul. — Jillian Michaels

Tough Day Image Quotes

Every storm runs out of rain, just like every dark night turns into day. - Gary Allan quote

Every storm runs out of rain, just like every dark night turns into day. — Gary Allan

Tough day quote Some days I wish I could go back in life. Not to change anything, but to feel a few things twice.
Some days I wish I could go back in life. Not to change anything, but to feel a few things twice.

Having A Tough Day Quotes

There are no great people in this world, only great challenges which ordinary people rise to meet. — William Halsey

You have to want it, you have to plan for it, you have to fit it into a busy day, you have to be mentally tough, you have to use others to help you. The hard part isn't getting your body in shape. The hard part is getting your mind in shape. — Amby Burfoot

If you're not in love with what you do, business will be really tough. You can do good one day, and bad the next. You can have a great year, and a bad year that wipes away all of your success. — Luis D. Ortiz

I would always love to be an athlete, but it's got to be a tough day when you have to hang up those cleats. — Kevin James

Most people like me are having a tough time. But it's fine. I don't really think about it as a career. I don't need to have a million bucks, but it keeps me in music and without a day job, so it's working out fine. — Freedy Johnston

I'm active even on bad days; it's tough to pin me down. People ask me if I'm a morning or night person. I'm an all-the-time person. I like drinking coffee, but I do it with lots of milk because my energy levels are high even without caffeine. You could call me Obelix, except I don't have a belly. — Bipasha Basu

I know it is crazy, every time I release something now people say I am becoming more rough and tough. I guess my direction has been changing, I think this new album is a better reflection of who I am as an artist and as a person, I have changed a lot since the Boyzone days. — Ronan Keating

We shot ['Sailcloth'] five days down in Cornwall, and you couldn't have asked for a more beautiful place. It was a couple of tough days at sea, but when I say tough it was still enjoyable. — John Hurt

If you move furniture all day, if you're a construction worker, if you have a job that's real physical, this idea that there is a sport that involves the kind of conventional, traditional view of toughness, you see that still as a positive thing. — Chuck Klosterman

Once in a while, God sends a good white person my way, even to this day. I think it's God's way of keeping me from becoming too mean. And when he sends a nice one to me, then I have to eat crow. And honey, crow is a tough old bird to eat, let me tell you. — Annie Elizabeth Delany

Difficult Time Tough Day Quotes

When the going gets tough, the tough reinvent. - RuPaul

When the going gets tough, the tough reinvent. — RuPaul

When the going gets tough, the tough make cookies. — Erma Bombeck

When the going gets tough, the tough eat ribs. — Nora Roberts

When the going gets tough, the tough go drinking. — Bret Easton Ellis

They say that life is tough enough. But I guess I like to make things difficult on myself, because I do that all the time. Every day and on purpose. That's because I believe in disrupting my comfort zone. — Brian Grazer

Rough Day Quotes

I love playing basketball because you could be having a rough day in your life, and while you're on the court it gives you a clear mind. I'm not worried about anything. I'm there just playing freely and I go out there all and I have fun. — Derrick Rose

I have a dream that one day every valley shall be exalted, every hill and mountain shall be made low, the rough places will be made straight and the glory of the Lord shall be revealed and all flesh shall see it together. — Martin Luther King, Jr.

Chiefs who no more in bloody fights engage, But wise through time, and narrative with age, In summer-days like grasshoppers rejoice - A bloodless race, that send a feeble voice. — Alexander Pope

Well, I get my subject on Wednesday night; I think it out carefully on Thursday, and make my rough sketch; on Friday morning I begin, and stick to it all day, with my nose well down on the block. — John Tenniel

When people go through something rough in life, they say, "I'm taking it one day at a time." Yes, so is everybody. Because that's how time works. — Hannibal Buress

You are like a chestnut burr, prickly outside, but silky-soft within, and a sweet kernel, if one can only get at it. Love will make you show your heart some day, and then the rough burr will fall off. — Louisa May Alcott

The truth is that things matter. They have to, they are what we live with and touch each and every day. They represent what we've seen, who we've loved and where we hope to go next. They remind us of the good times and the rough patches and everything in between that's made us who we are. — Nate Berkus

So don't let anybody tell you that you're not loved and don't let anybody tell you that you're not enough, Yeah there are days that we all feel like we're messed up, But the truth is that we're all diamonds in the rough. — Britt Nicole

There is no week nor day nor hour when tyranny may not enter upon this country, if the people lose their roughness and spirit of defiance. — Walt Whitman

Eternity is not future or past. Eternity is a dimension of now. It is a dimension of the human spirit -- which is eternal. Find that eternal dimension in yourself, and you will ride through time, and throughout the whole length of your days. — Joseph Campbell

Stressful Day Quotes

Fight less, cuddle more. Demand less, serve more. Text less, talk more. Criticize less, compliment more. Stress less, laugh more. worry less, pray more. With each new day, find new ways to love each other even more. — Dave Willis

If the problem can be solved why worry? If the problem cannot be solved worrying will do you no good. — Shantideva

Worrying is carrying tomorrow's load with today's strength- carrying two days at once. It is moving into tomorrow ahead of time. Worrying doesn't empty tomorrow of its sorrow, it empties today of its strength. — Corrie Ten Boom

Its not stress that kills us, it is our reaction to it. — Hans Selye

Morning routines help prime you for the day ahead. Even 5 minutes of intentional time each morning can result in more energy, increased calm, less anxiety, improved stress tolerance, and better relationships - professional and personal. — Rangan Chatterjee

Stress is an ignorant state. It believes that everything is an emergency. — Natalie Goldberg

The man who doesn't relax and hoot a few hoots voluntarily, now and then, is in great danger of hooting hoots and standing on his head for the edification of the pathologist and trained nurse, a little later on. — Elbert Hubbard

Being in control of your life and having realistic expectations about your day-to-day challenges are the keys to stress management, which is perhaps the most important ingredient to living a happy, healthy and rewarding life. — Marilu Henner

If you’re not prioritising your sleep, it’s highly likely you’re not getting enough. When we’re as time-poor as we are these days, sleep tends to be the first thing to be pushed aside. We don’t realise how much we need it and how much stress a lack of it can cause. — Rangan Chatterjee

A good night of sleep depends on a good day of wakefulness, including exercise, sensible eating, minimal alcohol, stress management, and setting boundaries. — Peter Attia

Terrible Day Quotes

A mother becomes a true grandmother the day she stops noticing the terrible things her children do because she is so enchanted with the wonderful things her grandchildren do. — Lois Wyse

Just because today is a terrible day doesn't mean tomorrow might not be the best day of your entire life. You just have to wake up and get there — Pete Wentz

On that terrible day, a nation became a neighborhood. All Americans became New Yorkers. — George Pataki

It's terrible to have to say this. World population must be stabilized and to do that we must eliminate 350,000 people per day. This is so horrible to contemplate that we shouldn't even say it. But the general situation in which we are involved is lamentable. — Jacques Yves Cousteau

That's a terrible price to pay because you loved life so much, with the intensity of a thousand suns, and the women and all of it - and then it's all taken away from you. You end up walking the hallways of always to a place called tedium and apathy, day after day after day. Years go by. — George Jung

Leaving a role is a terrible sadness. The last day of the shooting is surreal. Your soul, your body and your mind are not ready at all to see the end of this experience. In the following months after a film shoot, one feels a deep sense of void. — Daniel Day-Lewis

In this day and age of things moving so, so fast, we still long for things to stop, and we as a society love the still image. Every time there is some terrible or great moment, we remember the stills. — Annie Leibovitz

In the terrible years of the Yezhov terror I spent seventeen months waiting in line outside the prison in Leningrad. One day somebody in the crowd identified me . . . and asked me in a whisper . . . "Can you describe this?" And I said: "I can." — Anna Akhmatova

Whether you have a great game or a terrible game, tomorrow's another day and you've got to come out here and compete. — David Wright

Sherman made the terrible discovery that men make about their fathers sooner or later. — Tom Wolfe

Bad Day Quotes

I've had good times and I've had bad times and I reminisce, maybe when I lay down, but throughout my day I keep myself engulfed in whatever moment I'm in because it could steer me into a depressed state. — Kevin Gates

Every day may not be good... but there's something good in every day — Alice Morse Earle

Count your age by friends, not years. Count your life by smiles, not tears. — John Lennon

It’s too bad if a heart lacks fire, and is deprived of the light of a heart ablaze. The day on which you are without passionate love is the most wasted day of your life. — Omar Khayyam

And once the storm is over, you won’t remember how you made it through, how you managed to survive. You won’t even be sure, whether the storm is really over. But one thing is certain. When you come out of the storm, you won’t be the same person who walked in. That’s what this storm’s all about. — Haruki Murakami

It is better to be alone than in bad company. — Unknown Author

Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them. — Marcus Aurelius

Every sunrise gives you a new beginning and a new ending. Let this morning be a new beginning to a better relationship and a new ending to the bad memories. Its an opportunity to enjoy life, breathe freely, think and love. Be grateful for this beautiful day. — Norton Juster

We all have bad days, but one thing is true; no cloud is so dark that the sun can't shine through. — Miranda Kerr

Our worst days are never so bad that you are beyond the reach of God's grace. And your best days are never so good that you are beyond the need of God's grace. — Jerry Bridges

Had A Bad Day Quotes

You have to remember that the hard days are what make you stronger. The bad days make you realize what a good day is. If you never had any bad days, you would never have that sense of accomplishment! — Aly Raisman

If you had a bad night and you can’t show up the next day ready to go, or you can’t show up at all, that doesn’t affect just you, it affects everyone around you. A professional doesn’t let other people down just because of personal issues. — Tim Grover

I had bad days on the field. But I didn't take them home with me. I left them in a bar along the way home. — Bob Lemon

Some of us let these great dreams die, but others nourish and protect them; nurse them through bad days till they bring them to the sunshine and light... — Woodrow Wilson

Grandpappy told my pappy, back in my day son, a man had to answer for the wicked he done. Take all the rope in Texas, find a tall oak tree, round up all the bad boys, and hang them in the streets for all the people to see. — Toby Keith

Sometimes you can have a reputation for not being relatable and nice because you had a bad day once. — James Corden

Sixty-five million years ago the dinosaurs had a bad day. — Phil Plait

My worst year. The only thing that I know for a fact now is that if it's really a bad day, then I draw the curtains, and I lay in bed. There is no way of dealing with grief. And I have no idea. This year I had double of them, my mother and my husband. I just take it one day at a time. — Iman Abdulmajid

You will throughout your life have people who will tell you that you're not good enough. Maybe they're jealous. Maybe they think you aren't. Maybe they've had a bad day. But ultimately you have to believe in yourself. — Meredith Vieira

Sometimes you have good days, and sometimes you have bad days. It really depends on how much caffeine you've had. — Chris Colfer

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More Tough Day Quotes

Every relationship has tough days. Don't let the grudge last. Be the first to try to make things right and stop waiting for an apology. — Nouman Ali Khan

It snowed all day long, fortunately it didn't stay on the road. It was very, very cold today. Fortunately, the wind was at my back. The terrain was rolly but not big hills. The first miles were like usual tough, but I felt quite good from there till the end of 10 miles. — Terry Fox

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

Coming from a small town it was tough to dream big. When I grew up in a small town in Georgia, my biggest dream was one day to be able to go to Atlanta. — Herschel Walker

A life-long blessing for children is to fill them with warm memories of times together. Happy memories become treasures in the heart to pull out on the tough days of adulthood. — Charlotte Davis Kasl

You gotta make your own way. You gotta find a way. You gotta get it done. It's hard. It's tough. That's what I tell my students every day in class. I've been very fortunate. Some people might call me a hardhead, but I'm not going to let other people dictate to me who I should be or the stories I should tell. That doesn't register with me. — Spike Lee

A life-long blessing for children is to fill them with warm memories of times together. Happy memories become treasures in the heart to pull out on the tough days of adulthood. — Charlotte Sophia Kasl

A man should keep on being constructive, and do constructive things. He should take part in the things that go on in this wonderful world. He should be someone to be reckoned with. He should live life and make every day count, to the very end. Sometimes it’s tough. But that’s what I’m going to do. — J. Willard Marriott

Without discipline, no matter how good you are, you are nothing! One day, and I might not be around; you're going to meet a tough guy who takes your best shot. He'll keep coming because he's tough. Don't get discouraged. That's when the discipline comes in. — Mike Tyson

I believe this with all my heart: The greatest coach of all time in my eyes is my mom. She's instilled in me a toughness and a perseverance and just a never-quit mentality, and I thank her every day for providing me, for what she sacrificed her life for. — Scott Brooks

Writing is not a genteel profession. It's quite nasty and tough and kind of dirty. — Rosemary Mahoney

Come with me if you want to live! — Moses

I attend to my fitness. I go the gym every day and try to maintain my physical fitness; without that, it is tough to take challenges on the chess board. — Viswanathan Anand

Sure I am this day we are masters of our fate, that the task which has been set before us is not above our strength; that its pangs and toils are not beyond our endurance. As long as we have faith in our own cause and an unconquerable will to win, victory will not be denied us. — Winston Churchill

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

If you think your teacher is tough, wait till you get a boss. — Bill Gates

Those who cannot bravely face danger are the slaves of their attackers. — Aristotle

On tough days, you gotta have heart. Don't quit, whatever you do. Persevere. — Charles R. Swindoll

A man may be a tough, concentrated, successful money-maker and never contribute to his country anything more than a horrible example. A manager may be tough and practical, squeezing out, while the going is good, the last ounce of profit and dividend, and may leave behind him an exhausted industry and a legacy of industrial hatred. A tough manager may never look outside his own factory walls or be conscious of his partnership in a wider world. I often wonder what strange cud such men sit chewing when their working days are over, and the accumulating riches of the mind have eluded them. — Robert Menzies

What's tough is being good every day. — Willie Mays

It takes a real man to live for God-a lot more man than to live for the devil, you know? If you really want to live right these days, you gotta be tough. — Johnny Cash

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

One day I was running around playing with my son Connor when afterwards I was sweating, tired and out of breath. I was embarrassed that something as enjoyable as playing with my son was so tough for me to do. Immediately I started an extensive diet and exercise plan. It completely changed my life and helped cure my Type-2 diabetes. — Drew Carey

My days in hostel were tough. I was ragged by my seniors. We were asked to wash their dirty clothes, do their odd jobs, etc. When it came to eating, we would be often given burnt rotis and milk that had awful odour. But, never once did I call home. I knew if I had to become a tough cricketer, I would have to handle the pressure. — Suresh Raina

When I did Yoda, me and three other people worked our asses off, and I was sweating every single day, it was tough as hell. Now that it's CGI, 24 people work on Yoda, and I get all the credit -- I do nothing. — Frank Oz

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

I enjoy what I do every minute of the day, even when the going gets tough. When I first began writing, I used to work at a desk in the bedroom, of a small development house. My three sons all under the age of 3 would come running in and out of the room every minute. — Ed McBain

I have my good and bad days, but when it's tough I just push through it. — Christie Rampone

At the end of the day, it's up to me to get the job done but it's always nice to have someone to help you get through the tough week. — David Ragan

Love is... what makes a weak man brave and a king step off his throne. Good times, bad times, easy times, tough times, it comes in an instant and lasts three days after forever. That's what love is. — Mike Oldfield

Producing good stuff can be quite tough, and it involves a lot of frustration, but I always like things to be jolly and happy, and I forget thats actually not the point at the end of the day. — Ewan McGregor

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