when times are tough, the weak bail and the tough get creative. — Kelley Armstrong
When Life Puts You in Tough Situations, Don't Say 'Why Me', Say 'Try Me' — Miley Cyrus
In bad situations is where you know who your friends are. — Spanish Proverbs
Tough times go away, tough people do not. — Walter Payton
If things are going bad and life is tough, hang in there. Ride it out. Come out on top. — Ashton Irwin
Someone once said anyone can be great under rosy circumstances, but the true test of character is measured by how well a person makes decisions during difficult times. — Jack Gantos
Sometimes some of the toughest things you deal with end up being the best things because you realize the people that you can rely on, that love you and support you through it. — Tom Brady
I don't mind being called tough, since I find in this racket it's the tough guys who lead the survivors. — Curtis LeMay
Short Tough Situations Quotes
Difficulties are things that show a person what they are. — Epictetus
When the going gets tough, the tough reinvent. — RuPaul
We don't back off obstacles and tough situations, we use them to make us stronger. — Jada Pinkett Smith
Life is tough, and it's really tough when you're stupid. — Damon Runyon
Life is tough pilgrim, it is even tougher if you're stupid — John Wayne
When the going gets tough, the tough take a coffee break. — Stephen Hawking
Adversity tests the sincerity of friends — Aesop
Take a bad or desperate situation and turn it into a successful one. — Japanese Proverbs
Hard times always lead to something great. — Betsey Johnson
Anyone can do the job when things are going right. In this business we play for keeps. — Ernest K. Gann
Tough Situations Image Quotes
Maturity is learning to walk away from people and situation that threaten your peace of mind, self respect, values, morals and self worth.
Tough Moments Quotes
There are moments when troubles enter our lives and we can do nothing to avoid them. But they are there for a reason. Only when we have overcome them will we understand why they were there. — Paulo Coelho
Your rights matter, because you never know when you're going to need them. — Edward Snowden
It's always tough when you lose - you've worked so hard for that moment and it hasn't gone the way you wanted. But you have to realise there's always a bright side, you have to pick yourself up and get ready for the next game. — Maria Sharapova
The primary cause of unhappiness is never the situation but your thoughts about it.
Poets are like baseball pitchers. Both have their moments. The intervals are the tough things. — Robert Frost
Touring is tough. You're almost in a haze because you don't really know where you are half the time: You're in a hotel room one moment, and the next thing you know, you're onstage performing for 60,000 people, then you're back on an airplane. It's very hectic and I couldn't do it without my family. — Vanessa Hudgens
Doing nothing is very tough to do because you never know when you're finished. The upside is that from the moment you wake up in the morning, you're on the job. — Leslie Nielsen
A true leader has the confidence to stand alone, the courage to make tough decisions, and the compassion to listen to the needs of others.
You have to be able to play through the tough moments by doing something offensively, and we haven't been able to do that. — Joe Maddon
It was definitely some tough moments throughout my life, but I kind of stayed focused and came through the other end of the tunnel. — Victor Cruz
To act with a tennis ball and imagine it's a tentacle, or if you're in some kind of wilderness film and you go, 'Okay, we can't have a grizzly bear here, but imagine when you step over the rock there there's a grizzly bear.' I don't know. They're tough moments. — Joel Edgerton
In the roughest moments, remember: God is our Father; God does not abandon his children. — Sayings
Difficult Situations Quotes
When I asked God for strength, He gave me difficult situations to face. — Swami Vivekananda
People aren't born strong. people grow stronger little by little, encountering difficult situations learning not to run from them. — Christina Grimmie
Difficult things provoke all your irritations and bring your habitual patterns to the surface. And that becomes the moment of truth. You have the choice to launch into your lousy habitual patterns, or to stay with the rawness and discomfort of the situation and let it transform you. — Pema Chodron
Your hardest times often lead to the greatest moments of your life. Keep going. Tough situations build strong people in the end.
I've discovered most Christians don't know what to do with difficult situations because they have bought into the lie that God owes us (for our good behaviour). The reality of life is that if you live long enough you are going to bleed, cry and hurt. AND God is still God IN that. — Matt Chandler
What I treasure most in life is being able to dream.
During my most difficult moments and complex situations
I have been able to dream of a more beautiful future. — Rigoberta Menchu
You know the bad thing about being a survivor... You keep having to get into difficult situations in order to show off your gift. — Carrie Fisher
If things go wrong, don’t go with them.
Good planning is important. I've also regarded a sense of humor as one of the most important things on a big expedition. When you're in a difficult or dangerous situation, or when you're depressed about the chances of success, someone who can make you laugh eases the tension. — Edmund Hillary
Anyone can see the adversity in a difficult situation, but it takes a stronger person to see the opportunity. — Drew Brees
Soldiers expect the noncommissioned officer to be technically proficient, up front, and honest with them. Soldiers must know that NCOs care, that they can approach the NCO for guidance and direction, and that NCOs can make things happen when a difficult situation arises. — Glen E. Morrell
Your practice should be strengthened by the difficult situations you encounter, just as a bonfire in a strong wind is not blown out, but blazes even brighter. — Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche
We're barely a prank show, in my opinion. We don't consider it that, we don't call our stuff pranks. The challenges that we do are more social experiments that put each other in awkward situations. — Joe Gatto
What’s kept me intrigued is that it is one of the few jobs where everyday you can study something new. You are constantly learning about new businesses, new situations, new management teams, new issues. So it’s infinitely challenging. — Bill Ackman
Every time you find some humor in a difficult situation, you win.
We are so afraid of discomfort that we avoid any situation that challenges us to grow and evolve. — Michael Easter
I love being put into situations which are competitive and tough and challenging. — Ellyse Perry
Ordinary people, even weak people, can do extraordinary things through temporary courage generated by a situation. But the person of character does not need the situation to generate his courage. It is a part of his being and a standard approach to all life's challenges. — Michael Josephson
Isn't art about breaking rules, about challenging existing systems, isn't it about discovering meaning in things or situations before others see anything in them?? — Peter Lindbergh
A woman's life can really be a succession of lives, each revolving around some emotionally compelling situation or challenge, and each marked off by some intense experience. — Wallis Simpson
We all come to this planet as spiritual beings destined to experience a variety of challenges and situation in order to grow and evolve spiritually. — James Van Praagh
Welcome the challenges. Look for the opportunities in every situation to learn and grow in wisdom. — Brian Tracy
Golf is a game that is played on a five-inch course — Bobby Jones
Respect the game. It's easy to do when you're smaller, tough to do when you get bigger. And even tougher when you become number one. — Patrick Bet-David
It isn't hard to be good from time to time in sports. What is tough, is being good every day. — Willie Mays
You couldn't pay me enough to be a law enforcement officer. Their job is a tough job. You have to solve people's problems, you have to baby-sit people, you have to always be doing this cat-and-mouse game with the bad guys. My respect for them is immense. — Christopher Meloni
You don't just be a team. You become a team. Through tough games you find that you need each other — Mike Krzyzewski
Boxer guys are very tough and they play a very tough game, but its a game. Karate guys, tae kwon doe guys, kickboxers or judo guys, they are very tough guys and a lot of heart and a lot of training, but its very specifically as a sport. It's not a fight. A fight is everything goes. — Rickson Gracie
Chess is a very tough game, and psychologically a tough game. And of course chess needs a lot of qualities, human qualities. And so you must have very strong nervous system and then you must be well prepared, you must be able to work a lot. — Anatoly Karpov
You are anxious before every game because you had to win it. If you didn't you went down the ladder. I felt proud of the way we beat some teams in tough games. — Sourav Ganguly
Tough Times Quotes
Holding on to hope when everything is dark, is the greatest test of faith — Yasmin Mogahed
You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. In fact, it may be necessary to encounter the defeats, so you can know who you are, what you can rise from, how you can still come out of it. — Maya Angelou
Dark clouds become heaven's flowers when kissed by light. — Rabindranath Tagore
Storms draw something out of us that calm seas don't. — Bill Hybels
You may be in a tough time but that setback is simply a setup for a greater comeback. — Joel Osteen
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
Behind the cloud the sun is still shining. — Abraham Lincoln
If you can't change it.. change the way you think about it — Mary Engelbreit
You are the sky. The clouds are what happens, what comes and goes. — Eckhart Tolle
Mental Toughness is doing the right thing for the team when it's not the best thing for you. — Bill Belichick
Success is a combination of effort, talent and hard work. There's got to be hard work and mental toughness. It's not just one thing that gets you there it's an accumulation of things — Brock Lesnar
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
What's important is that you stay true to yourself. Because when you enter the real world, the most valuable thing you can bring is all your you-ness. The world doesn't need any more hot chicks or tough guys or smooth talkers - the world needs more you. And don't let anyone tell you otherwise. — Bo Burnham
The thing about life is that you must survive. Life is going to be difficult, and dreadful things will happen. What you do is move along, get on with it, and be tough. Not in the sense of being mean to others, but being tough with yourself and making a deadly effort not to be defeated. — Katharine Hepburn
The toughest thing is facing yourself. Being honest with yourself, that's much tougher than beating someone up. That's what I call tough. — Joe Strummer
The best thing you can do is follow your dreams — The Rev
What we learn through failure becomes a precious part of us, strengthening us in everything we do. So let the tough things make you tougher. — Soichiro Honda
Tough Problems Quotes
Sampling out corruption is a very tough job, but I say so in all seriousness that we would be failing in our duty if we do not tackle this problem seriously and with determination. — Lal Bahadur Shastri
The task of the excellent teacher is to stimulate 'apparently ordinary' people to unusual effort. The tough problem is not in identifying winners: it is in making winners out of ordinary people. — K. Patricia Cross
The measure of success is not whether you have a tough problem to deal with, but whether it is the same problem you had last year. — John Foster Dulles
Life can be real tough... you can either learn from your problems, or keep repeating them over and over. — Marie Osmond
Again and again, the impossible problem is solved when we see that the problem is only a tough decision waiting to be made. — Robert H. Schuller
Competence means keeping your head in a crisis, sticking with a task even when it seems hopeless, and improvising good solutions to tough problems when every second counts. It encompasses ingenuity, determination and being prepared for anything. — Chris Hadfield
My heart is to help hurting people. I teach people God's Word so they can overcome their problems and avoid some of the tough lessons I had to learn. — Joyce Meyer
I want to admit that I am an optimist. Any tough problem, I think it can be solved. — Bill Gates
When Things Are Tough Quotes
Journalists are accused of being lapdogs when they don't ask the hard questions, but then accused of being rude when they do. Good thing we have tough hides. — Gwen Ifill
You become a champion by fighting one more round. When things are tough, you fight one more round. — James J. Corbett
Few things in the world are more powerful than a positive push. A smile. A world of optimism and hope. A "you can do it" when things are tough. — Richard DeVos
When things get tough, there are two things that make life worth living: Mozart, and quantum mechanics — Victor Frederick Weisskopf
When things are tough, French athletes tend to pull out great performances. — Didier Deschamps
Players who are committed to the team first will find a way to help when things are going bad, they will do whatever it takes. Kids that are more into themselves will not do that. They will take care of themselves and get more individual when things are tough. — Dick Bennett
If you, like me, lived through 1973-74 or even the early 1990s... There was a waiting list to get OUT of the country club - that's when you know things are tough. If you live long enough, you'll see it. — Charlie Munger
Children are amazing. Believe in yourself and stay strong. And remember that there are people out there who can help you when things get tough. — Stephen Mulhern
Few things in the world are more powerful than a positive push. A smile. A world of optimism and hope. A you can do it when things are tough. — Richard M. DeVos
Even when things are stable, that's not easy [to work in Africa] because there are not roads, and the weather is tough, the education system hasn't been there. But this is how you get great countries, is step by step. — Bill Gates
Tough Life Quotes
Nothing is easy, and life can be extremely tough, but there's always a yin to the yang, so to speak. It's up to you to seek it out, embrace it, and live happily ever after. No matter how bad the hand you've been dealt may seem, there's always a way to play it. — Alex Gaskarth
Be patient and tough; someday this pain will be useful to you. — Ovid
There are no great people in this world, only great challenges which ordinary people rise to meet. — William Halsey
You've got to believe that God is in control of your life. It may be a tough time but you've got to believe that God has a reason for it and he's going to make everything good. — Joel Osteen
Character isn't who you are when life goes your way. Character is who you really are when the bottom falls out. — LeCrae
Life is a cruel, horrible joke and I am the punch line. — Carrie Fisher
When you have exhausted all possibilities, remember this - you haven't. — Thomas A. Edison
Joy is love exalted; peace is love in response; long-suffering is love enduring; gentleness is love in society; goodness is love in action; faith is love on the battlefield; meekness is love in tough situations; and temperance is love in training. — Dwight L. Moody
I do not allow myself to be overcome by hopelessness, no matter how tough the situation. I believe that if you just do your little bit without thinking of the bigness of what you stand against, if you turn to the enlargement of your own capacities, just that itself creates new potential. — Vandana Shiva
I think it's the mark of a great player to be confident in tough situations. — John McEnroe
I have a theory that women are generally given space and appointed to jobs when the situation is tough. I've observed that in many instances. In times of crisis, women eventually are called upon to sort out the mess, face the difficult issues and be completely focused on restoring the situation. — Christine Lagarde
One thing you must never lose is courage. If you believe in the goal you are striving for, you will be courageous. There are many difficult times ahead, but you must keep your sense of humor, work through the tough situations, and enjoy yourself! — Shigesato Itoi
Whatever situation you are in, right now, take the authority of Jesus and begin to command that devil out of your life! That cage of infirmity/ setback/ poverty - BE OPENED, in the name of Jesus Christ! — T. B. Joshua
Establish a system you have confidence in and rely on it when you get into tough situations. — Arnold Palmer
Surviving a tough situation means staying in the fight and maintaining a warrior's mindset. — Joe Teti
It was a tough situation. A fight that nobody expected to end so abruptly for him because he was really a great fighter. I felt sorry for him and I knew it could happen to anybody. And it could happen to any of us at any time. So when I was in a position to help him, I did what I could to help him. — Roy Jones Jr.
This is a tough situation. But it is what it is, and time has an amazing way of knitting together solutions as long as everybody stays calm and resolves to be as gentle and patient as possible. — Amy Dickinson
It's a tough thing-you get in a situation where you feel you have to be perfect all the time and it sucks. — Leonardo DiCaprio
There were no more choices, no more options, no more clever ways out of a tough situation. And the rush, I realized in a brutal wash of despair, is a false god I’ve chased my entire life. One that cost me everything in the blind search for sensation. My entire existence amounted to nothing. — Kim Harrison
I think it's a confusing, tough thing. I mean, I can imagine in this situation. Being a single dad myself now and trying to do the right thing in your children's eyes and in the eyes of your friends and family and all that and then at the other end of the spectrum, you're also trying to date and you want to be yourself and you want to let go. — Chris Harrison
He wants to be his own man and be recognized for what he's done. He's not asking for anything because of his name. That was a tough situation to go into at Alabama, but he probably wouldn't have been given the job if the situation would have been different. — Don Shula
I think we've bounced back and really been resilient. Even after a bad period, we take over and we seem like we're on a mission. That comes with leadership and experience and a lot of things. A lot of it is mental toughness and resiliency in the situation you're at, just trusting in your teammates. — Mike Fisher
I mostly write about the working poor. Somehow, they're not being written about much anymore. I'm very interested in people who are in a situation that needs a little puzzling out. The thing that gets me started on a story is a person in a tough situation. — Bonnie Jo Campbell
He has that uniqueness to respond to a tough situation with ease. He does not involve himself much emotionally, and that’s his quality. India are lucky to have a captain like Dhoni. — V. V. S. Laxman
I want to encourage young women to stand up for each other and speak up when they see others in a tough situation. — Amber Riley
I know some people say I can be funny. But there is always a deeper meaning to what I say. I am a socialist at heart and have the interests of the poor in mind. When people see how I manage to work my way out of tough situations, it gives them hope in their own life. — Lalu Prasad Yadav
You have to be willing to see that sometimes the governments of these poor countries don't come through. You have to think about that as a constraint. How do you help them be better? How do you come up with things that actually work, even in those tough situations. — Bill Gates
We're in a tough situation because of teenage children, and then we have a 2-year-old and a 5-year-old, so my family and my responsibilities is sort of a juggle. — Wayne Gretzky
In sports and in business, the greatest leaders are those who make the best decisions in the most crucial of situations. They are the ones who focus their energy on turning tough decisions into winning decisions. — Don Yaeger
Don't let anything or anyone define you. You are what you are because of what you make of tough situations in your life. — Demi Lovato
I would love to be considered Zen, but I'm not sure that I am. Maybe just with animals and babies and in tough situations. — Ana Mulvoy-Ten
Whenever I get into a tough situation...I think of growing up, and I say, 'This situation won't be the worst one I've ever been in. — Billy Wagner
Abraham Lincoln was not all brooding and melancholy and patient understanding. There was a hard core in him, and plenty of toughness. He could recognize a revolutionary situation when he saw one, and he could act fast and ruthlessly to meet it. — Bruce Catton
Plus, when you get in tough situations, like the bases loaded and nobody out, you never give in. — Dwight Gooden
In this film [The Last King of Scotland] I am the rooky in the cast. Everyone has miles of experience than me and Della is in the same situation, so life imitated art in many ways. I don't think I could be a journalist. I wouldn't make a very good journalist, especially in Washington and working in politics, which I think would be really tough. — Rachel McAdams
I'm away 250 days a year. It's a tough situation. — Anthony Bourdain
The one thing we can all relate to is family, and family has its traumas sometimes. Sometimes things don't go well for people. Sometimes things are tough. So everybody kind of knows someone who's been in this situation before, and I think that's what makes it work. — Mark Millar
One of the reasons I got into this game was because I wanted to learn how to get myself comfortable in uncomfortable situations. I grew up in a tough area of Dublin, and fighting was just part of your life. Boys fight, and I won some, but I lost a lot too, and I didn't like that, I didn't like that feeling of not knowing whether I was in danger, in trouble. — Conor McGregor
We knew the Syrian situation was complex and there were lots of divisions, particularly on the side of the opposition... This is a tough job... It can perhaps be done if you stand united and work with me in putting sustained pressure on the protagonists or the parties to come together and seek a political settlement. — Kofi Annan
All situations teach you, and often it's the tough ones that teach you best. — Pema Chodron
When something drastic happens in our life, one person goes and hides and doesn't want to be seen. That's what I did. [Others] want to stand up and fight and think they're tough. Like if someone gets shot, you're either scared of guns or you think you're Superman. In my situation, I wanted to hide. I didn't want to be seen anymore. — Gilbert Arenas
These are tough and unusual times and I don't see the negative global economic situation abating anytime soon. — James McNerney
Fighting teaches you a lot about yourself. When you fight you are in a situation where failure can happen. This chance of failure forges your character in many ways and makes you realise how mentally tough you have to be as a fighter. This mental toughness will transfer into your everyday life, giving you drive and a clear concise attitude, where giving up is not an option — Daniel Hudson
The qualifying system helps the top guys like Sergio Garcia, who play most of their golf in the U.S. They can rely on the world rankings and just play their four extra events [with the four majors and three World Golf Championship events counting as seven European events]. But for the other guys it's tough, and I don't know if that can be changed. It is a tricky situation. — Luke Donald
As a mama and a grandma, I appreciate, understand and absolutely believe in the sanctity of life. But I recognize that there are those tough situations where heartbreaking decisions have to be made. — Carole Keeton
It is a tough business but if you get yourself in a situation like I, you can maintain a career over many years. That, to me, is a successful actor. — Ray Stevenson
I think the rebuilding of the city has to start with the spirit first. So the music, the vibe, the connection spiritually with the artists. Everybody out here is the main key. A lot of people are still in a lot of tough situations. My heart still goes out to the people of New Orleans. — Doug E. Fresh
When people see how I manage to work my way out of tough situations, it gives them hope in their own life. — Lalu Prasad Yadav
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