Never pretend to be something you are not, especially to be accepted. Be loved for who you are, it will be tough at times but worth it.

Being tough isn’t in and of itself a bad thing. Looking back on it, though, I can see I was too used to being strong, and never tried to understand those who were weak. I...

Always be careful of where you run to. When the going gets tough, take it easy and slow down, else you venture into the den of lions.

War doesn’t have heroes, it only has the men who lost so many things in their life that they just keep going and do the most unthinkable things, just because they don’t care anymore.

I write literary biographies, so above all, I have to love the subject’s books. But choosing a subject is tough.

Great answers are found in tough questions. Never give up because of how hard the seed it; it’s a proof that it carries sweeter fruits!

When the tough get going, the going gets easier.

Like you have seven people with their hands up. I gotta make a choice. Y’know, that’s tough. Sometimes I gotta go with someone that has an idea and make several calls in a row, because...

Some people make a bad bed, they just have to lie in it.

When you are no longer a boy, you have to be tough.

I’m pretty tough.

There is so much more demand for Formula One than it can supply. You have governments investing in circuits all over the world, and the private sector sometimes has a tough time competing with that.

Voting has not been tough for me, for the most part, because there’s guideposts about what will bring about the greatest amount of happiness for the greatest amount of people.

I don’t think I am that tough, actually. Well, tough in the sense that I don’t take any rubbish, and that doesn’t make me very popular, frankly. I mean, because some people say something to...

The hard part about one being tough yet meek is the illusion of being a punching bag.

I tested a lot of old cornbread recipes and most of them were bland or tough.

I was obliged to take tough, painful and bold decisions to ensure a manageable tomorrow.

Tough is to innovate; else you are just competing with photocopy machines.

Miss Rice talks very tough. We have gotten used to this nonsense. Miss Rice is a bit emotional about this, and we predicted that she would have a more emotional approach to this.

Everybody always thinks I’m a lesbian because I’m a very tough broad. I have a lot of lesbian fans.

I’m not a tough boss in that I don’t raise my voice, I don’t freak out, and I don’t have a temper most of the time.

I’m thought to be a tough writer, but I’m really a softie.

The period from 2001 to 2005 was really tough. My films were not working even though there was an acceptance of a model. I was depressed but did not cry. I cry when I am...

What I want is irrelevant. This is your life, Faith.

I’m not tough, and I never have been. I suppose over the years I’ve built up kind of a veneer to protect myself because I have functioned on my own for a long, long time,...

When you see in places like Africa and parts of Asia abject poverty, hungry children and malnutrition around you, and you look at yourself as being people who have well being and comforts, I think...

Architecture is unnecessarily difficult. It’s very tough.

The Philadelphia/New York world of the music business is a tough place to be.

As a performing group, the Beatles began by playing old rock favorites, for dancing, to tough audiences in Liverpool and Hamburg. When they began writing seriously, they discovered that they couldn’t compose in the early...

It’s always tough when you’re fighting with your husband on the court.

The world of the homeless is a tough and interesting world.

Condi Rice talks tough but she cannot be tough herself.

A lot of people heard ‘Murda Business’ and thought it was about killing people, trying to be tough and hardcore. If you actually listen to the lyrics, it’s kind of silly and playful.

Really, I have to laugh because there was a whole set of stories that made me sound like the Dragon Lady, you know, ‘tough this and tough that.’ Then there is this business about ‘gooey.’...

My first job, I worked at ‘YM’ and I had an extremely tough boss who made me cry every single day. But what I took away from that was how I would never be.

When you encounter obstacles, don’t turn your back on them. Face them, confront them and your will see them dissolving in front of your eyes.

Simplicity comes at a cost; the rich can’t stand for, forget affording.

There is no reason for you to ever stop walking with faith, because you are amazingly built to win regardless of how tough or rough your challenges are.

What he wanted was Megan wanting him… but not needing him. Not vulnerable to him. Sure as help not trying to leave him over and over again… and simply failing.

I’ve always been pretty tough in that way, where if you tell me I can’t do something, I will prove you wrong.

I think that when people look at me, and they look at my height and my voice and my coloring, they automatically think, ‘Tough.’

wounds make you awake in the memories but tears makes tough and dry in real life.

The woman’s tour is very tough for all of the players.

When you are tough on yourself, life is going to be infinitely easier on you.

Turkey’s economy is powerful enough to tackle tough times.

I listen to all these complaints about rudeness and intemperateness, and the opinion that I come to is that there is no polite way of asking somebody: have you considered the possibility that your entire...

I just finished a novel, and I’m back kind of noodling on the screenplays. Screenplays are tough. I am making music, I’m just not sure what kind of music it is or where it’s going.

Because you see, when you’re a strong person, people often look to you to take care of them. People look to you for help. People look to you for strength.And when your life spins out...

Whatever doesn’t destroy you, makes you stronger. Hardships have a way of toughening us, if they don’t kill us.

If you grew up in a household with a football coach who looks like a drill sergeant, you would think you would be tough.