Tough Quotes - Page 2

• 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

  Hard Times, Tough Times, Losing

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I have been up against tough competition all my life. I wouldn't know how to get along without it.

  Walt Disney

  Life, Leadership, Epcot

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• The best way to predict the future is to study the past, or prognosticate.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Twitter post from Jan 30, 2017

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• It is the business of little minds to shrink.

  Carl Sandburg

  Strength, Being Strong, Perseverance

  Carl Sandburg (1948). “Remembrance Rock”

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• Character produces endurance and persistence when the going gets tough, and life truly is an endurance race, not a sprint.

  Zig Ziglar

  Character, Persistence, Race

  FaceBook post by Zig Ziglar from Sep 29, 2014

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• A leader, once convinced that a particular course of action is the right one, must....be undaunted when the going gets tough.

  Ronald Reagan

  Leadership, Being Strong, Determination

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  Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out.

  John Wooden

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  "The Wizard's wisdom: 'Woodenisms'", www.espn.com. June 4, 2010.

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• I should be grateful for the tough times because Allah chose me, thought I was good enough to go through it.

  Nouman Ali Khan

  Grateful, Tough Times, Good Enough

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• If you're going through hell, keep going.

  Winston Churchill

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

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  Never let your head hang down. Never give up and sit down and grieve. Find another way.

  Satchel Paige

  Inspirational, Encouraging, Sports

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• You miss 100% of the shots you don't take.

  Wayne Gretzky

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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• I grew up in a tough neighborhood and we used to say you can get further with a kind word and a gun than just a kind word.

  David Mamet

  Gun, Kind, Used

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• Life is tough, but it's tougher when you're stupid.

  John Wayne

  Inspirational, Life, Education

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  When Life Puts You in Tough Situations, Don't Say 'Why Me', Say 'Try Me'

  Miley Cyrus

  Motivational, Situations In Life, Trying

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• My character in 'Prison Break' needs to be formidable. In reality, I'm not very tough at all.

  Wentworth Miller

  Character, Reality, Needs

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• Well, I grew up in a tough neighborhood.

  Kent McCord

  Grew Up, Neighborhood, Wells

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• If we believe that tomorrow will be better, we can bear a hardship today

  Nhat Hanh

  Uplifting, Hope, Believe

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• The world has enough women who are tough; we need women who are tender. There are enough women who are coarse; we need women who are kind. There are enough women who are rude; we need women who are refined. We have enough women of fame and fortune; we need more women of faith. We have enough greed; we need more goodness. We have enough vanity; we need more virtue. We have enough popularity; we need more purity.

  Margaret D. Nadauld

  Inspirational, Faith, Women

  "The Joy of Womanhood" by Margaret D. Nadauld, www.lds.org. November 2000.

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• Hope is important because it can make the present moment less difficult to bear. If we believe that tomorrow will be better, we can bear a hardship today.

  Nhat Hanh

  Positive, Uplifting, Hope

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• I've failed over and over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed.

  Michael Jordan

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "Nike Culture : The Sign of the Swoosh". Book by Robert Goldman, Stephen Papson (p. 49), 1998.

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• 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

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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  Don't pray when it rains if you don't pray when the sun shines.

  Satchel Paige

  Thanksgiving, Thank You, Baseball

  Quoted in Deirdre Mullane, Words to Make My Dream Children Live: A Book of African American Quotations (1995)

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• Marriage is really tough because you have to deal with feelings... and lawyers.

  Richard Pryor

  Marriage, Funny Love, Love You

  Quoted in Robert Byrne, The Third and Possibly the Best 637 Things Anybody Ever Said (1986)

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• Anyone can hide. Facing up to things, working through them, that's what makes you strong.

  Sarah Dessen

  Inspirational, Life, Strength

  Sarah Dessen (2006). “The Truth About Forever”, p.327, Penguin

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• Women should be tough, tender, laugh as much as possible, and live long lives.

  Maya Angelou

  Life, Long, Laughing

  Maya Angelou (2011). “Wouldn't Take Nothing for My Journey Now”, p.6, Bantam

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