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I wouldn't say that I've had a tough life by any stretch of the imagination.
Sep 29, 2025
It's a tough life if you don't weaken.
This is a tough, tough life when things aren't going your way.
I wasnt born with a golden spoon in my mouth. It was a really tough life.
Jesus had a tough life. I read about that guy. Jesus is the only guy that ever came back from the dead that didn't scare the F- out of everybody!
I come from a family of very strong women, women who have endured very tough lives in hopes of a better one for their children.
I was handed a tough life lesson at a very early age.
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.
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.
A Tough life with God is better than a good life without Him
I had no one to help me, but the T. S. Eliot helped me. So when people say that poetry is a luxury, or an option, or for the educated middle classes, or that it shouldn’t be read at school because it is irrelevant, or any of the strange stupid things that are said about poetry and its place in our lives, I suspect that the people doing the saying have had things pretty easy. A tough life needs a tough language – and that is what poetry is. That is what literature offers – a language powerful enough to say how it is. It isn’t a hiding place. It is a finding place.
Whenever someone calls me ugly I get super sad and hug them, because I know how tough life is for the visually impaired.
We can live tough lives, but the human spirit is stronger, seemingly, than anything. There is redemption, hope, and love. All different forms of heartbreak, but beyond all that there is hope, there is love. There is beauty and bliss.
When the going gets tough, the tough get a librarian.
When the going gets tough, the tough eat ribs.
When the going gets tough, the tough take a nap.
When the going gets tough, the tough make cookies.
Baseball life is a tough life on the family.
The brick walls are there to stop the people who don't want it badly enough. They are there to stop the other people!
Brick walls are there for a reason. They give us a chance to show how badly we want
I worry when athletes are simply used by their universities to produce revenue, to make money for them, nothing to show at the back end. I grew up with a lot of players who had very, very tough lives after the ball started bouncing for them. And that's why I'm going to continue to fight.
To be tested is good. The challenged life may be the best therapist.
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.
You have to trust in something--your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever.
You don't have to know anything about baseball to respond to Babe Ruth because he's just this magnificent human being. And a really good story because he was this kid who grew up essentially as an orphan, you know, had a tough life, and then he became the most successful baseball player ever. But he was also a really good guy.
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.
Again, you can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something - your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.
You have to trust in something - your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.
Once you choose hope, anything's possible
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.
When the going gets tough, the tough reinvent.
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.
Don't pray when it rains if you don't pray when the sun shines.
Never let your head hang down. Never give up and sit down and grieve. Find another way.
A problem is a chance for you to do your best.
Tough times never last, but tough people do.
If you're going through hell, keep going.
The bravest sight in the world is to see a great man struggling against adversity.
In times of great stress or adversity, it's always best to keep busy, to plow your anger and your energy into something positive.
And so rock bottom became the solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life.
You miss 100% of the shots you don't take.
The best way to predict the future is to study the past, or prognosticate.
The best way to predict the future is to create it.
The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
The most reliable way to predict the future is to create it.
If you can't change it.. change the way you think about it
If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude.
Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
I had spent some time in the outback, but to meet Aboriginals and work with them was wonderful. It gave me a great appreciation of how tough life is and about the indomitable spirit that the Aboriginal people have always possessed.