We always want to be the best but sometimes we are let down by circumstances. People who don’t give up and fight back are the real winners. They stand tough in every situation and it’s the mindset which plays the key role. Being tough is not an option in this world, it’s the only solution we have to survive and thrive. Below are the being tough quotes compiled to keep you strong during tough times.

1. “You are allowed to be both a Masterpiece and a work in progress simultaneously.” – Sophia Bush
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3. “No matter the wreckage there will be someone to find you beautiful (despite the cruddy metal).” – Sarah Kay
4. “Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.” – Mahatma Gandhi
5. “You are imperfect and wired for struggle, but you are worthy of love and belonging.” – Brene Brown
6. “I’m thankful for my struggle because without it, I wouldn’t have stumbled across my strength.” –  Alex Elle
7. “How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard.” – Winnie the Pooh
8. “I don’t know a perfect person. I only know flawed people who are still worth loving.” – John Green
9. “Repeat after me: I am not a problem to be solved. Repeat after me: I am worthy. I am worthy. I am neither the mistake nor the punishment.” – Sierra Demulder
10. “You may encounter many defeats but you must not be defeated.” – Maya Angelou “Being Tough Quotes”
11. “Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us.” – Marianne Williamson
12. “I will love myself despite the ease with which I lean toward the opposite.” – Shane Koyczan
13. “For what it’s worth, it’s never too late to be whoever you want to be. I hope you live a life you’re proud of, and if you find that you’re not, I hope you have the courage to start over.” – F. Scott Fitzgerald
14. “Through persistence, self-knowledge, prayer, commitment, optimism, a resolute trust in God and the building of your own personal moral strength, you can enjoy the blessings of a deeper faith and face the difficulties of life with courage and confidence.” – Norman Vincent Peale
15. “Sometimes you don’t realize your own strength until you come face to face with your greatest weakness”. -Susan Gale  ,sometimes being tough quotes
16. “I have no regrets in my life. I think that everything happens to you for a reason. The hard times that you go through build character, making you a much stronger person.” – Rita Mero
17. “Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.”- Dale Carnegie
18. “Ok at life through the windshield, not the rear view mirror.” – Byrd Baggett
19. “Courage conquers all things: it even gives strength to the body.” – Publius Ovidius Naso
20. “I have heard there are troubles of more than one kind. Some come from ahead and some come from behind. But I’ve bought a big bat. I’m all ready you see. Now my troubles are going to have troubles with me!” – Dr. Seuss
21. “Make up your mind that no matter what comes your way, no matter how difficult, no matter how unfair, you will do more than simply survive. You will thrive in spite of it.” – Joel Osteen
22. “Everything is okay in the end, if it’s not ok, then it’s not the end.”
23. “Hardship prepares ordinary people for an extraordinary destiny.” – C.S. Lewis
24. “If you can find a path with no obstacles, it probably doesn’t lead anywhere.” – Frank A. Clark
25. “A hero is an ordinary individual who finds the strength to persevere and endure in spite of overwhelming obstacles.” – Christopher Reeve
26. “You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you.” – Walt Disney
27. “Never say never, because limits, like fears, are often just an illusion.” – Michael Jordan
28. “You have power over your mind, not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.” – Marcus Aurelius
29. “A truly strong person does not need the approval of others any more than a lion needs the approval of sheep.” – Vernon Howard
30. “The difference between stumbling blocks and stepping stones is how you use them.”  ,Being Tough Quotes
31. “When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.” – Henry Ford
32. “Never be ashamed of a scar. It simply means you were stronger than whatever tried to hurt you.”
33. “A smooth sea never made a skilled sailor.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt
34. “Strength isn’t about bearing a cross of grief or shame. Strength comes from choosing your own path, and living with the consequences.”  – Jenny Trout
35. “If there is no struggle, there is no progress.” – Frederick Douglass
36. “You never know how strong you are until being strong is the only choice you have.” – Bob Marley
37. “Perhaps I am stronger than I think.” – Thomas Merton  ,being tough quotes
38. “No matter how hard the past, you can always begin again.” – Buddha
39. “The struggle you’re in today is developing the strength you need for tomorrow. Don’t give up.” – Robert Tew
40. “Things happen to you to make you realize your true potential, strength, will power, and heart. You’ve got to have faith.” – Dr. Byron Hayes
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42. “But our lives will only ever always continue to be a balancing act that has less to do with pain, and more to do with beauty” – Shane Koyczan
43. “Life is like walking through paradise with peas in your shoes.”- Charles Edward Jerningham
44. “Life is a matter of really tough choices.” – Joe Biden,  being tough quotes
45. “Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal. My strength lies solely in my tenacity.” – Louis Pasteur
46. “We acquire the strength we have overcome.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson  ,being tough quotes and sayings
47. “Never give up, and be confident in what you do. There may be tough times, but the difficulties which you face will make you more determined to achieve your objectives and to win against all the odds.” – Marta
48. “You’ve got to stay strong to be strong in tough times.” – Tilman J. Fertitta
49. “Life is tough; and if you have the ability to laugh at it, you have the ability to enjoy it.”-  Salma Hayek
50. “Life is tough and you have to be tougher than life to change the world.” – Sebastian Pinera
51. “Life is tough, and if we don’t laugh, we’re going to our head will explode.” – Jeff Ross
52. “For a tree to become tall it must grow tough roots among the rocks.” – Friedrich Nietzsche
53. “Out of the agony and travail of economic America the Committee for Industrial Organization was born.”- John L. Lewis
54. “If somebody hits you with an object you should beat the hell out of them.”- Charles Barkley
55. “In this industry, there are only two ways up the ladder. Rung by rung or claw your way to the top. It’s sure been tough on my nails.”- Jack Nicholson
56. “I have been up against tough competition all my life. I wouldn’t know how to get along without it.”- Walt Disney
57. “A lot of people are afraid to tell the truth, to say no. That’s where toughness comes into play. Toughness is not being a bully. It’s having backbone.”- Robert Kiyosaki
58. “The way of the pioneer is always rough.”- Harvey S. Firestone,  being tough quotes
59. “This ain’t no garden party, brother, this is wrestling, where only the strongest survive.”- Ric Flair
60. “I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my ship.” – Louisa May Alcott
61. “When you have exhausted all possibilities, remember this: you haven’t.” – Thomas Edison
62. “If things are going bad and life is tough, hang in there. Ride it out. Come out on top.” – Ashton Irwin
63. “Tough times never last, but tough people do.” – Robert H. Schuller
64. “Life is not meant to be hard: if it is, we make it so.” – Ivan Panin
65. “Life is not always fair. Sometimes you get a splinter sliding down a rainbow.”- Terri Guillemets
66. “Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success.”- Dale Carnegie
67. “Once you choose hope, anything’s possible.”- Christopher Reeve
68. “Most great people have attained their greatest success one step beyond their greatest failure.”- Napoleon Hill
69. “The best way to predict the future is to create it.”- Abraham Lincoln
70. “The first step is you have to say that you can.”  – Will Smith
71. “Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.” – Robert F. Kennedy
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73. “Never bend your head. Always hold it high. Look the world right in the eye.”- Helen Keller
74. “To keep the body in good health is a duty… otherwise we shall not be able to keep our mind strong and clear.” – Buddha
75. “Promise yourself to be so strong that nothing can disturb your peace of mind.” – Christian Larson
76. “If I persist long enough I will win.” – Og Mandino
77. “Not everyday is a good day. You may feel like hell and some you may feel like nothing could be worse. Keep your head up, because someday you will have your day. It could be tomorrow or the next day but that day will come, and it will be the best day of your life, just you wait.” – Ash Sweeney
78. “In the middle of a difficulty lies opportunity.” – Albert Einstein
79. “Light tomorrow with today.” – Elizabeth Barrett Browning
80. “The dreamers are the saviors of the world.” – James Allen
81. “Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.” – John Wooden
82. “I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.”- Michael Jordan
83. “If there is no struggle, there is no progress.” – Frederick Douglass
84. “Defeat is simply a signal to press onward.” – Helen Keller
85. “Rise above the storm and you will find the sunshine.” – Mario Fernandez
86. “The best is yet to be.” – Robert Browning
87. “Life has no limitations, except the ones you make.” – Les Brown
88. “Believe you can and you’re halfway there.” – Theodore Roosevelt
89. “Life is 10% what happens to me and 90% how I react to it.” – Charles R. Swindoll
90. “Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.” – Truman Capote
91. “The world is more malleable than you think and it’s waiting for you to hammer it into shape.” – Bono
92. “Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.” – Samuel Beckett
93. “There is no education like adversity.” – Benjamin Disraeli
94. “It always seems impossible until it’s done.” – Nelson Mandela
95. “You’re going to go through tough times that’s life. But I say, nothing happens to you, it happens for you. See the positive in negative events.” – Joel Osteen
96. “All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make, the better.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson ,life being tough quotes
97. “If you’re going through hell, keep going.” -Winston Churchill
98. “Take things as they are. Punch when you have to punch. Kick when you have to kick”- Bruce Lee
99. “When somebody challenges you, fight back. Be brutal, be tough.” – Donald Trump
100. “And if you can’t see anything beautiful about yourself, get a better mirror, look a little closer, stare a little longer because there is something inside of you that made you keep trying despite everyone who told you to quit.” – Shane Koyczan
101. “Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength.” – Arnold Schwarzenegger
102. “It’s interesting how we often can’t see the ways in which we are being strong – like, you can’t be aware of what you’re doing that’s tough and brave at the time that you’re doing it because if you knew that it was brave, then you’d be scared.” – Lena Dunham
103. “Be strong & face the life. Because sometimes Life is keeping nothing but only one option. Be strong anyway.” – Anonymous
104. “Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired, and success achieved.”- Helen Keller
105. “Promise me you’ll always remember: You’re braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.” – A. A. Milne
106. “He who believes is strong; he who doubts is weak. Strong convictions precede great actions.” – Louisa May Alcott
107. “You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one.” – James A. Froude
108. “Permanence, perseverance and persistence in spite of all obstacles, discouragements, and impossibilities: It is this, that in all things distinguishes the strong soul from the weak.” – Thomas Carlyle
109. “Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men.” – John F Kennedy
     

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110. “Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough.”- Og Mandino
111. “A heart is a strong muscle and what do muscles do when they are torn? They grow back STRONGER!” – Ivan Avendano
112. “If God sends us on strong paths, we are provided strong shoes.” – Corrie ten Boom
113. “Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.” – Mahatma Gandhi
114. “Don’t be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are small jobs. Every time you conquer one it makes you that much stronger. If you do the little jobs well, the big ones will tend to take care of themselves.” – Andrew Carnegie
115. “It is worth remembering that the time of greatest gain in terms of wisdom and inner strength is often that of greatest difficulty.”- Dalai Lama
116. “If you can’t fly then run, if you can’t run then walk, if you can’t walk then crawl, but whatever you do you have to keep moving forward.” – Martin Luther King, Jr.
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118. “When you come to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt
119. “The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it.” – Moliere
120. “Don’t wait for extraordinary opportunities. Seize common occasions and make them great. Weak men wait for opportunities; strong men make them.” – Orison Swett Marden
121. “The task ahead of you is never greater than the strength within you.” – Anonymous
122. “Worry does not empty tomorrow of its troubles; it empties today of its strength.” – Corrie ten Boom
123. “Never give in.. never, never, never, never, in nothing great or small, large or petty, never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense. Never yield to force, never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy.” – Winston Churchill
124. “Hard times don’t create heroes. It is during the hard times when the ‘hero’ within us is revealed.” – Bob Riley
125. “Being strong doesn’t mean you’ll never get hurt. It means even when you get hurt, you’ll never let it defeat you.”- Anonymous
126. “You have to learn to get up from the table when love is no longer being served.” – Nina Simone  ,love being tough quotes
127. “Strength isn’t about how much you can handle before you break, it’s about how much you can handle after you break.” – Anonymous
128. “My strength did not come from lifting weights. My strength came from lifting myself up when I was knocked down.” – Bob Moore
129. “Throw me to the wolves and I will return leading the pack.” – Anonymous
130. “Strength doesn’t come from what you can do. It comes from overcoming the things you once thought you couldn’t.” – Rikki Rogers
131. “You’re off to Great Places! Today is your day! Your mountain is waiting, So… get on your way!”- Dr. Seuss
132. “The will of the strong will never be shaken by doubts of the weak.”
133. “When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems as though you could not hang on a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn. – Harriet Beecher Stowe
134. “It’s not the strength of the body that counts, but the strength of the spirit.” – J.R.R Tolkien
135. “It’s hard to beat a person who never gives up.” – Babe Ruth
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137. “All endings are also beginnings. We just don’t know it at the time.” – Mitch Albom ,Being Tough Quotes
138. “This too shall pass away.” – Ella Wheeler Wilcox
139. “Around here, we don’t look backwards for very long…we keep moving forward, opening up new doors and doing new things because we’re curious…and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.” – Walt Disney
140. “Strength is the product of struggle, you must do what others don’t to achieve what others won’t.” – Henry Rollins
141. “Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.” – Thomas A. Edison
142. “I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.” – Nelson Mandela
143. “Be strong. Live honorably and with dignity. When you don’t think you can, hold on.” – James Frey  ,best being tough quotes
144. “Become a possibilitarian. No matter how dark things seem to be or actually are, raise your sights and see the possibilities… always see them… for they’re always there.” – Norman Vincent Peale
145. “Remember that guy that gave up? Neither does anyone else.” – Anonymous
146. “The most beautiful people I’ve known are those who have known trials, have known struggles, have known loss, and have found their way out of the depths.” – Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
147. “You never cross the ocean unless you have the courage to lose sight of the shore.” “Being Tough Quotes”
148. “Through every dark night, there’s a bright day after that. So no matter how hard it get, stick your chest out, keep your head up, and handle it.” – Tupac Shakur
149. “I hated every minute of training, but I said, ‘Don’t quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.”- Muhammad Ali
150. “Where there is no struggle, there is no strength.” – Oprah Winfrey