Who said life is tough

Rita Rudner 0 Copy. But life is tough and if you're creative, it's tougher. Bobby Short 0 Copy. Life is not meant to be hard: if it is, we make it so.

Ivan Panin 0 Copy. Life is not always fair. Sometimes you get a splinter sliding down a rainbow. Terri Guillemets 0 Copy. The messiness of experience, that may be what we mean by life. Daniel J. Boorstin 0 Copy. Life is a grindstone. Whether it grinds us down or polishes us up depends on us. Thomas Holdcroft 0 Copy.

People do not live nowadays — they get about ten percent out of life. Isadora Duncan 0 Copy. Life is tough but I'm tougher. Andy Rooney 0 Copy. Life sucks, but it's better than the alternative.

Michael Flynn 0 Copy. Tough is the life my Dad had, his whole career cut short at the age of 40 by a stroke. The challenged life may be the best therapist. But one thing is certain. 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.

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.

Know that it is you who will get you where you want to go, no one else. For every challenge encountered, there is opportunity for growth. The earliest known cinematic use of this thought whatever its precise expression appears in the crime film The Friends of Eddie Coyle , which was in turn based on the novel of the same name by George V. It has also been claimed that John Wayne said this line during a guest appearance on The Dean Martin Show , in the context of his passing along wisdom to the younger generation.

Wayne did participate in a segment for that show in which he discussed his thoughts about what he wanted for his then-infant daughter Marisa, but a clip of that segment no longer available online does not record him speaking the line in question. Fact Checks. Family rooms, kitchens, bedrooms If you have a favorite quote of your own you'd like to see framed in barnwood, call us toll free at Text on this sign can be altered for a nominal fee.

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