Quotes & Sayings About Tough Life Lessons

Life is still life. It's still tough, complicated, and more than a little messy, with lessons to be learned, mistakes to be made, triumphs and disappointments to be had, and not every day is meant to be a party. — Alyson Noel

No matter how good you act to be tough, your emotions will flow without your control... — Ankit Rawat

I was handed a tough life lesson at a very early age. — Boomer Esiason

Striking a balance in life is tough, but trying to strike balance and remain fair in the face of imbalance and oppression is even tougher. — Aisha Mirza

What I have learnt in life is that,
What we are today, are not the compromises or sacrifices we made in life.
We are the product of passion in priorities we make to enrich our as well as other's life. Indeed, you are only growing and evolving in your life with your tough decisions. — Rachana Shakyawar

I'd rather make less money and live in a just world. — David Clennon

All things which greatly hurt me greatly teach me — Karen Salmansohn

The world is a palace without bedsheets — Suchet Chaturvedi

I've had so many [life lessons], but the more I've walked through tough times, the stronger I've become. I truly believe anything is possible if you fully manifest it. I've been to the top and I believe I've been to the bottom as well. Respecting yourself is key - physically and mentally. It's OK to take care of yourself. — Matt Sorum

In 1963, while my brothers were engaged in their lives, I call this period of my life 'my character-building years.' I adhered to the saying, 'When the going gets tough, the tough get going. — Marc Ashton

Whatever Americans fondly believe, their government has always had its fingers in the economic pie. What distinguishes the USA from every other developed country has been the widespread belief to the contrary. — Tony Judt

The phrases and language used everyday in an organization can in fact affect the way your team makes decisions and conducts themselves. — Kevin Allen

Your magic is unbalanced without the soul-meld — Alyssa Day

Think it over, think it under. — A.A. Milne

Accepting the facts is always tough, so we search for forgiveness to this universe everyday to break the shackles, hurt is a prison and I from a very young young age refused to be held prisoner or even conform. — Aidan McNally

A tough lesson in life that one has to learn is that not everybody wishes you well. — Dan Rather

Progression and regression go hand in hand with mental health. It is a tough illness. You often take one step forward and ten steps back. — Theresa Larsen

Some people will hear you louder in silence. Those are your tribe - they'll get you through the tough days and give you something to laugh about on the ride. — Nikki Rowe

Life can be impossibly tough. At times it seems like there is no escape from either the pressure or monotony of a world where you are corralled into being something or someone you are not. But there is an escape, to more peaceful and gentler places, and a happier state of mind. — Fennel Hudson

Don't let the situation say stop to your true purpose;say stop to the situation. Situations are situations and you are you — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

Sometimes, the people that love you the most turn out to be the people you will trust the least. — Shannon L. Alder

A hard head makes a soft ass. — Will Leamon

Yet I also suspected that what I was seeing was but a part of the truth and perhaps not even the most important part; beneath these faces, these clothes, accents, rudenesses, was power and sorrow, both unadmitted, unrealized, the power of inventors, the sorrow of the disconnected. — James Baldwin

Those who say life is knocking them down and giving them a tough time are usually the first to beat themselves up. Be on your own side. — Rasheed Ogunlaru

A wish is the link between what is and what could be. It is a vine woven into a bridge between the two. Once complete, the bridge is crossed and the wish then turns into what is while a far distant what could be becomes the catalyst for another wish. So you see, life is nothing more than a string of wishes connected by our own handwoven bridges. — Richelle E. Goodrich

They believed their friendships thrived because they had raised some expectations and lowered others. They had come to expect loyalty and good wishes from each other, but not constant attention. If a friend didn't return an email or phone call, they realized, it didn't mean she was angry or backing away from the friendship; she was likely just exhausted from her day. — Jeffrey Zaslow

The toughest fucking moments in life are the ones where the whole world is a big, fat unkown, where chance has more power to change your fate than you do. It's then that you're gonna want me, Sali, because me, I'm a sure thing. — C.M. Stunich

Friends, you like it or not, life has a way of teaching us all these tough lessons. — Sunday Adelaja

Life can be tough at times, but each time you fall, is another lesson to learn from. — Auliq Ice

And I reminded myself that it's easy to be grateful for the obvious blessings in life, much harder to be grateful for the tough moments and the lessons they teach. — Celia Rivenbark