#tough

The toughest part was doing it in front of the world and recognizing that you had gotten to a point where if you didn't do something you were going to die. ↗

— Star Jones

#doing #front #going #gotten #had

I have a rule on my team: when we talk to one another, we look each other right in the eye, because I think it's tough to lie to somebody. You give respect to somebody. ↗

— Mike Krzyzewski

#because #each #eye #give #i

Real leadership means tackling tough problems ourselves and not leaving them to our children. ↗

— Jon Kyl

#leadership #leaving #means #our #ourselves

Kaderin didn't believe, as a whole, the nymphs were more beautiful than the Valkyrie, but everything about them screamed, "Easy lay! When you don't want to work for it!" And curiously, many males found that more appealing than the Valkyrie's "Do it and die, simian". ↗

— Kresley Cole

#tough-love #beauty

It is not true that everyone is special. It is true that everyone was once special and still possesses the ability to recover it. ↗

— Criss Jami

#adulthood #blunt #finding-yourself #genius #honest

Stop begging God to increase your territory when you can't even maintain the territory you already have. Work with what you got first. ↗

— Nakia R. Laushaul

#tough-love #inspirational

Sometimes the Lord allows us to go through tough times so we learn to rely upon Him. ↗

— Shirley Corder

#inspirational #the-lord #tough-times #inspirational

Any director, if you really ask them, will tell you that the toughest thing to do is like a dinner table or a dialogue scene, because you need to keep that electricity maintained throughout the course of the film. ↗

— Gary Ross

#ask #because #course #dialogue #dinner

In terms of instilling the values of mental toughness and work ethic, discipline is the gift that keeps on giving. ↗

— William Baldwin

#ethic #gift #giving #instilling #keeps

We have come to the edge of the abyss and now it is time for a bold step forward. There is a political view that the tougher you are, the more credible you are. ↗

— Ed Balls

#bold #come #credible #edge #forward