Tough Minded Quotes

17 quotes by 15 authors

• How can we preserve our aspirations and at the same time develop the toughness of mind and spirit to face the fact that there are… — John Nance Garner
• Be a tough-minded optimist. — Frosty Westering
• In this remarkable time for the world, I refuse to believe it's time to stop believing in the possibilities of our remarkable country. I refuse… — John F. Kerry
• In all my years one thing has never changed; You win with serious, tough-minded players. That never changes — Tom Thibodeau
• There is little hope for us until we become tough-minded enough to break loose from the shackles of prejudice, half-truths, and downright ignorance. The shape… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
• Lehman uses many conveyances—including the prose poem, the sestina, and curt rhymes—to travel across the writing life of a poet whose instinctive romanticism is always… — Ken Tucker
• Forgiving is tough. Excusing is easy. What a mistake it is to confuse forgiving with being mushy, soft, gutless, and oh, so understanding. Before we… — Lewis B. Smedes
• The greatness of our God lies in the fact that [He] is both tough minded and tender hearted. — Martin Luther King, Jr.
• Primitive superstition lies just below the surface of even the most tough-minded individuals, and it is precisely those who most fight against it who are… — Carl Jung
• No one was ever born without that light or flame of life. Some event, some person stifles or drowns it altogether. I was always tempted… — Anais Nin
• It is a wonderful thing to see a first-rate philosopher at prayer. Tough-minded thinking and tenderhearted reverence are friends, not enemies. We have for too… — Soren Kierkegaard
• The positive thinker is a hard-headed, tough-minded, and factual realist. He sees all the difficulties clearly... which is more than can be said for the… — Norman Vincent Peale
• People who think of themselves as tough-minded and realistic, among them influential political leaders and businessmen as well as go-getters and hustlers of smaller caliber,… — S I Hayakawa
• Close reading of tough-minded writing is still the best, cheapest, and quickest method known for learning to think for yourself... Reading, and rigorous discussion of… — John Taylor Gatto
• Be tough minded but tenderhearted. — H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
• I do think that there is a hunger in the land for a vision of confessional Christianity that is robust, God-centered, tough-minded, able to address… — D. A. Carson

Who Wrote These Tough Minded Quotes

15 authors contributed a total of 17 Tough Minded Quotes as follows:

• 2 Tough Minded Quotes by Martin Luther King, Jr.
• 1 Tough Minded Quote by John Nance Garner
• 1 Tough Minded Quote by Frosty Westering
• 1 Tough Minded Quote by John F. Kerry
• 1 Tough Minded Quote by Tom Thibodeau
• 1 Tough Minded Quote by Ken Tucker
• 1 Tough Minded Quote by Lewis B. Smedes
• 1 Tough Minded Quote by Carl Jung
• 1 Tough Minded Quote by Anais Nin
• 1 Tough Minded Quote by Soren Kierkegaard
• 1 Tough Minded Quote by Norman Vincent Peale
• 1 Tough Minded Quote by S I Hayakawa
• 1 Tough Minded Quote by John Taylor Gatto
• 1 Tough Minded Quote by H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
• 1 Tough Minded Quote by D. A. Carson