Erma Bombeck Quotes

When the going gets tough, the tough eat ribs.

I've become a pretty tough cookie after having a divorce. I think that I've persevered through a lot of talk.

I know there are five stages of grief, but my parents raised me to pull up my socks when times get tough.

Life…never gave me a chance to be soft.

If you have the character to hang in there when its tough, you will develop or acquire every other characteristic necessary to WIN in the game of life.

There are so many difficult things and stories can make them palatable. That's the way I have always felt.

The person who can dominate during rough times is the person who can dominate, period.

Remember, no matter what life throws at us, we can always bake a cake!

Everyone experiences tough times, it is a measure of your determination and dedication how you deal with them and how you can come through them.

When the news you don't want to hear is looming before you like Everest, two things can happen. Tragedy can run you through like a sword, or it can become your backbone. Either you fall apart and sob, or you say, 'Right. What's next?

As an elephant in the battlefield withstands arrows shot from bows all around, even so shall I endure abuse.

When you think life is tough, it can get a lot tougher.

Adversity can strengthen us if it does not go on too long.

When your spinal cord freezes up, you're vulnerable to everything. But he [Chrestopher Reese] was tough as nails. And he kept a great, kind of dark sense of humor about it, but also was able to accomplish amazing things.

Faith is reacting positively to a negative situation.

I struggle to be rugged and raw dude, trying to survive in the trials and lawsuits, Everybody wants to test me, WHY ME?

Life is a series of relapses and recoveries.

Adversity finds at last the man whom she has often passed by.

My mother always said that the strongest steel is forged by the fires of hell.

You can be angry and pissed off at the coach and put your head down and pout. Or you can rise above it, respect the decision, but also know that you're going to go and work that much harder and prove everybody wrong. And that's the road that I chose.

when times are tough, the weak bail and the tough get creative.

Learn to be difficult when it counts

If you're a man, you don't cry about it, you take life, the ups and downs; if you're a real man you never go down, you just stay up!

Greatness is best measured by how well an individual responds to the happenings in life that appear totally unfair, unreasonable, and undeserved. Sometimes we are inclined to put up with a situation rather than endure. To endure is to bear up under, to stand firm against, to suffer without yielding, to continue to be, or to exhibit the state or power of lasting.

Hard times fall upon everybody. Whatever it is, we're going to get out of it.