Tough Love Quotes

One who becomes compassionate to the cruel will ultimately become cruel to the compassionate

Compassion towards the wicked – is cruelty to all beings.

Is discipline (both mental and physical) in place of coddling truly child abuse? I don't know, but it sure as hell is effective.

Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterward.

My momma didn't clean up floors so I could be a thug... so I could wear my pants down.

My relationship with my dad was a little rocky, sure. The time that I spent with him was basically two hours of Little League practice, six or seven days a week, from the age of five until whenever. If we lost, there was no talking the whole way home. But that seemed normal to me.

God teaches us to love by putting some unlovely people around us.

He was a very strict father, which in a way has helped me to become who I am today. He never pampered me, as he wanted me to live a normal life. No film magazines were allowed at home, and we weren't allowed to watch any movies.

Don't handicap your children by making their lives easy.

Over the years I've grown more comfortable with making people uncomfortable because that is when growth can happen. You need a little conflict. You need a little tension. And that is part of my calling. A little tough love goes a long way!

I learned everything the hard way - like, literally, everything. I know that God does that to people that he has lessons for. I just wish that I had learned less extreme lessons.

If a player's not doing the things he should, put him on the bench. He'll come around.

Knowledge goes hand-in-hand with truth - something I learned with a bit of tough love from my Jesuit education first at Regis High School in New York City and then at Holy Cross College in Worcester, Mass.

Everything I do is like tough love; everything I put out there in the universe is me trying to feed you. I really care.

I'm a disciplinarian. I'm the tough love pet owner. I believe in very well-behaved animals.

Sometimes as a parent, you have to give your child that doesn't do his or her chores some tough love and withhold the allowance.

You have to, you need to be hard with each other. When things aren't going right you need to tell each other, otherwise it's going to be too easy.

The Lord is forgiving, but sometimes life is not forgiving.

Truth, like surgery, may hurt, but it cures.

My clients don't pay me to feel sorry; they pay me to bring them money. I am tough, but I have a soft side.

Be Hard on the issue, Soft on the person.

My dad was very rough with us.

Coach Graham rode you pretty hard, didn't he?" he said. I could barely muster a "yeah." That's a good thing," the assistant told me. When you're screwing up and nobody says anything to you anymore, it means they've given up on you.

If you're sensitive, you will have a hard time with me.

I love the one who punishes me well.