80+ Inspirational Tough Love Quotes, Sayings to Inspire You
Tough Love Quotes and Sayings
“Love is a tough, ever hopeful thing, not easily destroyed.” —Kirby Wright
“The love that lasts the longest is the love that can never be.” —S Maugh
“Love is like an hourglass, with the heart filling up as the brain empties.” —Jules Renard
“Sometimes you must seem to hurt something in order to do good for it.” —Susan Cooper
“If you’re looking for love in these eyes, walk away. I’ve been blinded before.” —Carl Stoynoff
“Hearts are tough, Most times they don’t break. Most times they are only bend.” —Stephen King
“Most people have a harder time letting themselves love than finding someone to love them.” —Bill Russell
“Do you love me because I’m beautiful, or am I am beautiful because you love me” —Oscar Hammerstein
“To love is to admire with the heart; to admire is to love with the mind.” —Theophile Gautier
“If a hug represented how much I loved you, I would hold you in my arms forever.” —Mandy Hampton
“Tough love is just the right phrase: love for the rich and privileged, tough for everyone else.” —Noam Chomsky
“We perceive when love begins and when it declines by our embarrassment when alone together.” —Jean De La Bruyere
“Nothing glows brighter than the heart awakened to the unseen light of Love that lives within it.” —Guy Finley
“Those who love deeply never grow old; they may die of old age, but they die young.” —Sir Arthur Pinero
“You know you’re in love when you can’t fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.” —Dr Seuss
“No love, no friendship, can cross the path of our destiny without leaving some mark on it forever.” —Francois Mauriac
“When we first sort of break in or bust into the house, if you will, there’s some tough love.” —Thom Filicia
“I don’t want you to be just somebody I love. I want you to be the LOVE of MY LIFE.” —Daffy Catalan
“I wish I never fell so deep in love with you and now it ain’t no way we can be friends.” —Trey Songz
“If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. And if they don’t, they never were.” —Kahlil Gibran
“There is nothing in the world so wonderful as to love and be loved; there is nothing as devastating as love lost.” —Larry Latta
“There’s no changing your mind about whom you love. That’s part of the tough thing about being in love—it’s sort of undeniable.” —Piper Perabo
“When a love comes to an end, weaklings cry, efficient ones instantly find another love, and the wise already have one in reserve.” —Oscar Wilde
“To love someone is nothing, to be loved by someone is something, but to be loved by the one you love is everything.” —Bill Russell
“If you listen long enough you can hear my skin grow tough love is painful to the touch must be made of stronger stuff.” —Tom Petty
“Love is tough. Love survives through the worst of situations, and thrives through hope. Even when things seem hopeless love will find it’s way.” —Malika E Nura
“Sympathy constitutes friendship; but in love there is a sort of antipathy, or opposing passion. Each strives to be the other, and both together make up one whole.” —Samuel Taylor
“The worst thing you can do for love is deny it; so when you find that special someone, don’t let anyone or anything to get in your way.” —Brandi Snyder
“It takes a minute to have a crush on someone, an hour to like someone and a day to love someone – but it takes a lifetime to forget someone.” —Johnny Depp
“Tough love and brutal truth from strangers are far more valuable than Band-Aids and half-truths from invested friends, who don’t want to see you suffer any more than you have.” —Shannon L. Alder
“You can’t stop loving or wanting to love because when its right, it’s the best thing in the world. When you’re in a relationship and it’s good, even if nothing else in your life is right, you feel like your whole world is complete.” —Keith Sweat
“To the outside world we all grow old. But not to brothers and sisters. We know each other as we always were. We know each other’s hearts. We share private family jokes. We remember family feuds and secrets, family griefs and joys. We live outside the touch of time.” —Clara Ortega
“If kisses were the water I would give you the sea, if hugs were the leaves I would give you a tree, but if love was time, I would give you eternity. Before I met you I never knew what it was like. to look at someone and smile for no reason.” —Yarne Gaskins
“To love is to suffer. To avoid suffering, one must not love. But then, one suffers from not loving. Therefore, to love is to suffer; not to love is to suffer; to suffer is to suffer. To be happy is to love. To be happy, then, is to suffer, but suffering makes one unhappy. Therefore, to be happy, one must love or love to suffer or suffer from too much happiness.” —Woody Allen
Inspirational Tough Love Quotes
“Never love anybody who treats you like you’re ordinary.” —Oscar Wilde
“Life is tough, my darling, but so are you.” —Stephanie Bennett Henry
“Love is a tough, ever hopeful thing, not easily destroyed.” —Kirby Wright
“Children learn more from what you are than what you teach.” —W.E.B. DuBois
“It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.” —Frederick Douglass
“If you have never been hated by your child you have never been a parent.” —Bette Davis
“If you can give your son or daughter only one gift, let it be – enthusiasm.” —Bruce Barton
“Tough love is just the right phrase: love for the rich and privileged, tough for everyone else.” —Noam Chomsky
“You know you’re in love when you can’t fall asleep because reality is finally better then your dreams.” —Dr. Seuss
“Parents must get across the idea that I love you always, but sometimes I do not love your behavior.” —Amy Vanderbilt
“Encourage and support your kids because children are apt to live up to what you believe of them.” —Lady Bird Johnson
“I have made mistakes in my life, but failing to care for my children is not one of them.” —Jamal Lewis
“A father is a man who expects his son to be as good a man as he meant to be.” —Frank A. Clark
“To love someone is nothing, to be loved by someone is something, but to be loved by the one you love is everything.” —Bill Russell
“There’s no changing your mind about whom you love. That’s part of the tough thing about being in love – it’s sort of undeniable.” —Piper Perabo
“Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person’s character lies in their own hands.” —Anne Frank
“The worst thing you can do for love is deny it; so when you find that special someone, don’t let anyone or anything to get in your way.” —Brandi Snyder
“Loving a child doesn’t mean giving in to all his whims; to love him is to bring out the best in him, to teach him to love what is difficult.” —Nadia Boulanger
“It takes a minute to have a crush on someone, an hour to like someone and a day to love someone – but it takes a lifetime to forget someone.” —Johnny Depp
“The world has already been too tough on her, the least she needs is tough love. Be tough when you need to be, but always be soft with her. She has thorns, but she is a flower.” —L. Figaro
“You can’t stop loving or wanting to love because when its right, it’s the best thing in the world. When you’re in a relationship and it’s good, even if nothing else in your life is right, you feel like your whole world is complete.” —Keith Sweat
“When we don’t allow others to suffer the consequences of their actions we cripple them emotionally. We deprive them of the ability to learn from their mistakes. We also take away their ability to overcome their problems and change their life for the better.” —Randi G Fine
Tough Love Quotes on Success
“Tough love builds character.” —Asad Meah
“Tough love makes you tough.” —Asad Meah
“It’s tough love. They know I care.” —Leo Nesmith
“Tough love makes you grow stronger from within.” —Asad Meah
“Sometimes giving into that tough love is exactly what you need.” —Anonymous
“Tough love means being firm but kind while setting boundaries and sticking to them.”—Anonymous
“In a world that has gone soft, tough love is a necessity.” —Asad Meah
“Receiving tough love is never easy, especially when you know the person is right.” —Anonymous
“Tough love is what we need to really ask ourselves, “What am I even doing?” —Anonymous
“You must show tough love to yourself so that you get to the next level.” —Asad Meah
“I am tough, and sometimes I tell it like it is. Tough love can work wonders.” —Bikram Choudhury
“Tough love will either break you or it will make you into the person that you can truly be.” —Asad Meah
“Tough love may be tough to give, but it is a necessity of life and assurance of positive growth.” —T.F. Hodge
“Real love is tough love. Why? Because it’s never easy. It hurts the giver far more than the receiver.” —Bobby W. Miller
“Your job as a parent is to listen. And to dole out as much love as you can. That includes tough love.” —Christie Brinkley
“Tough love does not mean to be mean. It’s called tough love because accepting the impossibility of changing someone else’s behavior is tough to do.”—Anonymous
“By not standing firm and by not exercising tough love, we often cause the figurative ‘death’ of others and sometimes ourselves, our goals, our destiny.” —Deborah Smith Pegues
“And at the end of the day, we all just want someone to tell us when we are heading down the wrong path. That is true tough love.” —Anonymous
“I believe in tough love. But for tough love to work, love must come first. We must love tough to bring out the best in those who lead.” —Jon Gordon
“Hope is important. It allows you to survive. But there’s a point where tough love is required if you want to change. Action is necessary. It allows you to live.” —Brittany Burgunder
“Tough love and brutal truth from strangers are far more valuable than band-aids and half-truths from invested friends, who don’t want to see you suffer any more than you have.” —Shannon L. Adler
“Words ride on the energy of tone, its warmth or coldness; think of tone as the music of how words are expressed. You want this music to be soulful, whether you’re giving sweet talk or tough love.” —James Cook
“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!” —Mark Batterson
“There aren’t really many compliments flying around with me and my friends. It’s a lot of tough love. But you know, that love is there and if you need to have a serious conversation you just gotta wait for the right time to do it.” —Mark Wahlberg
“My co-founder and great friend Glynnis MacNicol is only a chat box away and gives me the support (and tough love!) needed to remember who I am and what I’m worth. You can’t be your own cheerleader all of the time. Be there to support your friends and let them support you.” —Rachel Sklar