Quotes About Toughness

Have much experience killing people?" "I didn't become a captain by knitting socks," he said, and Thalia had no answer to that.

The strongest, toughest men all have compassion. They're not heartless and cold. You have to be man enough to have compassion - to care about people and about your children" (217) - John Singleton "Oh Man, I've Become My Father

A little internal bleeding never hurt anyone. - Valkyrie

Come and have a go if you think you're hard enough.

I haven't always recruited for the best talent. I've taken a few guys who would fit for different reasons. Leadership. Toughness

Life is rough so you gotta be tough.

Life is full of hardships, pimp slaps, and sorrow.

Steel your sensibilities, so that life shall hurt you as little as possible.

I can see the thickness to your skin, Megara. You are tough. Courageous. Proud. I will assist you however I can." Meg had heard tales of Athena helping those on heroic endeavors, but she'd never imagined she'd be worthy of such a thing.

Beaver was kind of scary in that I-ride-a-Harley-and-could-whip-your-butt-in-a-fight kind of way.

Tough love is still love. 4.

You know the saying: a hard man is good to find.

How did we get to this place where we had to be tough all the time and never said how much we loved each other?

CRAIG DAVIDSON Medium Tough

Clement said it was like conditioning, prepar-ing for the ball-clutching moments of life while building your sphincter muscle. After lying in front of a freight train you can lie in bed in your underwear while two cops are visiting, asking about a certain black Buick—and while a mean-looking Walther P.38 automatic is hidden nearby at that very moment—and not worry about making doo-doo in the bed.

I've got a Tomahawk in my side but that don't hurt me much.

I must be cruel, only to be kind

We lost the crickets, she said. Even you can't make that sound tough. ...I am Butler, he said with a straight-face. Everything I say sounds tough. Now, get out of the lake, fairy.

harður maður.

A man don't need to act tough if he is. Men that put on a show are spineless more often than not.

Carny people'd punch you in the face before they'd let you tell them your troubles and strangle their own selves before they'd tell you theirs.

I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe me naive or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman.

People think of rugby players as being tough but it's another thing to stand in front of someone and get kicked, punched, taken down. In rugby you have two contact sessions a week and you play a game on the weekend.

The 'Tough Man' contests were for 21-year-olds, but I weighed 150 pounds at 13, so I got a fake ID card and entered. My dad and uncles had given me an edge, so having a boxing background made it easier because a lot of the older guys didn't know how to fight.