Quotes About Toughness

Anyone who has a continuous smile on his face conceals a toughness that is almost frightening.

That's hard core, Gin," Finn replied. "Very hard core. Kind of kinky too." A grim smile tightened my lips. "That's me. Gin Blanco. Hard core and kinky to the bitter end.

If reading softens one up, writing does the reverse. You have to be tough, do you not?

I became as hard as whipcord, but with a brain like cottonwool.

down hard on the soft part of your hand, but not so

it isn't so much what you can dish out as what you can take.

A good half of the art of living is resilience.

The message I'm trying to say is that I'm tough because of life experience.

It's rough to go through life with your contents looking as if they settled during shipping.

I've been in this business my whole life. I'm pretty bulletproof as far as being hurt.

I've learned... That life is tough, but I'm tougher.

I asked him what he thought of the Great Lakes now. I'm surprised at how much seamanship is required to sail them. I always thought they were for wussies, that only the oceans were worthy of tough guys like me. But in the ocean there's not much to hit, it mostly requires endurance. These lakes can kick your ass.

I had discovered that Lucy, despite her tough demeanor, was actually quite insecure; she really needed to be dominated.

I ain't got time to bleed

We became hard, suspicious, pitiless, vicious, tough—and that was good; for these attributes were just what we lacked.

I'm not naturally tough. I've learned to be tough through rubbing elbows with the police.

When the going gets tough, the tough make cookies.

It is awfully easy to be hard-boiled about everything in the daytime, but at night it is another thing.

Listen, I told him. Don't be so tough so early in the morning. I'm sure you've cut plenty of people's throats. I haven't even had my coffee yet.

So now it had started. Now they were going to give him a taste of what it meant to kill and then let yourself be bonded out of jail. They were going to let him know (not that they cared a hoot for the other boy) that he wasn't tough as he thought he was.

Like his other articles on Hitler, Churchill submitted this in advance to the Foreign Office, which asked him to tone it down. He did, a little. When they still complained of its toughness, he published it anyway.

I hurt like someone had decided to play the drums on my ribs with a mace, but I didn't think anything was actually broken. That might sound a little strange, given that this monster had both the mass and the general disposition of a siege engine, but I'd never actually managed to find anything that could break my bones.

I hold together pretty well, considering how much my atoms have been through.

Hard" isn't the same as "mean".