Quotes About Toughness

Life was unendurable, and yet everywhere it was endured.

We got hard hearts, she said with an accent that wasn't really any particular accent at all. She wasn't good at accents.

This here's a hard country. If a man ain't fit, he can't last - Kilkenny

He wasn't tough. A tough man has to win and lose. He has to come up after being knocked down, he has to have taken a few beatings, and know what it means to win the hard way. Anybody, he said dryly, can knock a man down. When you've been knocked down at least three times yourself, and then got up and floored the other man, then you can figure you're a tough hombre.

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Blue Juneberry, tough diamond willow.

Men who are accustomed to eat at tiny tables in howling gales have curiously neat and finished manners;

Maybe one of the qualities of being a great coach is being [a jerk]. There are quite a few of them around.

True delicacy is not a fragile thing.

Toughness has nothing to do with size, physical strength or athleticism. Toughness is A SKILL that can be developed & improved.

It gave me strength and toughness because I had to face reality, no matter how uncomfortable or painful it was.

Hardness shatters; strength endures.

Three things give hardy strength: sleeping on hairy mattresses breathing cold air and eating dry food.

The 3 key components for success are as follows: Psychological Preparedness Physical Conditioning Mental Toughness

She could feel the crunch of city grit between her back teeth.

Callous, adj. Gifted with great fortitude to bear the evils afflicting another.

Cairm Ironhead was a very different prospect. His scar-crossed face was a fortress of frown you could've blunted an axe on, eyes like nails under a brow like an anvil, cropped hair and beard an uncompromising black.

She hated walls. For her, they had always been the jaws of a trap. Ferro frowned at the bed. She hated beds, and couches, and cushions. Soft things make you soft, and she did not need them.

His face was like a whipped back, criss-crossed with ragged scars. His

Her father would've said it's a good thing, to show mercy. Long as you also show, when it's needful, that you can make of your heart a stone.

We took what came the way it came. Least it was that way on the surface. You scratched us a little, though, you could find some jelly there pretty quick. We were the kind that found it hard to cry, but once we got started you best be ready for high water and the loading of animals two by two.

Breathing the air was like swallowing broken glass.

Rugby is great. The players don't wear helmets or padding they just beat the living daylights out of each other and then go for a beer. I love that.

There aren't a lot of guys like me left. But I'm a war horse. I've been through it all. And you know something about war horses? Through the sleet, through the snow, they just keep going.