Quotes About Toughness

The Russian Jews, he concludes, can make an important contribution to the necessary revival of religious feeling. Their totalitarian experience has matured their souls as well as toughened their minds.

Nature was tough, it could be dangerous, but unlike Dr. Cable or shay, or peris-unlike people in general-it made sense. The problems it threw at you could be solved rationally.

Now listen lads, I'm not happy with our tackling. We're hurting them but they keep getting up.

Life…never gave me a chance to be soft.

A strong ,intellectually sound person is like a steel rebar that looks hard and tough from outside but inside in the core remains relatively soft and ductile.

We talk about toughness as a quarterback: it's not sometimes the physical part that you see; it's the mental toughness and the 'I'm going to stand in here, take this shot,' and 'I'm going to deliver it to my guy.'

Jay Cutler, he's a fine quarterback, but I think at times he gets a little nicked up.

I do think that people outside the fashion industry imagine that being a model is what you might call quick, easy money, but it can be very lonely - you have to be quite tough. It's also very physically demanding.

The quicker you get acclimated to getting hit and being on the ground, it's better for you when the games start.

I am not very tough with raising my children, but you can argue that to be more tough will help your children.

Jacare is a gangster. He's been in the game for a long time.

I wouldn't say I really admired anyone. When I was a kid, there were definitely a lot of tough guys, but they weren't really cool. If anything, that was an influence on me: to take that toughness and combine it with the cool style, the cool entrance, the cool gear - and driving to work in a Ferrari.

You are either genetically tough or you're not.

I'm not made of glass.

I fought when most of the time we didn't even wear gloves.

On a show like 'Oz,' I was wearing Dickies and a cut-off shirt and a gold cross.

You have got to have a good sense of humor, you have got to be tough, and you have got to know how to dress.

Every achievement, every step forward in knowledge, is the consequence of courage, of toughness towards oneself, of sincerity to oneself

Life is hard to bear: but do not pretend to be so delicate!

Life is hard to bear: but do not pretend to be so sensitive! We are all of us pretty sturdy asses and she-asses.

Andre Ward beat me fair and square on points in a boring fight, a dull affair. Same as when he beat Kessler. Headbutted him to bits, but he knows how to win. He wins ugly, but he knows how to win.

A lot of people say, 'It takes a lot to beat him,' or whatever. I'm trying to show you in the most literal terms, my body is indestructible, whether its glass or fire or barbed wire.

My dad was a very quiet person, and unbelievably tough. But my grandmother gave me my first look at negative thinking to bring about positive results. When I was just a little guy, anytime I came to my grandmother and said I wish for this or that, Grandma would say, 'If wishes were horses, beggars would ride.'

When the news broke that John McCain had been diagnosed with brain cancer, the outpouring of well wishes all hailed his toughness.