Quotes About Toughness

If you listen long enough you can hear my skin grow tough love is painful to the touch must be made of stronger stuff.

Put the things you can control in order. Repair what is in disorder, and make what is already good better. It is possible that you can manage, if you are careful. People are very tough. People can survive through much pain and loss. But to persevere they must see the good in Being. If they lose that, that are truly lost.

Tolkien's Bilbo must become a thief before he can become a hero. He must incorporate his monstrousness, so that he can supersede his naive harmlessness, before he is tough enough to face the terrors that confront him.

Back when I was a two-handed bastard, I made the sheep of the population nervous by skulking around in my badass facial hardware and projecting the fact that I didn't give a shit.

i aint the sharpest knife in the drawer , but i know enough to know that if your gonna be dumb you have to be tuff... i

GRIMALKIN DOES NOT CRY

You're just trying to scare me," she declared. "I'm a BloodClan cat, and BloodClan is the toughest Clan in the forest. A little scratch won't stop—" Fury's speech cut off as a wave of pain seemed to wash over her.

Die Härte der Welt wird nur durch Härte gemeistert, nicht aber durch Taschenspielerei.

The hardworking men and women of this country identify with my father. He is tough, and he is persevering. He is honest, and he is real. He's an optimist, and he's a relentless believer in America and all of her potential. He loves his family, and he loves his country with his heart and his soul.

It always gets you going when you get hit for the first time. It reminds you that you play football.

I repeat my delivery consistently. My balance is much improved. And the mental and physical toughness Pilates requires to complete movements the correct way have directly helped me on the mound.

I've had an ACL replaced in my left knee, ACL replaced in my right knee, 50 percent of my meniscus taken out of my right knee, lower back fusion, C-6, C-7 fused in my neck, C-5, C-4 disk replacement, C-4, C-3 fused. I have 26, 27 concussions, hundreds of stitches. I've been through the grinder.

Of course I get hurt.

I probably played hurt a lot more times than I should have.

As a fighter, your hands are always hurting.

People would really hate playing against me if I could touch them.

They're very harsh people, the British: hard to impress, very tough on each other, but I rather like that. It's not that the British are more honest - you're just under no illusion with them.

Courage, sacrifice, determination, commitment, toughness, heart, talent, guts. That's what little girls are made of; the heck with sugar and spice.

I survived because I was tougher than anybody else.

Old Age Ain't For Sissies. Taken from a Bette Davis quote.

I suppose when people are criticising you and saying that you are not really worthy of going to such a club as Liverpool, it gives you a little bit more drive and more desire to prove them wrong. And that can only help you in the long run: make you a little bit tougher mentally.

I'm a tomboy at heart, and I've got the battle wounds to prove it!

I think that what we do out on the field is oftentimes a little bit better than what men do. I don't think that we flop around as much. I think we're tough. I mean, I've got battle wounds on my legs from the turf and sliding. And we're gritty. And we're feisty. And I think that I would never back down from a guy.

It was a bit of a shock playing against Millwall. I knew the reputation of English football was tough, but my first thoughts when we started were, 'Wow, this is different to Denmark.' They kicked a little more and made crazy tackles, but I wasn't injured when I returned to Denmark, so I guess I did OK.