Quotes About Toughness

I been packin' iron for so long that if I don't have one on me somewheres, I walk slant-wise.

Your upbringing has made you tough and taught you that success can only be won by hard work. You know what true warriors are. True warriors don't falter when they're called upon to perform feats of great endurance. True warriors don't fall asleep when they ought to remain alert.

He had come to the conclusion that children are tougher and more enduring than Dr. Holt will admit; and that a little carelessness in matters of hygiene and sterilization does not necessarily mean instant death.

I'm a fucking porcupine with points.

She's tough for a blueblood, he'd thought, a lifetime ago. Maybe tough enough to be with him. He hadn't considered that he might not be tough enough to be with her.

Anna and Diana were the bravest and the toughest and the most successful.

In soft regions are born soft men.

Hazel never cried. She was forged from iron; she never broke.

I thought you needed to be tougher. But I've been thinking that protecting somebody by hurting them before someone else gets the chance isn't the kind of protecting that anybody wants.

Plunge a heated sword into oil, and any small flaw will turn into a crack. But quenched in blood as you were, none of you broke. You were only hardened.

Pain makes you strong... Get used to the weight.

So long as I don't die from it, I'll be harder to kill.

Plunge a heated sword in oil, and any small flaw will turn in to a crack. But quenched in blood as you were, none of you broke. You were only hardened.

Your heart is always harder than a stone.

I am drawn to those parts; I like the tough girls because they are not tough. It's a veil; it's a disguise. It's defenses. At the core, everybody is human, everybody is fragile, everybody is terrified, and the fear is what propels you to be tough.

I'm a white middle-class public schoolboy so I'm not particularly tough. But it turns out I don't mind going in the cage. I can dig in. And it's interesting watching people spar and train. There's no anger. It's all technique and delivered with venom.

I think, a lot of guys, when they get, you know, those hits or those concussions, they think, 'OK, well, I'm just going to kind of play through it here for the short term, and it's going to get better.' I would venture to say probably 100 percent of the guys that played my sport in the NFL have been there.

By definition, to work with me, you need thicker skin and must be OK with a certain amount of verbal abuse!

Playing in the mist doesn't build character at all, Booty; it just makes you fucking wet.

Buffeted but not broken.

I've been the way he's being now, acting tough about things that really hurt me, and I can see right through to the truth.

The strength of the Party, as Gavrila explained, lay in its ability to rid itself of those who, like a jammed or crooked wheel on a cart, impeded progress. This self-purging was done at the meetings. It was there that members acquired the necessary toughness.

Work makes a callus against grief.

Gary, who's wearing a coral shirt and white pants, growls to look tough. It doesn't work.