Quotes About Toughness

Think yourself lucky," said Bigwig, bleeding and cursing, "that I don't kill you.

I don't teach writing. I teach patience. Toughness. Stubbornness. The willingness to fail. I teach the life. The odd thing is most of the things that stop an inexperienced writer are so far from the truth as to be nearly beside the point. When you feel glosbal doubt about your talent, that is your talent. People who have no talent don't have any doubt.

Once you've spent a winter buried in the Alpine snow foraging for food, it's hard to complain over heat.

The most expensive thing she had ever put on her face was a New York strip after a perp had punched her in the eye.

Oh man, nobody is as tough as Mr T. Ice T is pretty tough though as well.

Toughness is a good thing, yet it is considered good only in men. When a woman is tough, men can't stand it. I like being tough and smart.

Where I come from, being a hard man is being able to take a good beating and then get back up again and carry on fighting.

Saints have to be tough as well as tender because saints are like Christ, and Christ was the toughest and the tenderest man who ever lived.

When you flop, that's just another message that you don't know how to play me. Stand up and take your medicine like a man.

Hard weather, says the old man. So let it be. Wrap me in the weathers of the earth, I will be hard and hard. My face will wash rain like the stones.

In football a man was asked to do a difficult and brutal job, and he either did it or got out.

Movies portray men as tough guys.

A lot of guys have muscles. A lot of strong men in this world. I think it's important to show that even under all this strength there's a fragile side, a side that can be affected.

I encounter really tough men and women who are just so harsh, you can't bend them. You do come across these kinds of people in every profession-just unyielding.

No wonder men got impervious to superficial pain, I thought. It came from this habit of hammering each other incessantly.

Soft men tend to be born from soft countries.

You don't get to be the bad mom and still succeed at your job and be tough. It's such a good job because it's so rare. It's a really rare job.

When you're growing up in a family without a lot of money and four boys, it can't always be, 'Let's go see a specialist, see if you're okay.' If you got hurt, you just walked it off.

I begin to regard the death and mangling of a couple thousand men as a small affair, a kind of morning dash-and it may be well that we become so hardened.

Life - with or without softener- is hard

There's no such thing as bad weather, just soft people.

Make sure when anyone tackles you he remembers how much it hurts.

I've probably been spit on more that any person alive outside of, I would say, a member of the prison system.

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.