Quotes About Toughness

Walt Longmire: "I punched him in the fist with my nose, but I think he'll live.

I came along the decade after the generation where a lot of heels were still getting stabbed, so I was always looking for it. I had a bullet-proof vest in a couple places.

I don't need soft talk. I'm not an old player, but a veteran. It's OK, my feelings won't get hurt.

Concentration and mental toughness are the margins of victory.

The physical toughness is the obvious - the ability to push through things no matter what's coming at you, to keep going, to not give in. Never surrender. Usually the victory goes to the guy who can play through it the longest. Of course, the mental part is equally important.

Although cocaine wasn't my thing, the guy was sporting a leather jacket and a Kereouac novel and I have a weakness for tough guys who read.

Nah. I'm a tough cookie. Except for the cancer, I'm fine.

Mike, my colleague, had said a while back that when we feel fragile, we're like raw eggs- we crack open and splatter if dropped. But when we develop more resilience, we're like hard-boiled eggs- we might get dinged up if dropped, but we won't crack completely and spill all over the place.

I once told Wendell that Mike, my colleague, had said a while back that when we feel fragile, we're like raw eggs—we crack open and splatter if dropped. But when we develop more resilience, we're like hard-boiled eggs—we might get dinged up if dropped, but we won't crack completely and spill all over the place.

He hadn't shaved that morning, she noticed. Maybe not for a handful of mornings, and the scruff gave his square jaw a toughness that suggested the wild teenager had long ago become a man.

My knuckles ached to meet his nose.

I would beat you to crap if you didn't already look like it

Ow," I complained. I keep my complaints succinct

Don't fuck with me, fellas. This ain't my first time at the rodeo.

Struggle in life makes you tough and inculcates fighting quality. It shapes you as a person of strong will power and prepares you to take hard times in your stride without fear and with confidence. Therefore never shy off struggle in life,

Don't be maudlin. You're a librarian, for God's sake. Toughen up.

This was what few people realize—it's hard work to beat somebody. I have known many an interrogator who has strained a back, pulled a muscle, torn a tendon or a ligament, even broken fingers, toes, hands, and feet, not to mention going hoarse.

Strong and healthy, that's what these twins will be. They'll need to be. This country isn't for the weak or the fat.

Americans had grown soft with all of their rights and personal freedom. They had no idea how harsh the rest of the world was.

This was the kind of woman she understood, a woman after her own cold heart.

Dear little not-so-innocents, beware of Old Grandmother Spider: rump her endearments – She's not quite as nice as She looks, nor you quite as tough as you think.

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

Courage is to take hard knocks like a man when occasion calls.

From my father's side I got the strength, the mental toughness, the heart, the courage.