Quotes About Toughness

I'm not a fighter, but I would love to be a boxer because I love the courage and toughness. I mean, there can be nothing more terrifying than walking into an arena and looking at Mike Tyson in the ring.

The simple fact is this: when you goto Alaska, you get your ass kicked.

When Chuck Norris calls 911 it's to ask if everything is ok.

Playing goal is like being shot at.

Old age ain't no place for sissies.

Why do people say 'Grow some balls?' Balls are weak and sensitive. If you wanna be tough, grow a vagina. Those things can take a pounding.

My grandmother was a very tough woman. She buried three husbands and two of them were just napping.

Hell, we got too much dignity in government now, what we need is some meanness.

When I did Dangerous Lady, they told me it was too violent and I said – she's hardly going to hit them with her handbag!

Love has nothing to do with it. It's commitment and toughness when your world shatters around you. It's losing babies and jobs and hope. It's sickness and pain, and disillusionment and broken dreams.

I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe me naive or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman.

She stalked toward the door and as she swung it open, she turned back and said, "You're not even steady on your feet. You wouldn't last two minutes on the back of a horse, and I sure as shootin' ain't riding to town for the doctor. So you can just forget gettin' that cast off today. The doctor wouldn't agree to that fool notion anyway.

Sometimes there's not a better way. Sometimes there's only the hard way.

Even the sweetest girl needs a hard center, or she's not gonna make it out there!!" - Sakura

life is like a rock it hurts and is harder then you think.

Interpreting running as an opportunity to discover and become his best self, and to give his best to others, through the relentless pursuit of toughness, or guts—a kind of courage.

Devi essere una noce». «La gente rompe le noci e le mangia».

Jennings is too tough and honest a writer to let anyone off her moral hook, even her hero.

There is equal weakness in blaming ourselves alone and in believing only in external causes. In one way or another we will always miss the mark if we do. Evil is not created by us or by others; it is born in this web that we have spun about us—and that is suffocating us. What sufficiently tough new men will be patient enough to really reweave it?

Nature has no mercy at all. Nature says, "I'm going to snow. If you have on a bikini and no snowshoes, that's tough. I am going to snow anyway."

It is unbearable—and yet I bear it.

City people. They may know how to street fight but they don't know how to wade through manure.

It's better to be tough than strong, better to be clever than intelligent," he said, repeating a family maxim. "I was tough and

More prized by his parents than good grades, Chris mentioned, was "Yankee ingenuity"—putting your smarts to work. "It's better to be tough than strong, better to be clever than intelligent," he said, repeating a family maxim.