Toughness Quotes

You have to be tough.

Upon consideration of the central question of the moon's toughness there can be little doubt. It is hella tough.

Being a great fighter is having a perfect balance of having that toughness, skill, as well as that mental capability to be able to out-think you opponent.

Scars show toughness: that you've been through it, and you're still standing.

I find industrial cities exciting. I like their toughness.

You have to stick out the toughness of the business and form relationships with the people in it.

We talk about mental toughness all the time. That's the biggest thing good teams have, that they can overcome adversity.

The toughness I was learning was not a martyred doggedness, a dumb heroism, but the art of accommodation. I thought: to be tough is to be fragile; to be tender is to be truly fierce.

Brains without competitive hearts are rudderless.

The best team does not always win, it's the team that plays the best.

Get yourself prepared, educationally and emotionally, and develop mental toughness. Don't ever give up.

Doug Christie, what skill, what strenght, what power, what quickness. The visionof Magic Johnson, the athletisicm of Michael Jordan, the toughness of larry Bird. Dough Christie has it all

Nobody needs to worry about my toughness.

New York is eating young geniuses [businessmen] up alive. It's eating them up alive, Stone. And it's showing the beauty of the city, but it's showing the toughness and the viciousness of the city.

I would need to display great restraint, but we've got to have toughness.

The problem is we need toughness. Honestly, I think Jeb[Bush] is a very nice person. He's a very nice person. But we need tough people. We need toughness. We need intelligence and we need tough.

My biggest problem will be lack of match toughness but I am a positive, optimistic person.

Ability is the result of mental and physical toughness, resourcefulness, and powerful concentration.

Mental Toughness: The ability to consistently perform toward the upper range of your talent and skill regardless of the competitive circumstances.

When you think about your heritage, you think about toughness and hard work.

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

There are always things that you see that are pretty tough, sure. But what keeps you going is when you see people rise above toughness and rise above really hard conditions, and make something of it.

Football's not a bastion for toughness. It's not a bastion of anything uplifting or good for men or anybody else.

President Reagan, of course, did more than any other person to entrench the Republican reputation for toughness on national security.

I am a sweet old softy, but it took toughness to get through what I went through.

I've got a couple of things over [ Wladimir Klitschko]: He wouldn't spar with me when I went to the camp and I beat him in a mental toughness competition in the sauna.

Time to improve is limited. The clock is always on and doesn't care if you don't feel like it. Someone else does and they're passing you by.

I'm not concerned with whether you got to the top. I want to know how far you climbed. That is where the real achievement is found.

The measure of your character and mental toughness is the space between what you are doing and what you could be doing

Put character and mental toughness before execution and you will get consistent execution.

You are going to get over it sooner or later so get over it now.

We need intelligence in this country. We need a certain toughness in this country, or we're going to end up like a lot of the other places, and we're not going to have a country left.

It's never easy when you're constantly looking to become more.

If you're looking for the easy challenge, you're not cut out for success.

Because when you’re really scared to do something … do it right away.

Leadership grows like tall trees. It needs both toughness and flexibility - toughness for accountability - flexibility to adapt changes with a compassionate & caring heart for self and others.

When exercising gifted will-power, move boldly without hesitation. The reward for such decisiveness is increased confidence in what the heart knows, which the mind does not feel

The toughness of any journey means absolutely nothing to a mind that travels with the spirit of perseverance.

You wake up in this here world, my sweet li'l mister, you got to wake up tough. You go out that front door tough of a mornin' and you stay tough 'til lights out—have you learned that?

These dogs didn't bother to bond with us, but stuck out their paws, not to shake hands but so we could slit their wrists and get it the hell over with. (p.51)

Just as mental toughness and physical energy are the primary traits of an army, they also mark God's beautiful woman.

A champion always prepares to win.

Being tough today might cause you to be weak in the future.

The ability to continue moving when you are feeling scared, fearful or lazy is the sign of true mental strength.

A lot of things should have been, Zigmund, but they aren’t. Are you going to be miserable about the things you cannot change, or do something about the things you can?

We are only as sick as our secrets.

Real mental toughness is about being conscious of your behavior patterns and from this knowledge, you are able to turn your life around.

You're all so busy trying to be tough that you've forgotten how to be brave.

In life, toughness and roughness go together.

Anyone can be tough for a season. It takes a special kind of human to rise to life's challenges for a lifetime.