Toughness Quotes

You have to stick out the toughness of the business and form relationships with the people in it. (Rocco DiSpirito)
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. View quote
Anaïs Nin
Anyone who has a continuous smile on his face conceals a toughness that is almost frightening. View quote
Greta Garbo
To be gentle, tolerant, wise and reasonable requires a goodly portion of toughness. View quote
Peter Ustinov
We must combine the toughness of the serpent with the softness of the dove, a tough mind and a tender heart. View quote
Martin Luther King Jr.
My father believed in toughness, honesty, politeness and being on time. All very important lessons. View quote
Roger Moore
One of the things about being raised British in Africa is that you get this double whammy of toughness. The continent in place itself made you quite tough. And then you've got this British mother whose entire being rejects 'coddling' in case it makes you too soft. So there's absolutely nothing standing between you and a fairly rough experience. View quote
Alexandra Fuller
Toughness is in the soul and spirit, not in muscles. View quote
Alex Karras
Courage, sacrifice, determination, commitment, toughness, heart, talent, guts. That's what little girls are made of. View quote
Bethany Hamilton
My biggest problem will be lack of match toughness but I am a positive, optimistic person. View quote
Greg Rusedski
People think SEALs are cold-blooded, heartless, wound-up, brainwashed killers. They imagine you can just point a SEAL in a direction and say, 'Go kill.' The truth is you're talking about a bunch of kind-hearted, jovial guys. The only thing that separates them is mental toughness. (Howard E. Wasdin)
When you think about your heritage, you think about toughness and hard work. View quote
Jeff Garcia
I felt like the dark hair added like a toughness to my face also, which was really important. View quote
Jaime King
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. View quote
Mark McGrath
I realized that I'm a soft person. I think I'm sensitive. I wanted very much to be tough and I think movie stars have a certain kind of resilience and toughness to them, but I'm quite a sensitive young lady in some respects. View quote
Rachael Taylor
Tennis is all about mental toughness, and you have to keep your head in the game. I make time to relax away from competition pressures, travel and intense training schedules to make sure I'm looking after myself. Taking time out with family and friends helps to maintain the work-life balance everyone needs. View quote
Samantha Stosur
I'm a great believer in the character of a club. To me, character has a lot to do with how you compete. That creates urgency and toughness. That elevates the talent that you have. View quote
Tony La Russa
Scars show toughness: that you've been through it, and you're still standing. View quote
Theo Rossi
In terms of instilling the values of mental toughness and work ethic, discipline is the gift that keeps on giving. View quote
William Baldwin
You can't upstroke yourself into toughness. View quote
Josh Homme
Brave men are all vertebrates; they have their softness on the surface and their toughness in the middle. (G. K. Chesterton)
Yet, what is their violence compared to mine, which was to accept theirs, to make it mine, to wish it for myself, to intercept it, to utilize it, to force it upon myself, to know it, to premeditate it, to discern and assume its perils? But what was mine, willed and necessary for my defense, my toughness, my rigor, compared to the violence they underwent like a malediction, risen from an inner fire simultaneously with an outer light which sets them ablaze and illuminates us? View quote
Jean Genet
Mace stared at the man as though he'd never seen him before. And he hadn't: only now, finally, was he seeing him. An undistinguished little man: soft face and uncertain voice, shaky hands and allergies: an undistinguished little man who must have had resources of toughness that Mace could barely imagine. View quote
Matthew Stover
Concentration and mental toughness are the margins of victory. View quote
Bill Russell
In America, the best model yet for the first woman president can be found among the Texas feminists, notably Governor Ann Richards. East Coast feminists, like Gloria Steinem, who created the smug, superior feminist smirk (done to an unctuous turn by NOW president Patricia Ireland), have failed to produce a credible persona for national leadership, partly because of their juvenile, jeering attitude towards men. The irony is that the legal and media world inhabited by Steinem and her cronies is filled with bookish white-collar men who are the only ones in the world who actually listen to feminists rhetoric and can be guilt-tripped into trying to obey it. ... In Texas, unlike the urban Northeast, men are men. Women politicians in that state have the toughness and grit to handle men at their most macho. Southern women, particularly those of the plantation-belt, "iron magnolia” school, are able to get what they want and still retain their graceful femininity. View quote
Camille Paglia