Quotes About Having A Thick Skin

#1. Having a thick skin doesn't mean that you're hard or harsh. I was lucky because I was born with a thick skin. That doesn't mean that things don't bother me, but you have to keep it in perspective.

Shelley Moore Capito

#2. I don't like the idea of [having] a thick skin. I think we [should] be more childlike.

Arianna Huffington

#3. You cannot do what I do for a living without having a thick skin.

Aaron Zigman

#4. To deal with life and her many challenges, you have to have thick skin like a rhinoceros".

Abdulazeez Henry Musa

#5. At first, it was hard to sit down and read the things that people were saying. A lot of people would've worked their way up to this position and would've gotten a thick skin over a few years' time. For me, though, all this happened in a few months.

Carrie Underwood

#6. Develop a skin as thick as a rhinoceros hide!

Eleanor Roosevelt

#7. Fox is notorious for having a very thick skin about taking shots at themselves.

Seth MacFarlane

#8. To obey my queen in all things." His voice was like his skin, dark. It made me think of molasses and other thick, sweet things. A voice so deep it could hit notes low enough to make my spine shiver.

Laurell K. Hamilton

#9. Rhosh, remember the being's skin, smooth, dark brown skin, like this one's skin, and the being's hair. The hair was the same, thick like this and with loose curls and the very same golden streak in it, only broader and on the right side of the head.

Anne Rice

#10. Theta crashed next to them on the thick zebra-skin rug. "I'm embalmed."
"Potted and splificated?"
"Ossified to the gills. Time for night-night.

Libba Bray

#11. The more Nos I open myself up to hearing, the closer I am getting to my super successful life.

Malti Bhojwani

#12. Persistence is worth at least as much as talent. The writing life is not a series of gentle encouragements. It's more like a series of brutal kicks in the teeth. Those who grow a thick enough skin to persevere, survive. Those who do not, do not.

Gardner Dozois

#13. The life of a dancer is not for everyone. You really have to have some thick skin. You really have to know what you're going into and how competitive the field is.

Stephen Boss

#14. Polynesian women are known for their long hair, glowing skin, and thick nails. And that comes from the local diet, which is mostly plant based with a little bit of fish and a lot of natural fats and oils.

Nikki Reed

#15. Music business is hard. It's very difficult. And it's not for everyone. Even if you can sing or even if you can write a song, it takes a lot of determination, it takes some kind of thick skin.

John Legend

#16. You don't need armor if your skin is thick.
You don't need a sword if your mind is sharp.
You don't need a shield if your heart is strong.
You don't need a fortress is your soul is secure.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#17. I don't think I have thick skin, but I heal fast. It's easy to break through, but I heal fast.

Trevor Noah

#18. Strikingly tall, broad, a thick head of silky chestnut hair, olive skin and beautiful almond shaped eyes. His was a strong face, masculine, powerful. I disliked it greatly.

Samantha Young

#19. I put myself out there; it's part of my job, and I get it: people will attack me. At first I was thrown off, but now I have a pretty thick skin about it.

Zooey Deschanel

#20. It has thick skin, and all the most important thinkers have become part of it.

N.D. Wilson

#21. I have pretty thick skin. I've been in the arena a long time, and that means that I am not going to get down with [Donald Trump] and go insult for insult.

Hillary Clinton

#22. Having been a journalist for thirty-nine years, I've developed a pretty thick skin.

Pete Earley

#23. Having red hair is never good when you're a kid. I was picked on a lot and didn't have a lot of friends. But I think that gave me a thick skin and helped make me a better person.

Jesse Tyler Ferguson

#24. You have to develop a very thick skin.

Gabrielle Union

#25. In this business you have to develop a thick skin, but I'm always going to feel everything. It's my nature.

Taylor Swift

#26. Only those with skin as thick as elephant hide can hope to sail through their teens unscathed by self-doubt and bouts of depression.

Mariella Frostrup

#27. to myself as I glanced over at her thick ass lying naked next to me. I was so in love with her smooth cocoa skin and that fat ghetto ass. She had me hypnotized by her big brown eyes... that long black hair...and her smell!!! Damn my bitch was fine and I loved the shit out of her, but

Niki Jilvontae

#28. I have always read all my reviews, the bad along with the good (although you remember the bad much more than the good!). I am just too curious to see how it's playing with the audience, and I have a thick-enough skin to handle the less charitable assessments.

Frank Spotnitz

#29. Critics are those righteous experts who judge other people's hard earned accomplishmens as they themselves stand on the sidelines of life.

Aaron Lauritsen

#30. Let me just say as one who has been speaker of the House, I've had to have a very thick skin about every kind of thing that was thrown at me.

Nancy Pelosi

#31. Maulkin abruptly heaved himself out of his wallow with a wild thrash that left the atmosphere hanging thick with particles. Shreds of his shed skin floated with the sand and muck like the dangling remnants of dreams when one awakes.

Robin Hobb

#32. Under her thick pancake makeup, her skin had been pockmarked, but he would stare at her adoringly from his cot at night and imagine her scars were constellations, a secret map to a far-off, happy place.

Sarah Addison Allen

#33. The ocean is a place of skin, rich outer membranes hiding thick juicy insides, laden with the soup of being.

Vera Nazarian

#34. It is not always the best people who emerge from hiding, from the corners and cracks of that farmedout field, but often those who have proven themselves strongest, not always those who will create new values but rather those whose thick skin and internal resilience have ensured their survival.

Ryszard Kapuscinski

#35. This is my skin. It keeps out the rain and words I'd rather not hear like "I'm tired" or "I'm fine" or "We need to talk."
This is my skin and it's thick. This is not your skin. Yet you are still under it.

Iain S. Thomas

#36. I will never grow thick skin so that you don't have to feel bad about being a jerk to me.

Dan Pearce

#37. To cope with hurt and control my fears, I grew a thick skin. Oh, the many names of power - pride, arrogance, control. I am not the frozen snow queen but a flesh and blood woman with perhaps too loving a heart, one easily hurt.

Michelle Cliff

#38. I have thick skin. I'm not a baby. Nothing really offends me. If there's something I think might offend me, I don't listen to it.

Larry The Cable Guy

#39. I bring values, resiliency, a thick skin, and I'm not afraid to be confrontational. I don't remember anyone before bringing that to the table.

Carl Paladino

#40. I have a thick skin, but I have a heart.

Dan Savage

#41. I might have to stumble a little bit more in public than others, but that's fine, I don't mind, I've developed a thick skin.

James Franco

#42. I've been booed in Holland and in Uruguay - as a professional footballer, you need to have thick skin and just get used to it.

Luis Suarez

#43. I do think a key to success in any walk of life is having a short memory and a thick skin - I know it has served me well over the years.

Aubrey McClendon

#44. As a Test cricketer you expect that at times you're going to be heckled, and you must have a thick skin.

Brett Lee