Quotes About Toughness

#1. I watched my parents battle, work night shift, work two jobs. That's toughness. That's toughness ... That's something; it all carries over from your parents, and I was fortunate to have both parents in my life.

Mo Williams

#2. He's very competitive and knows what he wants. He has developed toughness in character and that is what is needed for Indian cricket. Ganguly has proved to be one of the best captains. He has now acquired great leadership qualities.

Steve Waugh

#3. 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

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

Samantha Power

#5. 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.

Rashad Evans

#6. Mental toughness is many things and rather difficult to explain. Its qualities are sacrifice and self-denial. Also, most importantly, it is combined with a perfectly disciplined will that refuses to give in. It's a state of mind-you could call it character in action.

Vince Lombardi

#7. It gave me strength and toughness because I had to face reality, no matter how uncomfortable or painful it was.

Halle Berry

#8. You run the football for toughness. You run the ball to tell your opponent that you're as tough as they are. But you throw the ball to ring the bell.

Jerry Glanville

#9. 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.

Donald Trump

#10. What makes you really come together under pressure is determination and focus and toughness.

Debi Thomas

#11. Military brats have this toughness: they're almost like orphans or foster children; they develop little mechanisms. It sets you up to look at things a little differently.

Padgett Powell

#12. Toughness is a skill. I don't think we're all born tough. You learn about toughness through your experience.

Jay Bilas

#13. Brave men are all vertebrates; they have their softness on the surface and their toughness in the middle.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

#14. It occurred to him that strength was quite different from toughness and that being vulnerable wasn't quite the same as being weak.

Michelle Magorian

#15. Mental Toughness is doing the right thing for the team when it's not the best thing for you

Bill Belichick

#16. 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.

Donald Trump

#17. To me, football is so much about mental toughness, it's digging deep, it's doing whatever you need to do to help a team win and that comes in a lot of shapes and forms.

Tom Brady

#18. Mental toughness must be developed before you start fighting because you don't want to be that guy who quits in the ring.

Forrest Griffin

#19. Concentration and mental toughness are the margins of victory.

Bill Russell

#20. Because I don't look like I'm skating around as hard as Bobby Bassen doesn't mean my mind isn't working twice as hard as Bobby's mind. Just because I can't fight like Kelly Chase doesn't mean standing in front of the net getting cross-checked and slashed isn't toughness as well.

Brett Hull

#21. Every quarterback can throw a ball; every running back can run; every receiver is fast; but that mental toughness that you talk about translates into competitiveness.

Tom Brady

#22. The fitting BoD is less about physical strength, more about mental toughness, with fitting minds and fresh eyes.

Pearl Zhu

#23. It's about mental toughness. Mental toughness is everything.

Jon Gordon

#24. It takes a number of critical factors to win an NBA championship, including the right mix of talent, creativity, intelligence, toughness, and of course, luck. But if a team doesn't have the most essential ingredient - love - none of those other factors matter.

Phil Jackson

#25. Success is a combination of effort, talent and hard work. There's got to be hard work and mental toughness. It's not just one thing that gets you there it's an accumulation of things

Brock Lesnar

#26. My father believed in toughness, honesty, politeness and being on time. All very important lessons.

Roger Moore

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

Bryan Murray

#28. Just because we want our favorite team to win does not mean there's any lack of toughness when a player chooses family first.

LZ Granderson

#29. Frankly, my height or lack thereof never bothered me much. Although there is no doubt that it has contributed to a certain mental toughness. I've made the most of the head start one gains from being underestimated.

Michael J. Fox

#30. In terms of instilling the values of mental toughness and work ethic, discipline is the gift that keeps on giving.

William Baldwin

#31. I haven't always recruited for the best talent. I've taken a few guys who would fit for different reasons. Leadership. Toughness

Tom Izzo

#32. My aim is to play Test matches. For me, there is a different feel of Test cricket as it tests your character. You come to know about your mental toughness, and most importantly, there is another level of satisfaction as a player.

Suresh Raina

#33. Some people thought scars a sign of toughness. It seemed to Perrin that fewer scars meant that you knew what you were doing.

Robert Jordan

#34. How can we preserve our aspirations and at the same time develop the toughness of mind and spirit to face the fact that there are no easy victories? One is a tough-minded recognition that the fight for a better world is a long one.

John Nance Garner

#35. Despite our very recent appearance on the planet, humanity combines arrogance with increasing material demands, even as we become more numerous. Our toughness is a delusion. Have we the intelligence and discipline to vigilantly guard against our tendency to grow without limit?

Lynn Margulis

#36. I always give respect to and pay homage to New York, because I don't feel like I would be the player that I am today if it wasn't for New York City. It gives you a certain edge, a certain toughness just growing up in the city.

Joakim Noah

#37. I find industrial cities exciting. I like their toughness.

Zaha Hadid

#38. I didn't cry easily. It was a badge of honor, of toughness. I was a slip of a girl, a woman with little to offer and nothing to say, but I had my dignity, and tears were undignified.

Amy Harmon

#39. 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.

Tyson Fury

#40. 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

Bill Walton

#41. Curiosity, rationalization, and laziness are no match against courage, self-control, and mental toughness.

John Bytheway

#42. A man who is strong and tough never needs to show it in his dress or the way he cuts his hair. Toughness is a quality of the mind, like bravery or honesty or ambition; it has nothing whatever to do with muscles.

E.R. Braithwaite

#43. Badgered, snubbed and scolded on the one hand; petted, flattered and indulged on the other-it is astonishing how many children work their way up to an honest manhood in spite of parents and friends. Human nature has an element of great toughness in it.

Henry Ward Beecher

#44. I suppose there is a lot of toughness in me.

Boy George

#45. There's a confidence and a mental toughness that comes from the very highest level of competition, whatever the sport is. Whether it's boxing or wrestling, or whatever.

Joe Rogan

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

William James Moore

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

Greg Rusedski

#48. People are not born mentally tough. Mental toughness is developed by experience. Developing mental toughness is a very long process.

C.N. Reede

#49. Abraham Lincoln was not all brooding and melancholy and patient understanding. There was a hard core in him, and plenty of toughness. He could recognize a revolutionary situation when he saw one, and he could act fast and ruthlessly to meet it.

Bruce Catton

#50. There was kind of a code that you had as an Australian that you never left the court losing unless you had blood all over you. That's the sort of toughness you need to compete on the world stage and I feel that our kids today just don't have it.

John Newcombe

#51. My feeling about him is that the America that we have today, the freedoms we enjoy and the privileges we have, are really the reflection of Abe Lincoln's convictions, his vision, and his toughness.

Gregory Peck

#52. It takes energy, mental toughness and spiritual reinforcement to successfully deal with life's opportunities, and to reach your objectives.

Zig Ziglar

#53. We need a toughness. We need strength. We're not respected, as a nation anymore. We don't have that level of respect that we need. And if we don't get it back fast, we're just going to go weaker, weaker and just disintegrate.

Donald Trump

#54. For Reagan,for his contemporaries, and many in the generations after them, the word Munich was understood as code for any nation's stepping back from necessary toughness

Chris Matthews

#55. Hate begets hate; violence begets violence; toughness begets a greater toughness. We must meet the forces of hate with the power of love.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#56. To be gentle, tolerant, wise and reasonable requires a goodly portion of toughness.

Peter Ustinov

#57. This is the place to be. Baseball town. The intimacy of Fenway, the toughness of it. I like that. I'm used to it. I need it. If I went somewhere else, it might have been a bit of a letdown. I like the edge.

David Cone

#58. I've been a longtime admirer of Condoleezza Rice, because I like her articulateness and style - her toughness and rigor.

Camille Paglia

#59. Great leaders don't need to act tough. Their confidence and humility serve to underscore their toughness.

Simon Sinek

#60. Mia, what is the most important thing for a soccer player to have?" With no hesitation, she answered, "Mental toughness.

Carol S. Dweck

#61. A Democrat has to show the toughness to govern. People don't doubt that Republicans will be tough.

Al From

#62. Courage, sacrifice, determination, commitment, toughness, heart, talent, guts. That's what little girls are made of; the heck with sugar and spice.

Bethany Hamilton

#63. She kept asking herself whether, if he had looked cleaner, she might have been more concerned; whether, on some subliminal level, she had confused his obvious signs of neglect with street-smartness, toughness and resilience.

J.K. Rowling

#64. Tim Bee has demonstrated his toughness and his compassion, his ability to lead while at the same time listening to others. These are skills few people in public life have. We need Tim Bee working for us in Congress.

Jim Kolbe

#65. The most important attribute a player must have is mental toughness.

Mia Hamm

#66. Lily drew him in with those eyes, her voice, the outer toughness she showed the world, the inner vulnerability she did her best to hide.

Jill Shalvis

#67. In the face of all this, it is your culture that will be the driving force to create the resiliency, toughness, passion, and attitude to overcome the obstacles in your way.

Jon Gordon

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

Plato

#69. Hate multiplies hate, violence multiplies violence, and toughness multiplies toughness in a descending spiral of destruction.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#70. We all have different athletic strengths, but I bring a mentality, a physical toughness, an attitude, that they do not have, that helps me with the athleticism.

Arthur Jones

#71. 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.

Michael Elliott

#72. 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.

Jill Shalvis

#73. Nobody needs to worry about my toughness.

Carly Fiorina

#74. Toughness is a good thing, yet it is considered good only in men. When a woman is tough, men can't stand it. I like being tough and smart.

Lillian Vernon

#75. Women are tough, but sometimes women present toughness in different ways.

Katherine McNamara

#76. If you move furniture all day, if you're a construction worker, if you have a job that's real physical, this idea that there is a sport that involves the kind of conventional, traditional view of toughness, you see that still as a positive thing.

Chuck Klosterman

#77. Mental toughness is essential to success.

Vince Lombardi

#78. On my best days, I fancy myself a combination of Dad's persistence/patience and Mom's toughness/skepticism.

David Einhorn

#79. What we heard was not the fabulous note of any buried blasphemy of elder earth from whose supernal toughness an age-denied polar sun had evoked a monstrous response.

H.P. Lovecraft

#80. He didn't need her tears. He needed her toughness.

D.B. Reynolds

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

Friedrich Nietzsche

#82. Competitive toughness is an acquired skill and not an inherited gift.

Chris Evert

#83. Israel has been a stage on which American Jews have played out their fantasies of toughness - often from Martha's Vineyard.

Norman Finkelstein

#84. That even though you look like a warrior and act like a warrior, underneath all that toughness is really a big mushy marshmallow.

Cambria Hebert

#85. What George W. Bush learned in his pre-presidential years - and what he omits in his new memoirs - was not how to lead a nation, but how, with sufficient toughness, to cheat the democratic system to get elected.

Nigel Hamilton

#86. In the end I didn't get a top car any more. I had no toughness left. That was the reality.

Jacky Ickx

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

Jeff Garcia

#88. To strip failure of its real emotional consequences is to scrub the concepts of grit and resilience of the very qualities that make them both so important - toughness, doggedness, and perseverance.

Brene Brown

#89. Mental toughness is to physical as four is to one.

Bobby Knight

#90. Toughness is not being a bully, it's having a backbone.

Robert Kiyosaki

#91. There are plenty of team players in government who do whatever the leader says. There are too few difficult members, who have complicated minds, unusual perspectives, the toughness to withstand the party-line barrages and a practical interest in producing results.

David Brooks

#92. Jean-Louis had never had a day's illness in his life. He was tall and as gnarled as an oak. The sun had baked his skin until it had the colour and toughness and stillness of a tree. With advancing years, he had lost his tongue. He now never spoke, considering such an activity pointless.

Emile Zola

#93. Mental toughness is an element in the make up of perseverance.

Manuela George-Izunwa

#94. My brother was a huge Charles Barkley fan - my brother went to Miami. He played power forward, and he always used to tell me stories about Barkley and college. And I watched Barkley growing up. I loved what he brought to the game. His toughness and just his attitude, being as strong he was.

Paul Pierce

#95. 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.

Mark McGrath

#96. I think we've bounced back and really been resilient. Even after a bad period, we take over and we seem like we're on a mission. That comes with leadership and experience and a lot of things. A lot of it is mental toughness and resiliency in the situation you're at, just trusting in your teammates.

Mike Fisher

#97. But Josef, like many boys of nineteen, was under the misapprehension that his heart had been broken a number of times, and he prided himself on the imagined toughness of that organ.

Michael Chabon

#98. A lot of people are afraid to tell the truth, to say no. That's where toughness comes into play. Toughness is not being a bully. It's having backbone.

Robert Kiyosaki

#99. 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.

Tony La Russa

#100. Ironman distance triathlons are a true test of oneself as a whole. Each race is a test of physical, mental and spiritual toughness that I haven't found in any other type of racing. At the end of the day, challenging myself on all levels is what it's about for me.

Timothy O'Donnell