Top 37 Toughen Up Sayings
#2. Lestat: Toughen up baby. I'm looking for the eternal scum.
Anne Rice
#3. Adam was told to toughen up. Get over it. We hear this a lot. History is in the past, bad things happened but it is time to move on. But history is not past for us. Adam
Stan Grant
#4. I think it's great training for any comedian to start on cows. Because with cows, you expect them to be bored and just stare at you blankly. And that's exactly what you'll get at a comedy club. If you can toughen up with a cow audience, then you'll never be worried with a human audience.
Kristen Schaal
#5. I think too many Democrats are too wimpy. But I think they're beginning to toughen up.
Paul Begala
#6. I was never no, never no, never enough, But I can try, I can try to toughen up.
Zooey Deschanel
#7. Women don't want equal treatment, they couldn't handle it if they got it. It's a tough world out there. What a lot of women are actually looking for is special treatment. What women need to realise is that they have to toughen up.
Katie Hopkins
#8. Don't be maudlin. You're a librarian, for God's sake. Toughen up.
Victoria Dahl
#9. That strong mother doesn't tell her cub, Son, stay weak so the wolves can get you. She says, Toughen up, this is reality we are living in.
Lauryn Hill
#10. I thought she'd [her mother] offer me some sympathy. Instead, she said, 'Don't you ever call me crying again! You wanted to be in this business, so you better toughen up!' And I did.
Jennifer Lopez
#11. Nor is it enough to toughen up his soul; you must also toughen up his muscles.
Michel De Montaigne
#12. Constantly reemphasize to yourself the great fact that God built potential strength into your nature. By affirming it and practicing it, this basic strength will toughen up as muscles do.
Norman Vincent Peale
#13. Encourage your kids' artistic side. Toughen up everything else.
Michael Madsen
#14. There is no final victory, as there is no final defeat. There is just the same battle. To be fought, over and over again. So toughen up, bloody toughen up.
Tony Benn
#15. Tough guys toughen up when faced with adversity. So he flexes his gag reflex and steps inside.
Bradley Sands
#16. I have that hypocrisy of a parent in that I'm like,'Come on, you've got to toughen up at the same time let me take care of that for you.
Craig Ferguson
#17. It was almost funny, to be making this mistake. She was too old for this shit. Crying was for pussies. Making a mess of herself served no purpose at all. Now was the time to toughen up.
Kylie Scott
#18. London, London, London town,
You can toughen up or get thrown around.
Kano
#19. If you are determined on the religious life, you have to toughen up your mind. You have to let it be a thouroughfare for all thoughts, and among them you must make choices.
Robertson Davies
#20. The hardship of the exercises is intended less to strengthen the back than to toughen the mind. The Spartans say that any army may win while it still has its legs under it; the real test comes when all strength is fled and the men must produce victory on will alone.
Steven Pressfield
#21. Poor Harper Seven Beckham, having to live with that name all her life. It's the Boy Named Sue syndrome; at the very least it will toughen her up.
Simon Hoggart
#22. ...that secret hostility natural between brothers, the roots of which --little nursery rivalries--sometimes toughen and deepen as life goes on, and, all hidden, support a plant capable of producing in season the bitterest fruits.
John Galsworthy
#23. Fathers, on the other hand, were there to toughen children up, to say Walk it off when mothers would hold them if they fell. Mothers were the carrot. Fathers were the stick.
Noah Hawley
#24. In the end, I believe I'll enjoy war,' he says. 'Gotta toughen my spine a bit. Callous my hands. Bastards tell us it's all roses and glory.' He looks up. 'Don't you smell the roses, Reaper?
Pierce Brown
#25. Hardship is not our choice; but if we face it bravely, it can toughen the fiber of our souls.
Billy Graham
#26. This life is just a bootcamp, to test and toughen us, to prepare us for the next life of service in some great adventure. Our third and eternal life comes after that.
Dean Koontz
#28. The purpose of training is to tighten up the slack, toughen the body, and polish the spirit.
Morihei Ueshiba
#30. People need trouble - a little frustration to sharpen the spirit on, toughen it. Artists do; I don't mean you need to live in a rat hole or gutter, but you have to learn fortitude, endurance. Only vegetables are happy.
William Faulkner
#31. It is precisely in times of immunity from care that the soul should toughen itself beforehand for occasions of greater stress, and it is while Fortune is kind that it should fortify itself against her violence.
Seneca.
#32. I could do nothing without my problems; they toughen my mind. In fact, I tell my assistants not to bring me their successes for they weaken me, but rather to bring me their problems, for they strengthen me.
Charles Kettering
#33. No system of education is complete that does not harden the hands and toughen muscles, while it is also develops the intellect and enlarges the heart ... only through work do we attain the true symmetry, strength, and glory of godly manhood and womanhood.
Alexander Clark
#34. It's not our job to toughen our children up to face a cruel and heartless world. It's our job to raise children who will make the world a little less cruel and heartless.
L.R. Knost
#35. Problems are to the mind what exercise is to the muscles; they toughen and make strong.
Norman Vincent Peale
#36. A preacher should have the mind of a scholar, the heart of a child, and the hide of a rhinoceros. His problem is how to toughen his hide without hardening his heart.
Vance Havner
#37. Cast off everything/everyone else has known for you./Move gratefully, from these old skins./And this time, if you toughen,/decide/for whom?
Em Claire
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