Toughness Quotes - Page 6

• Sure I am this day we are masters of our fate, that the task which has been set before us is not above our strength; that its pangs and toils are not beyond our endurance. As long as we have faith in our own cause and an unconquerable will to win, victory will not be denied us.

  Winston Churchill

  Military, Fate, Winning

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• 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

  Confused, Resilience, Asking

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

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Achievement, Steps, Sincerity

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• Toughness found fertile soil in the hearts of Palestinians, and the grains of resistance embedded themselves in their skin. Endurance evolved as a hallmark of refugee society. But the price they paid was the subduing of tender vulnerability. They learned to celebrate martyrdom. Only martyrdom offered freedom. Only in death were they at last invulnerable to Israel. Martyrdom became the ultimate defiance of Israeli occupation.

  Susan Abulhawa

  Heart, Israel, Skins

  Susan Abulhawa (2010). “Mornings in Jenin”, p.88, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Mental toughness is many things. It is humility because it behooves all of us to remember that simplicity is the sign of greatness and meekness is the sign of true strength. Mental toughness is spartanism with qualities of sacrifice, self-denial, dedication. It is fearlessness, and it is love.

  Vince Lombardi

  Humility, Sacrifice, Greatness

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• My mind is my biggest asset. I expect to win every tournament I play.

  Tiger Woods

  Motivational, Softball, Sports

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• I want to be the best. So whatever comes with that, I have to accept it.

  Sidney Crosby

  Want, Being The Best, Accepting

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

  Plato

  Moon, Doubt, Littles

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• 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

  New York, Cities, Stones

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• I've lived in London, Paris, Rio de Janeiro, New York, and Turin. But New York is my favorite city. It has so much energy, so much toughness.

  Lapo Elkann

  New York, Cities, Paris

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• 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

  Children, Hands, Parent

  Henry Ward Beecher (1862). “Eyes and Ears”, p.78

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• I'll tell you...why Wonder Woman worked. Or Bionic Woman. Or any of those [shows] really. It was because it wasn't about brawn...it was about brains. And yes, she happened to be beautiful, she happened to be kind of extraordinary in some way, but she wasn't a guy. And I think that, [now], they...put out a female hero, and all they are doing is changing the costume from a man to a woman...they're not showcasing any of the tremendous dichotomies than women possess in term of softness and toughness, sweetness and grit, inner and outer strength.

  Lynda Carter

  Leadership, Beautiful, Fashion

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• I don't know if there's a proper way to define toughness in a runner, but I do know that there comes a sudden moment when the mindset shifts. The impossible becomes doable, or at least attemptable. The long run goes from two miles to four to ten to fifteen, until it becomes routine at some point deep in an intense training cycle to knock off a couple hours without giving it a thought.

  Martin Dugard

  Running, Couple, Two

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• No woman is really an insider in the institutions fathered by masculine consciousness. When we allow ourselves to believe we are, we lose touch with parts of ourselves defined as unacceptable by that consciousness; with the vital toughness and visionary strength of the angry grandmothers, the fierce market women of the Ibo's Women's War, the marriage-resisting women silk workers of pre-Revolutionary China, the millions of widows, midwives, and the women healers tortured and burned as witches for three centuries in Europe.

  Adrienne Rich

  Inspiring, War, Believe

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• 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.

  Rachael Taylor

  Stars, Thinking, Resilience

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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

  Peter Ustinov

  Wise, Gentle, Portions

  "Still More of Who Said That?". Book by Renie Gee, 1981.

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• 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

  Hard Work, Effort, Mental Toughness

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• Most men act so tough and strong on the outside because on the inside, we are scared, weak, and fragile. Men, not women, are the weaker sex.

  Jerry Rubin

  Strong Women, Sex, Tough

  Jerry Rubin (2014). “Growing (Up) at 37”, p.113, Rowman & Littlefield

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• I don’t shout the loudest, and I’m quite shy, which was why I was reluctant to throw myself into the public eye. I love beauty, craftsmanship, storytelling and romance, and I probably don’t have the armor to survive the relentless competition that exists in this particular world. But I have my own toughness.

  Sarah Burton

  Eye, Love Is, Romance

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• The really tough thing about humility is you can't brag about it.

  Gene Brown

  Humility, Tough, Bragging

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• 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

  Football, Running, Balls

  "Glanville Looking for a Little More Action at Portland State". ESPN.com, August 09, 2007.

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• If a man does not have an ideal and try to live up to it, then he becomes a mean, base and sordid creature, no matter how successful.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Mean, Successful, Men

  Theodore Roosevelt (2012). “In the Words of Theodore Roosevelt: Quotations from the Man in the Arena”, p.100, Cornell University Press

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• That loss was to breed an independence, a toughness of spirit, and an awareness of adversity and discipline that have never left me,.

  Gary Player

  Adversity, Loss, Discipline

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• Fighting teaches you a lot about yourself. When you fight you are in a situation where failure can happen. This chance of failure forges your character in many ways and makes you realise how mentally tough you have to be as a fighter. This mental toughness will transfer into your everyday life, giving you drive and a clear concise attitude, where giving up is not an option

  Daniel Hudson

  Giving Up, Attitude, Character

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• 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

  Thinking, Skills, Mma

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