1 I’ve learned to be one of the hardheadedest cats in the world. I’ve learned that. Read explanation Author, January 18, 2024January 9, 2025, Jerry Lee Lewis, Learning, Resilience, Toughness, 0 Jerry Lee Lewis Copy
2 As hard as I try to sound tough and dark, I still sound cute. Author, January 18, 2024January 9, 2025, Jenny Lewis, cuteness, Identity, Toughness, 0 Jenny Lewis Musician · USA Copy
3 When you think about your heritage, you think about toughness and hard work. Author, January 18, 2024January 9, 2025, Jeff Garcia, Hard Work, Heritage, Toughness, 0 Jeff Garcia Copy
4 If you read Keats’s poems, they’re often full of doubts and anxieties. They can be quite tough. Author, January 17, 2024January 9, 2025, Jane Campion, Anxiety, Doubt, Toughness, 0 Jane Campion Filmmaker · New Zealand Copy
5 Ability is the result of mental and physical toughness, resourcefulness, and powerful concentration. Author, January 17, 2024January 9, 2025, Howard A. Tullman, Concentration, Resourcefulness, Toughness, 0 Howard A. Tullman Copy
6 It’s a tough world out there and all the guys are fighting hard and the competition is really tough. Author, January 17, 2024January 9, 2025, Guy Forget, Competition, Struggle, Toughness, 0 Guy Forget Copy
7 I thought: to be tough is to be fragile; to be tender is to be truly fierce. Author, January 17, 2024January 9, 2025, Gretel Ehrlich, fragility, Tenderness, Toughness, 0 Gretel Ehrlich Copy
8 Playing Chelsea is as tough a test as you’ll get in Europe these days. Author, January 16, 2024January 9, 2025, Michael Carrick, Competition, Europe, Toughness, 0 Michael Carrick Copy
9 I think we too often go soft in trying to spare people the agony of confronting reality. Author, January 16, 2024January 9, 2025, Gene Weingarten, Confrontation, Reality, Toughness, 0 Gene Weingarten Journalist · USA Copy
10 Coach (Bear) Bryant wanted to see who was tough in the spring, who he could count on in the fall. Author, January 16, 2024January 9, 2025, Gene Stallings, Evaluation, Reliability, Toughness, 0 Gene Stallings Copy
11 Encourage your kids’ artistic side. Toughen up everything else. Author, January 16, 2024January 9, 2025, Michael Madsen, Artistic, Encouragement, Toughness, 0 Michael Madsen Actor · USA Copy
12 The woman who survives intact and happy must be at once tender and tough. Author, January 16, 2024January 9, 2025, Maya Angelou, Happiness, Tenderness, Toughness, 0 Maya Angelou Poet · USA Copy
13 I grew up in the Bronx. The Bronx teaches you to survive. It’s like, ‘Bring it on!’ Author, January 14, 2024January 9, 2025, Wesley Snipes, Resilience, Survival, Toughness, 0 Wesley Snipes Copy
14 I was tough. I used everything to my advantage. I could be very ruthless. Author, January 13, 2024January 9, 2025, Leon Uris, Advantage, Ruthlessness, Toughness, 0 Leon Uris Author · USA Copy
15 It’s one thing to be this ‘tough chick,’ but you also have to be likeable. Author, January 13, 2024January 9, 2025, Lauren Lee Smith, Balance, Likeability, Toughness, 0 Lauren Lee Smith Copy
16 You can be harsh on your players and still coach, but it is easier when you are kind to them. Author, January 12, 2024January 6, 2025, John Kessel, Coaching, Kindness, Toughness, 0 John Kessel Author · USA Copy
17 You have to be tough and stick it out, or you wind up being nothing. Author, January 11, 2024January 6, 2025, Joe Louis, Perseverance, Success, Toughness, 0 Joe Louis Boxer · USA Copy
18 In addition to relentlessly resourceful, you want a tough and a calm cofounder. Author, January 10, 2024January 6, 2025, Sam Altman, Calmness, Resourcefulness, Toughness, 0 Sam Altman Entrepreneur Copy
19 You get tough like me and you don’t get hurt. You look out for yourself and nothin’ can touch you. Author, January 10, 2024January 6, 2025, S. E. Hinton, Resilience, Self-preservation, Toughness, 0 S. E. Hinton Copy
20 Injuries are injuries, everybody has them. You play with it. I don’t make excuses. Author, January 9, 2024January 6, 2025, Andruw Jones, Resilience, Responsibility, Toughness, 0 Andruw Jones Baseball player · Curacao Copy
21 A man who’s never seen war is like a woman who’s never given birth – soft in the head. Author, January 9, 2024January 6, 2025, Andrei Platonov, Experience, Toughness, War, 0 Andrei Platonov Author · Russia Copy
22 It’s great to be able to pretend you’re tough but funny at the same time. Author, January 5, 2024January 6, 2025, Adam Baldwin, Humor, Pretense, Toughness, 0 Adam Baldwin Actor · USA Copy
23 You cannot do what I do for a living without having a thick skin. Author, January 5, 2024January 6, 2025, Aaron Zigman, Persistence, Resilience, Toughness, 0 Aaron Zigman Copy
24 What makes you really come together under pressure is determination and focus and toughness. Author, January 5, 2024January 6, 2025, Debi Thomas, Determination, Focus, Toughness, 0 Debi Thomas Physician · USA Copy
25 The simple fact is this: when you goto Alaska, you get your ass kicked. Author, January 3, 2024January 1, 2025, Mark Twight, Challenge, Reality, Toughness, 0 Mark Twight Climber Copy
The line, often adopted by strong men in controversy, of justifying the means by the end. St. Jerome Scholar
You are here for but an instant, and you mustn’t take yourself too seriously Edgar Rice Burroughs Writer · USA
