Hardiness Quotes

I have some muscle on me where I can take those hits.

Just pray for a tough hide and a tender heart.

Once again, stock markets have been threatened with extinction for almost 75 years, and I have found that stock markets are harder to kill than roaches.

Hearts are tough, Most times they don't break. Most times they are only bend

You couldn't play if you weren't tough. You'd get bullied. Everybody who comes through the Civitan Recreation Center has to be tough. It's what we breed.

From a person standpoint, the old expression of what doesn't kill you makes you stronger is somewhat true.

If you're running businesses anywhere in the world, people who really do well are the people who have mental toughness.

Me, you could stick me in solitary confinement for 100 years and I'd be fine.

Storms make oaks take deeper root.

I've taken great pride in not being fragile.

Adaptation to one's environment makes for a sort of survival; but after all, the supreme victory is only won by those who prove themselves of so much hardier stuff than the rest that no power on earth is able to destroy them. The people who have really made history are the martyrs.

You will, I trust, resemble a forest plant, which has indeed, by some accident, been brought up in the greenhouse, and thus rendered delicate and effeminate, but which regains its native firmness and tenacity, when exposed for a season to the winter air.

All we are asked to bear we can bear.

I've always been tough my whole life. I'm able to take a lot of punishment, and that might be an even greater asset than my offense. I'm the guy that can take your best shot, and I'm not going to go down.

As long as I'm healthy and can keep going that's what I'll do.

There's something weird about me the way even the biggest punches to the jaw don't wobble me, but if you can avoid being hit too often, so much the better.

One time I saw a tiny Joshua tree sapling growing not too far from the old tree. I wanted to dig it up and replant it near our house. I told Mom that I would protect it from the wind and water it every day so that it could grow nice and tall and straight. Mom frowned at me. "You'd be destroying what makes it special," she said. "It's the Joshua tree's struggle that gives it its beauty.

I'm not afraid to take a punch.

A simple leather jacket... has gotten me through cocktail parties in New York and cold nights in Afghanistan.

I'm tough.

Growing up in a place that has winter, you learn to avoid self-pity. Winter is not a personal experience, everybody else is just as cold as you, so you shouldn't complain about it too much. You learn this as a kid, coming home crying from the cold, and Mother looks down and says, 'It's only a little frostbite. You're okay.' And thus you learn to be okay. What's done is done. Get over it. Drink your coffee. It's not the best you'll ever get but it's good enough.

Talk about the area of overcoming adversity, sucking it up, I rate myself a 10.

One of the greatest boons that can ever come to a human being is to be born on a farm and reared in the country. Self-reliance and grit are oftenest country-bred.

As every cockroach knows, thriving on poisons is the secret of success.

I was never afraid of hard work.