Quotes on Toughness

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

No great man ever complains of want of opportunity.

Jesus reminds us that the good life combines the toughness of the serpent and the tenderness of the dove. To have serpent-like qualities devoid of dovelike qualities is to be passionless, mean, and selfish. To have dovelike without serpent-like qualities is to be sentimental, anemic and aimless. We must combine strongly marked antitheses.

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

I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe me naive or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman.

A little cooling down of animal excitability and instinct, a little loss of animal toughness, a little irritable weakness and descent of the pain-threshold, will bring the worm at the core of all our usual springs of delight into full view, and turn us into melancholy metaphysicians.

Brains without competitive hearts are rudderless.

Golf is a game that is played on a five-inch course

To achieve success, whatever the job we have, we must pay a price

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

My toughest fight was with my first wife.

People with self-respect exhibit a certain toughness, a kind of moral nerve; they display what was once called *character,* a quality which, although approved in the abstract, sometimes loses ground to the other, more instantly negotiable virtues.... character--the willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life--is the source from which self-respect springs.

Create a definite plan for carrying out your desire and begin at once, whether you ready or not, to put this plan into action.

To be a great champion you must believe you are the best. If you’re not, pretend you are.