Quotes with toughness

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  • Bruce Catton Abraham Lincoln was not all brooding and melancholy and patient understanding. There was a hard core in him, and plenty of toughness. He could recognize a revolutionary situation when he saw one, and he could act fast and ruthlessly to meet it.
    Bruce Catton
    American historian and journalist (1899 - 1978)
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  • Bill Russell Concentration and mental toughness are the margins of victory.
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  • Brett Hull Because I don't look like I'm skating around as hard as Bobby Bassen doesn't mean my mind isn't working twice as hard as Bobby's mind. Just because I can't fight like Kelly Chase doesn't mean standing in front of the net getting cross-checked and slashed isn't toughness as well.
    Brett Hull
    Canadian-born American former ice hockey player (1964 - )
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  • Gilbert Keith Chesterton Brave men are all vertebrates; they have their softness on the surface and their toughness in the middle.
    Gilbert Keith Chesterton
    English writer (1874 - 1936)
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  • Bethany Hamilton Courage, sacrifice, determination, commitment, toughness, heart, talent, guts. That's what little girls are made of.
    Bethany Hamilton
    American professional surfer (1990 - )
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  • Anais Nin 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.
    Anais Nin
    French-born American Novelist, Dancer (1903 - 1977)
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  • Vince Lombardi 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
    American football player (1913 - 1970)
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  • Bobby Knight Mental toughness is to physical as four is to one.
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  • Martin Luther King We must combine the toughness of the serpent with the softness of the dove, a tough mind and a tender heart.
    Martin Luther King
    American preacher (1929 - 1968)
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  • William James 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.
    William James
    American philosopher (1842 - 1910)
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