Toughness Quotes - Page 3

• To me, football is so much about mental toughness, it's digging deep, it's doing whatever you need to do to help a team win and that comes in a lot of shapes and forms.

  Tom Brady

  Football, Team, Winning

  "Leftovers from Tom Brady interview" by Field Yates, www.espn.com. May 23, 2013.

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• Guilt: the gift that keeps on giving.

  Erma Bombeck

  Funny, Witty, Humorous

  Erma Bombeck (2013). “Motherhood: The Second Oldest Profession”, p.14, Open Road Media

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• What makes you really come together under pressure is determination and focus and toughness.

  Debi Thomas

  Success, Sports, Determination

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• The more difficulties one has to encounter, within and without, the more significant and the higher in inspiration his life will be.

  Horace Bushnell

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive Thinking

  Horace Bushnell (1858). “Sermons for the new life”, p.259

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• The journey of a thousand miles begins with a cash advance.

  Alton Brown

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• No great man ever complains of want of opportunity.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Motherhood, Opportunity

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Ralph H. Orth, Glen M. Johnson (1994). “The Topical Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.115, University of Missouri Press

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• Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not: nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not: the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Inspirational, Motivational, Strength

  Quoted in Quotable Calvin Coolidge, ed. Peter Hannaford (2001).

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• Somewhere somebody must have some sense. Men must see that force begets force, hate begets hate, toughness begets toughness. And it is all a descending spiral, ultimately ending in destruction for all and everybody. Somebody must have sense enough and morality enough to cut off the chain of hate and the chain of evil in the universe. And you do that by love.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Hate, Cutting, Men

  "Loving Your Enemies". Speech delivered at Dexter Avenue Baptist Church, Montgomery, Alabama, November 17, 1957.

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• Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

  Vice President Mike Pence's Speech at Grove City College, time.com. May 20, 2017.

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• Every quarterback can throw a ball; every running back can run; every receiver is fast; but that mental toughness that you talk about translates into competitiveness.

  Tom Brady

  Football, Running, Nfl

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Hate begets hate; violence begets violence; toughness begets a greater toughness. We must meet the forces of hate with the power of love.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Hate, Violence, Power Of Love

  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2010). “Stride Toward Freedom: The Montgomery Story”, p.97, Beacon Press

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• The most important attribute a player must have is mental toughness.

  Mia Hamm

  Athlete, Player, Competition

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

  Vince Lombardi

  Volleyball, Jobs, Pay

  Vince Lombardi, Balance Design (1998). “Motivation Lombardi Style”

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• Hate multiplies hate, violence multiplies violence, and toughness multiplies toughness in a descending spiral of destruction.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Hate, Violence, Destruction

  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2012). “A Gift of Love: Sermons from Strength to Love and Other Preachings”, p.67, Beacon Press

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• Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not: nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Perseverance, Determination, Persistence

  Quoted in Quotable Calvin Coolidge, ed. Peter Hannaford (2001).

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• There is nothing more common than unsuccessful men with talent.

  Joe Strummer

  Perseverance, Determination, Persistence

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• Champions are made from something they have deep inside of them-a desire, a dream, a vison.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspirational, Sports, Spiritual

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• Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Inspirational, Children, Positive Thinking

  Vivian Grey bk. 5, ch. 1 (1826)

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• I run to see who has the most guts.

  Steve Prefontaine

  Sports, Running, Track

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• The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. Watch your step.

  Thomas S. Monson

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• It's amazing how much of this is mental. Everybody's in good shape. Everybody knows how to ski. Everybody has good equipment. When it really boils down to it, it's who wants it the most, and who's the most confident on his skis.

  Reggie Crist

  Want, Shapes, Mental Toughness

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• Mental toughness is a state of mind - you could call it 'character in action.'

  Vince Lombardi

  Character, Discipline, Mind

  Vince Lombardi (2012). “What it Takes to be Number One”, p.65, Thomas Nelson Inc

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  Anyone who has a continuous smile on his face conceals a toughness that is almost frightening.

  Greta Garbo

  Happiness, Smile, Fake People

  Raymond Daum, Raymond W. Daum, Greta Garbo (1992). “Walking with Garbo: conversations and recollections”, Perennial

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• Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men.

  John F. Kennedy

  Inspirational, Life, Strength

  "Twenty Sermons". Book by Phillips Brooks, p. 330, 1886.

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• Courage, sacrifice, determination, commitment, toughness, heart, talent, guts. That's what little girls are made of; the heck with sugar and spice.

  Bethany Hamilton

  Inspirational, Girl, Courage

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