Memorable Tough Guy Quotes

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"Courage is being scared to death but saddling up anyway."
John Wayne
"It ain't about how hard you hit. It's about how hard you can get hit and keep moving forward."
Rocky Balboa
"A man is defined by his actions, not his words."
Unknown
"You can't stop the waves, but you can learn to surf."
Jon Kabat-Zinn
"You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try."
Beverly Sills
"The only easy day was yesterday."
U.S. Navy SEALs' Motto
"I’m not telling you it’s going to be easy, I’m telling you it’s going to be worth it."
Art Williams
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"What we fear doing most is usually what we most need to do."
Tim Ferriss
"You have to fight through some bad days to earn the best days of your life."
Unknown
"I’ve missed more than 9,000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I’ve been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I’ve succeeded."
Michael Jordan
"The only limits that exist are the ones you place on yourself."
Unknown
"To be challenged is a privilege."
Harriet Tubman
"We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as impossible situations."
Chuck Swindoll
"The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places."
Ernest Hemingway
"If you want to be tough, be tough on yourself."
Jack Dempsey
"A champion is someone who gets up when he can't."
Jack Dempsey
"You can't have sunshine without a little rain."
Unknown
"The fight is won or lost far away from witnesses, behind the lines, in the gym, and out there on the road, long before I dance under those lights."
Muhammad Ali
"Courage is grace under pressure."
Ernest Hemingway
"The only thing we have to fear is fear itself."
Franklin D. Roosevelt
"You never know how strong you are until being strong is your only choice."
Bob Marley
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"You have power over your mind – not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength."
Marcus Aurelius
"Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character."
Albert Einstein
"It’s not how hard you hit. It’s how hard you can get hit and keep moving forward."
Rocky Balboa
"I can accept failure, everyone fails at something. But I can't accept not trying."
Michael Jordan
"You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream."
C.S. Lewis
"Tough times never last, but tough people do."
Robert H. Schuller
"When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot in it and hang on."
Franklin D. Roosevelt
"If you’re going through hell, keep going."
Winston Churchill
"You don’t stop playing because you grow old; you grow old because you stop playing."
George Bernard Shaw
"In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity."
Albert Einstein
"I'm tough, ambitious, and I know exactly what I want. If that makes me a bitch, okay."
Madonna
"What matters is not the size of the dog in the fight, but the size of the fight in the dog."
Dwight D. Eisenhower
"It’s not whether you get knocked down, it’s whether you get up."
Vince Lombardi
"The only way to prove that you are a good sport is to lose."
Ernie Banks
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"A champion shows who he is by what he does."
Sean Paul
"Fall seven times, stand up eight."
Japanese Proverb
"I'm a survivor; I'm not gonna give up. I'm not gonna stop. I'm going to work harder."
Rachel Hollis
"Tough times don’t last, but tough people do."
Robert H. Schuller
"Courage doesn't always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, 'I will try again tomorrow.'"
Mary Anne Radmacher
"We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear."
Martin Luther King Jr.
"It doesn't matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop."
Confucius
"The road to success is dotted with many tempting parking spaces."
Will Rogers
"It always seems impossible until it’s done."
Nelson Mandela
"Believe you can and you're halfway there."
Theodore Roosevelt
"I've failed over and over and over again in my life and that is why I’ve been successful."
Michael Jordan
"You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength."
Marcus Aurelius
"Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly."
Robert F. Kennedy
"Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths."
Arnold Schwarzenegger
"Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom."
George S. Patton
"It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get up."
Vince Lombardi
"I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my ship."
Louisa May Alcott
"Courage is not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it."
Nelson Mandela
"What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Life is not about waiting for the storm to pass, but about learning to dance in the rain."
Vivian Greene
"You can't put a limit on anything. The more you dream, the farther you get."
Michael Phelps
"If you're going through hell, keep going."
Winston Churchill
"The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph."
Thomas Paine
"When the going gets tough, the tough get going."
Joseph P. Kennedy
"It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change."
Charles Darwin
"A champion is afraid of losing. Everyone else is afraid of winning."
Billie Jean King
"I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions."
Stephen R. Covey
"The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack in will."
Vince Lombardi
"Don't watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going."
Sam Levenson
"In the middle of every difficulty lies opportunity."
Albert Einstein
"You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it."
Margaret Thatcher
"I failed my way to success."
Thomas Edison
"You miss 100% of the shots you don't take."
Wayne Gretzky
"If you want to achieve greatness, stop asking for permission."
Anonymous
"Take your risks now. As you grow older, you become more fearful."
Billy Joel
"Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men."
John F. Kennedy
"The man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones."
Confucius
"You have power over your mind—not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength."
Marcus Aurelius
"What doesn’t kill you makes you stronger."
Friedrich Nietzsche
"It's not whether you get knocked down. It's whether you get up."
Vince Lombardi
"You can’t put a limit on anything. The more you dream, the farther you get."
Michael Phelps
"Success is not final, failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts."
Winston S. Churchill
"You have to fight for your right to party."
Beastie Boys
"Pain is temporary. Quitting lasts forever."
Lance Armstrong
"A champion is someone who gets up when he can’t."
Jack Dempsey
"You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take."
Wayne Gretzky
"Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will."
Mahatma Gandhi
"I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life and that is why I’ve been successful."
Michael Jordan
"He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life."
Muhammad Ali
"If you want to achieve greatness stop asking for permission."
Anonymous
"I’m not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my ship."
Louisa May Alcott
"Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the assessment that something else is more important than fear."
Franklin D. Roosevelt
"The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today."
Franklin D. Roosevelt
"Do not pray for an easy life, pray for the strength to endure a difficult one."
Bruce Lee
"Adversity causes some men to break; others to break records."
William Arthur Ward
"You must do the things you think you cannot do."
Eleanor Roosevelt
"Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all."
Helen Keller
"It is not enough to be busy. So are the ants. The question is: What are we busy about?"
Henry David Thoreau
"When you come to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on."
Franklin D. Roosevelt
"I’ve got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom."
Thomas Jefferson
"You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore."
William Faulkner
"Fall seven times and stand up eight."
Japanese Proverb
"The more you sweat in peace, the less you bleed in war."
Norman Schwarzkopf
"Achieving results is not about the achievement itself, but about rising to the challenge and enduring."
Anonymous
"A man does what he must—in spite of personal consequences, in spite of obstacles and dangers and pressures—and that is the basis of all human morality."
John F. Kennedy
"Show me a hero and I’ll show you a bum."
Gregory David Roberts, Shantaram
"When you get knocked down, you gotta get back up."
Chuck Norris
"You can't change how people treat you or what they say about you. All you can do is change how you react to it."
Mahatma Gandhi
"Life is tough, but it's tougher if you're stupid."
John Wayne
"Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body."
Seneca
"The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy."
Martin Luther King, Jr.
"Never back down. Never what? Never give up!"
John Cena
"That which does not kill us makes us stronger."
Friedrich Nietzsche
"The world ain't all sunshine and rainbows. It's a very mean and nasty place and I don't care how tough you are, it will beat you to your knees and keep you there permanently if you let it."
Sylvester Stallone, Rocky Balboa
"I hated every minute of training, but I said, 'Don't quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.'"
Muhammad Ali
"It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, and comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat."
Theodore Roosevelt
"I'm not afraid of storms, for I'm learning how to sail my ship."
Louisa May Alcott, Little Women
"A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"I am not concerned that you have fallen; I am concerned that you arise."
Abraham Lincoln
"You must not under any condition allow anyone to rob you of your ambition."
Les Brown
"The bravest sight in the world is to see a great man struggling against adversity."
Seneca
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