Robert W. Service Quotes

There is something glamorous to me in taking a bit of a beating and keeping on going.

All we are asked to bear we can bear.

I can take more punishment than anyone in the business.

The human quality Degas most admired was endurance.

When the going gets tough, the tough get going.

If you can't take it, you won't make it.

Every day, across our state, we see grit and resilience.

I have been fascinated with survival and having to go on no matter what. That always appealed to me.

I've had to be tough my whole life.

You have to be tough and stick it out, or you wind up being nothing.

A leader should have higher grit and tenacity, and be able to endure what the employees can't.

What winning is to me is not giving up, is no matter what's thrown at me, I can take it. And I can keep going.

Scars show toughness: that you've been through it, and you're still standing.

Tough times don't last, but tough people do. And I've been through some tough times, and I know a lot of people can recall tough times, and maybe are going through some tough times right now, but they don't last.

I just think that there are those people that their resolve is strengthened by what it is that's keeping them down, and there are some people that will buckle under it. You never know which one is which until you get into the eighth or ninth round of the fight.

I survived because I was tougher than anybody else.

God bless perseverance. Because it's not easy.

Prolonged endurance tames the bold.

When the going gets tough, let the tough get going.

You were not built for comfort and convenience. You were built to overcome.

I'm pretty gritty.

People striving, being knocked down and coming back... this is what builds character in a man.

It's the way of life in Saginaw. If you're not tough, you don't survive.

It's been kind of tough, but tough people last.

You have to learn how to fight through when it sucks and it's really hard.