Inner Toughness Quotes

I recently saw the movie about Ray Charles, and there's a scene where he falls down and the mother doesn't help him. She says, I don't want anyone to treat you like a cripple. I've fallen down before, and Molly will say, get up and just go.

Everyone should know that feeling of overcoming fear and mastering something. People who aren't taught that become soggy.

You gotta not care about what people think in general about you. I'm not talking about bad stuff, if you're a nasty person, because I don't consider myself a mean person, I consider that I know what i want and I'm tough. But I'm very emotional and un-tough on a lot of levels, I cry very easily, I'm sensitive and I don't think that's a bad thing.

He has a heart of gold - only harder.

I can take care of myself. You're probably never going to know if something bad is happening in my life. I think I was just made that way.

See yonder rock from which the fountain gushes; is it less compact of adamant, though waters flow from it? Firm hearts have moister eyes.

I don't think I'm tough in a so called tough way. I'm tough on myself.

like any Irish mother, I am scar tissue to the bone.

Having a thick skin doesn't mean that you're hard or harsh. I was lucky because I was born with a thick skin. That doesn't mean that things don't bother me, but you have to keep it in perspective.

When one has had a life as difficult as mine, one doesn't worry about how others will react.

Some people wear their heart up on their sleeve. I wear mine underneath my right pant leg, strapped to my boot.

Being resilient is the essence of my life.

They don't know you're secretly a badass?