It's never easy when you're constantly looking to become more.

~ T Jay Taylor

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If you're looking for the easy challenge, you're not cut out for success.

~ T Jay Taylor

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Because when you’re really scared to do something … do it right away.

~ Henry V. O'neil

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One day I was through Strachan’s Corner just hanging out, and they must have picked up Scrooge earlier for a pep talk, so they were now dropping him back home in one of their police vehicle. Supt. Strachan was in the back seat talking with him, while a male officer was driving. So I asked her, what were some of the things you used to say to Scrooge? I used to tell him it is not worth it, You are hurting people. You are only going to end up in jail for the rest of your life, or you are going to end up in the grave. I knew that he was listening to me. I would talk to him and encourage him. My other colleagues used to say I was soft on crime because of what I was doing, but I could be tuff. I am a mother of two sons; just ask my sons how tuff I can be. If I feel that I have done the best that I can, and cannot do no more than that is it. This was what I was telling those kids down there.I told them if you do not change, you are going to die. Sad to say, that is what happened to some of them eventually. The best came out of you and others in another way. Supt. Allerdyce Strachan, the first female officer to rise to the rank of superintendent on the Royal Bahamas Police Force.

~ Drexel Deal

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You wake up in this here world, my sweet li'l mister, you got to wake up tough. You go out that front door tough of a mornin' and you stay tough 'til lights out—have you learned that?

~ Daniel Woodrell

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These dogs didn't bother to bond with us, but stuck out their paws, not to shake hands but so we could slit their wrists and get it the hell over with. (p.51)

~ Stephanie Powell Watts

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Just as mental toughness and physical energy are the primary traits of an army, they also mark God's beautiful woman.

~ Elizabeth George

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Being tough today might cause you to be weak in the future.

~ Dan Groat

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A lot of things should have been, Zigmund, but they aren’t. Are you going to be miserable about the things you cannot change, or do something about the things you can?

~ Melika Dannese Lux

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

~ Greta Garbo

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Time to improve is limited. The clock is always on and doesn't care if you don't feel like it. Someone else does and they're passing you by.

~ William James Moore

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You're all so busy trying to be tough that you've forgotten how to be brave.

~ K. Towne Jr.

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The act of shopping for what he needed, and of setting up the bare necessities for himself, had lulled Strike back into the familiar soldierly state of doing what needed to be done, without question or complaint.

~ Robert Galbraith

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In life, toughness and roughness go together.

~ Auliq Ice

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Anyone can be tough for a season. It takes a special kind of human to rise to life's challenges for a lifetime.

~ Chris Matakas

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Being physically tough is measured by how many fights you win, but mental toughness is measured by how you react when all the chips are stacked against you, how fast you get back on track when life kicks you in the nuts. Any fool can win a fight, but it takes a person with true grit to never give up when all seems lost.

~ Benjamin Bayani

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Adrian Clayborn is somebody that relentlessly brings that attitude, energy, and toughness.

~ Dan Quinn

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We need intelligence in this country. We need a certain toughness in this country, or we're going to end up like a lot of the other places, and we're not going to have a country left.

~ Donald Trump

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Women are tough, but sometimes women present toughness in different ways.

~ Katherine Mcnamara

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A lot of people are afraid to tell the truth, to say no. That's where toughness comes into play. Toughness is not being a bully. It's having backbone.

~ Robert Kiyosaki

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