Mental Strength Quotes

• First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.

  Epictetus

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Epictetus (1807). “The Works of Epictetus: Consisting of His Discourses in Four Books Preserved by Arrian, the Enchiridion, and Fragments”, p.111

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• Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Essays "Circles" (1841)

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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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  Today I will do what others won't, so tomorrow I can accomplish what others can't.

  Jerry Rice

  Motivational, Success, Sports

  "Getting Earnest With Movement". Noisey Interveiw, noisey.vice.com.

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• You can never be free until you develop the mental strength to stop fretting over things you cannot control.

  Robert Ringer

  Fretting

  FaceBook post by Robert Ringer from Oct 30, 2013

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• Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.

  Thornton Wilder

  Inspirational, Hope, Motivation

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• Physical strength (hard work), mental strength (perseverance) and spiritual strength (love & acceptance) are the keys to continuous growth.

  Rickson Gracie

  Spiritual, Perseverance, Hard Work

  FaceBook post by Rickson Gracie from Dec 05, 2014

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  The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspirational, Life, Strength

  Mahatma Gandhi (2005). “All Men Are Brothers”, p.166, A&C Black

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• Continuous effort - not strength or intelligence - is the key to unlocking our potential.

  Winston Churchill

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• Mental toughness is to physical as four is to one.

  Bobby Knight

  Motivational, Leadership, Basketball

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• If you think you can't, you're right.

  Carol Bartz

  Inspirational, Positive, Smart

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• Nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose - a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

  Inspirational, Stay Strong, Motivation

  Frankenstein Letter 1 (1818)

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• We are what we do.
  Excellence, therefore, is not an act,  but a habit.

  Aristotle

  Motivational, Positive, Perseverance

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• We are all inventors, each sailing out on a voyage of discovery, guided each by a private chart, of which there is no duplicate. The world is all gates, all opportunities.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “The Later Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1843-1871”, p.340, University of Georgia Press

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• But life has no smooth roads for any of us. And in the bracing atmosphere of a high aim, the very roughness only stimulates the climber to sturdier and steadier steps, till that other legend of the rough places fulfils itself at last; "per aspera ad astra;" over steep ways to the stars.

  William Croswell Doane

  Life, Motivational, Stars

  "Addresses to the Graduating Classes of St. Agnes School".

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• If you do not hope, you will not find what is beyond your hopes.

  Clement of Alexandria

  Inspirational, Hope, Cheer

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• Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.

  Samuel Johnson

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Samuel Johnson, Francis William Blagdon (1811). “The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia”, p.42

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• Every artist was first an amateur.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Motivational, Inspiring

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume VIII: Letters and Social Aims”, p.119, Harvard University Press

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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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• Mental strength is really important because you either win or lose in your mind.

  Wladimir Klitschko

  Winning, Mind, Important

  Interview with Dave Golokhov, www.askmen.com. October 21, 2011.

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• Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true.

  Leon Joseph Suenens

  Inspirational, Life, Happiness

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• Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash.

  George S. Patton

  Inspirational, Motivational, Encouraging

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  Pain is temporary. It may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, or a year, but eventually it will subside and something else will take its place. If I quit, however, it lasts forever.

  Lance Armstrong

  Inspirational, Motivational, Sports

  "It's Not About the Bike: My Journey Back to Life". Book by Lance Armstrong and Sally Jenkins, May 22, 2000.

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• To create something you must be something.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Literature

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1853). “Goethe's Opinions on the World, Mankind, Literature, Science, and Art”, p.84

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• Inspiration and genius -one and the same.

  Victor Hugo

  Business, Inspiration, Successful

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