20 Quotes: Mind Over Matter
1. โStrength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength.โ
โ Arnold Schwarzenegger
2. โThe only way of finding the limits of the possible is by going beyond them into the impossible.โ
โ Arthur C. Clarke
3. โLiving in this skin is hard and painful, most of the times because I never volunteered to take this onโฆ but still here I am and if this is the body Iโve been given, Iโm sure as hell gonna make it work.โ
โ Charlotte Eriksson
4. โEnter every activity without giving mental recognition to the possibility of defeat. Concentrate on your strengths, instead of your weaknesses. On your powers, instead of your problems.โ
โ Paul J Meyer
5. โLife has no smooth road for any of us; and in the bracing atmosphere of a high aim the very roughness stimulates the climber to steadier steps, till the legend, over steep ways to the stars, fulfills itself.โ
โ W. C. Doane
6. โThe brick walls are there for a reason. The brick walls are not there to keep us out. The brick walls are there to give us a chance to show how badly we want something. Because the brick walls are there to stop the people who donโt want it badly enough. Theyโre there to stop the other people.โ
โ Randy Pausch
7. โMen do less than they ought, unless they do all they can.โ
โ Thomas Carlyle
8. โWe love being mentally strong, but we hate situations that allow us to put our mental strength to good use.โ
โ Mokokoma Mokhonoana
9. โFirst say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.โ
โ Epictetus
10. โIโm not the strongest. Iโm not the fastest. But Iโm really good at suffering.โ
โ Amelia Boone
11. โHappy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true.โ
โ Leon J. Suenes
12. โYou cannot control what happens to you, but you can control the way you think about all the events. You always have a choice. You can choose to face them with a positive mental attitude.โ
โ Roy T. Bennett
13. โIf you want to be tougher mentally, it is simple: be tougher. Donโt meditate on it.โ
โ Jocko Willink
14. โThe strength of your mind determines the quality of your life.โ
โ Edmond Mbiaka
15. โMental toughness is not being affected by anything but whatโs going on in the game or competition no matter what coaches, other players, or refs are doing. Itโs being able to block out whatโs not important.โ
โ Jenny Brenden
16. โIf youโre not mentally tough, if nerves undo you instead of focus you, if you donโt have the inner arrogance that you absolutely have what it takes to win, if you donโt see, in your mindโs eye, a picture of yourself winning โ then you wonโt win; And not because you canโt.โ
โ Summer Sanders
17. โNow if you are going to win any battle you have to do one thing. You have to make the mind run the body. Never let the body tell the mind what to do. The body will always give up. It is always tired morning, noon, and night. But the body is never tired if the mind is not tired. When you were younger the mind could make you dance all night, and the body was never tiredโฆ Youโve always got to make the mind take over and keep going.โ โ George S. Patton
18. โMan becomes great exactly in the degree in which he works for the welfare of his fellow men.โ
-Mahatma Gandhi
19. โWhen you are that patient, your mind is more settled, and what you do will be more perfect. If you are unsettled and anxious to get the result, you are already disturbed; nothing done with that disturbed mind will have quality. So, it is not only how long you practice, but with what patience, what earnestness and what quality also.โ
- Swami Satchidananda
20. โThe feeling that any task is a nuisance will soon disappear if it is done in mindfulness.โ
โ Thich Nhat Hahn
