Mental Toughness Quotes

"It's not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters."

"The world breaks everyone and afterward many are strong at the broken places."

"The obstacle in the path becomes the path. Never forget, within every obstacle is an opportunity to improve our condition."

"When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves."

"Do not pray for an easy life, pray for the strength to endure a difficult one."

"Do not judge me by my successes, judge me by how many times I fell down and got back up again."

"If you’re going through hell, keep going."

"Discipline equals freedom."

"I really think a champion is defined not by their wins but by how they can recover when they fall."

"I hated every minute of training, but I said, 'Don't quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.'"

"He who has a why to live can bear almost any how."

"I don't stop when I'm tired, I stop when I'm done."

"Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body."

"The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity."

"Everything negative - pressure, challenges - is all an opportunity for me to rise."

"It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena."

"If you want to change the world, start off by making your bed."

"When you think that you are done, you're only 40% into what your body's capable of doing. That's just the limits that we put on ourselves."

"If you can't fly then run, if you can't run then walk, if you can't walk then crawl, but whatever you do you have to keep moving forward."

"Antifragility is beyond resilience or robustness. The resilient resists shocks and stays the same; the antifragile gets better."

"You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength."

"I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed."

"Craving the result but not the process is the guarantee of a life of mediocrity."

"Rome wasn't built in a day, but they were laying bricks every hour."

"Winning is not a sometime thing; it's an all the time thing. You don't win once in a while, you don't do things right once in a while, you do them right all the time. Winning is habit."

"The professional has learned that success, like happiness, comes as a by-product of work. The professional concentrates on the work and allows rewards to come or not come, as they like."

"You can't let your failures define you. You have to let your failures teach you."

"Grit is passion and perseverance for very long-term goals. Grit is having stamina. Grit is sticking with your future, day in, day out, not just for the week, not just for the month, but for years."

"Mental toughness is a lifestyle. It's not something you can just turn on when you need it."

"The only way to find out what's really going on inside of you is to push yourself past your comfort zone."