88+ Best Mental Toughness Quotes: Exclusive Selection

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Famous Mental Toughness Quotes

Mental toughness is finding fuel on an empty tank. Kent Morris

The problem with having problems is that someone always has it worse. Tiffany Madison

Pushing for a third wind, when you know you only have two that is mental toughness. Nate Lee Morales

We love being mentally strong, but we hate situations that allow us to put our mental strength to good use. Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Toughness is in the soul and spirit, not in muscles. Alex Karras

The scope of one’s personality is defined by the magnitude of that problem which is capable of driving a person out of his wits. Sigmund Freud

Mental Toughness The ability to consistently perform toward the upper range of your talent and skill regardless of the competitive circumstances. James E. Loehr

The ability to continue moving when you are feeling scared, fearful or lazy is the sign of true mental strength. Matthew Donnelly

Increasing the state of our minds is the only way to reduce the difficulty of life. Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Change what you can, manage what you can’t. Raymond McCauley

I don’t stop when I’m tired. I stop when I’m done. David Goggins

One way or another we are all biased, but still we have the modern cortical capacity to choose whether or not to let the harmful biases dictate our behavior. Abhijit Naskar

I am thankful for my struggle because without it I wouldn’t have stumbled across my strength. Alex Elle

Increasing the strength of our minds is the only way to reduce the difficulty of life. Mokokoma Mokhonoana

There’s confidence and a mental toughness that comes from the very highest level competition, whatever the sport it. Whether it’s boxing or wrestling, or whatever. Joe Rogan

Stay Strong And Never Give Up! Avijeet Das

Mental toughness is essential to success. Vince Lombardi

Meditation is a practice that fosters mental stamina, perseverance, and the ability to openly receive. Amy Leigh Mercree

Champions aren’t’ made in the gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them a desire, a dream, a vision. Muhammad Ali

Exercise your genius so often that you live in a perpetual state of runners high. Curtis Tyrone Jones

Mental toughness is doing the right thing for the team when it’s not the best thing for you. Bill Belichick

If your mindset is defeated, the results will be the same no matter how often you put up a physical fight. Mac Duke The Strategist

Enthusiasm is common. Endurance is rare. Angela Duckworth

She held out, did not speak directly to her captors except to curse them. She offered no cooperation. There were moments when she did not know why she resisted. What would she be giving up if she answered her captors’ questions? What did she have to lose beyond misery, isolation, and silence? Yet she held out. Octavia E. Butler

If you think you’ll lose, you’re lost, for out of the world we find, success begins with a person’s will It’s all in the state of mind. Walter D. Wintle

If you are squinting and you have sand between your toes, it’s probably gonna be a good day! Vicki Lannerholm

As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Your mental wellbeing should be one of the most important cares in your life. Germany Kent

Mental will is a muscle that needs exercise, just like muscles of the body. Lynn Jennings

Never get too high. It’s a setup for a longer emotional fall. Never get too low bc the mountain will begin to appear insurmountable. Stay somewhere in between. You will be able to maintain the mental balance for the peaks and valleys. Wallace Miles

The will to prepare has to be greater than the will to win. Bobby Knight

Our fears become unhealthy and can be used as weapons when they originate from imagined dangers and prevent us from doing things we may otherwise enjoy. Benjoy Brown

You can train your mental strength just like you train your body. If your body looks fit or ripped, it looks strong, and you can flex your muscles. So, physically, you have a certain strength. Mentally, it’s the same thing. You can train your psychological strength. Wladimir Klitschko

There is a value to adversity. We learn more from tough times than from easy ones. Vincent H. O’Neil

Concentration and mental toughness are the margins of victory. Bill Russell

He never exhibited rudeness, lost control of himself, or turned violent. No one ever saw him sweat. Everything was to be approached logically and with due consideration, in a calm and orderly fashion but decisively, and with no loose ends. Marcus Aurelius

Mental toughness is many things and rather difficult to explain. Its qualities are sacrifice and self denial. Also, most importantly, it is combined with a perfectly disciplined will that refuses to give in. It’s a state of mind you could call it character in action. Vince Lombardi

Mental toughness is many things and rather difficult to explain. Its qualities are sacrifice and self denial. Also, most importantly, it is combined with a perfectly disciplined will that refuses to give in. It’s a state of mind you could call it character in action. Vince Lombardi

People don’t realize how often you have to come in second in order to finish first. Jack Nicklaus

Mental toughness is to physical as four is to one. Bobby Knight

You never know how strong you are, until being strong is the only choice you have. Bob Marley

The most important attribute a player must have is mental toughness. Mia Hamm

Mind is everything. Muscle pieces of rubber. All that I am, I am because of mind. Paavo Nurmi

Mental Toughness is doing the right thing for the team when it’s not the best thing for you. Bill Belichick

To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment. Ralph Waldo Emerson

I found that to build mental toughness, you need to inconvenience yourself. The early morning runs, if you hate early mornings. The late night runs, if you hate late nights. The snowy cold, the worst conditions you can get, put yourself in those and really make it inconvenient and you start to get a genuine expectation of winning for the price you have to pay. Chael Sonnen

In terms of instilling the values of mental toughness and work ethic, discipline is the gift that keeps on giving. William Baldwin

Tennis is all about mental toughness, and you have to keep your head in the game. I make time to relax away from competition pressures, travel and intense training schedules to make sure I’m looking after myself. Taking time out with family and friends helps to maintain the work life balance everyone needs. Samantha Stosur

Mental strength induces mind and body. Toba Beta

Competitive toughness is an acquired skill and not an inherited gift. Chris Evert

Motivation is crap. It comes and goes. When you’re driven, whatever is in front of you will get destroyed. David Goggins

It was high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, always do what you are afraid to do. Ralph Waldo Emerson

Mental dominance is what ultimately makes you unstoppable. Tim S. Grover

What makes you really come together under pressure is determination and focus and toughness. Debi Thomas

It’s not about the setback, it’s about the comeback. Robyn Benincasa

Creativity is the gift that keeps on giving. Eric Maisel

Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; but great minds rise above it. Washington Irving

It’s amazing how much of this is mental. Everybody’s in good shape. Everybody knows how to ski. Everybody has good equipment. When it really boils down to it, it’s who wants it the most, and who’s the most confident on his skis. Reggie Crist

The mental game is more about subtraction than it is addition. Dr. Rob Bell

Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Calvin Coolidge

You must want to be a butterfly so badly, you are willing to give u being a caterpillar. Sekou Andrews

The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. Watch your step. Thomas S. Monson

The goal is to be physically loose and mentally tight. Arthur Ashe

It was a high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, always do what you are afraid to do. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Rule your mind or it will rule you. Horace

If you’re trying to achieve, there will be roadblocks. I’ve had them; everybody has had them. But obstacles don’t have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don’t turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it. Michael Jordan

Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go to through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength. Arnold Schwarzenegger

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

It’s hard to beat a person who never gives up. Babe Ruth

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

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

To me, football is so much about mental toughness, it’s digging deep, it’s doing whatever you need to do to help a team win and that comes in a lot of shapes and forms. Tom Brady

Everything negative pressure, challenges is all an opportunity for me to rise. Kobe Bryant

Regardless of how you feel inside, always try to look like a winner. Even if you are behind, a sustained look of control and confidence can give you a mental edge that results in victory. Diane Arbus

Every quarterback can throw a ball; every running back can run; every receiver is fast; but that mental toughness that you talk about translates into competitiveness. Tom Brady

You have to want it, you have to plan for it, you have to fit it into a busy day, you have to be mentally tough, you have to use others to help you. The hard part isn’t getting your body in shape. The hard part is getting your mind in shape. Amby Burfoot

Physical stamina is the root of mental toughness. Major Dick Winters

It takes energy, mental toughness and spiritual reinforcement to successfully deal with life’s opportunities, and to reach your objectives. Zig Ziglar

I never made any sacrifices; I made choices. Greg Searle

Today I will do what others won’t, so tomorrow I can accomplish what others can’t. Jerry Rice

Now if you are going to win any battle you have to do one thing. You have to make the mind run body. Never let the body tell the mind what to do. The body will always give up. It is always tired in the morning, noon, and night. But the body is never tired if the mind is not tired. George S. Patton

Toughness is in the soul and spirit, not in muscles. Alex Karras

It does not matter how slowly you go so long as you don’t stop. Confucius

Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds. Albert Einstein

Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will. Mahatma Gandhi

From my father’s side I got the strength, the mental toughness, the heart, the courage. Mariano Rivera