69+ Best Strong Mind Quotes: Exclusive Selection

If you describe someone as strong-minded, you approve of them because they have their own firm attitudes and opinions, and are not easily influenced by other people. Inspirational strong mind quotes will encourage growth in life, make you wiser and broaden your perspective.

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Famous Strong Mind Quotes

As you think, so shall you become. Bruce Lee

If he were a man of strong mind, it only gave him fits but a person of mere average intellect it usually sent mad. Jerome K Jerome

Every thought we think is creating our future. Louise Hay

We must have strong minds, ready to accept facts as they are. Harry S. Truman

The mind is everything. What you think you become. Buddha

Mind over matter. Weak minded people are easily influenced. Strong minded people you can’t break their will. Lee Boyd Malvo

Be strong-minded, and always believe that the impossible is possible. Selena

The truly strong and sound mind is the mind that can embrace equally great things and small. I would have a man great in great things, and elegant in little things. Samuel Johnson

Focused mind power is one of the strongest forces on earth. Mark Victor Hansen

Ridicule is a weak weapon when pointed at a strong mind but common people are cowards and dread an empty laugh. Martin Farquhar Tupper

Insubordination may only be the evidence of a strong mind. Napoleon Bonaparte

A strong body is a good asset. A strong mind is a very good asset. Rickson Gracie

We must have strong minds, ready to accept facts as they are. Harry S. Truman

We observe with confidence that the truly strong mind, view it as intellect or morality, or under any other aspect, is nowise the mind acquainted with its strength; that here the sign of health is unconsciousness. Thomas Carlyle

She knew the power of her mind and so programmed it for success. Carrie Green

In the big leagues everyone has ability. It always comes down to mind games. Who ever is more mentally strong wins. Muhammad Ali

A strong mind is one of the key components that separates the great from the good. Gary Player

Keep expecting and believing that your due season is coming. Declare that the good you have harvested in your life will manifest. Germany Kent

It all begins and ends in your mind. What you give power to, has power over you, if you allow it. Leon Brown

Be strong minded, and always believe that the impossible is possible. Selena

A weak mind is ambitious of envy, a strong one of respect. Edward Wigglesworth

Every time you lose, you think that life’s unfair. You think of the bad breaks. But when you’re winning and playing well, you still get those bad breaks, only you overcome them. It just depends on how strong your mind is. Greg Norman

Strong minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, weak minds discuss people. Socrates

Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear, do not sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy. Dale Carnegie

Sometimes you don’t realize your own strength until you come face to face with your greatest weakness. Susan Gale

Strong minds suffer without complaining; weak minds complain without suffering. Lettie Cowman

Anyone can hide. Facing up to things, working through them, that’s what makes you strong. Sarah Dessen

Strong minds suffer without complaining; weak minds complain without suffering. Lettie Cowman

He who believes is strong he who doubts is weak. Strong convictions precede great actions. Louisa May Alcott

Your mind is a powerful thing. When you fill it with positive thoughts, your life will start to change. Anonymous

A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent in doing nothing. George Bernard Shaw

Weak minds sink under prosperity as well as adversity; but strong and deep ones have two high tides. David Hare

It takes more courage to reveal insecurities than to hide them, more strength to relate to people than to dominate them, more manhood to abide by thought out principles rather than blind reflex. Toughness is in the soul and spirit, not in muscles and an immature mind. Alex Karras

When you become the master of your mind, you are master of everything. Swami Satchidananda

When a resolute young fellow steps up to the great bully, the world, and takes him boldly by the beard, he is often surprised to find it comes off in his hand, and that it was only tied on to scare away the timid adventurers. Ralph Waldo Emerson

You must learn a new way to think before you can master a new way to be. Marianne Williamson

Anyone can give up, it’s the easiest thing in the world to do. But to hold it together when everyone else would understand if you fell apart, that’s true strength. R. G. Ingersoll

If you have a strong mind and plant in it a firm resolve, you can change your destiny. Paramahansa Yogananda

Life is very interesting. In the end, some of your greatest pains become your greatest strengths. Drew Barrymore

We can easily manage if we will only take, each day, the burden appointed to it. But the load will be too heavy for us if we carry yesterday’s burden over again today, and then add the burden of the morrow before we are required to bear it. John Newton

It’s when the discomfort strikes that they realize a strong mind is the most powerful weapon of all. Chrissie Wellington

When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems as though you could not hang on a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn. Harriet Beecher Stowe

Mind over matter. Weak minded people are easily influenced. Strong-minded people, you can’t break their will. Lee Boyd Malvo

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

Mental toughness is spartanism with qualities of sacrifice, self-denial, dedication. It is fearlessness, and it is love. Vince Lombardi

Strength is the ability to break a chocolate bar into four pieces with your bare hands – and then eat just one of those pieces. Judith Viorst

If he were a man of strong mind, it only gave him fits; but a person of mere average intellect it usually sent mad. Jerome K Jerome

Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.  Dale Carnegie

Whatever we plant in our subconscious mind and nourish with repetition and emotion will one day become a reality. Earl Nightingale

Make up your mind that no matter what comes your way, no matter how difficult, no matter how unfair, you will do more than simply survive. You will thrive in spite of it. Joel Osteen

In the big leagues, everyone has the ability. It always comes down to mind games. Whoever is more mentally strong wins. Muhammad Ali

Man can live about forty days without food, about three days without water, about eight minutes without air, but only for one second without hope. Hal Lindsey

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

Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and, above all, confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something, and that this thing, at whatever cost, must be attained. Marie Curie

There is no limit to the power of the human mind. The more concentrated it is, the more power is brought to bear on one point. Swami Vivekananda

“The deeper that sorrow carves into your being, the more joy you can contain.

Is not the cup that holds your wine the very cup that was burned in the potter’s oven?And is not the lute that soothes your spirit, the very wood that was hollowed with knives?When you are joyous, look deep into your heart and you shall find it is only that which has given you sorrow that is giving you joy. When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see in truth that you are weeping for that which has been your delight. Kahlil Gibran

Throw away all weakness. Tell your body that it is strong, tell your mind that it is strong and have unbounded faith and hope in yourself. Swami Vivekananda

The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of the depths. These persons have an appreciation, a sensitivity and an understanding of life that fills them with compassions, gentleness, and a deep loving concern. Beautiful people do not just happen. Elizabeth Kubler

A weak mind sinks under prosperity as well as under adversity. A strong and deep one has two highest tides, when the moon is at the full, and when there is no moon. Augustus Hare

It takes courage to love, but pain through love is the purifying fire which those who love generously know. We all know people who are so much afraid of pain that they shut themselves up like clams in a shell and, giving out nothing, receive nothing and therefore shrink until life is a mere living death. Eleanor Roosevelt

The truly strong and sound mind is the mind that can embrace equally great things and small. I would have a man great in great things, and elegant in little things. Samuel Johnson

I don’t really want to become normal, average, standard. I want merely to gain in strength, in the courage to live out my life more fully, enjoy more, experience more. I want to develop even more original and more unconventional traits. Anaïs Nin

We observe with confidence that the truly strong mind, view it as intellect or morality, or under any other aspect, is nowise the mind acquainted with its strength; that here the sign of health is unconsciousness. Thomas Carlyle

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, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly who errs and comes short again and again because there is not effort without error and shortcomings but who does actually strive to do the deed who knows the great enthusiasm, the great devotion, who spends himself in a worthy cause, who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement and who at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly. So that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat. Theodore Roosevelt

The mind is a powerful force. It can enslave us or empower us. It can plunge us into the depths of misery or take us to the heights of ecstasy. Learn to use the power wisely. David Cuschieri

I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death. Thomas Paine