Quotes on Mental Strength

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

Men do less than they ought, unless they do all they can.

Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action.

It doesn’t faze me what anyone says about me. It doesn’t matter what anyone says about me. I’m a totally different entity to what other people think. Michael and Tyson are two different people. I’m Tyson here.

I had to persevere because this was my life. This championship, this was the stuff I dreamt of all my life, and I wasn't gonna be denied.

One whose spirit and mental strength have been strengthened by sparring with a never-say-die attitude should find no challenge too great to handle. One who has undergone long years of physical pain and mental agony to learn one punch, one kick, should be able to face any task, no matter how difficult, and carry it through to the end. A person like this can truly be said to have learned karate.

Everybody thinks this is a tough man's sport. This is not a tough man's sport. This is a thinking man's sport. A tough man is gonna get hurt real bad in this sport.

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

Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.

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

The best way out is always through.

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

Whatever you want, especially when you’re striving to be the best in the world at something, there’ll always be disappointments, and you can’t be emotionally tied to them, cos’ they’ll break your spirit.

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.

Concentration and mental toughness are the margins of victory.

No great man ever complains of want of opportunity.

To create something you must be something.

Constant dripping hollows out a stone.