Mental Toughness Motivational Quotes

"The impediment to action advances action. What stands in the way becomes the way."

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

"I've missed more than 9,000 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."

"You have to believe in yourself when no one else does."

"You have to believe in your process. You have to believe in the things that you are doing to help the team win. I think you have to take the good with the bad."

"The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will."

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

"You gotta find that inner strength and just pull that s**t out of you. And get that motivation to not give up and not be a quitter, no matter how bad you wanna just fall on your face and collapse."

"You have to believe in yourself and your abilities. That's the only way to achieve greatness."

"Your love makes me strong. Your hate makes me unstoppable."

"My success isn’t a result of arrogance – it’s a result of belief."

"Everybody has a plan until they get punched in the mouth."

"Winning takes care of everything."

"Champions aren't made in gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them-a desire, a dream, a vision. They have to have the skill, and the will. But the will must be stronger than the skill."

"It’s not whether you get knocked down; it’s whether you get up."

"Courage is not having the strength to go on; it is going on when you don't have the strength."

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

"I can accept failure, everyone fails at something. But I can't accept not trying."

"Once you know what failure feels like, determination chases success."

"A champion is defined not by their wins but by how they can recover when they fall."

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

"Confidence comes from effort, not luck. Work hard enough to remove doubt."

"Discipline is doing what you hate to do, but doing it like you love it."

"You never know how strong you are until being strong is your only choice."

"If you don’t believe in yourself, why is anyone else going to believe in you?"

"Winners never quit and quitters never win."

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

"Limits exist in the mind more than reality. Determination makes dreams achievable."

"I've missed more than 9,000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. Twenty-six 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."

"Don’t stop when you’re tired. Stop when you’re done."

"The real glory is being knocked to your knees and then coming back. That's real glory. That's the essence of it."

"If you don’t believe you are the best, then you will never achieve all that you are capable of."

"Fear is the greatest obstacle to learning. But fear is your best friend. Fear is like fire. If you learn to control it, you let it work for you."

"Success is not the absence of failure; it's the persistence through failure."

"I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it."

"The harder you work, the harder it is to surrender."

"Endure, my heart, you have endured worse than this."

"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."

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

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

"I don’t like to lose - at anything - yet I’ve grown most not from victories, but setbacks."

"Courage isn't charging into a machine gun nest. Courage is not caring what other people think."

"Success is not final, failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts."

"The ticket to victory often comes down to bringing your very best when you feel your worst."

"A warrior is not a person that carries a gun. The biggest war you ever go through is right between your own ears."

"When I'm not feeling my best I ask myself, 'What are you gonna do about it?' I use the negativity to fuel the transformation into a better me."

"It isn’t the mountains ahead to climb that wear you out; it’s the pebble in your shoe."

"The mind always fails first, not the body. The secret is to make your mind work for you, not against you."

"Real champions fight through adversity."

"Confidence breeds success and success breeds confidence."

"I smile at obstacles."

"Pain doesn’t tell you when you ought to stop. Pain is the little voice in your head that tries to hold you back because it knows if you continue you will change."

"Without struggle, there is no progress. There has to be a struggle in your life."

"Things don’t correct themselves, you’ve got to go out there and work hard to correct them."

"It’s a lot more than mind over matter. It takes relentless self-discipline to schedule suffering into your day, every day."

"You have to build calluses on your brain just like you build calluses on your hands."

"I believe in myself so much that nothing is going to stop me."

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

"Most wars are won or lost in our own heads."

"Stay hard… or stay exactly where you are!"

"The mind adapts and converts to its own purposes the obstacle to our acting."

"Pain unlocks a secret doorway in the mind, one that leads to both peak performance and beautiful silence."

"You can’t hurt me! But you can keep trying if you want."

"Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time."

"Most of this generation quits the second they get talked to. You did this wrong. You did that wrong. Or they get yelled at. It's so easy to be great nowadays because everyone else is weak."

"People say I’m crazy, but what they don’t understand is that I love the misery."

"Tough times never last, but tough people do."

"You mean to tell me you had a bad day? Some people had a bad life. Get over it!"

"The world is soft. You’re soft. Toughen up!"

"Your mind is your worst enemy, but I promise you I’m a close second!"

"I think sometimes in life the biggest challenges end up being the best things that happen in your life."

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

"Ease is a greater threat to progress than hardship. So, keep moving, keep growing, keep learning!"

"You never know how strong you are until being strong is the only choice you have."

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

"That which does not kill us makes us stronger."

"You put all the other stuff aside and go out and do your job, and mine is to be the best I can be for my teammates."

"I’ve had to learn to fight all my life – got to learn to keep smiling. If you smile things will work out."

"I have learned over the years that when one's mind is made up, this diminishes fear; knowing what must be done does away with fear."

"Resilience is knowing that you are the only one that has the power and the responsibility to pick yourself up."

"Don't stop when you're tired, stop when you're done."

"I believe there's an inner power that makes winners or losers. And the winners are the ones who really listen to the truth of their hearts."

"You don't develop courage by being happy in your relationships every day. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity."

"When you feel like quitting, think about why you started."

"Life doesn't get easier or more forgiving; we get stronger and more resilient."

"Where there is no struggle, there is no strength."

"When you’re one of the leaders of the team, there are no days off."

"A truly strong person does not need the approval of others any more than a lion needs the approval of sheep."

"Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can."

"Fatigue makes cowards of us all."

"The harder you work for something, the greater you'll feel when you achieve it."