90 Mental Strength and Toughness Quotes (Powerful)

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Some positive words of motivation can work wonders for you when you feel depressed in life.

Sometimes fear, lack of courage, and doubts can shake your self-confidence with some depressing incidents in your life. However, there is nothing the body can not achieve if the mind can believe in it.

Famous books like Secret, emphasize how powerful our mind is. We can achieve anything we want, with strong mental belief and the removal of all doubts that come our way.

These motivational quotes will work as a daily reminder of the positive start of your day to give you the right mindset and strengthen your mind with laser focus and achieve your dreams.

In life, especially for sportsmen, athletes, gym goers, and fitness trainers, it is seen that the journey of attaining the perfect body may seem challenging at first but with determination and by staying mentally strong they achieve their desired results. So it’s all a mind game.

Think, achieve, believe, act, and receive.

And if you’re looking for even more inspiration, take a peek at strength quotes and uplifting you are strong quotes to give you the motivation to overcome your struggles and be a winner.

Most Inspirational Mental Strength Quotes

“Mental toughness is essential to success.”- Vince Lombardi
“I like feeling strong. It keeps my mental floor higher.” —Pink
“Mental toughness is to physical as four is to one.”- Bobby Knight
“Tough times never last, but tough people do.” —Robert H. Schuller
“Mental strength is what separates champions from near champions.”
“That which does not kill us makes us stronger.” —Friedrich Nietzsche
“Try not to become a man of success but a man of value.”- Albert Einstein
“Mental strength is what separates champions from near champions.”- Rafael
“The strength of your mind determines the quality of your life.” ― Edmond Mbiaka
“Strength grows in the moments when you think you can’t go on but you keep going anyway.”
“Mental toughness is a state of mind – you could call it ‘character in action.” – Vince Lombardi
“I honestly believe that with a strong mind, you can literally ‘will’ the ball into the hole.” ―Ray Floyd
“Mental Toughness is doing the right thing for the team when it’s not the best thing for you.”- Bill Belichick
“Strong minds suffer without complaining; weak minds complain without suffering.” ―Lettie Cowman
“The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places.” —Ernest Hemingway
“Increasing the strength of our minds is the only way to reduce the difficulty of life.” ― Mokokoma Mokhonoana
“If your mindset is defeated, the results will be the same no matter how often you put up a physical fight.” ― Mac Duke
“You can never be free until you develop the mental strength to stop fretting over things you cannot control.”- Robert Ringer
“Mental toughness must be developed before you start fighting because you don’t want to be that guy who quits in the ring.”- Forrest Griffin
“We love being mentally strong, but we hate situations that allow us to put our mental strength to good use.” ― Mokokoma Mokhonoana
“At the end of your struggles, challenges, and obstacles comes the mental strength to cross many boundaries in the future.”- – Edmond Mbiaka
“Fundamentally, what everyone needs is mental strength and confidence, to manage the mind, just as we manage the outside world.”- Mata Amritanandamayi
“Mental Toughness: The ability to consistently perform toward the upper range of your talent and skill regardless of the competitive circumstances.”- James E. Loehr
“You have to learn the opponent psychologically inside out and mental strength is one of the important makers. You’re either gonna break it or make it.”- Wladimir Klitschko
“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
“Enter every activity without giving mental recognition to the possibility of defeat. Concentrate on your strengths, instead of your weaknesses. On your powers, instead of your problems.”- Paul J Meyer
“Mental toughness is doing whatever is necessary to get the job done including handling the demands of a tough workout, withstanding pain, or touching an opponent out at the end of a race.”- Jennifer Eberst
“Champions aren’t made in the 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.” ―Muhammad Ali
“You’ve got to develop mental strength. And you develop mental strength with the will. The will is the mental faculty that gives you the ability to hold one idea under the screen of your mind to the exclusion of all outside distractions.”- Bob Proctor
“Persistence is a unique mental strength; a strength that is essential to combat the fierce power of the repeated rejections and numerous other obstacles that sit in waiting and are all part of winning in a fast-moving, ever-changing world.”- Bob Proctor

Motivational Mental Toughness Quotes

“If you can’t accept losing, you can’t win.”– Vince Lombardi
“You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take.”– Wayne Gretzky
“If you’re tired of starting over, stop giving up.”– Shia Labeouf
“It is what it is. But it will be what you make it.”– Pat Summitt
“If you’re going through hell, keep going.”– Winston Churchill
“You just can’t beat the person who won’t give up.”– Babe Ruth
“Winners never quit, and quitters never win.”– Vince Lombardi
“All that we are is the result of what we have thought.”– Buddha
“I don’t stop when I’m tired. I stop when I’m done.”– David Goggins
“It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.”– Edmund Hillary
“Argue for your limitations and, sure enough, they’re yours.”- Richard Bach
“No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.”– Eleanor Roosevelt
“Concentration and mental toughness are the margins of victory.” ―Bill Russell
“Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.”– Jim Ryun
“Men’s best successes come after their disappointments.”– Henry Ward Beecher
“As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.”- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“You don’t have to love it. You just have to believe it’s worth it in the end.”– Tim S. Grover
“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.”– Aristotle
“Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.” – Thomas Edison
“He who lives in harmony with himself lives in harmony with the universe.”– Marcus Aurelius
“The courage to be is the courage to accept oneself, in spite of being unacceptable.”– Paul Tillich
“Confidence comes not from always being right but from not fearing to be wrong.”– Peter T. McIntyre
“Don’t waste your energy trying to change opinions … do your thing, and don’t care if they like it.”- Tina Fey
“If we all did the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves.”- Thomas Alva Edison
“You have power over your mind, not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.”– Marcus Aurelius
“You can have anything you want if you are willing to give up the belief that you can’t have it.”– Dr. Robert Anthony
“It’s when the discomfort strikes that they realize a strong mind is the most powerful weapon of all.” ―Chrissie Wellington
“When someone tells me ‘no,’ it doesn’t mean I can’t do it, it simply means I can’t do it with them.”- Karen E. Quinones Miller
“If you hear a voice within you say ‘you cannot paint,’ then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.”- Vincent van Gogh
“In terms of instilling the values of mental toughness and work ethic, discipline is the gift that keeps on giving.” – William Baldwin
“Always remember you are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.”- Christopher Robin
“The ability to continue moving when you are feeling scared, fearful or lazy is the sign of true mental strength.” – Matthew Donnelly
“I felt that I could win it, and that was what I was there for. I wasn’t there to compete. I was there to win.”– Arnold Schwarzenegger
“Mental toughness is spartanism with qualities of sacrifice, self-denial, dedication. It is fearlessness, and it is love.” ―Vince Lombardi
“The way to develop self-confidence is to do the thing you fear and get a record of successful experiences behind you.”- William Jennings Bryan
“It takes energy, mental toughness and spiritual reinforcement to successfully deal with life’s opportunities, and to reach your objectives.” ―Zig Ziglar
“Freedom is what everyone wants – to be able to act and live with freedom. But the only way to get to a place of freedom is through discipline.”– Jocko Willink
“Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.”– Thomas Jefferson
“If you are insecure, guess what? The rest of the world is too. Do not overestimate the competition and underestimate yourself. You are better than you think.”- T. Harv Eker
“Your toughness is made up of equal parts persistence and experience. You don’t so much outrun your opponents as outlast and outsmart them, and the toughest opponent of all is the one inside your head.” ―Joe Henderson

Famous Quotes About Mental and Physical Strength

“Fall down seven times, get up eight.” – Japanese Proverb
“It is the business of little minds to shrink.” ―Carl Sandburg
“Physical strength in a woman – thats what I am.”- Tina Turner
“The weak fall, but the strong will remain and never go under!” — Anne Frank
“True strength is keeping everything together when everyone expects you to fall apart.”
“Make sure your worst enemy doesn’t live between your own two ears.” ―Laird Hamilton
“Greatness lies not in being strong, but in the right use of strength.”- Henry Ward Beecher
“A heart is a muscle..and what do muscles do when they are torn? They grow back STRONGER!”
“You never know how strong you are… until being strong is the only choice you have.” ― Cayla Mills
“I honestly believe that with a strong mind, you can literally ‘will’ the ball into the hole.” ―Ray Floyd
“Strength does not come from physical capacity, it comes from indomitable will.” ―Mahatma Gandhi
“Courage is looking fear right in the eye and saying, ‘Get the hell out of my way, I’ve got things to do.’”
“Strong minds suffer without complaining; weak minds complain without suffering.” ―Lettie Cowman
“Physical strength can never permanently withstand the impact of spiritual force.”- Franklin D. Roosevelt
“Anyone can hide. Facing up to things, working through them, that’s what makes you strong.” – Sarah Dessen
“With the power of the mind, you can achieve what you cannot, with the help of physical strength.” ― Elmar Hussein
“Strong men can always afford to be gentle. Only the weak are intent on giving as good as they get.”- Elbert Hubbard
“If you have a strong mind and plant in it a firm resolve, you can change your destiny.” ―Paramahansa Yogananda
“Sometimes you don’t realize your own strength until you come face to face with your greatest weakness.” – Susan Gale
“Exercising and eating properly will build your physical and mental strength to endure the stressful situation.”- David H. Murdock
“It is truly said: It does not take much strength to do things, but it requires great strength to decide what to do.”- Chow Ching
“For strength to bear is found in duty alone, and he is blest indeed who learns to make the joy of others cure his own heartache.”- Drake
“The spirit of man is more important than mere physical strength, and the spiritual fiber of a nation than its wealth.”- Dwight D. Eisenhower
“Never letting the competition define you. Instead, you have to define yourself based on a point of view you care deeply about.” –Tom Chappel
“Our real problem, then, is not our strength today; it is rather the vital necessity of action today to ensure our strength tomorrow.”- Dwight D. Eisenhower
“Strength isn’t about bearing a cross of grief or shame. Strength comes from choosing your own path, and living with the consequences.” ―Jenny Trout
“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.”
“Physical strength (hard work), mental strength (perseverance) and spiritual strength (love & acceptance) are the keys to continuous growth.”- Rickson Gracie
“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 quality of strength lined with tenderness is an unbeatable combination, as are intelligence and necessity when unblunted by formal education.”- Maya Angelou
“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
“The most beautiful people I’ve known are those who have known trials, have known struggles, have known loss, and have found their way out of the depths.” – Elisabeth Kübler-Ross
“The amount of dynamic energy and physical strength that a person possesses frequently influences the character of their mental and psychological disposition.” ― Kilroy J. Oldster
“One of the first lessons one learns is that the mind is a powerful factor in everything you do, including those exercises that seem to require a maximum of physical strength.”- Joe Hyams
“If you always put limit on everything you do, physical or anything else. It will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them.” – Bruce Lee