Top 200 Mental Strength Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “Mental toughness and resilience fade if they aren’t used consistently. I say it all the time: you are either getting better, or you’re getting worse. You’re not staying the same.”

— David Goggins

Also featured in: Perseverance Quotes, Quotes About Strength, Willpower Quotes, Resilience Quotes

2. “The greatest sin is to think yourself weak.”

— Swami Vivekananda

Also featured in: Inspirational Quotes, Courage Quotes, Quotes About Strength, Confidence Quotes

3. “Nobody can hurt me without my permission.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

Also featured in: Quotes About Strength, Relationship Quotes, Attitude Quotes, Feel Good Quotes

4. “Champions keep playing until they get it right.”

— Billie Jean King

Also featured in: Success Quotes, Inspirational Quotes, Perseverance Quotes, Persistence Quotes

5. “Pain is temporary. Quitting lasts forever.”

— Lance Armstrong

Also featured in: Perseverance Quotes, Goal Quotes, Athlete Quotes, Work Ethic Quotes

6. “Nothing can harm you as much as your own thoughts unguarded.”

— Buddha

Also featured in: Emotional Quotes, Self-Realization Quotes, Spiritual Growth Quotes, Mental Health Quotes

7. “Stand up and be strong! No fear. No superstition. Face the truth as it is!”

— Swami Vivekananda

Also featured in: Courage Quotes, Quotes About Strength, Action Quotes, Strong Quotes

8. “Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow. It empties today of its strength.”

— Corrie ten Boom

Also featured in: Life Quotes, Inspirational Life Quotes, Mental Health Quotes

9. “Rule your mind or it will rule you.”

— Horace

Also featured in: Quotes About Thinking, Epic Quotes, Philosophy Quotes, Self Control Quotes

10. “Failure is an option. It’s what you do with the failure that makes you who you are. Our failures mold us. I have failed at several things in my life. What sets some of us apart, is that when we fail, we can’t sleep at night. It haunts us until we have our time at redemption.”

— David Goggins

Also featured in: Perseverance Quotes, Failure Quotes, Willpower Quotes, Self-Empowerment Quotes

11. “Choose not to be harmed and you won’t feel harmed. Don’t feel harmed and you haven’t been.”

— Marcus Aurelius

Also featured in: Perspective Quotes, Mind Quotes, Philosophy Quotes

12. “Defeat is a state of mind; no one is ever defeated until defeat has been accepted as a reality.”

— Bruce Lee

Also featured in: Empowering Quotes, Mindset Quotes, Loss Quotes

13. “Resilience is very different than being numb. Resilience means you experience, you feel, you fail, you hurt. You fall. But, you keep going.”

— Yasmin Mogahed

Also featured in: Resilience Quotes, Growth Quotes, Challenges Quotes, Hurt Quotes

14. “The first rule is to keep an untroubled spirit. The second is to look things in the face and know them for what they are.”

— Marcus Aurelius

Also featured in: Mind Quotes, Wise Quotes, Thought Provoking Quotes

15. “There are no limits on what you can achieve with your life, except the limits you accept in your mind.”

— Brian Tracy

Also featured in: Self-Esteem Quotes, Positivity Quotes, Coaching Quotes, Inspirational Life Quotes

16. “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

Also featured in: Quotes About Strength, Meaningful Quotes, Encouragement Quotes, Giving Up Quotes

17. “If you can accept losing, you can’t win.”

— Vince Lombardi

Also featured in: Failure Quotes, Athlete Quotes, Coaching Quotes

18. “It is better to conquer yourself than to win a thousand battles.”

— Buddha

Also featured in: Enlightenment Quotes, Live Life Quotes, Reflection Quotes

19. “No matter what happens, it is within my power to turn it to my advantage.”

— Epictetus

Also featured in: Willpower Quotes, Obstacles Quotes, Personal Responsibility Quotes, Philosophy Quotes

20. “There is a saying in Tibetan, ‘Tragedy should be utilized as a source of strength.’ No matter what sort of difficulties, how painful experience is, if we lose our hope, that’s our real disaster.”

— Dalai Lama XIV

Also featured in: Perseverance Quotes, Quotes About Hope, Buddhist Quotes

21. “NO MORE. No more excuses. No more: “I’ll start tomorrow.” No more: “Just this once.” No more accepting the shortfalls of my own will. No more taking the easy road. No more bowing down to whatever unhealthy or unproductive thoughts float through my mind.”

— Jocko Willink

Also featured in: Persistence Quotes, Discipline Quotes, Willpower Quotes, Goal Setting Quotes

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

— Serena Williams

Also featured in: Athlete Quotes, Recovery Quotes, Resilience Quotes, Loss Quotes

23. “We all have great inner power. The power is self-faith. There’s really an attitude to winning. You have to see yourself winning before you win. And you have to be hungry. You have to want to conquer.”

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

Also featured in: Attitude Quotes, Dedication Quotes, Motivational Workout Quotes

24. “In times of crisis, people reach for meaning. Meaning is strength. Our survival may depend on our seeking and finding it.”

— Viktor E. Frankl

Also featured in: Psychology Quotes, Meaning Quotes, Recovery Quotes, Resilience Quotes

25. “There’s a worthy and noble ambition: strength in the face of adversity. That is very different from the wish for a life free of trouble.”

— Jordan B. Peterson

Also featured in: Struggle Quotes

26. “I am willing.” “I am wired to win.” “I got this.” “I embrace the uncertainty.” “I am not my thoughts; I am what I do.” “I am relentless.” “I expect nothing and accept everything.”

— Gary John Bishop

Also featured in: Persistence Quotes, Confidence Quotes, Personality Quotes, Coaching Quotes, Willpower Quotes

27. “The one thing you can’t take away from me is the way I choose to respond to what you do to me. The last of one’s freedoms is to choose one’s attitude in any given circumstance.”

— Viktor E. Frankl

Also featured in: Psychology Quotes, Resilience Quotes, Freedom Quotes

28. “Here is the rule to remember in the future, When anything tempts you to be bitter: not, ‘This is a misfortune’ but ‘To bear this worthily is good fortune.’”

— Marcus Aurelius

Also featured in: Acceptance Quotes

29. “You can take away my wife, you can take away my children, you can strip me of my clothes and my freedom, but there is one thing no person can ever take away from me – and that is my freedom to choose how I will react to what happens to me!”

— Viktor E. Frankl

Also featured in: Psychology Quotes, Human Nature Quotes, Existentialism Quotes, Freedom Quotes

30. “The bottom line is that life is one big mind game. The only person you are playing against is yourself.”

— David Goggins

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

— David Goggins

Also featured in: Hard Work Quotes, Discipline Quotes, Willpower Quotes, Fitness Quotes

32. “A prepared mind craves the worst conditions because it knows that pressure brings out its best and exposes almost everyone else.”

— David Goggins

Also featured in: Workout Quotes

33. “It is necessary to be strong in the face of death, because death is intrinsic to life. It is for this reason that I tell my students: aim to be the person at your father’s funeral that everyone, in their grief and misery, can rely on. There’s a worthy and noble ambition: strength in the face of adversity.”

— Jordan B. Peterson

Also featured in: Adversity Quotes

34. “What ought one to say then as each hardship comes? I was practicing for this, I was training for this.”

— Epictetus

Also featured in: Obstacles Quotes, Challenges Quotes, Adversity Quotes

35. “Regardless of how much is left in the tank, you gotta fight back!”

— Eric Thomas

Also featured in: Warrior Quotes, Workout Quotes, Quitting Quotes

36. “Some people don’t like you just because your strength reminds them of their weakness. Don’t let the hate slow you down.”

— Thema Davis

Also featured in: Quotes About Strength

37. “Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others.”

— Aristotle

Also featured in: Courage Quotes, Philosophical Quotes, Virtue Quotes

38. “Shatter all your fear.”

— Robin S. Sharma

Also featured in: Transformation Quotes, Live Life Quotes, Positive Thinking Quotes

39. “Do not allow negative thoughts to enter your mind for they are the weeds that strangle confidence.”

— Bruce Lee

Also featured in: Positivity Quotes, Mindset Quotes, Mental Health Quotes

40. “It isn’t work that makes you tired, it’s your mental attitude.”

— Dale Carnegie

Also featured in: Attitude Quotes, Mindset Quotes, Positive Thinking Quotes

41. “If it can be solved, there’s no need to worry, and if it can’t be solved, worry is of no use.”

— Dalai Lama XIV

Also featured in: Optimistic Quotes, Mindset Quotes, Mental Health Quotes

42. “It is not events that disturb the minds of men, but the view they take of them.”

— Epictetus

Also featured in: Perspective Quotes, Mindset Quotes, Serenity Quotes, Philosophical Quotes

43. “Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success.”

— Joyce Brothers

Also featured in: Self-Realization Quotes, Positivity Quotes, Mindset Quotes, Quotes About Believing

44. “A peaceful mind generates power.”

— Norman Vincent Peale

Also featured in: Positive Thinking Quotes, Peace Quotes

45. “You can't let praise or criticism get to you. It's a weakness to get caught up in either one.”

— John Wooden

Also featured in: Athlete Quotes, Performance Quotes

46. “If you can win over your mind, you can win over the whole world.”

— Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

Also featured in: Willpower Quotes, Positive Thinking Quotes

47. “The difference between average and good. Good and Great! Great and Phenomenal! It’s their mindset!”

— Eric Thomas

Also featured in: Mindset Quotes, Excellence Quotes, Performance Quotes

48. “The only limits in our life are those we impose on ourselves.”

— Bob Proctor

Also featured in: Coaching Quotes, Dreaming Big Quotes, Perspective Quotes, Smart Quotes

49. “Remind yourself: you are not your thoughts or feelings.”

— Arianna Huffington

Also featured in: Wellness Quotes, Mental Health Quotes

50. “If you don’t fall, how are you going to know what getting up is like?”

— Stephen Curry

Also featured in: Failure Quotes, Athlete Quotes, Adversity Quotes