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

— Swami Vivekananda

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2. “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

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

— Mahatma Gandhi

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

— Billie Jean King

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

— Lance Armstrong

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

— Buddha

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

— Swami Vivekananda

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

— Horace

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

— Corrie ten Boom

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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

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

— Marcus Aurelius

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

— Bruce Lee

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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

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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

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

— Brian Tracy

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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

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

— Vince Lombardi

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

— Buddha

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

— Epictetus

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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

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

— Serena Williams

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22. “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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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

— David Goggins

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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

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

— David Goggins

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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

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

— Epictetus

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

— Eric Thomas

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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

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

— Aristotle

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38. “Shatter all your fear.”

— Robin S. Sharma

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

— Bruce Lee

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

— Dale Carnegie

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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

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

— Epictetus

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

— Joyce Brothers

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44. “A peaceful mind generates power.”

— Norman Vincent Peale

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

— John Wooden

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

— Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

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

— Eric Thomas

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

— Bob Proctor

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

— Arianna Huffington

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

— Stephen Curry

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