Mental Fortitude Quotes

Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.

as the shadows assume shapes I fight the slow retreat now my once-promise dwindling dwindling now lighting new cigarettes pouring more drinks it has been a beautiful fight still is.

Your mind is your invisible talisman. The letters PMA (positive mental attitude) are emblazoned on one side, and NMA (negative mental attitude) on the other. These are powerful forces.

Courage is being scared to death... and saddling up anyway.

The last three or four reps is what makes the muscle grow. This area of pain divides the champion from someone else who is not a champion. That's what most people lack, having the guts to go on and just say they'll go through the pain no matter what happens.

Pain is weakness leaving the body,

There's something about being afraid, about being small, about enforced humility that draws me to climbing.

He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.

The first virtue in a soldier is endurance of fatigue; courage is only the second virtue.

Do the thing you fear most and the death of fear is certain.

You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, 'I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.'

Forces beyond your control can take away everything you possess except one thing, your freedom to choose how you will respond to the situation.

Sorrow and suffering make for character if they are voluntarily borne, but not if they are imposed.

Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.

One who gains strength by overcoming obstacles possesses the only strength which can overcome adversity.

I have a different kind of experience than other girls had. I've had to face a lot of different styles and adjust to them. I had to face a lot of bad situations and come back. I've had to fight with my eyes swollen shut and my nose broken and bloody.

The empires of the future are empires of mind.

And once the storm is over, you won’t remember how you made it through, how you managed to survive. You won’t even be sure, whether the storm is really over. But one thing is certain. When you come out of the storm, you won’t be the same person who walked in. That’s what this storm’s all about.

… the only thing we have to fear is fear itself—nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance.

I assess the power of a will by how much resistance, pain, torture it endures and knows how to turn to its advantage.

Madness passed me by, she smiled hi. I nodded.

What can stop the determined heart and resolved will of man?

Nothing happens to any man which he is not formed by nature to bear. The same things happen to another, and either because he does not see that they have happened or because he would show a great spirit he is firm and remains unharmed. It is a shame then that ignorance and conceit should be stronger than wisdom.

No problem can withstand the assault of sustained thinking.

Let everything happen to you Beauty and terror Just keep going No feeling is final