17 Super Inspiring Quotes

About the Remarkable

Power of Mind Over Matter
It is important to get your mind right
before you set out to make your next
great accomplishment. Here are some
wise words to inspire you.
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BY PETER ECONOMY, THE LEADERSHIP GUY@BIZZWRITER
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When it comes down to it, how you approach any circumstance determines

which track you take towards success--or toward failure. 

We are all capable of achieving the impossible, but often, our mindset is the

one thing standing in our way. However, our mindset is something we have

the power to change.

Here are 17 quotes to remind you how important it is to get your mind right

before you set out to make your next great accomplishment. 

1. "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

2. "The only way of finding the limits of the possible is by going beyond

them into the impossible." -- Arthur C. Clarke

3. "Living in this skin is hard and painful, most of the times because I never

volunteered to take this on...but still here I am and if this is the body I've been

given I'm sure as hell gonna make it work." -- Charlotte Eriksson

4. "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

5. "Life has no smooth road for any of us; and in the bracing atmosphere of a

high aim the very roughness stimulates the climber to steadier steps, till the

legend, over steep ways to the stars, fulfills itself." -- W. C. Doane

6. "The brick walls are there for a reason. The brick walls are not there to

keep us out. The brick walls are there to give us a chance to show how badly

we want something. Because the brick walls are there to stop the people who

don't want it badly enough. They're there to stop the other people." -- Randy

Pausch

7. "Men do less than they ought, unless they do all they can." -- Thomas

Carlyle

8. "We love being mentally strong, but we hate situations that allow us to put

our mental strength to good use." -- Mokokoma Mokhonoana

9. "First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to

do." -- Epictetus

10. "I'm not the strongest. I'm not the fastest. But I'm really good at

suffering." -- Amelia Boone

11. "Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to

make them come true." -- Leon J. Suenes

12. "You cannot control what happens to you, but you can control the way

you think about all the events. You always have a choice. You can choose to

face them with a positive mental attitude." -- Roy T. Bennett

13. "If you want to be tougher mentally, it is simple: be tougher. Don't

meditate on it." -- Jocko Willink

14. "The strength of your mind determines the quality of your life." --

Edmond Mbiaka

15. "Mental toughness is not being affected by anything but what's going on

in the game or competition no matter what coaches, other players, or refs are

doing. It's being able to block out what's not important." -- Jenny Brenden

16. "If you're not mentally tough, if nerves undo you instead of focus you, if

you don't have the inner arrogance that you absolutely have what it takes to

win, if you don't see, in your mind's eye, a picture of yourself winning - then

you won't win; And not because you can't." -- Summer Sanders

17. "Now if you are going to win any battle you have to do one thing. You

have to make the mind run the body. Never let the body tell the mind what to

do. The body will always give up. It is always tired morning, noon, and night.

But the body is never tired if the mind is not tired. When you were younger

the mind could make you dance all night, and the body was never tired...
You've always got to make the mind take over and keep going." -- George S.

Patton

A rich man cannot enjoy a sound mind nor a sound body without exercise and abstinence;
and yet these are truly the worst ingredients of poverty. Votes: 1
Henry Home

If we are to perpetuate the state, we must not only produce citizens, but good citizens -
men and women of sound bodies, clear minds and clean souls. Votes: 1
Arthur Capper

I don't work out as much as I should, but I do believe that it's a healthy mind as well as a
healthy body that keeps me fit, sound and calm. Votes: 1
Naomi Campbell

For the man sound of body and serene of mind there is no such thing as bad weather;
every day has its beauty, and storms which whip the blood do but make it pulse more
vigorously. Votes: 1
George Gissing

A sound mind in a sound body, is a short, but full description of a happy state in this
World: he that has these two, has little more to wish for; and he that wants either of them,
will be little the better for anything else. Votes: 1
John Locke

A sound mind in a manly body. Votes: 0

Homer

The sound body is the product of the sound mind. Votes: 0

George Bernard Shaw

A sound soul dwells within a sound mind and a sound body. Votes: 0

Atsushi

A sound mind in a sound body is a thing to be prayed for. Votes: 0

Juvenal
Move quickly. Sound, calm mind. Be light in body. Have a clever mind. Master the
basics. Votes: 0
Gogen Yamaguchi

To become a thoroughly good man is the best prescription for keeping a sound mind and
a sound body. Votes: 0
Francis Bowen

A sound mind in a sound body is a short but full description of a happy state in this
world. Votes: 0
John Locke

Our prayers should be for a sound mind in a healthy body. [Lat., Orandum est ut sit mens
sana in corpore sano.] Votes: 0
Juvenal

The older people carry the music in their body, in their mind. If they die, then that sound
may be gone forever. Votes: 0
Vy Higginsen

We are making choices that will affect whether beings thousands of generations from
now will be able to be born sound of mind and body. Votes: 0
Joanna Macy

A rich man cannot enjoy a sound mind nor a sound body without exercise and abstinence;
and yet these are truly the worst ingredients of poverty. Votes: 0
Henry Home, Lord Kames

Dress loose,take a great deal of exercise ,and be particular about your diet and sleep
sound enough,the body has a great effect on the mind. Votes: 0
Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Helpful   Not Helpful

I spend around one hour per day on physical exercise. Exercise is a must for
every chess player. As the proverb says, 'A sound mind in a sound body'. Votes: 0