Michel de Montaigne Quotes

I've taken great pride in not being fragile.

You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.

We deem those happy who from the experience of life have learnt to bear its ills without being overcome by them.

Battles are won in the hearts of men.

I think I'm blessed with a pretty tough psyche.

I can play with pain. It doesn't bother me.

I was able to convince my body that I could take it and nobody could hurt me. I might've gotten cut, stitches over my eyes. Broken nose. Broken hands. But I never really got hurt.

Athletics is not so much about the legs. It's about the heart and mind.

I know how strong I am mentally, how I work on myself.

Successful people are able to rise above crises by relaxing no matter what the external situation. Their belief in themselves, the strength of their self-image is impenetrable armor, which protects them against shattering events.

In time of crisis, we summon up our strength. Then, if we are lucky, we are able to call every resource, every forgotten image that can leap to our quickening, every memory that can make us know our power. And this luck is more than it seems to be: it depends on the long preparation of the self to be used.

Suck it up. This is the life you chose for yourself, so buck up and deal.

God abandons only those who abandon themselves, and whoever has the courage to shut up his sorrow within his own heart is stronger to fight against it than he who complains.

I think I was as mentally tough as I've ever been. I felt like I handled the situation both on and off the court extremely well. I felt like I needed to.

Get yourself prepared, educationally and emotionally, and develop mental toughness. Don't ever give up.

Money doesn't bring courage, I learned. It's the other way around. Once I took that lesson to heart, I began to rebuild my life.

I will keep a smile on my face and in my heart even when it hurts today.

Morale is not a single instinct. It has many ingredients. A sense of personal responsibility, the natural courage of an individual, the amount of his acquired self-discipline -- and above all his interest in others -- these together make up the spirit of morale.

The most steady, the most self-sufficient nature depends, more than it knows, on its few chosen stimuli.

A man only begins to be a man when he ceases to whine and revile, and commences to search for the hidden justice which regulates his life. And he adapts his mind to that regulating factor, he ceases to accuse others as the cause of his condition, and builds himself up in strong and noble thoughts; ceases to kick against circumstances, but begins to use them as aids to his more rapid progress, and as a means of the hidden powers and possibilities within himself.

So with the man who has daily inured himself to habits of concentrated attention, energetic volition, and self-denial in unnecessary things. He will stand like a tower when everything rocks around him, and when his softer fellow-mortals are winnowed like chaff in the blast.

We must combine the toughness of the serpent with the softness of the dove, a tough mind and a tender heart.

The battle for self-discipline may leave you a bit bruised and battered but always a better person.

A warrior feeds his body well; he trains it; works on it. Where he lacks knowledge, he studies. But above all he must believe. He must believe in his strength of will, of purpose, of heart and soul.

If you're strong enough on the inside, you can handle anything that comes at you on the outside.