Rudyard Kipling Quotes

A lot of things I've done in my life have taken incredible mental fortitude.

My natural abilities weren't necessarily brute power and strength. They were more about the ability to endure and not give up.

There's no magic to running far or climbing Everest. Endurance is mental strength. It's all about heart.

True endurance, I think, comes from the inside. It comes from motivation and belief in what you're doing.

I think willpower is very valuable.

It's just a matter of willpower. The day you decide it's over, it's over. You never get over it.

But I still think it's mind over matter in the sense that if you're strong, you can combat anything.

I am mentally strong.

It's through sheer will that I can sing.

When the body doesn't want to go on, the mind continues to fight.

I have the strength to endure it all.

Firmness in enduring and exertion is a character I always wish to possess. I have always despised the whining yelp of complaint and cowardly resolve.

Fortitude is the marshal of thought, the armor of the will, and the fort of reason.

To be champion requires more than simply being a strong player; one has to be a strong human being as well.

He helps me every day to do my exercises. Siegfried told me once, 'The one who is a hero is the one who can hang on just one minute longer.'

The Finals are about a test of wills.

I don't have stamina in exercise... but I have it in life.

The mental is more important than the physical. You know, that voice in your head telling you to give up if it gets tough. That's my main opponent - making sure that if your body wants to stop, your mind won't let you.

I'm very strong mentally. I have a lot of character. I never give in; I always have the drive to keep going and to work hard to achieve my goals.

You have to persevere and fortify your pertinacity until the will to good becomes a disposition to good.

It's a matter of will. If you know that you can keep your head, and that you must keep your head, you probably will keep your head.

Willpower is essential to the accomplishment of anything worthwhile.

Real courage is holding on to a still voice in your head that says, 'I must keep going.' It's that voice that says nothing is a failure if it is not final. That voice that says to you, 'Get out of bed. Keep going. I will not quit.'

There's no substitute for will. Sometimes you have to fake will when you don't feel it at all.

I always pushed myself. Whenever I felt I needed to stop, I made myself run faster.