Benjamin Disraeli Quotes

Human power is to be reckoned less by physical vigor than by mental strength.

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.

Sublime is the dominion of the mind over the body, that, for a time, can make flesh and nerve impregnable, and string the sinews like steel, so that the weak become so mighty!

One of the ideas that runs through this book [Lincoln in the Bardo] is this Buddhist notion that the mind is incredibly powerful; not the brain but the mind.

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.

Training the will in trivial and grave matters increases its strength and flexibility, and enables man to constantly strive and persevere.

Weak is he who permits his thoughts to control his actions; strong is he who forces his actions to control his thoughts.

I do feel there are countless people on earth who do not believe in the inner power, the inner life. They feel that the outer strength and the outer life are everything. I do not agree with them. There is an inner life; there is spirit, and my ability to lift these heavy weights proves that it can work in matter as well.

Will is stronger than fact: it can mold and overcome fact.

The mind is stronger than any muscle.

Mind does dominate body. We are superior to the house in which we dwell.

I honestly believe that with a strong mind, you can literally 'will' the ball into the hole.

Fighting is not physical, fighting is spiritual. It's the determination and the will in the guy.

The heavier our bodies, the higher our will, our spirit, rises above them.' 'The wearier we are, the more splendid the training.

It’s called mind over matter. If we don’t mind, it doesn’t matter.” When a bit of me hurts, I always mind.

The will must be stronger than the skill.

Where there is no strength of mind there can be no strength of soul.

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

The body is only a tool of the mind. What the mind dictates the body will have to obey. Now I do not even think of water. I do not miss it at all.... I see I can do anything.

No matter how tough the chase is, you should always have the dream you saw on the first day. It'll keep you motivated and rescue you (from any weak thoughts).

A fight is 10% physical and 90% mental.

...most men and women will yield to the strong currents sucking them into the seas of ruin. Only the strongest in mind and spirit will swim against that current.

I'm learning new levels of patience, perseverance and desire.

Fear only become powerful when you give it your power.

Better grounded emotionally through patience, we become stronger mentally and spiritually, and tend to be healthier physically.