Oswald Chambers Quotes

You know so little of war. Battles may be fought from the outside in, but wars are won from the inside out.

I never think of physical fighting. It's always spiritual. Fighting is spiritual.

People see it [boxing] as a physical contact sport, but it's not. It's really a spiritual one of will against will. Who wants it the most? How much is he willing to take - and dish out - to get it? It's like fighting is 10 percent physical and 90 percent emotional.

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.

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

Your battles inspired me - not the obvious material battles but those that were fought and won behind your forehead.

Terrible is the fight put up by the senses. Fight bravely! Conquer them you must.

The battles that count aren't the ones for gold medals. The struggles within yourself - the invisible, inevitable battles inside all of us - that's where it's at.

I'm not going to fight in the physical with physical weapons, because it's not a physical fight. I'm going to fight with spiritual weapons, cause it's a spiritual fight.

A warrior is not a person that carries a gun. The biggest war you ever go through is right between your own ears. It's in your mind. We're all going through a war in our mind, and we have to callus our mind to fight that war and to win that war.

Battles are won in the hearts of men.

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

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.

The GREATEST battle you wage against FAILURE occurs on the INSIDE, not the OUTSIDE.

She was stronger alone; and her own good sense so well supported her, that her firmness was as unshaken, her appearance of cheerfulness as invariable, as, with regrets so poignant and so fresh, it was possible for them to be.

The hardest thing in the world is to stand alone. Your friends will not understand, will resent you, will want you to just stop it and let life go back to where it was. But you have to follow the quiet turning of your own considered conscience. It's a hard road.

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

Will power is not telling anybody you quit smoking.

A fight is 10% physical and 90% mental.

A strong mind is one of the key components that separates the great from the good.

The most important attribute a player must have is mental toughness.

Nicole's world had fallen to pieces, but it was only a flimsy and scarcely created world; beneath it her emotions and instincts fought on.

Do not let your spirit be influenced by your body, or your body be influenced by your spirit. Be neither insufficiently spirited or over spirited. An elevated spirit is weak and a low spirit is weak. Do not let the enemy see your spirit.

It's very hard in the beginning to understand that the whole idea is not to beat the other runners. Eventually you learn that the competition is against the little voice inside you that wants you to quit.