Watch your actions, they become your habits. Watch your habits, they become your character.
VINCE LOMBARDIMental toughness is many things and rather difficult to explain. Its qualities are sacrifice and self-denial. Also, most importantly, it is combined with a perfectly disciplined will that refuses to give in. It’s a state of mind-you could call it character in action.
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There’s only one way to succeed in anything, and that is to give it everything.
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The joy is in creating, not maintaining.
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If you can accept losing, you can’t win.
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You carry on no matter what are the obstacles. You simply refuse to give up – and, when the going gets tough, you get tougher. And, you win.
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Gentlemen, we will chase perfection, and we will chase it relentlessly, knowing all the while we can never attain it. But along the way, we shall catch excellence.
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No leader, however great, can long continue unless he wins battles. The battle decides all.
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While statistics are interesting, they’re all in the past.
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Praise in public; criticize in private.
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Nobody is hurt. Hurt is in the mind. If you can walk, you can run.
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If you’ll not settle for anything less than your best, you will be amazed at what you can accomplish in your lives.
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Fatigue makes cowards of us all.
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Mental toughness is essential to success.
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Once you agree upon the price you and your family must pay for success, it enables you to ignore the minor hurts, the opponent’s pressure, and the temporary failures.
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One comes to believe whatever one repeats to oneself sufficiently often, whether the statement be true of false. It comes to be the dominating thought in one’s mind.
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The harder you work, the harder it is to surrender.
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