On mental toughness

 “Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.”- Mark Twain
 “Adversity causes some men to break, and others to break records.”- Unknown
“Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work at hand. The sun’s rays do not burn until b
“Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that all was vanity; but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dream with open eyes, and make it possible.”- T.E. Lawrencerought to a focus.”- Alexander Graham Bell
“Who dares, wins” –British SAS
 “Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength.” – Arnold Schwarzenegger
 “Today I will do the things that other people won’t, so tomorrow I can do the things that other people can’t” – Unknown
 “We’ll operate with no excuses. There are no excuses. You succeed or you don’t.”    
 “Pain is temporary. It may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, or a year, but eventually it will subside and something else will take its place. If I quit, however, it lasts forever.” -
 “Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure…life is either a daring adventure or nothing.” - Helen Keller
“Sure I am this day we are masters of our fate, that the task which has been set before us is not above our strength; that its pangs and toils are not beyond our endurance. As long as we have faith in our own cause and an unconquerable will to win, victory will not be denied us.”
-Winston Churchill
“The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands at times of comfort and convenience, but at times of challenge and adversity.”-Unknown
“Why tip toe through life, to arrive safely at death? If you’re gonna be afraid to live, what’s the point?”-Unknown
“It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.” –Theodore Roosevelt
 “I want to be the best. So whatever comes with that, I have to accept it.” - Sidney Crosby
 “Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men.” -John F. Kennedy
“Remember, if it was easy, everyone would do it. Champions are built brick by painful brick and that can take a lifetime. Sometimes it can happen without anyone even bothering to notice. Take heart. The mountains you climb can’t always be seen by an audience… Still, you must not stop climbing. For, in all their sophomoric hubris, whatever actions men take, or do not take, the mountain remains.”- Unknown
“We will either find a way, or make one!”- Hannibal
“The only way of finding the limits of the possible is by going beyond them into the impossible.” – Arthur C. Clarke
 “Nothing on earth can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.”- Thomas Jefferson
“The brick walls are there for a reason. The brick walls are not there to keep us out. The brick walls are there to give us a chance to show how badly we want something. Because the brick walls are there to stop the people who don’t want it badly enough. They’re there to stop the other people.” ― Randy Pausch, The Last Lecture