Mental 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

The good Lord gave you a body that can stand most anything. It’s your mind you have to convince

As with stomachs, we should pity minds that do not eat.

It is supposed that there has been progress in the science of textual criticism, and the most frivolous pretender has learned to talk superciliously about “the old unscientific days”. The old unscientific days are everlasting; they are here and now; they are renewed perennially by the ear which takes formulas in, and the tongue which gives them out again, and the mind which meanwhile is empty of reflexion and stuffed with self-complacency.

Always keep your mind that the very moment when your life may stifle you anyway, then it is the true sign that your life is actually not yours.

Always keep in mind that whatever you may see had well begun that may always turn out to be half-ended.

Always keep in your mind that your soul always has some doors to open for you every time, no matter whether that door can be either upward or it can be the one inward also

Always keep in mind that there are times when you actually need to change your very self, and also, this change sometimes becomes a necessity for us to bring in ourselves rather than focusing more on changing the world around us.

Reading is a journey of the mind

All the resources we need are in the mind.

Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.

Drop out of school before your mind rots from exposure to our mediocre educational system. Forget about the Senior Prom and go to the library and educate yourself if you’ve got any guts. Some of you like Pep rallies and plastic robots who tell you what to read

Live the full life of the mind, exhilarated by new ideas, intoxicated by the Romance of the unusual.

Never to have occasion to take a position, to make up one’s mind, or to define oneself – there is no wish I make more often.

Only those moments count, when the desire to remain by yourself is so powerful that you’d prefer to blow your brains out than exchange a word with someone.

History is nothing but a procession of false Absolutes, a series of temples raised to pretexts, a degradation of the mind before the Improbable.

Religion is for the man in humble life, and to raise his nature, and to put him in mind of a state in which the privileges of opulence will cease.