Strong Mind Quotes - Page 2

• A strong body is a good asset. A strong mind is a very good asset.

  Rickson Gracie

  Strong, Mma, Mind

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• I developed a mechanism so that whatever mistakes I made, I would bounce straight back. Whatever was happening off the pitch, I could put it to one side and maintain my form. Call it mental resilience or a strong mind, but that is what we mean when we talk about experience in a football team.

  Gary Neville

  Football, Strong, Mistake

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• If he were a man of strong mind, it only gave him fits; but a person of mere average intellect it usually sent mad.

  Jerome K. Jerome

  Strong, Men, Average

  Jerome K. Jerome (1998). “Three Men in a Boat and Three Men on the Bummel”, p.120, Oxford Paperbacks

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• It's when the discomfort strikes that they realize a strong mind is the most powerful weapon of all.

  Chrissie Wellington

  Strong, Powerful, Mind

  "Ironman champ: Your mind matters more" by Chrissie Wellington, www.cnn.com. July 13, 2012.

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• God give us men! A time like this demands. Strong minds, great hearts, true faith, and ready hands; Men whom the lust of office does not kill; Men whom the spoils of office cannot buy; Men who possess opinions and a will; Men who have honor; men who will not die.

  J. G. Holland

  Time, Strong, Heart

  J.G. HOLLAND (1872). “THE MARBLE PROPHECY AND OTHER POEMS.”, p.89

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• Many of my favorite survivors in fiction show that it may not be the most muscled, macho or mighty people who pull through. A strong mind and body arent always enough. You might also need a resilient heart.

  Claire Cameron

  Strong, Heart, People

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• Insubordination may only be the evidence of a strong mind.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Strong, War, Mind

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• It requires a strong mind to bear up against several languages. Some persons have learnt so many, that they have ceased to think in any one.

  Arthur Helps

  Strong, Thinking, Mind

  Sir Arthur Helps (1892). “Essays and Aphorisms”

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• We observe with confidence that the truly strong mind, view it as intellect or morality, or under any other aspect, is nowise the mind acquainted with its strength; that here the sign of health is unconsciousness.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Strong, Greatness, Views

  Thomas Carlyle (1881). “Critical and Miscellaneous Essays: Collected and Republished”, p.4

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• A strong body makes the mind strong. As to the species of exercises, I advise the gun. While this gives moderate exercise to the body, it gives boldness, enterprise and independence to the mind. Games played with the ball, and others of that nature, are too violent for the body and stamp no character on the mind. Let your gun therefore be your constant companion of your walks.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Being Strong, Nature, Character

  Quoted in Colin Jarman The Guinness Dictionary of Sports Quotations (1990).

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• The danger to power is obsession - power junkies. You need a very strong mind and humor to balance yourself. If you don't, you will get shredded.

  Frederick Lenz

  Strong, Buddhism, Mind

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  No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Inspirational, Motivational, Happiness

  Quoted in Vidette-Messenger (Valparaiso, Ind.), 7 June 1941 See Channing 1

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• the damned book I am writing is like the driveling of a weak-kneed sea calf. If I were sufficiently strong minded, I should tear it up an start again. But I don't.

  Winifred Holtby

  Strong, Book, Writing

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• I wanted to go into prison and come out a better person - mentally, physically. So, I read a lot of books, got my GED while I was in there, and worked out every day. Strong body, strong mind.

  Ja Rule

  Strong, Book, Mind

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I guess I've always been really strong minded about what I wear; I've never followed what other people consider fashionable or what styles are happening at the time.

  Bonnie Wright

  Strong, People, Style

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• Games played with the ball, and others of that nature, are too violent for the body and stamp no character on the mind.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Character, Gun, Games

  Quoted in Colin Jarman The Guinness Dictionary of Sports Quotations (1990).

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• You can fight based on a strong mind, based on developing your muscles and reflexes, training your motor functions and going back again. Having a strong enough mind to actually put them into action. This is not actually terribly different from what an Olympic athlete does - and essentially describes the process of becoming an Olympic athlete.

  Bruce Frantzis

  Strong, Athlete, Fighting

  Source: www.watkinsmagazine.com

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• The world can be a hard place sometimes... You have to have heart. You have to be strong. Parents want their children to grow up to be strong. Not just any strong, mind you, but loving strong.

  Jewell Parker Rhodes

  Life, Strong, Children

  Jewell Parker Rhodes (2010). “Ninth Ward”, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers

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• The primary purpose of going to college isn't to get a great job. The primary purpose of college is to build a strong mind, which leads to greater self-awareness, capability, fulfillment, and service opportunities, which, incidentally, should lead to a better job.

  Sean Covey

  Strong, Jobs, Opportunity

  Sean Covey (2011). “The 6 Most Important Decisions You'll Ever Make: A Guide for Teens”, p.65, Simon and Schuster

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• I wish to say seriously to all the daily newspapers, to the Republicans, the Democrat, and Socialist parties, that they cannot, month in month out and year in and year out, make the kind of untruthful, of bitter assault that they have made and not expect that brutal, violent natures, or brutal and violent characters, especially when the brutality is accompanied by a not very strong mind; they cannot expect that such natures will be unaffected by it.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Strong, Character, Media

  "'It Takes More Than That to Kill a Bull Moose': The Leader and The Cause". Theodore Roosevelt's address at Milwaukee, Wisconsin, given a few minutes after getting shot by some anarchist, www.businessinsider.com. October 14, 1912.

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• Educate, that you might be free. We are most anxious to get the quiet, strong minded people who are scattered throughout the country to see the force of this great truth.

  Thomas Davis

  Country, Strong, People

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• Men of strong minds and who think for themselves, should not be discouraged on finding occasionally that some of their best ideas have been anticipated by former writers; they will neither anathematize others nor despair themselves. They will rather go on discovering things before discovered, until they are rewarded with a land hitherto unknown, an empire indisputably their own, both right of conquest and of discovery.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Strong, Men, Thinking

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

  Ray Floyd

  Strong, Believe, Mind

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• Little minds mistake little objects for great ones, and lavish away upon the former that time and attention which only the latterdeserve. To such mistakes we owe the numerous and frivolous tribe of insect-mongers, shell-mongers, and pursuers and driers of butterflies, etc. The strong mind distinguishes, not only between the useful and the useless, but likewise between the useful and the curious.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Strong, Mistake, Butterfly

  Lord Chesterfield (1998). “Lord Chesterfield's Letters”, p.160, OUP Oxford

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• Time, whose millioned accidents creep in betwixt vows, and change decrees of kings, tan sacred beauty, blunt the sharpest intents, divert strong minds to the course of altering things.

  William Shakespeare

  Strong, Kings, Mind

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