These mental quotes will inspire you. Mental, anything having to do with the mind, just as “physical” has to do with the body or relating to disorders of the mind.
Below you will find a collection of motivating, happy, and encouraging mental quotes, mental sayings, and mental proverbs.
Best Mental Quotes
- “Cooking and baking is both physical and mental therapy.” ~ Mary Berry
- “There will always be obstacles and challenges that stand in your way. Building mental strength will help you develop resilience to those potential hazards so you can continue on your journey to success.” ~ Amy Morin
- “The only way you gain mental toughness is to do things you’re not happy doing. If you continue doing things that you’re satisfied and make you happy, you’re not getting stronger. You’re staying where you’re at. Either you’re getting better, or you’re getting worse. You’re not staying the same.” ~ David Goggins
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“A strong positive mental attitude will create more miracles than any wonder drug.” ~ Patricia Neal
- “Sometimes we may ask God for success, and He gives us physical and mental stamina. We might plead for prosperity, and we receive enlarged perspective and increased patience, or we petition for growth and are blessed with the gift of grace. He may bestow upon us conviction and confidence as we strive to achieve worthy goals.” ~ David A. Bednar
- “Having a positive mental attitude is asking how something can be done rather than saying it can’t be done.” ~ Bo Bennett
- “To know yourself as the Being underneath the thinker, the stillness underneath the mental noise, the love and joy underneath the pain, is freedom, salvation, enlightenment.” ~ Eckhart Tolle , Mental quotes love
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“Love is a serious mental disease.” ~ Plato
- “There is no health without mental health; mental health is too important to be left to the professionals alone, and mental health is everyone’s business.” ~ Vikram Patel
- “Nothing 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
- “Tennis is a mental game. Everyone is fit, everyone hits great forehands and backhands.” ~ Novak Djokovic
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“Happiness doesn’t depend on any external conditions, it is governed by our mental attitude.” ~ Dale Carnegie
- “We need to start identifying the triggers that aggravate mental health issues in our society – bullying, social media negativity and anxiety, gender based violence, substance abuse, stigma around issues such as maternal issues, etc., and we need to speak up about these more and get to the source of the problems.” ~ Sanam Saeed
- “To me, football is so much about mental toughness, it’s digging deep, it’s doing whatever you need to do to help a team win and that comes in a lot of shapes and forms.” ~ Tom Brady
- “Automation is no longer just a problem for those working in manufacturing. Physical labor was replaced by robots; mental labor is going to be replaced by AI and software.” ~ Andrew Yang
- “Visualize this thing that you want, see it, feel it, believe in it. Make your mental blue print, and begin to build.” ~ Robert Collier
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“Baseball is ninety percent mental. The other half is physical.” ~ Yogi Berra
- “True prayer is neither a mere mental exercise nor a vocal performance. It is far deeper than that – it is spiritual transaction with the Creator of Heaven and Earth.” ~ Charles Spurgeon
- “My mind rebels at stagnation. Give me problems, give me work, give me the most abstruse cryptogram, or the most intricate analysis, and I am in my own proper atmosphere. But I abhor the dull routine of existence. I crave for mental exaltation.” ~ Arthur Conan Doyle
- “Mental prayer in my opinion is nothing else than an intimate sharing between friends; it means taking time frequently to be alone with Him who we know loves us. The important thing is not to think much but to love much and so do that which best stirs you to love. Love is not great delight but desire to please God in everything.” ~ Saint Teresa of Avila , Mental quotes for friends
- “Every quarterback can throw a ball; every running back can run; every receiver is fast; but that mental toughness that you talk about translates into competitiveness.” ~ Tom Brady
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“Concentration and mental toughness are the margins of victory.” ~ Bill Russell
- “Character is the result of two things: mental attitude and the way we spend our time.” ~ Elbert Hubbard
- “The only antidote to mental suffering is physical pain.” ~ Karl Marx
- “You must also give mental and physical fitness priority.” ~Jim Otto
- “Self-esteem is as important to our well-being as legs are to a table. It is essential for physical and mental health and for happiness.” ~ Louise Hart
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“Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery, none but ourselves can free our minds!” ~ Marcus Garvey
- “When you cry out in pain from a broken wrist, no one questions it. You just go to the hospital and take the necessary steps. Mental illness is just as real, even if it can’t be seen.” ~ Torrey DeVitto
- “A child’s mental health is just as important as their physical health and deserves the same quality of support.” ~ Kate Middleton
- “When you reach that elite level, 90 percent is mental and 10 percent is physical. You are competing against yourself. Not against the other athlete.” ~ Dick Fosbury
- “Jealousy… is a mental cancer. B. C. Forbes In the end, it’s a mental maturity to let your best come out.” ~ Lindsey Vonn
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“Being black is not a matter of pigmentation – being black is a reflection of a mental attitude.” ~ Steven Biko
- “Religion is capable of driving people to such dangerous folly that faith seems to me to qualify as a kind of mental illness.” ~ Richard Dawkins
- “We need to change the culture of this topic and make it OK to speak about mental health and suicide.” ~ Luke Richardson
- “Taking care of your mental and physical health is just as important as any career move or responsibility.” ~ Mireille Guiliano
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“The key to success is to keep growing in all areas of life – mental, emotional, spiritual, as well as physical.” ~ Julius Erving
- “Tennis is mostly mental. Of course, you must have a lot of physical skill, but you can’t play tennis well and not be a good thinker. You win or lose the match before you even go out there.” ~ Venus Williams
- “Studies have shown that inmate participation in education, vocational and job training, prison work skills development, drug abuse, mental health and other treatment programs, all reduce recidivism, significantly.” ~ Bobby Scott
- “Mental health needs a great deal of attention. It’s the final taboo and it needs to be faced and dealt with.” ~ Adam Ant
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“The ability to be in the present moment is a major component of mental wellness.” ~ Abraham Maslow
- “It’s sort of a mental attitude about critical thinking and curiosity. It’s about mindset of looking at the world in a playful and curious and creative way.” ~ Adam Savage
- “Mental toughness is to physical as four is to one.” ~ Bobby Knight
- “Our subliminal mental processes operate outside awareness because they arise in these portions of our mind that are inaccessible to our conscious self; their inaccessibility is due to the architecture of the brain rather than because they have been subject to Freudian motivational forces like repression.” ~ Leonard Mlodinow
- “Mental health affects every aspect of your life. It’s not just this neat little issue you can put into a box.” ~ Shannon Purser
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“Mental attitude and concentration are the keys to pitching.” ~ Ferguson Jenkins
- “Those who decide to use leisure as a means of mental development, who love good music, good books, good pictures, good plays, good company, good conversation – what are they? They are the happiest people in the world.” ~ William Lyon Phelps
- “Success or failure in business is caused more by the mental attitude even than by mental capacities.” ~ Walter Scott
- “Emotional well-being is more than the absence of a mental illness. It’s that resource within each of us which allows us to reach ever closer to our full potential, and which also enables us to be resilient in the face of adversity.” ~ Vivek Murthy
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“Ninety percent of hockey is mental and the other half is physical.” ~ Wayne Gretzky
- “There isn’t anybody out there who doesn’t have a mental health issue, whether it’s depression, anxiety, or how to cope with relationships. Having OCD is not an embarrassment anymore – for me. Just know that there is help and your life could be better if you go out and seek the help.” ~ Howie Mandel
- “You show me anybody that’s great in anything they do, I’ll show you somebody that’s persevered, demonstrated that mental toughness to overcome some obstacles and adversity.” ~ Sean McVay
- “Acting is the most personal of our crafts. The make-up of a human being – his physical, mental and emotional habits – influence his acting to a much greater extent than commonly recognized.” ~ Lee Strasberg
- “A library is a place that is a repository of information and gives every citizen equal access to it. That includes health information. And mental health information. It’s a community space. It’s a place of safety, a haven from the world.” ~ Neil Gaiman
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“I want to live and feel all the shades, tones, and variations of mental and physical experience possible in my life. And I am horribly limited.” ~ Sylvia Plath
- “Mental discipline and tenacity in the face of obstacles are traits that have greatly helped me in both my personal and professional journey thus far. I am also very optimistic by nature and tend to focus on the positive and remain hopeful when faced with adversity.” ~ Priyamvada Natarajan
- “The study of the art of motorcycle maintenance is really a miniature study of the art of rationality itself. Working on a motorcycle, working well, caring, is to become part of a process, to achieve an inner peace of mind. The motorcycle is primarily a mental phenomenon.” ~ Robert M. Pirsig
- “Women in particular need to keep an eye on their physical and mental health, because if we’re scurrying to and from appointments and errands, we don’t have a lot of time to take care of ourselves. We need to do a better job of putting ourselves higher on our own ‘to do’ list.” ~ Michelle Obama
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“Chess is mental torture.” ~ Garry Kasparov
- “I suspect music is auditory cheesecake, an exquisite confection crafted to tickle the sensitive spots of… our mental faculties.” ~ Steven Pinker
- “The problem with the stigma around mental health is really about the stories that we tell ourselves as a society. What is normal? That’s just a story that we tell ourselves.” ~ Matthew Quick
- “You can’t fix yourself out of a mental health issue. You can’t wake up and say, ‘Today I’m not being depressed!’ It’s a process to get well, but there is recovery.” ~ Margaret Trudeau
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“Mental health is often missing from public health debates even though it’s critical to wellbeing.” ~ Diane Abbott
- “People need to know that they have all the tools within themselves. Self-awareness, which means awareness of their body, awareness of their mental space, awareness of their relationships – not only with each other, but with life and the ecosystem.” ~ Deepak Chopra
- “The purpose of meditation is to make our mind calm and peaceful. If our mind is peaceful, we will be free from worries and mental discomfort, and so we will experience true happiness. But if our mind is not peaceful, we will find it very difficult to be happy, even if we are living in the very best conditions.” ~ Kelsang Gyatso
- “A desire to be in charge of our own lives, a need for control, is born in each of us. It is essential to our mental health, and our success, that we take control.” ~ Robert Foster Bennett
