Highest Level Mental Strength

Mental strength and believing in yourself is a critical, fundamental learned skill. Golf serves as one of the core avenues that can, and does, test a person’s proficiency and strength of mental toughness. There will be times that you are behind in a tournament, in reaching your goals, or in paying your bills. The difference between people that rise above and those that don’t is mental strength.  You WILL be tested in golf and in life, so learn how to grow your mental strength and prepare for life.

Absorb these profound mental strength messages. Do not forget them. Re-use again and again to build YOUR mental strength AND to build a stronger YOU.  In golf and in life’s path toward reaching YOUR dreams – learn from these mental strength messages. Building mental toughness is the clear goal.

The worst mistake a person can make is to worry about making a mistake. –  Dorothy Handlon

Hardships often prepare ordinary people for an extraordinary destiny. – C.S. Lewis

Everything you’ve ever wanted is on the other side of fear. – George Addair

Never let the things you can’t do; stop you from doing what you can. – Ronald Reagan

Believe in yourself. You are braver than you think, more talented than you know, and capable of more than you imagine. – Roy T. Bennett

There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure. – Paulo Coelho

Your true success in life begins only when you make a commitment to be excellent at what you do. – Brian Tracy

Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears. – Les Brown

Success means doing the best we can with what we have. Success is the doing, not the getting: in the trying, not the triumph. Success is a personal standard, reaching for the highest that is in us, becoming all that we can be. – Zig Ziglar

Hard times don’t create heroes. It is during the hard times when the “hero” within us is revealed. – Bob Riley

Believe that you can and you’re halfway there. – Theodore Roosevelt

Your mind is a powerful thing. When you fill it with positive thoughts, your life will start to change. – Unknown

Start by doing what’s necessary; then do what’s possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible. – Francis of Assisi

Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will. – Mahatma Gandhi

Thankfulness is the beginning of happiness.   Being grateful every day is the continuation of happiness. – Unknown

The food you eat can either be the safest and powerful form of medicine or the slowest form of poison.  – Ann Wigmore

Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time. – Thomas A. Edison

You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream. – C.S. Lewis

You have to learn the rules of the game. And then you have to play better than anyone else. – Albert Einstein

Success is motived by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others. – Ayn Rand

What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals. – Henry David Thoreau

By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail. – Benjamin Franklin

I don’t believe you have to be better than everybody else. I believe you have to be better than you ever thought you could be. – Ken Venturi

The harder I work at it, the luckier I get. – Lee Trevino

Know your “numbers”.  Distance control (proximity to pins), putting stats from 4, 10 – 15 – 20 & long range, driving, short game up & downs, sand saves, and YOUR numbers!!! Probabilities of success, what needs work, and what to do to get better, better and better. – Davis Love, Jr.  (Davis Love III’s Dad)

Opportunities don’t happen. You create them. – Chris Grosser

Successful people do what unsuccessful people are not willing to do.  Don’t wish it were easier; wish you were better. – Jim Rohn

All progress takes place outside the comfort zone. – Michael John Bobak

The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today. – Franklin D. Roosevelt