Mental strength Quote by Dominic Mann

“She confused being spartan with being charitable, and gave away her possessions without truly doing good with them. She confused being sick with being…

— E. Lockhart

Among the Spartans all newly born children were subject to a careful examination or selection. All those that were weak, sickly, or affected with…

— Ernst Haeckel

“If he was not exactly a Spartan, he was, you might say, spartanatical. Things happened to you; they were good,or they were bad -…

— A.E. Coppard

“The hardship of the exercises is intended less to strengthen the back than to toughen the mind. The Spartans say that any army may…

— Steven Pressfield

“Mental strength induces mind and body.”

— Toba Beta

“Empathy, the Greeks believed, was a source of strength, not softness; the more you recognized yourself in others and connected with their distress, the…

— Christopher McDougall

A man with a cause can do the utmost I SPARTANS.

— Riti Ghatourey

Since the time of the ancient Greeks, we have always felt that there was a close relationship between a strong, vital mind and physical…

— John F. Kennedy

“First of all, you don’t want me to get too hungry. Ever. I’m an ever worse bastard than normal and having starved for centuries,…

— Sherrilyn Kenyon

“In this way, the Spartans erected a moral barrier between themselves and the helots to justify their harsh treatment of fellow Greeks. For all…

— Thomas R. Martin

We have the ability to be the Athens of modern times as opposed to the militaristic Sparta. I remind you that the Athenians wrote…

— Rita Mae Brown

The wide difference between the two characters, the slowness and want of energy of the Spartans as contrasted with the dash and enterprise of…

— Thucydides