Mental toughness

• If the going is tough and the pressure is on, if reserve of strength have been drained and the summit is still not in sight, then the quality to seek in a person is neither of great strength nor the quickness of hand, but rather a resolute mind firmly set on its purpose that refuses to let its body slacken or rest.
  (Sir Edmund Hillary)
• I believe that no man can be completely able to summor all his strength, all his will, all his energy, for that last desperate move, till he is convinced the last bridge is down behind him and that there is nowhere to go but on.
  (Heinrich Harrer)
• The essential challenge involves the physical rescources only indirectly; the real battleground is in the realm of the spirit.
  (Dr. Steward Macintosh)

Success

• The most glorious moments in your life are not the so-called days of success, but rather those days when out of dejection and despair youfeel rise in you a challenge to life, and the promise of future accomplishments.
  (Flaubert)

Preparation

• In nature there are neither rewards nor punishment. There are consequences.
  (R.G.Ingersoll)