I don’t count my sit-ups. I only start counting when it starts hurting. When I feel pain, that’s when I start counting, because that’s when it really counts.
If it is important to you, you will find a way. If not, you’ll find an excuse.
Are great things ever done smoothly? Time, patience, and indomitable will must show.
The only thing a person can ever really do is keep moving forward. Take that big leap forward without hesitation, without once looking back. Simply forget the past and forge toward the future.
Don’t give up. There are too many nay-sayers out there who will try to discourage you. Don’t listen to them. The only one who can make you give up is yourself.
What this power is I cannot say; all I know is that it exists and it becomes available only when a man is in that state of mind in which he knows exactly what he wants and is fully determined not to quit until he finds it.
I started my life with a single absolute: that the world was mine to shape in the image of my highest values and never to be given up to a lesser standard, no matter how long or hard the struggle.
The best way to not feel hopeless is to get up and do something.
I have brought myself, by long meditation, to the conviction that a human being with a settled purpose must accomplish it, and that nothing can resist a will which will stake even existence upon its fulfillment.
Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence.
Willpower is the key to success. Successful people strive no matter what they feel by applying their will to overcome apathy, doubt or fear.
The only one who can tell you “You can’t” is you. And you don’t have to listen.
It’s harder to stay strong than it is to give up. Giving up doesn’t get you anywhere... Only makes you weak.
Doubters don’t win, winners don’t doubt.
The only limits on human achievement are self-imposed.
No matter what happens, it is within my power to turn it to my advantage.
It is the nature of the wise to resist pleasures, but the foolish to be a slave to them.
Man is not made for defeat.
What is good? All that heightens the feeling of power, the will to power, power itself. What is bad? All that is born of weakness. What is happiness? The feeling that power is growing, that resistance is overcome.
In case of doubt, push on just a little further and then keep on pushing.