I will not let anyone walk through my mind with their dirty feet.
People do not lack strength, they lack will.
I assess the power of a will by how much resistance, pain, torture it endures and knows how to turn to its advantage.
If you believe you can, you might. If you know you can, you will.
Self-control is strength. Right thought is mastery. Calmness is power.
For me giving up is way harder than trying.
Most powerful is he who has himself in his own power.
Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.
No one is free who has not obtained the empire of himself. No man is free who cannot command himself.
Every mountain top is within reach if you just keep climbing.
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.