Francois de La Rochefoucauld Quotes

If you really want to do something, you'll find a way. If you don't, you'll find an excuse.

We have more ability than will power, and it is often an excuse to ourselves that we imagine that things are impossible.

There are no impossible obstacles; there are just stronger and weaker wills, that’s all!

When you want something so badly, you just do it. You don't think about how hard it's going to be.

I'll always use the negativity as more motivation to work even harder and become even stronger.

One thing I've come to learn about myself is that I have to keep going.

Strength of will is the test of a young man's possibilities. Can he will strong enough and hold whatever he undertakes with an iron grip?

You can get through anything if you want it bad enough.

He helps me every day to do my exercises. Siegfried told me once, 'The one who is a hero is the one who can hang on just one minute longer.'

I attribute my success to this - I never gave or took any excuse.

A lot of things I've done in my life have taken incredible mental fortitude.

The only way to get through the life I had was just to have a big head of steam and determination.

I struggle with my training sometimes. The thing I look at is if you keep getting up and moving forward, you'll be successful. That's the way I've lived my life. I'm not going to stop doing something because somebody says it's time. I'm going to stop it when my body says it's over or the fans say, 'we're done watching you.'

It takes an inner strength to succeed.

When I need motivation, I just think I can do everything if I maintain a strong sense of will.

Discipline is what you must have to resist the lure of excuses

The only person who can stop you from reaching your goals is you.

But I could never have done it," he objected, "without everyone else's help." "That may be true," said Reason gravely,"but you had the courage to try; and what you can do is often simply a matter of what you will do.

The only one who can make you give up is yourself.

There's no substitute for will. Sometimes you have to fake will when you don't feel it at all.

It's easy to just give everything up, but it takes a lot of strength and a lot of willpower to just make yourself stay on it and get up and do something different. And I had to do that.

Just because the road ahead is long, is no reason to slow down. Just because there is much work to be done, is no reason to get discouraged. It is a reason to get started, to grow, to find new ways, to reach within yourself and discover strength, commitment, and determination. The road ahead is long and difficult, but it’s filled with opportunity. Start what needs starting. Finish what needs finishing. Get on the road. Stay on the road. Don’t give up.

Wins and losses come a dime a dozen. But effort? Nobody can judge effort. Effort is between you and you. Effort ain't got nothing to do with nobody else.

All successes begin with Self-Discipline. It starts with you.

True endurance, I think, comes from the inside. It comes from motivation and belief in what you're doing.