The three great essentials to achieve anything worth while are: Hard work, Stick-to-itiveness, and Common sense.

The will to do springs from the knowledge that we can do.

Strength and growth come only through continuous effort and struggle.

Willpower is the key to success. Successful people strive no matter what they feel by applying their will to overcome apathy, doubt or fear.

Permanence, perseverance and persistence in spite of all obstacles, discouragements, and impossibilities: It is this, that in all things distinguishes the strong soul from the weak.

Perseverance is also key to success in any endeavor, but without perseverance in combat, there can be no victory.

Self-control is true power.

It is astonishing what force, purity, and wisdom it requires for a human being to keep clear of falsehoods.

The essential element in personal magnetism is a consuming sincerity - an overwhelming faith in the importance of the work one has to do.

I think it all comes down to motivation. If you really want to do something, you will work hard for it.

Man, alone, has the power to transform his thoughts into physical reality; man, alone, can dream and make his dreams come true.

Next to courage, willpower is the most important thing in politics.

Never go backward. Attempt, and do it with all your might. Determination is power.

An invincible determination can accomplish almost anything and in this lies the great distinction between great men and little men.

If your determination is fixed, I do not counsel you to despair. Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance.

If you make the unconditional commitment to reach your most important goals, if the strength of your decision is sufficient, you will find the way and the power to achieve your goals.

Determination, energy, and courage appear spontaneously when we care deeply about something. We take risks that are unimaginable in any other context.

Others can challenge and motivate us, but we must reach down deep into our souls and call forth our God-given intelligence and capabilities. We cannot do this when we depend on the efforts of someone else.

Never forget that the key to the situation lies in the will and not in the imagination.

Success is almost totally dependent upon drive and persistence. The extra energy required to make another effort or try another approach is the secret of winning.

Burning desire to be or do something gives us staying power - a reason to get up every morning or to pick ourselves up and start in again after a disappointment.

Decisiveness is a characteristic of high-performing men and women. Almost any decision is better than no decision at all.

Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.

All you need is the desire, passion, and will to fulfil your dreams!

The only thing that stands between a man and what he wants from life is often merely the will to try it and the faith to believe that it is possible.

To achieve, you need thought. You have to know what you are doing and that's real power.

You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.

A small body of determined spirits fired by an unquenchable faith in their mission can alter the course of history.

You've done it before and you can do it now. See the positive possibilities. Redirect the substantial energy of your frustration and turn it into positive, effective, unstoppable determination.

There is no such thing as a great talent without great will power.

The world itself is the will to power - and nothing else! And you yourself are the will to power - and nothing else!

Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you temperance and self-control, diligence and strength of will, cheerfulness and content, and a hundred virtues which the idle will never know.

Fortitude is the marshal of thought, the armor of the will, and the fort of reason.

Our limitations and success will be based, most often, on your own expectations for ourselves. What the mind dwells upon, the body acts upon.

As for courage and will - we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead.

The will to persevere is often the difference between failure and success.

Success means having the courage, the determination, and the will to become the person you believe you were meant to be.

It does not take much strength to do things, but it requires great strength to decide on what to do.

Hard work isn't enough. And more work is never the real answer. The sort of grit you need to scale a business is less reliant on brute force. It's actually one part determination, one part ingenuity, and one part laziness.

We are the creative force of our life, and through our own decisions rather than our conditions, if we carefully learn to do certain things, we can accomplish those goals.

Intelligence alone does not get us where we need to go or even necessarily where we want to go. For that, the human creature must exercise harder-won capacities of wisdom, and wise action.

Our ability to handle life's challenges is a measure of our strength of character.

It is in your moments of decision that your destiny is shaped.

Power is competence.

The intensity of your desire governs the power with which the force is directed.

A strong passion for any object will ensure success, for the desire of the end will point out the means.

The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. The fears are paper tigers. You can do anything you decide to do. You can act to change and control your life; and the procedure, the process is its own reward.

When the imagination and will power are in conflict, are antagonistic, it is always the imagination which wins, without any exception.

Biology always beats will power.

I think the most important mantra in my life has been and will continue to be - patience, hard work and will power.

Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.

Desire is the key to motivation, but it's determination and commitment to an unrelenting pursuit of your goal - a commitment to excellence - that will enable you to attain the success you seek.

A man may be a pessimistic determinist before lunch and an optimistic believer in the will's freedom after it.

Just because you're struggling with self-discipline doesn't mean you have to raise the white flag and declare your self-improvement efforts a complete failure. Instead, work to increase the chances that you'll stick to your healthier habits - even when you don't feel like it.

Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success.

Self-government won't work without self-discipline.

Will power is to the mind like a strong blind man who carries on his shoulders a lame man who can see.

I have learned that I really do have discipline, self-control, and patience. But they were given to me as a seed, and it's up to me to choose to develop them.

A desire to be in charge of our own lives, a need for control, is born in each of us. It is essential to our mental health, and our success, that we take control.

It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome.

The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will.

Personal discipline, when it becomes a way of life in our personal, family, and career lives, will enable us to do some incredible things.

We gain the strength of the temptation we resist.

Intelligence is usually easy to tell in a 10-minute conversation. Determination is harder.

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.

When people have a willpower failure, it's because they haven't anticipated a situation that's going to come along.

Will power is only the tensile strength of one's own disposition. One cannot increase it by a single ounce.

Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.

If you imagine someone with 100 percent determination and 100 percent intelligence, you can discard a lot of intelligence before they stop succeeding. But if you start discarding determination, you very quickly get an ineffectual and perpetual grad student.

We gain the strength of the temptation we resist.

Every human has four endowments - self awareness, conscience, independent will and creative imagination. These give us the ultimate human freedom... The power to choose, to respond, to change.