Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach Quotes

Human will-power alone is not enough. Will-power is excellent and we should always be using it; but it is not enough. A desire to live a good life is not enough. Obviously we should all have that desire, but it will not guarantee success.

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

Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don't quit.

Self-discipline is what separates the winners and the losers.

Remember, it isn't the dreamers who have good lives - it's the doers. Remember also what I call the three Ps of success: passion, planning, and perseverance.

I was very disciplined growing up. If I didn't want to run hills, I ran hills; if I didn't want to jog around the block, I jogged around the block.

Willpower is that thing CEOs and professional athletes tell us they used to make it to the top.

Willpower is essential to the accomplishment of anything worthwhile.

If you don't have discipline, you don't have anything

Discipline has within it the potential for creating future miracles.

If it's important to you and you want to do it 'eventually', just do it and correct course along the way.

Willpower is so common among highly successful people that many see its characteristics as synonymous with success.

Willing is not enough, we must do.

You have the ability, now apply yourself.

Discipline is the bridge between thought and accomplishment. Discipline comes to those with the awareness that for a kite to fly it must rise against the wind; that all good things are achieved by those who are willing to swim upstream; that drifting aimlessly through life only leads to bitterness and disappointment." And then he added: "Discipline is the foundation on which all success is built. Lack of discipline inevitably leads to failure.

Self-discipline is the key to personal greatness. It is the magic quality that opens all doors for you, and makes everything else possible. With self-discipline, the average person can rise as far and as fast as his talents and intelligence can take him. But without self-discipline, a person with every blessing of background, education and opportunity will seldom rise above mediocrity.

The one human quality that must be developed is self discipline for success. The will power to force yourself to do what you know you should do when you should do it, whether you like it or not, whether you feel like it or not. Success is tons of discipline.

The whole idea of motivation is a trap, forget motivation, just do it

A person of intellect without energy added to it, is a failure.

Have your dream...What you need now more than anything is discipline. Cast off mere words. Words turn into stone. (from Thailand)

Without self-discipline, success is impossible, period.

Persistence is self-discipline in action.

Your part is to awaken your desire to accomplish your worthy objectives. Then whip your will into action until it follows the way of wisdom that is shown to you.

Decision-making takes care of goal-setting, but discipline also takes care of goal-getting. Decisions and discipline can't be separated; one is worthless without the other.