Natasia Demetriou Quotes

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

I think anybody can do any of these if they train. I don't recommend it, but anybody could do it if there was a need.

Vice: Whatever was passion in the contemplation of man, being brought forth by his will into action.

Desire is creation, is the magical element in that process. If there were an instrument by which to measure desire, one could foretell achievement.

A desire presupposes the possibility of action to achieve it; action presupposes a goal which is worth achieving.

Men can do all things if they will.

He who does not want does not act.

I have discovered in life that there are ways of getting almost anywhere you want to go, if you really want to go.

The will to win, the desire to succeed, the urge to reach your full potential... these are the keys that will unlock the door to personal excellence.

What you can do is a matter of what you will do.

The willingness to do creates the ability to do.

We live by action—by acting on desire. Those of us who don't know how to want—whether geniuses or beggars—are related by impotence.

There is a big difference in wanting to and willing to.

If you have the ability and want it bad enough, do it!

You must take the will for the deed.

... it is one thing to desire, another to be in capacity fit for what we desire.

What a man wants to do he generally can do, if he wants to badly enough.

One's desire, not ability, determines success.

The day effort ceased, I also ceased. Because you cannot exist without effort, and you cannot exist without desire, and you cannot exist without striving.

Between being able to and actually doing something lies an ocean, and on its bottom rests all too often the wreck of willpower.

Motivation describes your attitude when you would rather do one thing more than another at a particular time.

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.

Successful and unsuccessful people do not vary greatly in their abilities. They vary in their desires to reach their potential.

Energy plus talent and you are a king, energy and no talent and you are still a prince, talent and no energy and you are a pauper

I don't want to discount talent and ability, but I still maintain that a lot of it is just sheer desire.