Tim Ferriss Quotes

Willpower is essential to the accomplishment of anything worthwhile.

If you want to do something that requires willpower - like going for a run after work - you have to conserve your willpower muscle during the day.

I think it rather fine, this necessity for the tense bracing of the will before anything worth doing can be done. I rather like it myself. I feel it is to be the chief thing that differentiates me from the cat by the fire.

SELF-DISCIPLINE, more than any other personal quality I can think of, is the one thing that separates successful people from the unsuccessful. Think of all it encompasses: honoring commitments, promises and deadlines, keeping your life on schedule, being willing to go the extra mile... Self-discipline is essential to success. The alternative is a life ruled by emotions, and none of us can afford that if we're going to fulfill our purpose and realize our potential.

Self-discipline is the ability to make yourself do something you don't necessarily want to do, to get a result you would really like to have.

The forthputting of willpower is a means of strengthening willpower. The will becomes strong by exercise. To stick to a thing till you are master is a test of intellectual discipline and power.

Grit and self-control are related, but they're not the same thing.

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

When a person trains once, nothing happens. When a person forces himself to do a thing a hundred or a thousand times, then he certainly has developed in more ways than physical. Is it raining? That doesn't matter. Am I tired? That doesn't matter either. Then willpower will be no problem.

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

It's just a matter of willpower. The day you decide it's over, it's over. You never get over it.

I became a player who goes to a lot of effort while training, who can rely on his will and his mental strengths.

...most men and women will yield to the strong currents sucking them into the seas of ruin. Only the strongest in mind and spirit will swim against that current.

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

I believe in one thing only, the power of human will.

The only discipline that lasts is self-discipline.

If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew to serve your turn long after they are gone, and so hold on when there is nothing in you except the will which says to them: 'Hold on!'

Indeed, the best way to think of willpower is not as some shapeless behavioral trait but as a sort of psychic muscle, one that can atrophy or grow stronger depending on how it's used.

There is little that can withstand a man who can conquer himself.

Inner strength is very important.

I'm very strong mentally. I have a lot of character. I never give in; I always have the drive to keep going and to work hard to achieve my goals.

I have a strong will-power.

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.

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

No matter the situation, I stay focused and motivated on my goals because that's the way I was raised.