William James Quotes

Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.

To be stronger, you finish everything you start. You can't take a break.

Discipline is something we despise for the moment.... We all look for a place to run, an excuse with which to stall. No one enjoys it. Yet those of us who have endured it know that the fruit it produces and the pain from which it ultimately spares us makes it worth the agony.

Goals on the road to achievement cannot be achieved without discipline and consistency.

Don't succumb to excuses. Go back to the job of making the corrections and forming the habits that will make your goal possible.

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.

Win or lose you will never regret working hard, making sacrifices, being disciplined or focusing too much. Success is measured by what we have done to prepare for competition.

It is easier to prevent bad habits than to break them.

We must not let ourselves get driven off course, no matter what happens we must stick to our natural game.

I've developed a self-discipline since the time I was a child.

I am not stopped by low funds, physical exhaustion, mental exhaustion, or temptations to stop and work on some other production that would be more financially rewarding.

The hardest thing for me is to be patient and realize that it's not all going to happen right now. I just have to keep digging away, digging away. Just keep working on my game.

I try to push myself a little every day. For me, it's doing 10 more seconds of whatever I'm working on. So if I'm on the treadmill sprinting my butt off or doing a grueling core workout, I think to myself, 'You can do 10 more seconds, and you'll be that much mentally stronger.' After a while, those 10 seconds add up!

Staying consistent with positive habits can be a challenge.

Patience is weapon. I learned that from my Laker days.

The book Relentless' is an awesome book. It taught me a lot about just staying consistent, being level-headed, being relentless at what you want to do.

He insisted on a single trade secret: that you had to survive, find some quiet, and work hard every day.

I know the most important faculty to develop is one for hard, continuous and varied work and living; but the difference between knowing this and doing anything consistent about it is often abysmal.

Remember anything you want that's valuable requires you to break through short-term pain in order to gain long-term pleasure.

Remember that all success is based on long-term commitment, faith, discipline, attitude and a few stepping stones along the way.

Your actions become your habits. Don't let yourself make a pattern of slipups or they'll become habits!

Before something can become a habit it must first be practiced as a discipline.

We don't have to be smarter than the rest. We have to be more disciplined than the rest.

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.

We must make automatic and habitual, as early as possible, as many useful actions as we can...in the acquisition of a new habit, we must take car to launch ourselves with as strong and decided initiative as possible. Never suffer an exception to occur till the new habit is securely rooted in your life.