Marvin J. Ashton Quotes

You can get through anything if you want it bad enough.

Willpower is essential to the accomplishment of anything worthwhile.

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.

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.

When I finally make up my mind that I want to do something, it's never been hard for me to do.

I think willpower is very valuable.

Anybody can do anything he wants to if he wants to do it badly enough.

I've learned over the years that when I go to that place of passion within me, there's no force in the universe that can interfere with my completing a project.

Yes, I believe the will is very important. It's how I have succeeded in life.

If one can stick to the training throughout the many long years, then will power is no longer a problem. It's raining? That doesn't matter. I am tired? That's besides the point. It's simply that I just have to.

The truest wisdom is a resolute determination.

No tricks, gimmicks, special pills, special potions, special equipment. All it takes is desire and will.

I kind of peak at how far I can push my body, and then I run out of determination for the habit and start easing off. It's really just a lack of focus and discipline.

Stay focused and stay determined. Don't look to anyone else to be your determination - have self-determination. It will take you very far.

I was always taught that you needed to be intense and never lose your focus.

If you want to be the best, you can't take the path of least resistance. Every morning, you wake up, and your mind tells you it's too early, and your body tells you you're a little too sore, but you've got to look deep within yourself and know what you want and what you're striving for.

I believe everyone is capable of just about anything if you commit yourself to it.

The difference between the greats and the legends is their ability to focus for longer periods of time.

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

As simplistic as this may sound, commitment is still the common denominator separating those who live their dreams from those who live in regret.

It’s okay to be discouraged. It’s not okay to quit. To know you want to quit but to plant your feet and keep inching closer until you take the impenetrable fortress you’ve decided to lay siege to in your own life—that’s persistence.

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.

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

To succeed, we must have the will to succeed, we must have stamina, determination, backbone, perseverance, self-reliance, and faith.

Courage is how bad you want it.