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

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.

When strict with oneself, one rarely fails.

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

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.

And then he sank back and tried, as usual, not to think. He must succeed. That's what the world was made for. That's what he was made for. That was what he would have to do.

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

There are no impossible obstacles; there are just stronger and weaker wills, that’s all!

Do not be discouraged by the resistance you will encounter from your human nature; you must go against your human inclinations. Often, in the beginning, you will think that you are wasting time, but you must go on, be determined and persevere in it until death, despite all the difficulties.

I think you can accomplish anything if you're willing to pay the price.

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

All successes begin with Self-Discipline. It starts with you.

Life's battles don't always go to the stronger or faster man, but sooner or later the man who wins is the one who thinks he can.

Greatness is not a function of circumstance. Greatness, it turns out, is largely a matter of conscious choice, and discipline.

Happiness is the overcoming of not unknown obstacles toward a known goal.

I think willpower is very valuable.

Anyone can do something when they want to do it. Really successful people do things when they don't want to do it.

Joy is of the will which labours, which overcomes obstacles, which knows triumph.

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

I always want to do my very best, and it's frustrating to have something hold me back.

You can accomplish anything in life if you are willing to work for it.

I struggle with my training sometimes. The thing I look at is if you keep getting up and moving forward, you'll be successful. That's the way I've lived my life. I'm not going to stop doing something because somebody says it's time. I'm going to stop it when my body says it's over or the fans say, 'we're done watching you.'