Neil Strauss Quotes

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

I always pushed myself. Whenever I felt I needed to stop, I made myself run faster.

I think willpower is very valuable.

We, performers, work on willpower. This willpower works in a short term, not durational.

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!'

I don't have stamina in exercise... but I have it in life.

When I need motivation, I just think I can do everything if I maintain a strong sense of will.

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.

Spirit, like body, needs to be trained. So I think it's necessary to make your spirit stronger. And for he who believes, anything is possible.

It's a matter of will. If you know that you can keep your head, and that you must keep your head, you probably will keep your head.

Willpower is essential to the accomplishment of anything worthwhile.

I cannot give up my will - I must exercise it, putting it into action.

Become strong again in spirit, strong in will, strong in endurance, strong to bear all sacrifices

Never tell yourself ... I can't go on. If you do you're licked, and by your own thinking too.

Although motivation comes and goes, you can always rely on your will.

There's no magic to running far or climbing Everest. Endurance is mental strength. It's all about heart.

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

When you're out of will power you call on stubbornness, that's the trick.

Being gifted intellectually is only a small part of the equation of success. Concentrate on the factors you have control over: persistence, self-discipline, confidence. Far more failures are due to lack of will than lack of ability.

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

People may say I developed an iron will, but what really happened is that I made myself much fitter. I think an iron will is always supported by fitness.

I'll always use the negativity as more motivation to work even harder and become even stronger.

Running alone is the toughest. You get to the point where you have to keep pushing yourself.

Strength of will is the test of a young man's possibilities. Can he will strong enough and hold whatever he undertakes with an iron grip?

I ran and ran and ran every day, and I acquired this sense of determination, this sense of spirit that I would never, never give up, no matter what else happened.