Martin Seligman Quotes

Talent sets the floor, character sets the ceiling

The discipline learned from putting in time and effort as a child is a skill and a talent you carry with you for the rest of your life in trying to achieve goals.

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

A lot of can't deal with life because they lack the patience to become who they want to be.... Everything happens by process. If you don't go through the process to get it, you don't have the power to keep it.

Character cannot be made except by a steady, long-continued process.

It frustrates me if I'm not good at something, so I do it until I get good at it.

One of the things Mother said to me, 'You want this, you're going to practice.' And I know how to practice.

Millennials get a bad rap sometimes about their grit and perseverance.

I think if you want to prove something to yourself and not fail there's only one choice and that's to work.

My mentality is still the same. I have to continue to get better.

You just gotta stay positive and take every day as a chance to improve and every practice. And every week you're not having a fight, there's a chance to improve.

A lot of people think they need the best training partners, the best gym. I started with Vans, Jack in the Box, and a dream, and now I'm here. You just need to have that work ethic, focus, and dedication.

If you don't want to practice, unless you have a hard-nosed coach, you don't have to.

One thing I noticed when I was young was I was impatient for success. I think everybody is impatient for success. It will come. But don't - you shouldn't let that impatience drive you crazy.

Leaders aren't born they are made. And they are made just like anything else, through hard work. And that's the price we'll have to pay to achieve that goal, or any goal.

If you don't have discipline, you don't have anything

Wanting to win isn't enough. You have to go through a process to improve. That takes patience, perseverance, and intentionality.

Talented people without discipline don't go anywhere.

Coach Lombardi showed me that by working hard and using my mind, I could overcome my weakness to the point where I could be one of the best.

You have the ability, now apply yourself.

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.

Talent doesn't win. Hard work, determination, and character wins. If you root your talent and ability in those things, then you have a powerful combination.

The question is not whether the formula for success will work, but rather whether the person will work the formula.

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

There are, basically, three kinds of people: the unsuccessful, the temporarily successful, and those who become and remain successful. The difference is character.