Seneca the Younger Quotes

I am as successful as I make up my mind to be

The great thing to remember is we can do whatever we wish to do provided our wish is strong enough.

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

I think the mind has a way of getting to where it needs to get to. If you are persistent.

He who is firm in will molds the world to himself.

If you will it, it is no dream.

Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed, is more important than any other one thing.

Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.

Willpower is essential to the accomplishment of anything worthwhile.

You do miracles if you concentrate your mind on one thing and one thing only.

I just came in this morning with one goal; to make it back tonight, so I'm very excited for the final.

I honestly believe that with a strong mind, you can literally 'will' the ball into the hole.

We do not have to wait for future discoveries in connection with the powers of the human mind for evidence that the mind is the greatest force known to mankind. We know, now, that any idea, aim or purpose that is fixed in the mind and held there with a will to achieve or attain its physical or material equivalent, puts into motion powers that cannot be conquered.

The hand that follows intellect can achieve.

Resistance is a powerful motivator precisely because it enables us to fulfill our longing to achieve our goals while letting us boldly recognize and name the obstacles to those achievements.

Do not turn back when you are just at the goal.

There are but two roads that lead to an important goal and to the doing of great things: strength and perseverance. Strength is the lot of but a few privileged men; but austere perseverance, harsh and continuous, may be employed by the smallest of us and rarely fails of its purpose, for its silent power grows irresistibly greater with time.

Without the concentration of the mind and the will, performance would not result.

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

No one ever achieved a goal by being interested in its achievement. One must be committed.

The whole thing resolves itself into our mental ability to control our thought. The man who can do this can have what he wants, can do what he wishes and becomes what he wills.

I always wanted to be a winner, to score goals. There was no massive bravery in terms of my mum passing away and stepping up. I just wanted to score. I know everyone would have given me a pass on it if I hadn't taken it. But I'd have had the hump with myself if I'd shirked it.

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

There is no creature so contemptible but by resolution may gain his point.

Learn how to set goals. That's the key to everything. That includes designing your own success. You define what the goal is, it's not somebody else's goal, it's yours.