These willpower quotes will inspire you. Willpower is the ability to control one’s own actions, emotions, or urges; or control exerted to do something or restrain impulses.
A collection of motivating, happy, and encouraging willpower quotes, willpower sayings, and willpower proverbs.
Famous Willpower Quotes
- “Willpower is the key to success. Successful people strive no matter what they feel by applying their will to overcome apathy, doubt or fear.” ~ Dan Millman
- “Wars may be fought with weapons, but they are won by men. It is the spirit of men who follow and of the man who leads that gains the victory.” ~ George S. Patton
- “Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.” ~ Mahatma Gandhi
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“The world is full of willing people; some willing to work, the rest willing to let them.” ~ Robert Frost
- “We all have dreams. But in order to make dreams come into reality, it takes an awful lot of determination, dedication, self-discipline, and effort.” ~ Jesse Owens
- “Each day you must choose, the pain of discipline or the pain of regret.” ~ Eric Mangini
- “We have more ability than willpower, and it is often an excuse to ourselves that we imagine that things are impossible.” ~ Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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“Happiness is secured through virtue; it is a good attained by man’s own will.” ~ Thomas Aquinas
- “If you set goals and go after them with all the determination you can muster, your gifts will take you places that will amaze you.” ~ Les Brown
- “In the absence of willpower, the most complete collection of virtues and talents is wholly worthless.” ~ Aleister Crowley
- “Willpower is essential to the accomplishment of anything worthwhile.” ~ Brian Tracy
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“If you fell down yesterday, stand up today.” ~ H. G. Wells
- “The development of willpower -I will, I won’t and I want- may define what it means to be human.” ~ Kelly McGonigal
- “Everyone wants to do what the great ones do, but very few are willing to do what they did to become great” ~ Jon Gordon
- “With but few exceptions, it is always the underdog who wins through sheer willpower.” ~ Johnny Weissmuller
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“Successful weight loss takes programming, not willpower.” ~ Phil McGraw
- “Winning is not everything, but wanting to win is.” ~ Vince Lombardi
- “I hated every minute of training, but I said, ‘Don’t quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.'” ~ Muhammad Ali
- “Desire is the key to motivation, but it’s determination and commitment to an unrelenting pursuit of your goal – a commitment to excellence – that will enable you to attain the success you seek.” ~ Mario Andretti
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“Where the willingness is great, the difficulties cannot be great.” ~ Niccolo Machiavelli
- “Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough.” ~ Og Mandino
- “With self-discipline most anything is possible.” ~ Theodore Roosevelt
- “Will power is to the mind like a strong blind man who carries on his shoulders a lame man who can see.” ~ Arthur Schopenhauer , Strong willpower quotes
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“People do not lack strength; they lack will.” ~ Victor Hugo
- “He who is firm in will molds the world to himself.” ~ Johann Gottlieb Fichte
- “Business is always a struggle. There are always obstacles and competitors. There is never an open road, except the wide road that leads to failure. Every great success has always been achieved by fight. Every winner has scars. The men who succeed are the efficient few. They are the few who have the ambition and willpower to develop themselves. So choose to be among the few today.” ~ Chris Kirubi
- “Nothing can withstand the power of the human will if it is willing to stake its very existence to the extent of its purpose.” ~ Benjamin Disraeli
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“The will of man is his happiness.” ~ Friedrich Schiller
- “When you see a thing clearly in your mind, your creative “success mechanism” within you takes over and does the job much better than you could do it by conscious effort or “willpower.” ~ Maxwell Maltz
- “What you have to do and the way you have to do it is incredibly simple. Whether you are willing to do it is another matter.” ~ Peter Drucker
- “If freedom is short of weapons, we must compensate with willpower.” ~ Adolf Hitler
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“Rule your mind or it will rule you.” ~ Horace
- “Without the will, marriage is a mockery; without emotion, it is a drudgery. You need both.” ~ Ravi Zacharias
- “Each and every one of you has the power, the will and the capacity to make a difference in the world in which you live in” ~ Harry Belafonte
- “Willpower can produce short-term change, but it creates constant internal stress because you haven’t dealt with the root cause.” ~ Rick Warren
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“Willpower is trying very hard not to do something you want to do very much.” ~ John Ortberg
- “The time is always right to do what is right.” ~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
- “You have a very powerful mind that can make anything happen as long as you keep yourself centered.” ~ Wayne Dyer
- “Where there is a will there is a lawsuit.” ~ Addison Mizner
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“Self-will so ardent and active that it will break a world to pieces to make a stool to sit on.” ~ Richard Cecil
- “If you can’t fly then run, if you can’t run then walk, if you can’t walk then crawl, but whatever you do you have to keep moving forward.” ~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
- “One supreme fact which I have discovered is that it is not willpower, but fantasy and imagination that ceates. Imagination is the creative force. Imagination creates reality.” ~ Richard Wagner
- “Take a chance! All life is a chance. The man who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare.” ~ Dale Carnegie
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“We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.” ~ Oscar Wilde
- “You surrender to love; you do not accomplish love by willpower.” ~ Richard Rohr
- “I was in uniform for four years, and I know that heroism doesn’t occur from taking orders, but rather from people who through their own willpower and strength are willing to sacrifice their lives for an idea.” ~ Thor Heyerdahl
- “We may think there is willpower involved, but more likely… change is due to want power. Wanting the new addiction more than the old one. Wanting the new me in preference to the person I am now.” ~ George A. Sheehan
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“I have willpower and determination. I am very resilient, like rock.” ~ Carnie Wilson
- “Determination gives you the resolve to keep going in spite of the roadblocks that lay before you.” ~ Denis Waitley , Willpower quotes and determination
- “No action will be considered blameless, unless the will was so, for by the will the act was dictated.” ~ Seneca the Younger
- “All things must; man is the only creature that wills.” ~ Friedrich Schiller
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“In oratory, the will must predominate.” ~ David Hare
- “This in ourselves that we are thus or thus. Our bodies are our gardens to the which our wills are gardeners.” ~ William Shakespeare
- “Will cannot be quenched against its will.” ~ Dante Alighieri
- “When a man’s willing and eager the gods join in.” ~ Aeschylus
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“There is a charm about the forbidden that makes it unspeakably desirable.” ~ Mark Twain
- “Run when you can, walk if you have to, crawl if you must; just never give up.” ~ Dean Karnazes
- “Wishes run over in loquacious impotence, will presses on with laconic energy.” ~ Johann Kaspar Lavater
- “There’s no doubt that Mexican men and women – full of dignity, willpower and a capacity for work – are doing the work that not even blacks want to do in the United States.” ~ Vicente Fox
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“In war, the chief incalculable is the human will.” ~ B. H. Liddell Hart
- “If you are losing faith in human nature, go out and watch a marathon.” ~ Kathrine Switzer
- “I am, indeed, a king, because I know how to rule myself.” ~ Pietro Aretino
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“Willpower is steam for life’s locomotion.” ~ Praveen Kumar
- “Empathy is not simply a matter of trying to imagine what others are going through but having the will to muster enough courage to do something about it. In a way, empathy is predicated upon hope.” ~ Cornel West
- “If you feel stronger and good when the weather is sunny and weaker and bad when the weather is cloudy, then it means your willpower is not powerful yet!” ~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
