Indomitable Will Quotes

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  Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Ronald Duncan (2005). “Gandhi: Selected Writings”, p.54, Courier Corporation

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• Nothing is impossible that one desires with an indomitable will.

  Henrik Ibsen

  Desire, Impossible, Indomitable

  Henrik Ibsen (1905). “The Correspondence of Henrik Ibsen”

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• Only he can take great resolves who has indomitable faith in God and has fear of God.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  God, Fear, Resolve

  Mahatma Gandhi, U. R. Rao (1963). “The Way to Communal Harmony”, Ahmedabad, [India] : Navajivan Publishing House

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• Are great things ever done smoothly? Time, patience, and indomitable will must show.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Inspirational, Motivational, Time

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.2054, Manonmani Publishers

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• What it comes down to is intense desire. To get this winning edge, you need to build an indomitable will. This means you must be relentless; you must never give up.

  Anson Dorrance

  Giving Up, Mean, Winning

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• We learned to be patient observers like the owl. We learned cleverness from the crow, and courage from the jay, who will attack an owl ten times its size to drive it off its territory. But above all of them ranked the chickadee because of its indomitable spirit.

  Tom Brown, Jr.

  Nature, Native American, Owl

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• A man who dreads trials and difficulties cannot become a revolutionary. If he is to become a revolutionary with an indomitable fighting spirit, he must be tempered in the arduous struggle from his youth. As the saying goes, early training means more than late earning.

  Kim Jong Il

  Fear, Struggle, Mean

  Chŏng-il Kim, Jong Il Kim (1989). “The Present Times and the Tasks Facing Young People: Talk to the Senior Officials of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea, October 12, 1988”

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• Cast your mind on other days that we in coming days may be still the indomitable Irishry.

  William Butler Yeats

  Mind, May, Casts

  "Under Ben Bulben" l. 81 (1939)

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• We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution, of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always be done.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Wisdom, Courage, Work

  Theodore Roosevelt (1901). “The Works of Theodore Roosevelt: The strenuous life”

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• The reality distortion field was a confounding mélange of a charismatic rhetorical style, indomitable will, and eagerness to bend any fact to fit the purpose at hand.

  Walter Isaacson

  Reality, Hands, Style

  Walter Isaacson (2011). “Steve Jobs”, p.118, Simon and Schuster

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• There's never before been a Chess player with such a thorough knowledge of the intricacies of the game and such an absolutely indomitable will to win. I think Bobby is the greatest player that ever lived

  Lisa Lane

  Winning, Player, Thinking

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• The comrades throughout the Party must take all this fully into account and be prepared to overcome all difficulties with an indomitable will and in a planned way. The reactionary forces and we both have difficulties. But the difficulties of the reactionary forces are insurmountable because they are forces on the verge of death and have no future. Our difficulties can be overcome because we are new and rising forces and have a bright future.

  Mao Zedong

  Party, Struggle, Self Reliance

  Zedong Mao (1954). “Selected Works”

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• Commercialism is the blemish on the fair face of American life. Fighting against the terrible conditions of the explorer and pioneer, our forefathers had little time to think of beauty. Hearts and heads became as hardened to the more gracious things of life as did their bodies against physical hardship. Little by little, as nature yielded before the dynamite of their wills, life began to express itself in the same hard terms, and the great commerce of a New World bent everything to its indomitable will.

  Alice Foote MacDougall

  Business, Heart, Fighting

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