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

  Inspirational, Motivational, Fear

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• 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

  Leadership, War, Men

  Cavalry Journal, September 1933.

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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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• The world is full of willing people; some willing to work, the rest willing to let them.

  Robert Frost

  Inspirational, Motivational, Attitude

  "The New Speaker's Treasury of Wit and Wisdom". Book by Herbert Victor Prochnow, 1958.

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  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

  Inspirational, Motivational, Running

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Each day you must choose, the pain of discipline or the pain of regret.

  Eric Mangini

  Inspirational, Strength, Motivational Sports

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• 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

  Inspirational, Motivational, Determination

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• Happiness is secured through virtue; it is a good attained by man's own will.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Men, Virtue, Secured

  Saint Thomas (Aquinas) (1951). “St. Thomas Aquinas: Philosophical Texts”

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• In the absence of willpower the most complete collection of virtues and talents is wholly worthless.

  Aleister Crowley

  Talent, Virtue, Absence

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• Willpower is essential to the accomplishment of anything worthwhile.

  Brian Tracy

  Accomplishment, Essentials, Worthwhile

  Brian Tracy (2004). “Getting Rich Your Own Way: Achieve All Your Financial Goals Faster Than You Ever Thought Possible”, p.32, John Wiley & Sons

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  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.

  Inspirational, Motivational, Inspiring

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• Everyone wants to do what the great ones do; but very few are willing to do what they did to become great

  Jon Gordon

  Inspirational, Success, Basketball

  FaceBook post by Jon Gordon from Jun 05, 2013

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• Where the willingness is great, the difficulties cannot be great.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Motivational, Philosophical, Art Of War

  Niccolo Machiavelli (2010). “The Prince”, p.106, FastPencil Inc

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  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

  Inspirational, Motivational, Sports

  Twitter post from Feb 20, 2011

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• We have more ability than will power, and it is often an excuse to ourselves that we imagine that things are impossible.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  New Year, Philosophy, Failure

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• Rule your mind or it will rule you.

  Horace

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• The development of willpower -I will, I won't and I want- may define what it means to be human.

  Kelly McGonigal

  Mean, Development, May

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• If you fell down yesterday, stand up today.

  H. G. Wells

  Motivational, Strength, Moving On

  "The Anatomy of Frustration". Book by H. G. Wells, 1936.

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• 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

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

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• Will power is to the mind like a strong blind man who carries on his shoulders a lame man who can see.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Life, Motivational, Being Strong

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• People do not lack strength; they lack will.

  Victor Hugo

  Motivational, Success, Being Strong

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• The will of man is his happiness.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Happiness, Men

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• Successful weight loss takes programming, not willpower.

  Phil McGraw

  Successful, Loss, Weight

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• He who wills believes with a fair amount of certainty that will and action are somehow one; he ascribes the success, the carrying out of the willing, to the will itself, and thereby enjoys an increase of the sensation of power which accompanies all success.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Believe, Action, Increase

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2013). “The Selected Writings of Friedrich Nietzsche”, p.549, Simon and Schuster

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• Concentration can be cultivated. One can learn to exercise will power, discipline one's body and train one's mind.

  Anil Ambani

  Change, Learning, Exercise

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