Willpower can get us moving despite our biggest excuses. These quotes may inspire you to reclaim control of your mind and remain committed on the pathway towards success.
Best Quotes on Willpower
1. Willpower isn’t something that gets handed out to some and not to others. It is a skill you can develop through understanding and practice.
2. The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will.
3. Willpower is the key to success. Successful people strive no matter what they feel by applying their will to overcome apathy, doubt or fear.
4. Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.
5. Never give in, never give in, never, never, never, never-in nothing, great or small, large or petty – never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense. Never yield to force; never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy.
6. The men who succeed are the efficient few. They are the few who have the ambition and willpower to develop themselves.
7. The will of man is his happiness.
8. Willpower is the basis of perseverance.
9. Where the willingness is great, the difficulties cannot be great.
10. Research shows that willpower is more important than IQ. That’s why the point isn’t to become smarter, but to become more self-disciplined.
11. Technique and ability alone do not get you to the top; It is willpower that is the most important. This willpower you cannot buy with money or be given by others. It rises from your heart.
12. You are the only person on earth who can use your ability.
13. What is now proved was once only imagined.
14. Willpower gets you started. Habits get you results.
15. Most of life’s actions are within our reach, but decisions take willpower.
16. With but few exceptions, it is always the underdog who wins through sheer willpower.
17. Believe in yourself. Under-confidence leads to a self-fulfilling prophecy that you are not good enough for your work.
18. To assert your willpower is simply to make up your mind that you want something, and then refuse to be put off.
19. In the absence of willpower the most complete collection of virtues and talents is wholly worthless.
20. The world’s greatest achievers have been those who have always stayed focussed on their goals and have been consistent in their efforts.
21. Willpower is the key to success. Successful people strive no matter what they feel by applying their will to overcome apathy, doubt or fear.
22. Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you’re a man, you take it.
23. You are only as lazy or lacking in willpower as you think you are.
24. Nothing can withstand the power of the human will if it is willing to stake its very existence to the extent of its purpose.
25. Willpower is trying very hard not to do something you want to do very much.
26. The best way to think of willpower is not as some shapeless behavioral trait but as a sort of psychic muscle, one that can atrophy or grow stronger depending on how it’s used.
27. Most of life’s actions are within our reach, but decisions take willpower.
28. Nothing is easy to the unwilling.
29. Good and evil both increase at compound interest. That is why the little decisions you and I make every day are of such infinite importance. The smallest good act today is the capture of a strategic point from which, a few months later, you may be able to go on to victories you never dreamed of. An apparently trivial indulgence in lust or anger today is the loss of a ridge or railway line or bridgehead from which the enemy may launch an attack otherwise impossible.
30. Will is character in action.
31. What you have to do and the way you have to do it is incredibly simple. Whether you are willing to do it, that’s another matter.
32. Willpower knows no obstacles. Find your greatness.
33. The will to win is not nearly as important as the will to prepare to win.
34. A big part of willpower is having something to aspire to, something to live for.
35. People don’t just find the strength and the willpower they need, they create it.
36. I generally avoid temptation unless I can’t resist it.
37. Willpower is essential to the accomplishment of anything worthwhile.
