Willpower Quotes

She was without any power, because she was without any desire of command over herself.

The strength of the Constitution, lies in the will of the people to defend it.

So with the man who has daily inured himself to habits of concentrated attention, energetic volition, and self-denial in unnecessary things. He will stand like a tower when everything rocks around him, and when his softer fellow-mortals are winnowed like chaff in the blast.

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

The will to do springs from the knowledge that we can do.

Every man has enough power left to carry out that of which he is convinced.

The world is not looking for servants, there are plenty of these, but for masters, men who form their purposes and then carry them out, let the consequences be what they may.

If you really want to do something, you'll find a way. If you don't, you'll find an excuse.

Nothing is impossible; there are ways that lead to everything, and if we had sufficient will we should always have sufficient means. It is often merely for an excuse that we say things are impossible.

I cannot - nor will not - be ordinary. I have to keep training and seeking and growing. I have to stay hungry. It is my will and so has become my nature.

Say, "I can do everything ." "Even if poison of a snake is powerless if you can firmly deny it."

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.

First, meditation should be of a negative nature. Think away everything. Analyse everything that comes in the mind by the sheer action of the will. Next, assert what we really are-existence, knowledge, and bliss-being, knowing, and loving.

To succeed, you must have tremendous perseverance, tremendous will.

There is nothing impossible in all the world except that the heart of man is wanting in resolution.

The Three Armies can be deprived of their commanding officer, but even a common man cannot be deprived of his purpose.

Great heart will not be denied.

There is a driving force more powerful than steam, electricity and nuclear power: the will.

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.

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

I said, I'll put on weight. And I started having massages, taking cod-liver oil, and eating twice as much. But I didn't even gain an ounce. I'd made up my mind that on the day the engagement was announced I'd be fatter, and I didn't gain an ounce. Then I went to Mussoorie, which is a health resort, and I ignored the doctors' instructions; I invented my own regime and gained weight. Just the opposite of what I'd like now. Now I have the problem of keeping slim. Still I manage. I don't know if you realize I'm a determined woman.

Romeo wants Juliet as the filings want the magnet; and if no obstacles intervene he moves towards her by as straight a line as they. But Romeo and Juliet, if a wall be built between them, do not remain idiotically pressing their faces against its opposite sides like the magnet and the filings with the card. Romeo soon finds a circuitous way, by scaling the wall or otherwise, of touching Juliet's lips directly. With the filings the path is fixed; whether it reaches the end depends on accidents. With the lover it is the end which is fixed, the path may be modified indefinitely.

There is not love where there is no will.

We know what needs to be done - all that is missing is the will to do it.

You want me to do something... tell me I can't do it.

Every time a resolve or a fine glow of feeling evaporates without bearing practical fruit is worse than a chance lost; it works so as positively to hinder future resolutions and emotions from taking the normal path of discharge.

You can be an artist without visual images, a reader without eyes, a mass of erudition with a bad elementary memory. In almost any subject your passion for the subject will save you. If you only care enough for a result, you will almost certainly attain it. If you wish to be rich, you will be rich; if you wish to be learned, you will be learned; if you wish to be good, you will be good. Only you must, then, really wish these things, and wish them with exclusiveness, and not wish at the same time a hundred other incompatible things just as strongly.

Character is just another word for having a perfectly disciplined and educated will. A person can make his own character by blending these elements with an intense desire to achieve excellence. Everyone is different in what I will call magnitude, but the capacity to achieve character is still the same.

The strength of the group is in the will of the leader, and the will is character in action.

If you can't, then you must!

True perfection is a bold quest to seek. Only the willing and true of heart will seek the betterment of many.

Doubt not, O poet, but persist. Say 'It is in me, and shall out.' Stand there, balked and dumb, stuttering and stammering, hissed and hooted, stand and strive, until at last rage draw out of thee that dream-power which every night shows thee is thine own; a power transcending all limit and privacy, and by virtue of which a man is the conductor of the whole river of electricity.

Every man should stand for a force which is perfectly irresistible.

There never was a strong character that was not made strong by discipline of the will; there never was a strong people that did not rank subordination and discipline among the signal virtues. Subjection to moods is the mark of a deteriorating morality. There is no baser servitude than that of the man whose caprices are his masters, and a nation composed of such men could not long preserve its liberties.

What people CAN do is very different from what they WILL do.

I laugh at my heart, and do its will

The architect represents neither a Dionysian nor an Apollinian condition: here it is the mighty act of will, the will which moves mountains, the intoxication of the strong will, which demands artistic expression. The most powerful men have always inspired the architects; the architect has always been influenced by power.

Any man can learn anything he will, but no man can teach except to those who want to learn.

I am iron resisting the most enormous magnet there is.

He only is a well-made man who has a good determination.

The basis of persistence is the Power of Will.

No weapon is sharper than will.

So long as freedom from hunger is only half achieved, so long as two thirds of the nations have food deficits, no citizen, no nation can afford to be satisfied. We have the ability, as members of the human race, we have the means, we have the capacity to eliminate hunger from the face of the earth in our lifetime. We only need the will.

Your imagination is ten times more potent than your willpower. Unleashed, it provides a sense of certainty and tenacious vision that goes far beyond any limitation of the past.

If you only care enough for a result, you will almost certainly attain it. Only you must, then, really wish these things, and wish them exclusively, and not wish at the same time a hundred other incompatible things just as strongly.

If we develop the force of will, we shall find that we do not need the force of arms.

Resolve says, 'I will.' The man says, 'I will climb this mountain. They told me it is too high, too far, too steep, too rocky, and too difficult. But it's my mountain. I will climb it. You will soon see me waving from the top or dead on the side from trying.'

I like things to happen, and if they don't happen I like to make them happen.

We know the good, we apprehend it clearly; but we can't bring it to achievement.

If we live truly, we shall see truly. It is as easy for the strong man to be strong, as it is for the weak to be weak.

It's always been said that when I can't find a way to do anything, I will find a way to do it.

The difference between men is in energy, in the strong will, in the settled purpose and in the invincible determination.

If there's a will, prosperity can't be far behind.

In any case, I married Feroze Gandhi. Once I get an idea in my head, no one in the world can make me change my mind.

A determined man, by his very attitude and the tone of his voice, puts a stop to defeat, and begins to conquer.

One siupreme 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.

Leadership rests not only upon ability, not only upon capacity; having the capacity to lead is not enough. The leader must be willing to use it. His leadership is then based on truth and character. There must be truth in the purpose and will power in the character.

We can get this done! Take a vote, and send me that bill.

If I have the belief that I can do it, I shall surely acquire the capacity to do it even if I may not have it at the beginning.

It is a shameful thing for the soul to faint while the body still perseveres.