1. “All powers are within you, you can do anything and everything.”

— Swami Vivekananda

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2. “NO MORE. No more excuses. No more: “I’ll start tomorrow.” No more: “Just this once.” No more accepting the shortfalls of my own will. No more taking the easy road. No more bowing down to whatever unhealthy or unproductive thoughts float through my mind.”

— Jocko Willink

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3. “I don’t count my sit-ups. I only start counting when it starts hurting. When I feel pain, that’s when I start counting, because that’s when it really counts.”

— Muhammad Ali

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4. “You can keep going and your legs might hurt for a week, or you can quit and your mind will hurt for a lifetime.”

— Mark Allen

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5. “The development of willpower -I will, I won’t and I want- may define what it means to be human.”

— Kelly McGonigal

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6. “No matter how bad it is, or how bad it gets, I’m going to make it.”

— Les Brown

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7. “I’m not telling you it is going to be easy – I’m telling you it’s going to be worth it.”

— Arthur L. Williams, Jr.

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8. “For my part, I will never give up, and I mean never.”

— Elon Musk

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9. “Failure is an option. It’s what you do with the failure that makes you who you are. Our failures mold us. I have failed at several things in my life. What sets some of us apart, is that when we fail, we can’t sleep at night. It haunts us until we have our time at redemption.”

— David Goggins

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10. “Self-control is strength. Right thought is mastery. Calmness is power.”

— James Allen

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11. “Going that one more round when you don’t think you can – that’s what makes all the difference in your life.”

— Sylvester Stallone

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12. “When a goal matters enough to a person, that person will find a way to accomplish what at first seemed impossible.”

— Nido R. Qubein

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13. “I assess the power of a will by how much resistance, pain, torture it endures and knows how to turn to its advantage.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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14. “Willpower is a muscle that can be strengthened.”

— Roy Baumeister

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15. “What is good? All that heightens the feeling of power, the will to power, power itself. What is bad? All that is born of weakness. What is happiness? The feeling that power is growing, that resistance is overcome.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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16. “Mental toughness and resilience fade if they aren’t used consistently. I say it all the time: you are either getting better, or you’re getting worse. You’re not staying the same.”

— David Goggins

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17. “The reason it’s important to push hardest when you want to quit the most is because it helps you callous your mind. It’s the same reason why you have to do your best work when you are the least motivated.”

— David Goggins

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18. “You are stopping you. You are giving up instead of getting hard.”

— David Goggins

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19. “I am willing.” “I am wired to win.” “I got this.” “I embrace the uncertainty.” “I am not my thoughts; I am what I do.” “I am relentless.” “I expect nothing and accept everything.”

— Gary John Bishop

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20. “Don’t stop when you are tired. Stop when you are done.”

— David Goggins

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21. “It’s a lot more than mind over matter. It takes relentless self discipline to schedule suffering into your day, every day.”

— David Goggins

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22. “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

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

— Swami Vivekananda

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24. “Don’t do your best, do whatever it takes.”

— Anonymous

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25. “Discipline is giving yourself a command and following it up with action.”

— Bob Proctor

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26. “Most powerful is he who has himself in his own power.”

— Seneca

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27. “Conquer your mind and conquer the world.”

— Guru Nanak

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28. “I will not let anyone walk through my mind with their dirty feet.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

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29. “Man is not made for defeat.”

— Ernest Hemingway

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30. “Willpower and desire, when properly combined, make an irresistible pair.”

— Napoleon Hill

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31. “Man conquers the world by conquering himself.”

— Zeno of Citium

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32. “People do not lack strength, they lack will.”

— Victor Hugo

33. “Greatness is not a function of circumstance. Greatness, it turns out, is largely a matter of conscious choice, and discipline.”

— James C. Collins

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34. “The darker the night, the nearer the dawn. Victory in life is decided by that last concentrated burst of energy filled with the resolve to win.”

— Daisaku Ikeda

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35. “My ambition cannot be stopped!”

— Cao Cao

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36. “No matter what happens, it is within my power to turn it to my advantage.”

— Epictetus

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37. “It is the nature of the wise to resist pleasures, but the foolish to be a slave to them.”

— Epictetus

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38. “Rest if you must, but never quit.”

— John Greenleaf Whittier

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39. “If you can win over your mind, you can win over the whole world.”

— Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

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40. “The mind always fails first, not the body. The secret is to make your mind work for you, not against you.”

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

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41. “I’ll stand my ground and I won’t back down...”

— Tom Petty

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42. “By constant self-discipline and self-control you can develop greatness of character.”

— Grenville Kleiser

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43. “Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence.”

— Calvin Coolidge

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44. “Self-control is solely a matter of thought-control!”

— Napoleon Hill

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45. “I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer.”

— Frank Herbert

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46. “Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.”

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

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47. “In the end what separates a man from a slave? Money? Power? No, a man chooses, and a slave obeys!”

— Andrew Ryan

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48. “Whatever you want to do, do with full passion and work really hard towards it. Don’t look anywhere else. There will be a few distractions, but if you can be true to yourself, you will be successful for sure.”

— Virat Kohli

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49. “Willing is not enough, we must do.”

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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50. “You don’t find willpower, you create it.”

— Anonymous

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