Top 200 Willpower Quotes (2025 Update)

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

Also featured in: Persistence Quotes, Discipline Quotes, Mental Strength Quotes, Goal Setting Quotes

3. “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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4. “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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5. “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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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

Also featured in: Perseverance Quotes, Failure Quotes, Mental Strength Quotes, Self-Empowerment Quotes

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

Also featured in: Positive Motivation Quotes

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

Also featured in: Perseverance Quotes, Quotes About Strength, Mental Strength Quotes, Resilience Quotes

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

Also featured in: Perseverance Quotes, Discipline Quotes, Dedication Quotes, Work Ethic Quotes

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

— David Goggins

Also featured in: Obstacles Quotes, Warrior Quotes, Motivational Workout Quotes, Quitting Quotes

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

Also featured in: Persistence Quotes, Hard Work Quotes, Athlete Quotes, Never Give Up Quotes

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

Also featured in: Hard Work Quotes, Discipline Quotes, Hard Hitting Quotes, Mental Strength Quotes

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

Also featured in: Mindset Quotes, Desire Quotes, Determination Quotes

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

— Zeno of Citium

Also featured in: Focus On Yourself Quotes, Self-Realization Quotes, Mindset Quotes, Self Control Quotes

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

Also featured in: Not Giving Up Quotes, Struggle Quotes, Victory Quotes, Moving Forward Quotes

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

Also featured in: Mental Strength Quotes, Obstacles Quotes, Personal Responsibility Quotes

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

— Epictetus

Also featured in: Stoic Philosophy Quotes

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

— John Greenleaf Whittier

Also featured in: Dedication Quotes, Resilience Quotes, Giving Up Quotes, Grit Quotes

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

— Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

Also featured in: Mental Strength Quotes, Positive Thinking Quotes, Peace of Mind Quotes

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

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

Also featured in: Positive Thinking Quotes, Motivational Workout Quotes, Not Giving Up Quotes

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

— Tom Petty

Also featured in: Quotes About Strength, Dedication Quotes, Resistance Quotes, Artist Quotes

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

Also featured in: Personal Responsibility Quotes

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

— Andrew Ryan

Also featured in: Hard Hitting Quotes, Freedom Quotes, Individuality Quotes

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

Also featured in: Dreaming Big Quotes, Goal Setting Quotes, Graduation Quotes, Desire Quotes

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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