Top 200 Willpower Quotes (2024 Update)
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51. “Self-discipline is doing what you know you should do when you don’t want to do it.”

— Nathan Eldon Tanner

52. “To rule yourself is the ultimate power.”

— Seneca the Younger

53. “Nothing is impossible to a willing heart.”

— John Heywood

54. “Stand up and walk. Move forward.”

— Hiromu Arakawa

55. “I will keep working hard!”

— Yani Tseng

56. “There is only one will and that is the Will of Fire. The will that doesn’t let you give up.”

— Masashi Kishimoto

57. “The great thing about him is that he will not quit.”

— Cristiano Ronaldo

58. “Effort is between you and you.”

— Ray Lewis

59. “Don’t prepare. Begin. Our enemy is not lack of preparation. The enemy is resistance, our chattering brain producing excuses. Start before you are ready.”

— Steven Pressfield

60. “You are the captain of your own ship; don’t let anyone else take the wheel.”

— Michael Josephson

61. “There’s always a way. Where there’s a will there is a way. You have to believe.”

— Britney Spears

62. “If you neglect to exercise self-control, you are not only likely to injure others, but you are sure to injure yourself!”

— Napoleon Hill

63. “A winner never stops trying.”

— Tom Landry

64. “Do not put off today’s work until tomorrow, lest work accumulate and you achieve nothing.”

— Umar

65. “Champions have to have the skill and the will. But the will must be stronger than the skill.”

— Muhammad Ali

66. “I’ve always been a fighter. If you tell me I can’t, I’ll die trying to prove you wrong.”

— R.A. Salvatore

67. “It’s you versus you.” Meaning, you’re the only thing standing in your own way.”

— Amber Tamblyn

68. “I know where I’m going and I know the truth, and I don’t have to be what you want me to be. I’m free to be what I want.”

— Muhammad Ali

69. “We will make it because we are young and we will never, never give up.”

— Jack Ma

70. “If you put your mind to doing whatever it is you want to do, good things can happen.”

— Michael Jordan

71. “Don’t let the hard days win.”

— Sarah J. Maas

72. “Have faith in yourself, all power is in you, be conscious and bring it out.”

— Swami Vivekananda

73. “Often people just don’t see what I see. They have too much doubt. You can’t do your best when you’re doubting yourself. If you don’t believe in yourself, who will?”

— Michael Jackson

74. “Hard work and determination equals success. Nothing comes easy. Put your mind to something.”

— Kevin Hart

75. “Don’t let your mind control you. Control your mind.”

— Jocko Willink

76. “I dare you to take a little pain. I dare you!”

— Eric Thomas

77. “I was not designed to be forced. I will breathe after my own fashion. Let us see who is the strongest.”

— Henry David Thoreau

78. “I am confident. I never give up.”

— Arantxa Sanchez Vicario

79. “In life, winning and losing will both happen. What is never acceptable is quitting.”

— Magic Johnson

80. “I never tried quitting, and I never quit trying.”

— Dolly Parton

81. “I don’t wait for moods. You accomplish nothing if you do that. Your mind must know it has got to get down to work.”

— Pearl S. Buck

82. “You need to hear this loud and clear: No one is coming. It is up to you.”

— Mel Robbins

83. “What this power is I cannot say; all I know is that it exists and it becomes available only when a man is in that state of mind in which he knows exactly what he wants and is fully determined not to quit until he finds it.”

— Alexander Graham Bell

84. “Don’t give up. There are too many nay-sayers out there who will try to discourage you. Don’t listen to them. The only one who can make you give up is yourself.”

— Sidney Sheldon

85. “If you believe you can, you might. If you know you can, you will.”

— Steve Maraboli

86. “When life seems hard, the courageous do not lie down and accept defeat; instead, they are all the more determined to struggle for a better future.”

— Queen Elizabeth II

87. “Believe in yourself, even when no one else does.”

— Harvey MacKay

88. “The only thing a person can ever really do is keep moving forward. Take that big leap forward without hesitation, without once looking back. Simply forget the past and forge toward the future.”

— Alyson Noel

89. “Self-discipline is the ability to make yourself do something you don’t necessarily want to do, to get a result you would really like to have.”

— Andy Andrews

90. “Every mountain top is within reach if you just keep climbing.”

— Barry Finlay

91. “You can’t always control the circumstances – only how you react to those circumstances; you can always control your attitude and your effort.”

— Jennie Finch

92. “Being realistic is the most commonly traveled road to mediocrity. Why would you be realistic? What’s the point of being realistic? I’m going to do it. It’s done. It’s already done. The second I decide it’s done, it’s already done.”

— Will Smith

93. “You have not failed until you quit trying.”

— Gordon B. Hinckley

94. “Discipline is a choice. It’s simply consistently choosing the hard right over the easy wrong.”

— Rory Vaden

95. “Put one foot in front of the other. Keep marching forward, even when doubt, fear, and failure all come knocking at your door.”

— Jared Leto

96. “No one is free who has not obtained the empire of himself. No man is free who cannot command himself.”

— Pythagoras

97. “If you want it bad enough, you’ll find a way to make it happen.”

— Cassey Ho

98. “I have often been afraid, but I would not give in to it. I made myself act as though I was not afraid and gradually my fear disappeared.”

— Theodore Roosevelt

99. “I can endure more pain than anyone you’ve met. That’s why I win, because I can endure more pain.”

— Steve Prefontaine

100. “Never give up! Failure and rejection are only the first step to succeeding.”

— Jim Valvano