Top 200 Willpower Quotes (2025 Update)
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151. “If unwilling to rise in the morning, say to thyself, ‘I awake to do the work of a man.’”

— Marcus Aurelius

152. “Motivation remains key to the marathon: the motivation to begin; the motivation to continue; the motivation never to quit.”

— Hal Higdon

153. “Whatever you think, that you will be.”

— Swami Vivekananda

154. “Never let the things you can’t do, stop you from doing what you can.”

— Ronald Reagan

155. “The basis of persistence is the Power of Will.”

— Napoleon Hill

156. “When you exercise your will power you release the power of life energy – not when you merely wish passively to be able to obtain an objective.”

— Paramahansa Yogananda

157. “Nothing works unless you do the work.”

— Robin S. Sharma

158. “You have the power to fulfill your dreams!”

— Tae Yun Kim

159. “You’ll never progress if you never try.”

— Joe Budden

160. “Magick is the science and art of causing change to occur in conformity with will.”

— Aleister Crowley

161. “We gain the strength of the temptation we resist.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

162. “Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind.”

— Leonardo da Vinci

163. “Persevere and get it done.”

— George Allen

164. “If you do not conquer self, you will be conquered by self.”

— Napoleon Hill

165. “You are as strong as you think you are, you can achieve things you think you can achieve, it’s all in your head.”

— Tony Robbins

166. “I think my secret is that there are no shortcuts for hard work, determination, and having that ‘don’t give up’ attitude.”

— Jerry Rice

167. “No man is free who cannot control himself.”

— Pythagoras

168. “But just because it burns doesn’t mean you’re gonna die. You’ve gotta get up and try, try, try.”

— Pink

169. “Defeat happens only to those who refuse to try again.”

— Nick Vujicic

170. “They may kill me, but they cannot kill my ideas. They can crush my body, but they will not be able to crush my spirit.”

— Bhagat Singh

171. “The first step before anybody else in the world believes it, is that you believe it.”

— Will Smith

172. “All power is from within and therefore under our control.”

— Robert Collier

173. “Obstacles don’t have to stop you.”

— Michael Jordan

174. “The habit of persistence is the habit of victory.”

— Herbert Kaufman

175. “I have brought myself, by long meditation, to the conviction that a human being with a settled purpose must accomplish it, and that nothing can resist a will which will stake even existence upon its fulfillment.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

176. “You’re never too old to chase your dream.”

— Diana Nyad

177. “Never surrender, it’s all about the faith you got: don’t ever stop, just push it ’till you hit the top and if you drop, at least you know you gave your all to be true to you, that way you can never fall.”

— Tupac Shakur

178. “Don’t sacrifice what you want most for what you want now. Write down what you want most and see it often.”

— Peter Vidmar

179. “Giving up was never an option.”

— Lance Armstrong

180. “If we set our minds to it, we can achieve anything.”

— Gabby Douglas

181. “If you put in the work, put in the time, put in the effort, you’re going to reap the benefits.”

— Richard Sherman

182. “We are responsible for what we are, and whatever we wish ourselves to be, we have the power to make ourselves.”

— Swami Vivekananda

183. “If you aren’t going all the way, why go at all?”

— Joe Namath

184. “Please go for your dreams. Whatever your ideals, you can become whatever you want to become.”

— Michael Jackson

185. “Life without limbs? Or life without limits?”

— Nick Vujicic

186. “It’s okay to be discouraged. It’s not okay to quit. To know you want to quit but to plant your feet and keep inching closer until you take the impenetrable fortress you’ve decided to lay siege to in your own life – that’s persistence.”

— Ryan Holiday

187. “Don’t follow the path. Go where there is no path and begin the trail. When you start a new trail equipped with courage, strength and conviction, the only thing that can stop you is you!”

— Ruby Bridges

188. “Nothing happens until I make it happen.”

— Scott Wilson

189. “The only difference between successful people and unsuccessful people is extraordinary determination.”

— Mary Kay Ash

190. “For me giving up is way harder than trying.”

— Kanye West

191. “Your journey begins with a choice to get up, step out, and live fully.”

— Oprah Winfrey

192. “A man may conquer a million men in battle but one who conquers himself is, indeed, the greatest of conquerors.”

— Buddha

193. “If you have a setback, Don’t take a step back- Get ready for a comeback!”

— Tim Storey

194. “The only limits on human achievement are self-imposed.”

— Denis Waitley

195. “If I have an agenda or a goal, no one is going to deter me from what I want to do.”

— Michael Jordan

196. “Remember: what you think you will become – good or bad, weak or strong, defeated or victorious.”

— Norman Vincent Peale

197. “Persistence can change failure into extraordinary achievement.”

— Matt Biondi

198. “If you are going to do something, do it now. Tomorrow is too late.”

— Pete Goss

199. “If it is important to you, you will find a way. If not, you’ll find an excuse.”

— Ryan Blair

200. “The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack in will.”

— Vince Lombardi