Willpower Quotes - Page 2

• When you see a thing clearly in your mind, your creative "success mechanism" within you takes over and does the job much better than you could do it by conscious effort or "willpower.

  Maxwell Maltz

  Motivational, Jobs, Effort

  Maxwell Maltz (1989). “Psycho-Cybernetics”, p.41, Simon and Schuster

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• With but few exceptions, it is always the underdog who wins through sheer willpower.

  Johnny Weissmuller

  Winning, Self Control, Underdog

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• 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.

  Peter Drucker

  Motivational, Simple, Will And Determination

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• If freedom is short of weapons, we must compensate with willpower.

  Adolf Hitler

  Mein Kampf, Weapons, Nations

  Speech in Landsberg, November 5, 1925.

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• The time is always right to do what is right.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Inspirational, Positive, Inspiring

  "This Dallas Boy's MLK Jr. Speech Is Such A Sweet Message For Today's World" by Sarah Friedmann, www.bustle.com. January 2018.

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• Without the will, marriage is a mockery; without emotion, it is a drudgery. You need both.

  Ravi Zacharias

  Marriage, Emotional, Needs

  FaceBook post by Ravi Zacharias from Jul 19, 2013

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• Business is always a struggle. There are always obstacles and competitors. There is never an open road, except the wide road that leads to failure. Every great success has always been achieved by fight. Every winner has scars.The men who succeed are the efficient few. They are the few who have the ambition and will-power to develop themselves. So choose to be among the few today.

  Chris Kirubi

  Moving On, Success, Perseverance

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• Nothing is impossible for a man with a strong will. The possible is in store only for a man who loves the future. There is no word "impossible" in the Korean language.

  Kim Jong Il

  Love, Strong, Future

  "Kim Jong Il Handbook". International Business Publications USA, 2011.

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• Willpower is trying very hard not to do something you want to do very much.

  John Ortberg

  Trying, Want, Hard

  John Ortberg (1997). “The Life You've Always Wanted: Spiritual Disciplines for Ordinary People”, p.52, Harper Collins

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• Each and every one of you has the power, the will and the capacity to make a difference in the world in which you live in

  Harry Belafonte

  Inspirational, Change, Power

  FaceBook post by Harry Belafonte from Aug 09, 2012

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  Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough.

  Og Mandino

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

  Og Mandino (2011). “The Greatest Salesman in the World”, p.25, Bantam

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• Self-will so ardent and active that it will break a world to pieces to make a stool to sit on.

  Richard Cecil

  Inspirational, Motivational, Self

  Richard Cecil, Josiah Pratt (1817). “Remains of the Rev. Richard Cecil”, p.250

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• Where there is a will there is a lawsuit.

  Addison Mizner

  Feet, Lawsuit

  Evanell K. Powell Brant, Addison Mizner, Wilson Mizner (1979*). “Debauched Proverbs and Other Miznerisms of Addison Mizner and Wilson Mizner”

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• Willpower can produce short-term change, but it creates constant internal stress because you haven't dealt with the root cause.

  Rick Warren

  Stress, Roots, Overcoming Adversity

  Rick Warren (2012). “The Purpose Driven Life: What on Earth Am I Here For?”, p.164, Zondervan

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• 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.

  Richard Wagner

  Motivational, Reality, Imagination

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• Take a chance! All life is a chance. The man who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare.

  Dale Carnegie

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "Dale Carnegie's Scrapbook - a Treasury of the Wisdom of the Ages". Book edited by Dorothy Carnegie, 1983.

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• We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.

  Oscar Wilde

  Inspirational, Funny, Positive

  Lady Windermere's Fan act 3 (1892)

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• You surrender to love; you do not accomplish love by willpower.

  Richard Rohr

  Love You, Surrender, Accomplish

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• Nothing can withstand the power of the human will if it is willing to stake its very existence to the extent of its purpose.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Motivational, Determination, Business

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• With self-discipline most anything is possible.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Inspirational, Wisdom, Self

  Theodore Roosevelt (2015). “Theodore Roosevelt on Bravery: Lessons from the Most Courageous Leader of the Twentieth Century”, p.4, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• All things must; man is the only creature that wills.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Men, Creatures, All Things

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• I have willpower and determination. I am very resilient, like rock.

  Carnie Wilson

  Determination, Rocks, Resilient

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• We may think there is willpower involved, but more likely... change is due to want power. Wanting the new addiction more than the old one. Wanting the new me in preference to the person I am now.

  George A. Sheehan

  Motivational, Recovery, Thinking

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• I was in uniform for four years, and I know that heroism doesn't occur from taking orders, but rather from people who through their own willpower and strength are willing to sacrifice their lives for an idea.

  Thor Heyerdahl

  Sacrifice, Order, Years

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• Winning is not everything, but wanting to win is.

  Vince Lombardi

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Quoted in Esquire, Nov. 1962

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