Will Power Quotes

• There is no such thing as a great talent without great will power.

  Honore de Balzac

  Inspirational, Willpower, Talent

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• It's easier to go down a hill than up it but the view is much better at the top.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Motivational, Graduation, Perseverance

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  Failure is only postponed success as long as courage 'coaches' ambition. The habit of persistence is the habit of victory.

  Herbert Kaufman

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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• Success is the progressive realization of a worthy goal or ideal.

  Earl Nightingale

  Motivational, Success, Congratulations

  Robert C. Worstell, Earl Nightingale (2015). “How to Completely Change Your Life in 30 Seconds”, p.68, Lulu.com

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• Continuous, unflagging effort, persistence and determination will win. Let not the man be discouraged who has these.

  James Whitcomb Riley

  Motivational, Determination, Persistence

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• Will power is but the unflinching purpose to carry the task you set for yourself to fulfillment.

  George S. Clason

  Purpose, Tasks, Fulfillment

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• True will-power and courage are not on the battlefield, but in everyday conquests over our intertia, laziness, boredom.

  Dwight L. Moody

  Boredom, Everyday, Laziness

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• It's all right letting yourself go, as long as you can get yourself back.

  Mick Jagger

  Inspirational, Motivational, Letting Go

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• A man may fulfill the object of his existence by asking a question he cannot answer, and attempting a task he cannot achieve.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

  Love, Change, Dream

  Oliver Wendell Holmes (1896). “Morse, John T.Life and letters of Oliver Wendell Holmes”

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• Will power is human electricity. You have enough of this electricity generated in you to achieve the greatest things in life if you will keep the current on.

  Elsie Lincoln Benedict

  Things In Life, Enough, Achieve

  "How to Utilize Your Mind, Through the Science of Practical Psychology".

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  There is a charm about the forbidden that makes it unspeakably desirable.

  Mark Twain

  Motivational, Forbidden Love, Temptation

  Mark Twain (2014). “Mark Twain on Common Sense: Timeless Advice and Words of Wisdom from America's Most-Revered Humorist”, p.31, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• We must always change, renew, rejuvenate ourselves; otherwise, we harden.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Change, Yoga, New Beginnings

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• Recognizing that the power of will is the supreme court over all other departments of my mind, I will exercise daily when I need the urge to act for any purpose; and I will form habits designed to bring the power of my will into action at least once daily.

  Bruce Lee

  Exercise, Mind, Needs

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• You are successful the moment you start moving toward a worthwhile goal.

  Chester Carlson

  Motivational, Success, Moving

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• Will power is to the mind like a strong blind man who carries on his shoulders a lame man who can see.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Life, Motivational, Being Strong

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• You may lack will power, but that doesn't mean you can't take a lot of steps to make yourself more productive.

  John Perry

  Mean, May, Steps

  "John Perry: An interview by Bob Morris". bobmorris.biz. October 4, 2012.

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• Good thoughts are no better than good dreams, unless they are executed.

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

  Inspirational, Motivational, Being Strong

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• The intelligent investor is likely to need considerable will power to keep from following the crowd.

  Benjamin Graham

  Intelligent, Needs, Following The Crowd

  Benjamin Graham (1965). “The Intelligent Investor: A Book of Practical Counsel”, p.29, Prabhat Prakashan

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• About the only time losing is more fun than winning is when you're fighting temptation.

  Tom Wilson

  Love, Fun, Sunset

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• The useless men are those who never change with the years.

  James M. Barrie

  Motivational, Change, Years

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• Everything is generated through your own will power.

  Ray Bradbury

  Power

  Ray Bradbury, Steven L. Aggelis (2004). “Conversations with Ray Bradbury”, p.188, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Habit is a cable; we weave a thread of it each day, and at last we cannot break it.

  Horace Mann

  Motivational, Positive, Happiness

  "Graded Selections for Memorizing : Adapted for Use at Home and in School" by John Bradley Peaslee, (p. 104), 1880.

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• Nothing stops the man who desires to achieve. Every obstacle is simply a course to develop his achievement muscle. It's a strengthening of his powers of accomplishment.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Motivational, Strength, Men

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• Do you really think it is weakness that yields to temptation? I tell you that there are terrible temptations which it requires strength, strength and courage to yield to.

  Oscar Wilde

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Oscar Wilde (2015). “An Ideal Husband”, p.40, Sheba Blake Publishing

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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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