35 Willpower Quotes That Help You Power Through

Share with your friend!

Willpower is the foundation of all human achievements.

Everybody has some willpower.

There are lucky people whose parents and teachers instilled willpower in them from early on. Then there are others who have a lot less willpower.

It doesn’t matter in which group you are. We always feel that we need more willpower. That’s because we tend to use up our willpower no matter how much we have it. It’s called willpower depletion.

You can train your willpower like a muscle. I have collected some of the best willpower quotes to motivate and inspire you.

I added all the willpower quotes images that you can share on your social media profiles.

Here are some of my favorites, starting with Winston Churchill’s quote about willpower:

Quotes about willpower

Never give in, never give in, never, never, never, never-in nothing, great or small, large or petty – never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense. Never yield to force; never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy. ~ Winston Churchill

–

Our bodies are our gardens to which our wills are gardeners. ~ William Shakespeare

–

I generally avoid temptation unless I can’t resist it. ~ Mae West

–

Confront your fear and turn the mental blocks into building blocks. ~ Dr Roopleen

–

If you can’t run, you crawl. If you can’t crawl– you find someone to carry you. ~ Joss Whedon

–

The will of man is his happiness. ~ Johann Friedrich Von Schiller

–

Men can do all things if they will. ~ Leon Batista Alberti

–

Where the willingness is great, the difficulties cannot be great. ~ Niccolo Machiavelli

–

You are the only person on earth who can use your ability. ~ Zig Ziglar

–

Willpower gets you started. Habits get you results. — Priit Kallas
Click to Tweet

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

–

Willpower is the ability to eat one salted peanut. ~ Anonymous

–

Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will. – Mahatma Gandhi
Click to Tweet

–

I am, indeed, a king, because I know how to rule myself. – Pietro Aretino
Click to Tweet

–

Research shows that willpower is more important than IQ. That’s why the point isn’t to become smarter, but to become more self-disciplined. ― Adam Kirk Smith
Click to Tweet

–

Willpower is essential to the accomplishment of anything worthwhile. – Brian Tracy
Click to Tweet

–

The will to win is not nearly as important as the will to prepare to win. – Bobby Knight

–

Will is character in action. – William McDougall

–

What you have to do and the way you have to do it is incredibly simple. Whether you are willing to do it, that’s another matter. – Peter F. Drucker

–

The more things you do, the more you can do. – Lucille Ball

–

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

–

Nothing is easy to the unwilling. – Thomas Fuller

–

Willpower is trying very hard not to do something you want to do very much. – John Ortberg

–

The will is the keystone in the arch of human achievement. It is the culmination of our complex mental faculties. It is the power that rules minds, men and nations. – Thomas Parker Boyd

–

You are only as lazy or lacking in willpower as you think you are. – Ken Christian

–

To assert your willpower is simply to make up your mind that you want something, and then refuse to be put off. – Phillip Cooper

–

In the absence of willpower the most complete collection of virtues and talents is wholly worthless. – Aleister Crowley

–

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

–

What is now proved was once only imagined. – William Blake

–

Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you’re a man, you take it. – Malcolm X, Malcolm X Speaks: Selected Speeches and Statements

–

This in ourselves that we are thus or thus. Our bodies are our gardens to the which our wills are gardeners. – William Shakespeare

–

Good and evil both increase at compound interest. That is why the little decisions you and I make every day are of such infinite importance. The smallest good act today is the capture of a strategic point from which, a few months later, you may be able to go on to victories you never dreamed of. An apparently trivial indulgence in lust or anger today is the loss of a ridge or railway line or bridgehead from which the enemy may launch an attack otherwise impossible. – C.S. Lewis

–

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

–

The best way to think of willpower is not as some shapeless behavioral trait but as a sort of psychic muscle, one that can atrophy or grow stronger depending on how it’s used. ~ Jeffrey Kluger

–

Most of life’s actions are within our reach, but decisions take willpower. ~ Robert McKee

–

What are your favorite willpower quotes? Let us know in the comments.

________________________________________________
Winston Churchill Image credit Canada Science and Technology Museum
Gandhi mage credit gandhiserve.org
Seoxperiment Siin on test, Generators and stuff
Berries photo on Visualhunt

Share with your friend!