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Quotes About Willpower

To live a disciplined life, and to accept the result of that discipline as the will of God - that is the mark of a man.
~ Tom Landry
Ain't nothing a man can't do if he believes in himself.
~ Humphrey Bogart
Man is what he wills himself to be.
~ Jean-Paul Sartre
A man should control his life. Mine is controlling me.
~ Rudolph Valentino
A man who is willing to commit suicide has the initiative.
~ Boris Spassky
The greatest victory a man can win is victory over himself.
~ Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi
A homeless guy came up to me on the street, said he hadn't eaten in four days. I told him, "Man, I wish I had your willpower.
~ Rodney Dangerfield
Nothing can resist the will of man when he knows what is true and wills what is good.
~ Éliphas Lévi
No man is free who cannot control himself.
~ Pythagoras
Anything is possible. A man is what he makes up his mind to be.
~ Gish Jen
Most men fail, not through lack of education or agreeable personal qualities, but from lack of dogged determination, from lack of dauntless will.
~ Orison Swett Marden
It is hard to fight desire; but to control it is the sign of a reasonable man.
~ Democritus
That man is truly free who desires what he is able to perform, and does what he desires.
~ Jean-Jacques Rousseau
A man is not defeated by his opponents but by himself
~ Jan Smuts
Great is the man who can overcome the world, but greater still is the man who can overcome himself, for he will have the world spinning on the palm of his hand.
~ Confucius
A man can surely do what he wills to do, but cannot determine what he wills.
~ Arthur Schopenhauer
The free man is a warrior.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
Many men, many styles; what is chess style but the intangible expression of the will to win.
~ Aron Nimzowitsch
Man who man would be, must rule the empire of himself.
~ Percy Bysshe Shelley
A man who cannot command himself will always be a slave.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
A man can do what he ought to do; and when he says he cannot, it is because he will not.
~ Johann Gottlieb Fichte
A superhuman will is needed in order to write, and I am only a man.
~ Gustave Flaubert
The one excellent thing that can be learned from a lion is that whatever a man intends doing should be done by him with a whole-hearted and strenuous effort.
~ Chanakya
I ain't no drinking man, but temptation got the best of me.
~ Jimmy Buffett