Quotes About Willpower

I've always believed that I could do whatever I set my mind to do.

Failiure is not an option.

A strong memory, concentration, imagination, and a strong will is required to become a great Chess player

The two things I did learn were that you are as powerful and strong as you allow yourself to be, and that the most difficult part of any endeavor is taking the first step, making the first decision.

Success has less to do with what we can get ourselves to do and more to do with keeping ourselves from doing what we shouldn't.

I do not think that there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature.

If you have the will to win, you have achieved half your success; if you don't, you have achieved half your failure.

The will to persevere is often the difference between failure and success.

Much of your success in life is determined by how you choose to act in spite of how you feel.

Mental toughness is essential to success.

People do not lack strength; they lack will.

The virtue of achievement is victory over oneself. Those who know this can never know defeat.

Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.

A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough.

The power of the human will to compete and the drive to excel beyond the body's normal capabilities is most beautifully demonstrated in the arena of sport.

Success rests with having the courage and endurance and, above all, the will to become the person you are, however peculiar that may be. Then you will be able to say, I found my hero and he is me.

To say no at the right time, and then stand by it, is the first element of success. He is the wise man who, for all his life, can keep mind and soul and body clean.

Our power is in our ability to decide.

The will to do springs from the knowledge that we can do.

Success is processional. It's the result of a series of small disciplines that lead us into habitual patterns of success that no longer require consistent will or effort.

The chief factor in any man's success or failure must be his own character.

Premature success gives one an almost mystical conception of destiny as opposed to will power-at its worst the Napoleonic delusion.

For a man to conquer himself is the first and noblest of all victories... The first and greatest victory is to conquer yourself; to be conquered by yourself is of all things most shameful and vile.

True success depends more on character than on intellect.