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Quotes About Iron-willed

An iron-willed, courteous person likes to be loved by the gentle heart of living beings and not loves to be liked as soft or stilled,non-living thing.
~ Anuj Somany
Lady Sheringham, having provided herself with a smelling-bottle to fortify her nerves during an interview with her only child, removed the stopper and inhaled feebly. 'I am sure I do not know what would become of me if I had not my good brother to support me in my lonely state,' she said, in the faint, complaining tone which so admirably concealed a constitution of iron and a strong determination to have her own way.
~ Georgette Heyer
Once an air squadron commander, he knew there were many things one could not control when engaged in battle, and that knowledge dictated an iron-willed insistence that what could be controlled must be brought to perfection.
~ Mary Doria Russell
He is solid; immovable, iron-willed. He showed me one day his killing bottle. I'm imprisoned in it. Fluttering against the glass. Because I can see through it I still think I can escape. I have hope. But it's all an illusion. A thick round wall of glass.
~ John Fowles
Any leader has to have a certain amount of steel in them, so I am not that put out being called the Iron Lady.
~ Margaret Thatcher