Willpower Quotes

Anything which is a living and not a dying body... will have to be an incarnate will to power, it will strive to grow, spread, seize, become predominant-not from any morality or immorality but because it is living and because life simply is will to power... 'Exploitation'... belongs to the essence of what lives, as a basic organic function; it is a consequence of the will to power, which is after all the will to life.

Wherever I found a living creature, there I found the will to power.

When self control is lacking in small things, the ability to apply it to matters of importance withers away. Every day in which one does not at least deny himself some trifle is badly spent and a threat to the day following.

Life is the will to power; our natural desire to dominate and reshape the world to fit our own preferences and assert our personal strength to the fullest degree.

Do whatever you will, but first be such as are able to will.

I assess the power of a will by how much resistance, pain, torture it endures and knows how to turn to its advantage.

He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how.

I believe in one thing only, the power of human will.

Morale - the will to win, the fighting heart - are the honored hallmarks of the football coach and player. Likewise, they are characteristic of the enterprising executive, the successful troop leader, the established artist and the dedicated teacher and scientist.

Guns and tanks and planes are nothing unless there is a solid spirit, a solid heart, and great productiveness behind it.

When people are determined they can overcome anything.

There are few misfortunes in this world that you cannot turn into a personal triumph if you have the iron will and the necessary skill.

Now we are the masters of our fate, that the task which has been set us is not above our strength; that its pangs and toils are not beyond our endurance. As long as we have faith in our cause and an unconquerable willpower, salvation will not be denied us.

Everything is overshadowed by the impending trial of will-power which is developing in Europe. I think we shall have to choose in the next few weeks between war and shame, and I have very little doubt what the decision will be.

As long as we have faith in our own cause and an unconquerable will to win, victory will not be denied us.

If freedom is short of weapons, we must compensate with willpower.

If you are pure, if you are strong, you, one man are equal to the whole world.