Jules Verne Quotes

A strong will deals with the hard facts of life as a sculptor with his marbles, making them facile and yielding to his purposes, and conquering their stubbornness by a greater stubbornness in himself.

When I need motivation, I just think I can do everything if I maintain a strong sense of will.

Real courage is holding on to a still voice in your head that says, 'I must keep going.' It's that voice that says nothing is a failure if it is not final. That voice that says to you, 'Get out of bed. Keep going. I will not quit.'

Obstacles are merely a call to strengthen your resolve to achieve your worthwhile goals.

Fight and push harder for what you believe in, you'd be surprised, you are much stronger than you think.

To succeed, we must have the will to succeed, we must have stamina, determination, backbone, perseverance, self-reliance, and faith.

Whatever obstacles you face, remember you can get through anything if you want to badly enough.

Strength of will is the test of a young man's possibilities. Can he will strong enough and hold whatever he undertakes with an iron grip?

You can get through anything if you want it bad enough.

He helps me every day to do my exercises. Siegfried told me once, 'The one who is a hero is the one who can hang on just one minute longer.'

A lot of things I've done in my life have taken incredible mental fortitude.

The only way to get through the life I had was just to have a big head of steam and determination.

I struggle with my training sometimes. The thing I look at is if you keep getting up and moving forward, you'll be successful. That's the way I've lived my life. I'm not going to stop doing something because somebody says it's time. I'm going to stop it when my body says it's over or the fans say, 'we're done watching you.'

It takes an inner strength to succeed.

When it's going tough in a session I have a little think about why I'm doing it, what I'm getting up for and why I'm putting myself through it.

I had so many outs in my career. I could have said, I don’t need this. I have money; I have fame; I have victories; I have Grand Slams. But when your love for something is bigger than all those things, you continue to keep getting up in the morning when it’s freezing outside, when you know that it can be the most difficult day, when nothing is working, when you feel like the belief sometimes isn’t there from the outside world, and you seem so small. But you can achieve great things when you don’t listen to all those things.

Nothing is impossible that one desires with an indomitable will.

Willpower is essential to the accomplishment of anything worthwhile.

If you want to do something that requires willpower - like going for a run after work - you have to conserve your willpower muscle during the day.

There's no substitute for will. Sometimes you have to fake will when you don't feel it at all.

Though perseverance does not come from our power, yet it comes within our power.

I cannot give up my will - I must exercise it, putting it into action.

Sure I am this day we are masters of our fate, that the task which has been set before us is not above our strength; that its pangs and toils are not beyond our endurance. As long as we have faith in our own cause and an unconquerable will to win, victory will not be denied us.

We do not lack strength so much as the will to use it; and very often our imagining that things are impossible is nothing but an excuse of our own contriving, to reconcile ourselves to our own idleness.

Do not be discouraged by the resistance you will encounter from your human nature; you must go against your human inclinations. Often, in the beginning, you will think that you are wasting time, but you must go on, be determined and persevere in it until death, despite all the difficulties.