Iron Will Quotes:

The Iron is the best antidepressant I have ever found.

- Henry Rollins

source: Henry Rollins (1996). “Do I Come Here Often”, 2.13.61 Publications

topic: Bodybuilding, Iron Will, Lifting Weights, Antidepressants, Fitness Training

People may say I developed an iron will, but what really happened is that I made myself much fitter. I think an iron will is always supported by fitness.

- Ivan Lendl

topic: Thinking, Iron Will, People

Trout was petrified there on Forty-second Street. It had given him a life not worth living, but I had also given him an iron will to live. This was a common combination on the planet Earth.

- Kurt Vonnegut

source: Kurt Vonnegut (1999). “Breakfast of Champions: Or, Goodbye Blue Monday!”, CNIB, 197

topic: Iron Will, Trout, Earth, Breakfast Of Champions

I have found the Iron to be my greatest friend. It never freaks out on me, never runs. Friends may come and go. But two hundred pounds is always two hundred pounds

- Henry Rollins

source: Henry Rollins (2009). “The Portable Henry Rollins”, p.290, Villard

topic: Strength, Running, Two, Iron Will, Motivational Training

There is no better way to fight weakness than with strength. Once the mind and body have been awakened to their true potential, it's impossible to turn back.

- Henry Rollins

topic: Fighting, Mind, Weakness, Iron Will, Motivational Bodybuilding

Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.

- Mahatma Gandhi

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Positive, Indomitable, Indomitable Spirit

No one would remember the Good Samaritan if he'd only had good intentions; he had money as well.

- Margaret Thatcher

topic: Inspirational, Funny, Life, Samaritans, Iron Lady

I believe that when the body is strong, the mind thinks strong thoughts.

- Henry Rollins

topic: Strong, Believe, Thinking, Iron Will, Lifting Weights

When confronted with iron-will determination, I can see Time, Fate and Circumstance calling a hasty conference and deciding, We might as well let him have his dream. He's said he's going to get there or die trying.

- Jim Rohn

topic: Inspirational, Dream, Determination, Iron Will, Hasty

I prefer to work out alone. It enables me to concentrate on the lessons that the Iron has for me.

- Henry Rollins

topic: Iron, Work Out, Training, Iron Will, Fitness Training

We are all dying, every moment that passes of every day. That is the inescapable truth of this existence. It is a truth that can paralyze us with fear, or one that can energize us with impatience, with the desire to explore and experience, with the hope- nay, the iron-will!- to find a memory in every action. To be alive, under sunshine, or starlight, in weather fair or stormy. To dance with every step, be they through gardens of flowers or through deep snows.

- R. A. Salvatore

topic: Memories, Flower, Sunshine, Iron Will, Starlight

Any woman who understands the problems of running a home will be nearer to understanding the problems of running a country.

- Margaret Thatcher

topic: Country, Running, Strong Women, Female Empowerment, Powerful Women

Through the years, I have combined meditation, action, and the Iron into a single strength. I believe that when the body is strong, the mind thinks strong thoughts. Time spent away from the Iron makes my mind degenerate. I wallow in a thick depression. My body shuts down my mind.

- Henry Rollins

topic: Strong, Workout, Believe, Iron Will, Lifting Weights

The sea is dangerous and its storms terrible, but these obstacles have never been sufficient reason to remain ashore...unlike the mediocre, intrepid spirits seek victory over those things that seem impossible...it is with an iron will that they embark on the most daring of all endeavors...to meet the shadowy future without fear and conquer the unknown.

- Ferdinand Magellan

topic: Sea, Iron, Victory, Iron Will, Magellan

People have become separated from their bodies. They are no longer whole. I see them move from their offices to their cars and on to their suburban homes. They stress out constantly, they lose sleep, they eat badly. And they behave badly. Their egos run wild; they become motivated by that which will eventually give them a massive stroke. They need the Iron Mind.

- Henry Rollins

topic: Running, Stress, Moving, Mind Training, Iron Will

They love him, gentlemen, and they respect him, not only for himself, but for his character, for his integrity and judgment and iron will; but they love him most for the enemies he has made.

- Edward S. Bragg

topic: Integrity, Character, Iron, Iron Will

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

- Nelson Mandela

topic: Inspiring, Skills, Iron, Iron Will

It wasn't until my late twenties that I learned that by working out I had given myself a great gift. I learned that nothing good comes without work and a certain amount of pain. When I finish a set that leaves me shaking, I know more about myself. When something gets bad, I know it can't be as bad as that workout.

- Henry Rollins

topic: Workout, Pain, Work Out, Late Twenties, Iron Will

Strike while the iron is hot.

- Geoffrey Chaucer

topic: Wisdom, Iron, Hot, Spanish Proverb, Early Bird

Look not mournfully into the past, it comes not back again. Wisely improve the present, it is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy future without fear and with a manly heart.

- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

topic: Inspirational, Life, Wisdom, Iron Will, Fear Of The Future

I used to fight the pain, but recently this became clear to me: pain is not my enemy; it is my call to greatness. But when dealing with the Iron, one must be careful to interpret the pain correctly. Most injuries involving the Iron come from ego. I once spent a few weeks lifting weight that my body wasn’t ready for and spent a few months not picking up anything heavier than a fork. Try to lift what you’re not prepared to and the Iron will teach you a little lesson in restraint and self-control.

- Henry Rollins

topic: Pain, Fighting, Greatness, Iron Will, Lifting

Common sense tells us that the world is flat, that the sun goes around the earth, that heavy bodies always fall faster than light bodies, that boats made of iron will sink.

- Stuart Chase

topic: Fall, Iron, Light, Iron Will, World Is Flat

Her iron will won international respect. Her unabashed femininity gained women's. Margaret Thatcher was a lady's lady.

- Louise Burfitt-Dons

source: Speech to CWCC, London, April 2013.

topic: Iron, Femininity, Respect Her, Iron Will

Really living without clutter takes an iron will ... This involves eternal watchfulness and that oldest and most relentless of the housewife's occupations, picking up. I have a feeling that picking up will go on long after ways have been found to circumvent death and taxes.

- Ada Louise Huxtable

topic: Iron, Long, Feelings, Iron Will, Really Living

You must have an iron will, if you would cross the ocean. You must be strong enough to pierce mountains.

- Swami Vivekananda

source: Swami Vivekananda (2016). “Vivekananda Reader”, p.205, Advaita Ashrama (A publication branch of Ramakrishna Math, Belur Math)

topic: Motivational, Strong, Ocean, Iron Will, Strong Enough

Confidence is conqueror of men; victorious both over them and in them; The iron will of one stout heart shall make a thousand quail; A feeble dwarf, dauntlessly resolved, will turn the tide of battle, And rally to a nobler strife the giants that had fled.

- Martin Farquhar Tupper

source: Martin Farquhar Tupper (1860). “Tupper's Complete Poetical Works: Containing "Proverbial Philosophy," "A Thousand Lines," "Hactenus," "Geraldine," and "Miscellaneous Poems"”, p.221

topic: Confidence, Heart, Men, Iron Will, Stout