10 Movie Quotes about Willpower (+ Sound Clips)

Updated: Oct 30, 2025

Memorable quotes about willpower, selected from famous or less known movies by Movie-Sounds.org's visitors, accompanied by short mp3 and wav audio samples.

1 I'm gonna grit my teeth and bear down. If a person grits his teeth and shows real determination, he can't fail.

Peter Robbins as Charlie Brown in Charlie Brown's All Stars!

2 I got it beat. My will power is indomitab-ble.

Mel Blanc as Sylvester The Cat in Looney, Looney, Looney Bugs Bunny Movie

3 So, I must exercise both willpower and finesse.

Phillip Glasser as Fievel Mousekewitz in An American Tail: Fievel Goes West

4 You want to quit. It feels like you can't go another inch. You can't go another step, but you keep going. What kind of man is that? You should just go until you want to fall out in your tracks. And then after that, you've only got about halfway through...

Muhammad Ali in The Greatest (1977)

5 Well, maybe we shouldn't go out to dinner. I don't want to ruin your willpower.

Chloë Sevigny in American Psycho

6 But the last word hasn't been said yet. My will is strong enough to bend even the fates.

Romulus And Remus in Duel of the Titans (1961)

7 Well at first, if I made an enormous effort of will, the reflection used to change back to what it ought to be. But lately, however hard I try, it doesn't change anymore.

Mervyn Johns as Walter Craig in Dead of Night (1945)

8 You don't believe, I suppose, that some common sort of person like myself, as it might be sitting here now, might have some sort of twist inside him that made him able to do things just by willpower?

Alec Guinness in The Man Who Could Work Miracles (1954)

9 Well, I guess I just haven't got much willpower.

John Wayne as Dan Roman in The High and the Mighty (1954)

10 Perhaps it was my willpower that did it, after all. Well, I wonder if I can do it again.

Alec Guinness as Narrator in The Man Who Could Work Miracles (1954)