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Quotes About Willpower

When you exercise your will power you release the power of life energy - not when you merely wish passively to be able to obtain an objective.
~ Paramahansa Yogananda
One of the principle things life has taught me is that we always have a choice. When we say we "can't," we usually mean we're just not willing to pay the price.
~ Patricia McConnell
Each human being has been granted a virtue: the capacity to choose. For he who does not use this virtue, it becomes a curse - and others will always choose for him.
~ Paulo Coelho
When something is impossible, I do it anyway.
~ Michael Treanor
Willpower is breath and heartbeat of life; Life blooms in the girdle of taut willpower.
~ Praveen Kumar
You know what, life is full of temptations
~ Smokey Robinson
Our life interferes, our mind, our thoughts. Meditating is not just a practice of asserting will and learning to control the mind, it is also developing control of one's life and gaining wisdom.
~ Frederick Lenz
It is a shame for the soul to be first to give way in this life, when thy body does not give way.
~ Marcus Aurelius
One good wish changes nothing. But one good decision changes everything. Your power to choose, to make a good decision, spells the difference between wishing and making real life changes.
~ Steve Goodier
The life of the professional writer - like that of any freelance, whether she be a plumber or a podiatrist - is predicated on willpower. Without it there simply wouldn't be any remuneration, period.
~ Will Self
You might be [outshining me in many ways]. But if we get on a treadmill, there are two things: you're getting off first or I'm going to die. It's that simple, right?
~ Will Smith
Not only our moral life, but even our use of theoretical reason - on which we rely in rationally inquiring into nature - presupposes that we are free.
~ Allen W. Wood
Obedience . . . allows us to reach a higher and more spiritual level in life, using our agency to do the will of the Lord.
~ Athos M. Amorim
Life is all about choices. Today, show compassion for others, think powerful thoughts, and exercise self control.
~ Bradford Winters
The sweetest life is to be ever making sacrifices for Christ; the hardest life a man can lead on earth, the most full of misery, is to be always doing his own will and seeking to please himself.
~ EDWARD HENRY BICKERSTETH
We were taught never to give up, never to passively accept fate, but to exhaust every last ounce of will and hope in the face of any challenge.
~ Edward Kennedy
The only man who can change his mind is a man that's got one.
~ Edward Noyes Westcott
Edward Slingerland
~ ego depletion.
A selected-one, in whatever way, shape, and form, cannot reach and achieve that precisely elected-one can succeed and secure.
~ Ehsan Sehgal
A substantial and beautiful victory of all victories is to overcome your tongue.
~ Ehsan Sehgal
Every defeat makes me stronger to stand up with the new willpower. It is the visionary gain, and that leads to real success.
~ Ehsan Sehgal
Every defeat makes stronger, to stand up with the new willpower. It is the visionary gain, and that leads to real success.
~ Ehsan Sehgal
It's not about if I can! I'm doing this because I want to... If I have to die fighting for it, then I die.
~ Eiichiro Oda
Fight against your own fate!!
~ Eiichiro Oda