Quotes About Willpower

These things cannot be stopped: An inherited strength of will. One's dreams. The ebb and flow of the ages. As long as people hunger for freedom, these things will exist. — Gold Roger King of the Pirates

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Those who indulge themselves in sense stimulation throughout their lives often end up exhausted, with an enfeebled will and little capacity to love others.

In every endeavour, it is man or woman with unbreakable will who excels

As you saw in chapter 2, in Rotherbart's description of how we develop, adult humans are capable of directing attention, using willpower, and deciding to overcome a fear. If your envy is strong and you decide you want to do something, you probably can.

adult humans are capable of directing attention, using willpower, and deciding to overcome a fear. If your envy is strong and you decide you want to do something, you probably can.

It does not take much strength to do things, but it requires great strength to decide on what to do.

Cultivate only the habits that you are willing should master you.

Y esa incapacidad para la acción independiente, esta estupidez moral, esta atrofia de la voluntad, esta mala gana para remover por sí mismo los obstáculos, es lo que retarda el bienestar colectivo de la sociedad.

Nothing has ever been achieved by the person who says, It can't be done.

Effort: You must do the thing you think you cannot do.

But at times, as if a drug had flooder her veins, Lila seemed unable to bear the order she had imposed on herself.

It was like when Isabel managed not to marry the guy with the cotton mills, and it was her first taste of victory—because "she had done what she preferred.

If you can't you must, and if you must you can.

Discipline is remembering what you want

Epictetus has this to say about the role of habits: 'Generally then, if you want to make something a habit, practise it; and if you do not want to make it a habit, do not do it, but get in the habit of doing something else. It is the same in relation to things of the mind.

If I commit suicide, it will not be to destroy myself, but to put myself back together again. Suicide will be for me only one means of violently reconquering myself, of brutally invading my being, of anticipating the unpredictable approaches of God. By suicide, I reintroduce my design in nature, I shall for the first time give things the shape of my will.

Pessimism of the spirit; optimism of the will.

What had excited most about her from the start was what made him most afraid and what had eventually taken her away from him: the strength of her will.

He continued to wait as if the force of his obstinacy would influence Judith's actions and will.

There is nothing a person can do of his/her own because even what everyone dreams or desires is also decided by their respective destiny.

If you want a good polar traveller get a man without too much muscle, with good physical tone, and let his mind be on wires—of steel. And if you can't get both, sacrifice physique and bank on will.

Dwell not upon thy weariness, thy strength shall be according to the measure of thy desire.

Self-control requires mental energy, and each of us has a limited reservoir. When we're tired, these energy reserves run low, and our self-control suffers. This is why, warns a 2015 review from Clemson University, sleep deprivation puts us at greater risk of "succumbing to impulsive desires, poor attentional capacity, and compromised decision making.