Quotes About Willpower

You know, my parents, they raised me to be a fighter.

The range of choice open to the individual is not the decisive factor in determining the degree of human freedom, but what can be chosen and what is chosen by the individual.

Determination gets you a long way.

When it gets down to it you just have to act.

As long as a man's heart beats, as long as a man's flesh quivers, I do not allow that a being gifted with thought and will can allow himself to despair.

All is foreseen, but freedom of choice is given.

Exercising choice is a good thing.

The corruption of morals is a consequence of decadence (weakness of the will, need for strong stimuli).

What, if some day or night a demon were to steal after you into your loneliest loneliness and say to you: 'This life as you now live it and have lived it, you will have to live once more and innumerable times more' ... Would you not throw yourself down and gnash your teeth and curse the demon who spoke thus? Or have you once experienced a tremendous moment when you would have answered him: 'You are a god and never have I heard anything more divine.

One ought to hold on to one's heart; for if one lets it go, one soon loses control of the head too.

Everyone who has ever built anywhere a new heaven first found the power thereto in his own hell.

He who cannot obey himself will be commanded. That is the nature of living creatures.

How does one become stronger? By deciding slowly; and by holding firmly to the decision once it is made. Everything else follows of itself.

And life confided the secret to me: behold, it said, l am that which must always overcome itself.

For fanaticism is the only form of willpower that even the weak and insecure can be brought to attain.

They fear their higher self, because when it speaks, it speaks demandingly.

Man Is Something That Must Be Overcome

The man who is to be great is the one who can be the most solitary, the most hidden, the most deviant, the man beyond good and evil, lord of his virtues, a man lavishly endowed with will - this is precisely what greatness is to be called: it is able to be as much a totality as something multi-faceted, as wide as it is full

Man permits himself to be lied to at night, his life long, when he dreams, and his moral sense never even tries to prevent this—although men have been said to have overcome snoring by sheer will power.

Amo os que não procuram por detrás das estrelas uma razão para morrer e oferecer-se em sacrifício, mas se sacrificam pela terra, para que a terra pertença um dia ao Super-homem.

What is Genius?- To aspire to a lofty aim and to will the means to that aim.

I love the great despisers. Man, however, is something that must be overcome.

I am a railing alongside the torrent; whoever is able to grasp me may grasp me! Your crutch, however, I am not.--

Can you furnish yourself with your own good and evil and hang up your own will above yourself as a law? Can you be judge of yourself and avenger of your law? It is terrible to be alone with the judge and avenger of one's law. It is to be like a star thrown forth into empty space and into the icy breath of solitude.