Quotes About Willpower

don't let "reputation" get mixed up with your moral purpose or your will power; they are important. Make sure "reputation" is in that box in the bottom drawer marked "matters of indifference

is true. We change not by mustering up willpower but by changing the way we think, which will also involve changing our actions and our social environment. We change indirectly. We do what we can

There's no fate but what we make for ourselves.

Anyone can do anything if they put their mind to it and take action

You're all still here because of an uncanny will to survive despite the odds, among … other reasons.

It's not that some people have willpower and some don't... It's that some people are ready to change and others are not.

If you don´t try, you don´t get. "Exactly,

Uncertainty is the first step toward self-determination," Plagueis said. "Courage comes next.

If you have to do it, you can do it.

My fate is my own; my heart remains free Not magic but wisdum reveals destiny.

She would not fail this night. Nothing would stop her. Cassandra worked around to the far

Such power there is in clear-eyed self-restraint.

The basic idea here is that for most people will power is a limited resource: if we spend lots of energy controlling our impulses in one area, it becomes harder to control our impulses in others. Or, as the psychologist Roy Baumeister puts it, will power is like a muscle: overuse temporarily exhausts it.

We can't choose what we want and don't want and that's the hard lonely truth. Sometimes we want what we want even if we know it's going to kill us.

Early on, Abraham revealed a keystone attribute essential to success in any field—the motivation and willpower to develop every talent he possessed to the fullest.

when I make up my mind to do a thing, I act.

In the end, the unending strain with his father enhanced, rather than diminished, young Lincoln's ambition. Year after year, as he persevered in defiance of his father's wishes, managing his negative emotions and exercising his will to slowly master one subject after another, he developed an increasing belief in his own strengths and powers.

While some men, he observed, were naturally fearless, he had to train his "soul and spirit" as well as his body. So, "constantly forcing himself to do the difficult or even dangerous thing," he gradually was able to cultivate courage as "a matter of habit, in the sense of repeated effort and repeated exercise of will-power.

Choose? When do I ever choose? Have I ever chosen?

Now, I am not Anna, I have no will, I can't move out of a situation once it has started, I just go along with it.

We're back at the blade of grass again, that will press up through the bits of rusted steel a thousand years after the bombs have exploded and the world's crust has melted. Because the force of will in the blade of grass is the same as the small painful endurance.

But I despised men who accepted their fate. I shaped mine twenty times and had it broken twenty times in my hands.

Except once, long ago, over an estrangement with his wife Mariotta, Lord Culter had never been jealous of the young brother he had seen grow from babyhood. Until the moment Francis had left home at sixteen, a prisoner of war to the English, Richard knew him solely as a blond and delicate boy, interested only, it seemed, in reading and music, whose apparent fragility concealed a will of steel, and a turn of phrase which could wound like a sword-cut.

If you had asked me, I could have told you, without putting yourself to the trouble of experiment, that no one, saint or sinner, is likely to seduce Francis against his will. Unfortunately.