Quotes About Willpower

I always intended having you, Scarlett, since that first day I saw you at Twelve Oaks when you threw that vase and swore and proved that you weren't a lady. I

What I want I take if I can get it, and so I wrestle neither with angels nor devils

Technology enables last mile delivery. Blending it with the will and determination to deliver, Gujarat has experienced the true power of e-governance.

It is difficult not to wonder whether that combination of elements which produces a machine for labor does not create also a soul of sorts, a dull resentful metallic will, which can rebel at times.

There's a big difference between feeling thankful and giving thanks. One response involves emotions, the other, your will. Trusting God has nothing to do with trustful feelings.

Desire will in due time externalize itself as concrete fact.

At twenty years of age the will reigns; at thirty, the wit; and at forty, the judgment.

I do not hold God ransom to my success; whatever is his will is my way. I stand by moments; I do not stand by time.

At one time I smoked, but in 1959 I couldn't think of anything else to give up for Lent so I stopped - and I haven't had a cigarette since.

The real desk isn't one with four legs and a filing cabinet. It's the space of time that you stake out every day and the will with which you defend it.

There is a time when we must firmly choose the course we will follow, or the relentless drift of events will make the decision for us.

Reflect upon the defects of your character: thoroughly realize their evils and the transient pleasures they give you, and firmly will that you shall try your best not to yield to them the next time.

I tried acupuncture, the patch, and hypnosis, but found that I needed to do it alone - when the time was right for me.

Just like when there's a time that a smart person knows enough is enough, there's a time when you know you've got to fight.

Alcohol is a very patient drug. It will wait for the alcoholic to pick it up one more time.

The human will is an amazing thing. Time after time, it has triumphed against unbelievable odds.

Faust, the Ninth Symphony, and the will of Adolf Hitler are eternal youth and know neither time nor transience.

You can always make time to do the thing you want to do, if you want it enough.

If you quit once, it's so much easier to quit the second, third, fourth time.

Since time out of mind, a considered act of heroism has been the cure for stultifying ambivalence.

Bir ÅŸey doÄŸruysa, onu yapman?n yolu bulunur; yok yanl??sa, onsuz yapman?n yolu da bulunur. Ä°yi bir insan çaresini bulacakt?r.

When we had surmounted the acclivity, I was about to withdraw my arm from his, but by a slight tightening of the elbow was tacitly informed that such was not his will, and accordingly desisted.

What constitutes virtue, Mrs Graham? Is it the circumstance of being able and willing to resist temptation; or that of having no temptations to resist?

Never! while heaven spares my reason,' replied I, snatching away the hand he had presumed to seize and press between his own.