Quotes About Willpower

If you tell your subconscious that you can be great for a few days, but then always blow it, you've given it both instruction and permission to give up after a few days.

We observe small rites, but we defend ourselves against that terrible memory that is stronger than will. We defend ourselves from the rooms, the scenes, the objects that make for hallucination, that make the senses start up and fasten upon a ghost. We desert those who desert us; we cannot afford to suffer; we must live how we can.

Es una gran liberación el saber que uno tiene la determinación total de que nada va a arrebatarle el triunfo, porque Dios así lo ha querido.

I will," that is my song. I had not known before that love is obedience. You want to love, and you can't, and you hate yourself because you can't, and all the time love is not some marvelous thing that you feel but some hard thing that you do. And this in a way is easier because with God's help you can command your will when you can't command your feelings. With us, feelings seem to be important, but He doesn't appear to agree with us.

Besides, I have determined that

As has often been the case with me, I began to dread this in advance... But early on I saw this: You are wasting time by suffering twice. I mention this only to show how many things the mind cannot will itself to do, even if it wants to.

Obstinacy is the result of the will forcing itself into the place of the intellect.

Der Mensch kann tun was er will; er kann aber nicht wollen was er will. Man can do what he wills but he cannot will what he wills.

El español, una vez decidida la estocada que se propone dar, la ejecuta ciegamente aunque así lo hagan pedazos (PIERRE DE BRANTÔME).

Si te empeñas, tú mismo puedes ser tan peligroso como cualquiera que se cruce en tu camino.

Esas son las tentaciones. ?No, esa es la vida. ?Tengo fuerzas para luchar contra las tentaciones. ?Si tienes fuerza para luchar contra la vida.

We are the authors of our own destiny; and being the authors, we are ultimately, perhaps frighteningly, free.

Through all my years enslaved, I've listened to ancestral voices echoing through my weariness, giving me strength to withstand injustice, to believe in myself and survive. May our songs and stories keep alive in us the will to grow in learning. The longing to be free!

He did not know what resignation meant. He who resigned, he thought, lost his right to live.

Only your determination and your strong desire will move you forward.

There are no incurable diseases only the lack of will. There are no worthless herbs only the lack of knowledge.

Why do they always teach us that it's easy and evil to do what we want and that we need discipline to restrain ourselves? It's the hardest thing in the world--to do what we want. And it takes the greatest kind of courage. I mean, what we really want.

Why do they always teach us that it's easy and evil to do what we want and that we need discipline to restrain ourselves? It's the hardest thing in the world--to do what we want. And it takes the greatest kind of courage. I mean, what we really want.

I started my life with a single absolute: that the world was mine to shape in the image of my highest values and never to be given up to a lesser standard, no matter how long or hard the struggle.

It is best not to silence the mind with a crushing blow of our will.

I suggest that if you were able to focus your attention at will, you could actually choose the universe you appear to inhabit.

God, the soul, salvation, consciousness, love, free will, and purely spiritual causation may seem far more real to you than elementary particles and energy fields. I suggest that if you were able to focus your attention at will, you could actually choose the universe you appear to inhabit.

When something is tiny, it's easy to do—which means you don't need to rely on the unreliable nature of motivation.

Keeping changes small and expectations low is how you design around fair-weather friends like motivation and willpower.