Quotes About Willpower

That is probably the most painful part: when you are still tormented by the thought that one last effort of will might improve things.

thinking of giving up is probably the one thing that's kept me going. I think about it on a daily basis but always come up against the problem of what to do when I've given up. Give up one thing and you're immediately obliged to do something else. The only way to give up totally is to kill yourself but that one act requires an assertion of will equal to the total amount that would be expanded in the rest of a normal lifetime.

The only periods, I suspect, when a man feels captain of his soul are those when he has not the slightest need of such an organ.

The state of nature is in theory what we find it in practice. Freedom as the ideal of the original state of nature does not exist as original and nature. It must first be acquired and won; and that is possible only through an infinite process of the discipline of knowledge and will power. The state of nature, therefore is rather the state of injustice, violence, untamed natural impulses – of inhuman deeds and emotions.

I never resist temptation because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me.

What man really wishes to do he will find a means of doing.

HECTOR Well, I don't mean to be drowned like a rat in a trap. I still have the will to live. What am I to do? CAPT. SHOTOVER Do? Nothing simpler. Learn your business as an Englishman. HECTOR And what may my business as an Englishman be, pray? CAPT. SHOTOVER Navigation. Learn it and live; or leave it and be damned.

La imaginación es el principio de la creación. Imaginamos lo que deseamos, queremos lo que imaginamos y, por fin, creamos lo que queremos.

A man never lies with more delicious languor under the influence of a passion than when he has persuaded himself that he shall subdue it to-morrow.

A man vows, and yet will not east away the means of breaking his vow. Is it that he distinctly means to break it? Not at all; but the desires which tend to break it are at work in him dimly, and make their way into his imagination, and relax his muscles in the very moments when he is telling himself over again the reasons for his vow.

You shall have whatever you like,' said Grandcourt. 'And nothing that I don't like? - please say that; because I think I dislike what I don't like more than I like what I like,' said Gwendolen, finding herself in the woman's paradise where all her nonsense is adorable.

indefinite visions of ambition are weak against the ease of doing what is habitual or beguilingly agreeable; and we all know the difficulty of carrying out a resolve when we secretly long that it may turn out to be unnecessary.

The attitudes of receptivity are various, and Will had sincerely tried many of them. He was not excessively fond of wine, but he had several times taken too much, simply as an experiment in that form of ecstasy; he had fasted till he was faint, and then supped on lobster; he had made himself ill with doses of opium. Nothing greatly original had resulted from these measures; and

At one time you take pleasure in a sort of perverse self-denial, and at another you have not resolution to resist a thing that you know to be wrong.

And when a woman's will is as strong as the man's who wants to govern her, half her strength must be concealment.

Favourable Chance, I fancy, is the god of all men who follow their own devices instead of obeying a law they believe in.

Battles are won in the hearts of men.

I just never, ever want to give up. Most battles are won in the 11th hour, and most people give up. If you give up once, it's quite hard. If you give up a second time, it's a little bit easier. Give up a third time, it's starting to become a habit.

Character is just another word for having a perfectly disciplined and educated will. A person can make his own character by blending these elements with an intense desire to achieve excellence. Everyone is different in what I will call magnitude, but the capacity to achieve character is still the same.

I don't want to hear the word 'can't.'

Every spoken word arouses our self-will.

Survival can be summed up in three words - never give up. That's the heart of it really. Just keep trying.

Performing live in front of an audience is such a matter of will - all of those things you can do just fine in your basement, suddenly you have to do them in front of hundreds or thousands of people, and it becomes a different matter entirely.

The threat of terrorism is not stronger than the will of the American people.