Quotes About Willpower

The anorexic body is held in the grip of will alone; its meaning is far from stable. What it says - 'Notice me, feed me, mother me' - is not what it means, for such attentions constitute an agonising test of that will, and also threaten to return the body to the dreaded 'normality' it has been such ecstasy to escape.

I have a temper on me that could hold back tides.

I have both English bulldog determination and Bengal tiger strength.

When the stomach is full, it is easy to talk of fasting.

We can only learn to know ourselves and do what we can - namely, surrender our will and fulfill God's will in us.

ubi intenderis ingenium valet; si libido possidet, ea dominatur, animus nihil valet.

Man can overcome any obstacle if he knows in his heart that he must and in his mind that he shall,

Self-control was overrated.

Gala Gradiva - 'tista, ki hodi spredaj, 'brezmadežna intuicija' - je imela spet prav. Danes lahko re?em, da izmed vseh mojih prepri?anj le dveh ne zmorem razložiti s svojo voljo do mo?i: eno je znova najdena vera leta 1949, drugo pa, da bo imela Gala glede moje prihodnosti vedno prav.

We can only choose whether we will feel and not what we will feel.

All the things you would do gladly, oh without enthusiasm, but gladly, all the things there seems no reason for your not doing, and that you do not do! Can it be we are not free? It might be worth looking into.

At other times when not quite well he would have them in for the fun of shaking his will at them. He would in his imagination cut them all out one after another and leave his money to found almshouses, till at last he was obliged to put them back, so that he might have the pleasure of cutting them out again the next time he was in a passion.

Every man naturally persuades himself that he can keep his resolutions, nor is he convinced of his imbecility but by length of time and frequency of experiment.

The chains of habit are too weak to be felt until they are too strong to be broken.

Ma járt le a borivás és a színház ellen tett fogadalmam, s úgy határoztam, élek is e szabadságommal, miel?tt újra fogadalmat teszek.

it is better to accept the inevitable with energy. Well then, if I have not chosen up till now, now I choose. That is freedom. Having chosen, I am free. Somewhere in my memory

It is not eminent talent that is required to ensure success in any pursuit, so much as purpose- not merely the power to achieve, but the will to labour energetically and perserveringly...Even if a man fail in his efforts, it will be a satisfaction to him to enjoy the consciousness of having done his best (p.205)

My case is a species of madness, only that it is a derangement of the Volition, and not of the intellectual faculties.

But owning the pain, running through it, overcoming it, was a matter of self-will and discipline.

when you are tired your lower nature always takes over.

Cualquier cosa es soportable si uno puede ponerle fin, como piensan los suicidas

She who shuns love soon will pursue it, She who scorns gifts will send them still: That girl will learn to love, though she do it Against her will.

She wore her determination like war paint.

But age isn't just time passing. It's time breaking you—your will, your heart, your beliefs.