Quotes About Willpower

Daleina would not be kept from her fate. She'd run toward it, arms open, and kick fate in the face.

You would make a ship sail against the winds and currents by lighting a bonfire under her decks? I have no time for such nonsense.

Ours is a time of anxiety because we have willed it to be so. Our anxiety is not imposed on us by force from outside. We impose it on our world and upon one another from within ourselves.

It is difficult to stop in time because one gets carried away. But I have that strength; it is the only strength I have.

You will be a happier person if you don't do what you want to do, most of the time

Human survival is something that you can't see in another person; you can see if someone has that will to survive or that will to win; you can't see that, you can only watch that evolve over time.

If you think with enough energy about a hoped-for event, it will in the end happen. Not because you willed it. Because it was all the time in your nature.

Sublime is the dominion of the mind over the body, that, for a time, can make flesh and nerve impregnable, and string the sinews like steel, so that the weak become so mighty!

We're actually making not one but 30 choices at a time: Our mind is making a choice. Our heart's making choices.

On voulait mourir; on ne voulait pas étouffer; la maladie dégoûte de la mort; on veut guérir, ce qui est une manière de vouloir vivre.

Sometimes one controls one's acts; one controls less often one's thoughts; one never controls one's dreams. I had dreams.

Looking straight into Rochelle's eyes he adds, I don't cave in to temptation.

Marie is a person whose life experiences, though different from most, have never robbed her of her humanity. At the very depth of her psychosis, she could touch her own wish for sanity even though this touch required every bit of her will to live. From a curled-up position of catatonic silence on her hospital bed, she could still see herself: 'I looked at myself and said, 'No more. I can't go on this way anymore...if I ever want to get out of here, if I ever want to get better (xiii)

I know that many men are living in the tangles of sin, but too weak of will to break the net in which they have become voluntarily imprisoned.

the swinging pendulum of HUMAN WILL, which decides our fate. God does not choose for us, or compel our love — we are free to fashion out our own futures; but in making our final choice we cannot afford to waste one moment of our precious, unreturning time. MARIE CORELLI.

not deciding to act would be identical with deciding not to act.

He had learned that determination is suspect, more so as more effort is involved in it.

God seemed to be having a hard time killing him, and he'd be damned if he was going to make the job easy for mere mortals

you can't let other men impose their will on you or life's not worth living.

Ésa es la imagen secreta que tuvo Gustave de Achille-Cléophas: un dios autoritario que leía su alma, una voluntad ante la cual sólo podía rendirse.

Solo la libertad le interesaba ahora para manejar su soledad a su capricho.

Giving up smoking is the easiest thing in the world. I know because I've done it thousands of times.

Look upstream. Just simply turn around; have you no will?

Willpower is just another name for the idea of choosing long-term outcomes rather than short-term ones.