Quotes About Willpower

And yet, in a sense, in choosing to be deprived of the ability to make an ethical choice, you have in a sense really chosen the good.

A man who cannot choose ceases to be a man.

El hombre que no puede elegir ha perdido la condición humana.

Tutku korkuyu kovabilen tek güçtür.

When a man cannot choose he ceases to be a man.

I had seen these transformations, people who had lost their will to live, coming back from their zombie states and radiating a new life force from their eyes.

for the first time in my life, a voice went off in my head:'You have no power over what happens in your life. Drugs dictate exactly what you're going to do. You've taken your hands off the steering wheel, and you're going wherever the drug world takes you.' That had never changed. The feeling would well up inside of me, and no matter how much I loved my girl or my band or my friends or my family, when that siren song 'Go get high now' started playing in my head, I was off.

If you can't you must, and if you must you can..

Making a true decision means committing to achieving a result, and then cutting yourself off from any other possibility.

There's always a way, if I'm committed.")

Nothing can resist the human will that will stake even its existence on its stated purpose." —BENJAMIN DISRAELI

In life, lots of people know what to do, but few people actually do what they know. Knowing is not enough! You must take action.

Prove to yourself that you've decided now. Make one or two decisions that you've been putting off: one easy decision and one that's a bit more difficult. Show yourself what you can do. Right now, stop. Make at least one clear-cut decision that you've been putting off—take the first action toward fulfilling it—and stick to it! By doing this, you'll be building that muscle that will give you the will to change your entire life.

Nietzsche: «Aquel que tiene un porqué lo bastante fuerte, puede soportar casi cualquier cómo».

The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity.

I don't care twopence who have their way," said Lucinda, "I mean to have mine; — that's all.

You talk of the heart as though we could control it." "The heart will follow the thoughts, and they may be controlled. I am not passionate, perhaps, as you are, and I think I can control my heart. But my fortune has been kind to me, and I have never been tempted

CHAPTER XLV LORD RUFFORD MAKES UP HIS MIND

La matière ne me mangera pas, moi.

Senenmut era capaz de captar su fuerza, a pesar

Tutti i più ridicoli fantasticatori che nei loro nascondigli di geni incompresi fanno scoperte strabilianti e definitive, si precipitano su ogni movimento nuovo persuasi di poter spacciare le loro fanfaluche. D'altronde ogni collasso porta con sé disordine intellettuale e morale. Bisogna creare uomini sobri, pazienti, che non disperino dinanzi ai peggiori orrori e non si esaltino a ogni sciocchezza. Pessimismo dell'intelligenza, ottimismo della volontà.

Pessimismo dell'intelligenza, ottimismo della volontà.

Et ne nos inducas in tentationem. Why should an all-loving father lead his child into temptation? Why must he be implored not to? At that moment in Ursula's drafty chamber, Celia renounced God. She would cease to worry about religion. She would conform to any outward acts which seemed expedient at the time, and she would guide her own life as she saw fit. Her own will and desires should be her sole criteria. All else was inconsistency or downright lies. And nothing was worth suffering for.

Through discipline comes freedom.