Quotes About Willpower

All your life you have resented control and brooked no hint of instruction or guidance. This time, your will is not paramount.

Will you pack up all your cold-boiled emotions, and do what the hell you are told?

Alec Guthrie's voice, serene from the shadows, said, You are not going to Russia. You are not going. All your life you have resented control and brooked no hint of instruction or guidance. This time, your will is not paramount.

Alec Guthrie's voice, serene from the shadows, said, 'You are not going to Russia. You are not going. All your life you have resented control and brooked no hint of instruction or guidance. This time, your will is not paramount.

If you want it your own way, God will let you have it. Hell is the enjoyment of your own way forever.

he had had absolutely no cigarettes at all. Not one. They were out of his life, foresworn utterly. He didn't need them. He could do without them. They merely nagged at him like mad and made his life a living hell

True realization, true enlightenment, comes through a complete relinquishing of personal will - a complete letting go.

God ever works with those that work with will.

When a man dies, flesh is frayed and broken in the fire, but not his will.

Happiness is a choice that requires effort at times.

My will is mine...I shall not make it soft for you.

I do not argue with obstinate men. I act in spite of them.

The point is that one's got an instinct to live. One does not live because one's reason assents to living. People who, as we say, 'would be better dead,' don't want to die! People who apparently have got everything to live for just let themselves fade out of life because they have not got the energy to fight.

M. Van Aldin is an obstinate man," said Poirot drily. "I do not argue with obstinate men. I act in spite of them.

It's the Only Thing To Do," he said, obviously speaking in capital letters.

Su fuerza reside en la voluntad, no en su brazo.

Ah! Have I got to tell you thirty-six times, and then again thirty-six, that there is no need of physical effort? One needs only-to think.

It is a theory of mine that one always gets what one wants.

I think, Madame, that your strength is in your will—not in your arm.

There's only one certainty in life. A strong man stands above and conquers all!

You Will Be What You Decide to Be, Nothing Less, Nothing More

Sufficient determination will conquer any natural reluctance.

'Faith and Will' sprang from my personal experience with passing through a dark spiritual time.

I have a completely addictive personality. Diet Coke is my last - God, I know people counting days off Diet Coke; I'm such a Diet Cokehead. Now I won't let myself buy it.