Quotes About Willpower

To will is to engage myself to persevere in my will.

Liberty, taking the word in its concrete sense, consists in the ability to choose.

To be a hero or a heroine, one must give an order to oneself.

Teach self denial and make its practice pleasure, and you can create for the world a destiny more sublime that ever issued from the brain of the wildest dreamer.

Never, give in! Never give in! Never, never, never... In nothing great or small, large or petty, never give in except to convictions or honor and good sense!

When they expect you to give up, that's when you should put your foot down and double speed.

You chose to live, I chose to die.

The stubbornest of wills Are soonest bended, as the hardest iron, O'er-heated in the fire to brittleness, Flies soonest into fragments, shivered through.

No? Believe me, the stiffest stubborn wills fall the hardest; the toughest iron tempered strong in the white-hot fire, you'll see it crack and shatter first of all. And I've known spirited horses you can break with a light bite—proud, rebellious horses. There's no room for pride, not in a slave, not with the lord and master standing by.

No one with any sense of self-control.

all done with a will. The pains we inflict upon ourselves hurt most of all.

The most powerful man in nothing without self-control and mental discipline.

The proud person always wants to do the right thing, the great thing. But because he wants to do it in his own strength, he is fighting not with man, but with God.

La angustia, sin embargo, no es hermosa por sí misma, sino solamente cuando aparece acompañada por la energía que sabe dominarla.

A choice that is not used is worse than nothing; it is a snare in which a person has trapped himself as a slave who did not become free

All my life I have battled the alarm clock, pummeling the snooze button over and over with mounting self-loathing until the shame is finally strong enough to lever me upright.

I learned that strength is a matter of the made-up mind.

Disciplining yourself to do what you know is right and importance, although difficult, is the highroad to pride, self-esteem, and personal satisfaction.

You must go on.I can't go on.I'll go on.

He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how.

He who has a why to live can bear with almost any how.

There is only one way to make your dream a reality: make the decision and then not change it.

A great soul was always born from a great insistence.

A Maximus, the Gladiator lies in every human being. When the time comes, your Maximus within you will come out. It is not called destiny, it is an extended automatic self reflex