Quotes About Willpower

Self-discipline begins and ends with the mastery of your own thoughts. Because, until and unless you control your own thoughts, you cannot control your actions. -Emeasoba George

Self-discipline is just an ability to say NO/YES when you ought to say it and an attitude of setting boundary on what you dislike. Are you self-disciplined or not?

Self-motivation (ability to do what needs to be done, without influence from other people or situations) is the best motivation. Oh! yes, people who are self-motivated can and will always find a reason and strength to complete a task. Even when it seems challenging, without giving up or asking someone else to encourage them. Thus, you've got to be self-motivated. -Emeasoba George

The will to succeed in anything is worthless and will for life remain unproductive until there is a will to persist and persevere. Oh! Yes, a mere will to succeed is not enough until it's backed up with persistence and perseverance.

To accept failure as an option is a clear evidence that your/one's will to succeed is not strong enough. So, refuse to accept failure as an option.

Religion comforts us for the defeat of our will to power. It adds new worlds to ours, and thus brings us hope of new conquests and new victories. We are converted to religion out of fear of suffocating within the narrow confines of this world.

Croire qu'il lui appartient de dépasser sa condition et de s'orienter vers celle de surhomme, c'est oublier qu'il a du mal à tenir le coup en tant qu'homme, et qu'il n'y parvient qu'à force de tendre sa volonté, son ressort, au maximum.

Elän ainoastaan siksi, että minun vallassani on kuolla silloin kun se minusta hyvältä tuntuu: ilman itsemurha- ajatusta olisin tappanut itseni aikoja sitten.

Every vanquished desire affords us power.

Once we begin to want, we fall under the jurisdiction of the Devil.

Renunciation is the only kind of action that is not degrading.

Every inspired state proceeds from a cultivated, willed inanition.

Of all those who suffered a long period of slavery, they alone have succeeded in resisting the charms of abulia.

If one can stick to the training throughout the many long years, then will power is no longer a problem. It's raining? That doesn't matter. I am tired? That's besides the point. It's simply that I just have to.

I'll walk where my own nature would be leading: It vexes me to choose another guide.

To exert itself, the will, like the arm, requires to have an obvious and a definite resistance, to know where it is, why it is, whence it comes, and whither it goes.

A woman deprived of her free will can never have the credit of making a sacrifice.

There is a cure for temptation. What? Yielding to it.

People tend to think they break up because they get tired of the person they've been with---that it's someone's decision, either yours or theirs. But this really isn't true. Periods in our lives end the way seasons change. That's all there is to it. Human willpower can't change that--which means, if you look at it another way, that we might as well enjoy ourselves until that day arrives.

Las personas no se dejan vencer por las circunstancias o por fuerzas que vienen de fuera, sino por las que nacen en el interior de sí mismos».

As soon as she gets an idea in her head she does it, you know? I just stand back in amazement at her way of making things happen.

What was most important about the survivors was our will to be more than those streets proposed.

No one understood, she thought, the horrible, insidious, snake-like fear which could run through one's body, sapping one's will to the point when one behaved foolishly simply because one could not think clearly.

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