Quotes About Willpower

I will never have the willpower to completely swear off pizza or a good summer sale, but I'm working on realizing the difference between the occasional craving and the compulsion to mindlessly consume as a feeble means of self-medication.

I'm strong-willed. Architects are strong-willed. You get the best results with a strong client and a strong architect working together.

Since self-control is vital to reaching long-term goals, befriending people with willpower could be the secret to success. Whether you're tempted to skip that workout at the gym, or you're considering blowing this month's budget, spending time with a disciplined friend could boost your motivation to maintain healthy habits.

You have to believe in a placebo or it won't work, but if it works, it's obviously working in some indirect way, through feedback in the immune system, let us say, or in the willpower of the patient to take a more strenuous exercise in their own therapy.

Above all, we must realize that no arsenal, or no weapon in the arsenals of the world, is so formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women. It is a weapon our adversaries in today's world do not have.

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

I'm just ultracompetitive. I will be till they put me in the grave.

I feel nothing can push you till the time you want to get pushed.

Now don't say you can't swear off drinking; it's easy. I've done it a thousand times.

Talent is a combination of perfect comic timing, diction, modulation, great script writing and most importantly, an invincible will, if you may call it so.

Mum says that, since I was a tiny baby, I've had the most strong-willed and stubborn personality known to man. Although that was a real pain for her, she admired my resolve.

When I get tired, I start eating things that I wouldn't normally crave, like biscuits, because they'll give me a bit of energy to keep going.

Tis not what man Does which exalts him, but what man Would do!

'Tis one thing to be tempted, another thing to fall.

I bump into a lot of people that have similar problems that I have but less titles or magazines than I have, and they just challenge their adversity with the same tenacity, with the same enthusiasm, with the same will to succeed because life is one and you've got to take advantage.

To be or not to be is not a question of compromise. Either you be or you don't be.

Every person has the freedom to choose to give their heart and give their life to God or not. You can't force someone to love God - or to love anyone.

I have to face life with a newly found passion. I must rediscover the irresistible will to learn, to live and to love.

The will to survive is not as important as the will to prevail... the answer to criminal aggression is retaliation.

The great question of our day is whether we, the Jewish people of Israel, can find within us the will to survive as a nation.

'The Will To Survive' is a great track.

We live in a country that sent people to the moon. This accomplishment, along with other bold leaps of faith, required political will, determination and imagination. Providing health care for all of our citizens requires the same force of will.

And there's also the thrill, every time, of knowing that everything in the world tried to stop this woman next to you in bed from being there, but she got through anyway, only because she wanted to and had decided to.

As Nietzsche said, when we have a why we can handle any how.