Quotes About Willpower

but it would hurt much more than if she gave in.

Many women report just being awake and alert all day as a huge improvement in this area. They feel a tremendous difference in their ability to counteract " the paralysis of will " that leaves many bright women sitting for hours, remote in hand, aimlessly changing channels with a million intentions and good thoughts trapped inside their head not being translated to action.

all problems can be solved if enough intensity and focus are applied.

If you don't have any fight in you, you might as well be dead.

What you prefer, little tyrant, has nothing to do with what I am telling you. For the rest of the night, you can drink beer or air; the choice is entirely yours.

Do not say (your) body is weak and so lack courage. Do not say (you) are dull-witted and cease (training). Do not say complications cause (you) to give up halfway. Do not let circumstances cause you to break off. In all things under heaven, a really determined person will find a solution.

I don't know why the gods made Fate our master then gave us a fighting spirit, perhaps only for their own amusement, perhaps to give us a thirst for life.

Baumeister says that people who succeed don't have more willpower than you: they just develop better daily routines and habits, which after a while become automatic and require less thought — less conscious energy.

We don't have to be bad forever. We can fight our urges. We can choose to be good.

The start of the day is often the best time to get things done. This is somewhat related to willpower.

The people who need to overcome temptation to the highest degree have the hardest time doing it.

I'm the kind of guy that once I decide I'm going to do something I have a hard time just giving up on it without giving it a fair shot.

Alas! this time is never the time for self-denial, it is always the next time. Abstinence is so much more pleasant to contemplate upon the other side of indulgence.

Motivation describes your attitude when you would rather do one thing more than another at a particular time.

Every man naturally persuades himself that he can keep his resolutions, nor is he convinced of his imbecility but by length of time and frequency of experiment.

You need only choose ... then keep choosing as many times as necessary. That is all you need do. And it is certainly something you can do. Then as you continue to choose, everything is yours.

I get up, because I'm supposed to, but if it were up to me, I'd stay in my seat for the rest of time.

I am a smoker, I'm ashamed to say. I had given it up for many years, then picked it up again. It's a horrible habit. I struggle with myself all the time. And I love to smoke.

Habit is habit, and not to be flung out of the window by any man, but coaxed down-stairs one step at a time.

to promise not to do a thing is the surest way in the world to make a body want to go and do that very thing.

It doesn't matter the size of the dog in the fight, rather the size of the fight in the dog.

To cease smoking is the easiest thing I ever did. I ought to know because I've done it a thousand times.

He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how." Friedrich Nietzsche * * *

Life is planned with one principle objective to make you do all the particular things you particularly don't want to do.