Quotes About Willpower

f?g?duiala de a nu face un lucru este calea cea mai sigur? pentru a fi mereu ispitit s?-l faci.

God save you from ever being obliged to beat in a game of chess, whose stake is your life, you having but four poor pawns and pieces and your adversary with his full force unshorn. But if you are, provided you have any strength with breadth of will, do not despair. Though mesmeric power may not save you, it may help you; try it at all events.

Now he found out a new thing - namely, that 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.

Había descubierto, sin darse cuenta, una de las leyes fundamentales de la conducta humana, a saber: que para hacer que alguien, hombre o muchacho, desee alguna cosa, sólo es necesario hacerla difícil de conseguir.

La promesa de no hacer una cosa es el medio más seguro del mundo para tener ganas de hacerla.

Giving up smoking is easy… I've done it hundreds of times

What keeps the drinker drinking is the certainty that she can stop whenever she wants. It never would have occurred to me that stopping the pathetic little bit of drinking I did would have mattered.

She took a step and didn't want to take any more, but she did.

Había una vez un hombre bajito y extraño que decidió tres cosas importantes acerca de su vida: 1. Que se haría la raya del pelo en el lado contrario a todos los demás. 2. Que se dejaría un pequeño y extraño bigote. 3. Que un día dominaría el mundo.

He's the type who is unafraid to make a decision. In this case, Rudy had already made up his mind about Liesel Meminger.

The spirit is willing but the flesh is weak.

She wondered if she would have tumbled into love with him during the past week if her heart had been whole, if her soul had no been shattered long ago. She rather thought she might have. But a heart and soul could not be mended by the power of the will, she had discovered over seven years. And so she had accepted reality and moved on.

I believe tnat life is very generous with us once we have shown the will to take a positive course. It is ery ready to keep on opening doors for us. It is just that sometimes we lose our willpower and courage adn prefer to stay on the familiar, safe side of each door.

When you want to break a board, cracking it in the middle is only the first step. Success comes when you bounce up and down with all your might until the board snaps in half

You can do what you will, but in any given moment of your life you can will only one definite thing.

For the longer to have had to rack your brains for something the more firmly will is stay once you have got it.

Man can do what he wills, but he cannot will what he wills.

Der Mensch kann wohl tun was er will, aber er kann nicht wollen was er will.

No man becomes this or that by wishing to be it, however earnestly.

The mind is by its nature free, not a slave; only what it does by itself and willingly is successful.

Ä°nsan yapabileceklerini isteyerek yapmal? ve çekmesi gereken ac?y? isteyerek çekmelidir. -Gnomici poetae Graeci

Ä°nsan?n hayat?, yenileceÄŸinden hiç ÅŸüphe etmeksizin, var olmaya çal??mak için harcanm?? bir çabad?r.

sinir sisteminin ya da sindirim ayg?tlar?n?n hastal?kl? bir heyecan?, doÄŸuÅŸtan dyskolos'un ekmeÄŸine yaÄŸ sürerse; o zaman bu kiÅŸi, sürekli hoÅŸnutsuzluÄŸun doÄŸurduÄŸu, yaÅŸamdan b?kk?nl??a ve bunun sonucunda da intihar eÄŸiliminin ortaya ç?kt??? üst dereceye ulaÅŸabilir.

A man can surely do what he wills to do, but he cannot determine what he wills.