Quotes About Willpower

operation I believe that with enough will and effort I can beat the odds.

that I myself have said no.

Above all, it was clear that he wanted to live. He would take any risk—even death—to live.

I'd eat right through pain—even to the point of throwing up

If you find you require willpower, you aren't ready to lose weight.

Where there is willpower there is a Band Aid that's eventually going to fall off. You only need willpower to get what you don't want or you only want to want. By want to want, I mean, something you wish you wanted but don't really.

Now he was the dish of wrapped peppermints next to the cash register that I didn't want because they were free. Because

To stop drinking, all you have to do is sit. In 100 percent of the documented cases of alcoholism worldwide, the people who recovered all shared one thing in common, no matter how they did it: They didn't do it.

I am. I think. I will.

You want to do it? I might. If you offer me enough. Howard—anything you ask. Anything. I'd sell my soul... That's the sort of thing I want you to understand. To sell your soul is the easiest thing in the world. That's what everybody does every hour of his life. If I asked you to keep your soul—would you understand why that's much harder?

My dear fellow, who will let you? That's not the point. The point is, who will stop me?

Life is achievement....Give yourself an aim, something you want to do, then go after it, breaking through everything, with nothing in mind but your aim, all will, all concentration, and get it.

Do not let the hero in your soul perish...

It's not a question of who will allow me to do it, it's a question of who will stop me.

We alone, of the thousands who walk this earth, we alone in this hour are doing a work which has no purpose save that we wish to do it.

Wasn't it evil to wish without moving- or to move without aim?

If your middle name is Temptation, then mine is Persistence

And he wanted to march right in there and do it again.

Too many are trying to conquer higher weaknesses such as procrastination, impatience or pride while still being slaves to their appetites. If we can't control the body and its appetites, how can we control our tongues, or overcome the emotions or anger, envy, jealousy, or hatred?

but his body persisted in rebellion and his senses nagged at him like pampered babies.

El que puede cambiar sus pensamientos, puede cambiar su destino

Even as he breathed his last breath he killed more Trojans. Terrified by the sight of a mortally wounded man with such implacable strength and will, most held back, unsure that such a man could really die.

As Yoda had expressed it a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away: "Do. Or do not. There is no try.

Control the things you can control, maggot. Let everything else take a flying fuck at you and if you must go down, go down with your guns blazing.