Quotes About Willpower

Nothing can resist the human will that will stake even its existence on its stated purpose.

Nothing can resist a human will that will stake its existence on a purpose

Nothing resists a human will that stakes its very existence upon the achievement of its purpose

It is easier to prevent bad habits than to break them.

At twenty years of age the will reigns at thirty, the wit and at forty, the judgment.

He that can have patience can have what he will.

He who can have patience can have what he will.

Tis easier to suppress the first desire than to satisfy all that follow it.

Who is strong? He that can conquer his bad habits.

It is easier to suppress the first desire, than to satisfy all that follow it.

Tis easier to prevent bad habits than to break them.

If it were said that he who cannot deny himself anything he inclines to, though he knows it will be to his hurt, has not the virtue of resolution or fortitude, it would be intelligible enough; but, as it stands, it seems obscure or erroneous.

Many a man thinks he is buying pleasure when he is really selling himself a slave to it.

The major lesson Tiggers need to learn is that if they don't control their impulses, their impulses will control them. No matter how much they do, Tiggers are never satisfied because they don't know the feeling of accomplishment that eventually comes when one persistently applies one's will to the attaining of non-immediately-reachable goals.

And, having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labour is immense.

I do what I want.

I think there's something peculiar about me that I haven't died. It doesn't make sense but I refuse to die.

I will not refuse to do something that I can do.

I've still got it. I refuse to lose.

I just refuse to lose.

I refuse to take no for an answer on anything.

I refuse to give up.

I kind of will over everything. There will be situations where like 'I refuse!'

If you believe you can shed pounds quickly by force of will and deprivation, you will in all likelihood not only regain the ones you lost, but add a few more besides.