Quotes About Willpower

I have no regard for people who say, 'I can't.'

I believe that if you regularly make the right choice - and it takes practice; it takes effort - the more you make the right choice, the easier it gets.

Grit and self-control are related, but they're not the same thing.

If you get yourself in a hole, you dig yourself out.

Sometimes you've just got to will it into the hoop.

Match play really exposes your character and how much of a will to win you have in your heart.

I have a quite a good understanding of the human body, but I feel like I've got two different people in my head. One of them is saying, 'You shouldn't be eating this' and the other is saying, 'you know you need to.' It's such a challenge.

Greater in combat Than a person who conquers A thousand times a thousand people Is the person who conquers herself.

Nothing to it but to do it.

If I say I don't want to read the book, I don't want to read the book.

Nothing to it but to do it, nothing to it but to do it." Diane's mantra.

Nothing to it but to do it, nothing to it but to do it.

That easy, huh?" "You just have to decide to do it and then do it," she said. "Discipline. Follow through. Like anything.

That easy huh? You just have to decide to do it and then do it, she said. Discipline. Follow through. Like anything. You never understood that.

There is no greatness apart from self control. Development that does not include self government will only guarantee our mediocrity.

Since no vistas were presenting themselves in this void, Magnus would conjure his own. If he was going to spend an eternity in this place, then he would be damned if he'd do it bored.

Only the strongest could survive in such a place. This was the bosom of the motherland, a place of ice and of stone. If you possessed the necessary will, you would survive, she would forge you into something stronger. If not? The motherland always had other children to feed.

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So it is, I believe, in every area of our lives. The more we choose something, the harder it is to choose otherwise, until we finally are solidified—eternalized—in our decision. The momentum of our character becomes unstoppable.

But survival means more than simply being alive. It's not just the body that must survive a jail term: the spirit and the will and the heart have to make it through as well. If any one of them is broken or destroyed, the man whose living body walks through the gate, at the end of his sentence, can't be said to have survived it.

La sofferenza non è necessariamente un segno di debolezza; con uno sforzo di volontà è possibile sopportarla: la forza di volontà nasce da un severo autocontrollo, che è di per sè una forma di sofferenza volontaria

modified his position by agreeing that suffering was not necessarily a sign of weakness, but insisting that we could toughen ourselves against it with a strong will; strength of will coming from strict self-discipline, a kind of self-imposed suffering. Farid added to his notion of suffering as an anti-

He'd been trying to tell me that every human will has the power to transform its fate. I'd always

They're (kids) so... innocent. Except that they're not. They know exactly what they want, and they don't stop till they get it.