Quotes About Willpower

You can train weapons and fighting techniques, but you can't train that kind of courage and willpower. You either have it or you don't.

The only real freedom any of us have is making our own decisions.

I can't stop.

Each decision we make, each action we take, is born out of an intention.

Resistance builds strength

If you use your will all the time, then it runs out. You deplete yourself and then, when you really need it, it's not there.

Whoever, at any time, has undertaken to build a new heaven has found the strength for it in his own hell.

I've developed a self-discipline since the time I was a child.

In our time the only restraint left is self-retraint.

In life's small things be resolute and great To keep thy muscle trained Know'st thou when Fate Thy measure takes or when she'll say to thee "I find thee worthy do this deed for me?"

As long as the heart beats, as long as body and soul keep together, I cannot admit that any creature endowed with a will has need to despair of life.

To have common glories in the past, a common will in the present; to have done great things together, to will to do the like again, — such are the essential conditions for the making of a people.

Hold your powers together for something good and let everything go that is for you without result and is not suited to you.

The only thing over which we have any control whatsoever is the very next decision we make.

I am going to learn it if I must die in the attempt.

She did not have the willpower to send him through that door, knowing that he might never come through it again, or through any of the doors into her life.

She found his coldness and his anger easier to cope with than the melancholy and near tenderness that drink had induced in him that night. It had taken all her willpower in the hours following the ball not to allow the reserve she had built around herself in six years to crumble away. But she had held on and would continue to do so, perhaps, if she could just stay away from him.

When something that needs to be done is impossible to do," Estelle said, "I have always found that the only possible course of action is to do it anyway.

Mr. Sinclair is here now, and I mean to have him.

But hell need not be eternal unless one chooses to make it so.

He ain't big and he ain't strong, but that boy's got a by-God streak of fight in him. And he was going to need it.

What can stop the determined heart and resolved will of man?

Be men, or be more than men. Be steady to your purposes and firm as a rock. This ice is not made of such stuff as your hearts may be; it is mutable and cannot withstand you if you say that it shall not.

Devil, cease; and do not poison the air with these sounds of malice. I have declared my resolution to you, and I am no coward to bend beneath words. Leave me; I am inexorable.