Quotes About Willpower

Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen.

Anything that can be controlled is Action not emotion!

Man dwells between passion and compulsion

It's always easier to avoid temptation than to resist it.

Everything is generated through your own will power.

You can't try to do things you simply must do them.

There's almost nothing you can't accomplish if you set your mind to it.

Desire creates the power.

Inspiration which consists in blind obedience to every impulse is in reality a sort of slavery.

Libet's experiment illustrates how the (neuro-)determinist case against freedom is based on a very distorted conception of what constitutes an action in everyday

Once that cage shuts, I'm the one in control of my destiny.

I can calm myself by an intense will, and also by the simple ability to focus in the most dangerous situation on breath and nothing else.

Heart can cancel out budget.

My first thought was always a cigarette. It still is, but I haven't cheated.

McDonald's is over with. But chips and candy and stuff, it's going to be hard to get away from that.

Every time I say I'm going on a diet I end up eating chocolate.

If anybody tells me to stop eating chocolates or pizzas, I won't be able to do it.

We all exercise agency in the choices we make.

It is the ability to choose which makes us human.

Boldness isn't something you're born with; you either choose it or you don't.

When work impedes on sleep, poor planning is to blame - not superior will power.

What we've learned is that if you can make the right decision in the supermarket aisle, it's a heck of a lot easier to make a good decision when you reach in your cupboard when you're craving a snack at eight o'clock at night.

Do you know what the world will be saved by? I'll tell you. It'll be saved by the human spirit. And by the human spirit, I don't mean anything divine, I don't mean anything supernatural - certainly not coming from this skeptic.

People may say I developed an iron will, but what really happened is that I made myself much fitter. I think an iron will is always supported by fitness.