Quotes About Willpower

The first thing is to have the will; the rest is technique.

The Nazis, it turned out, possessed neither the manpower nor the will power to remain "tough" when they met determined opposition.

The thing that's so tough about 'Broken Skull Challenge' is you're going head-to-head with another human being who may or may not be stronger than you and may or may not want it more than you.

I've always been pretty tough in that way, where if you tell me I can't do something, I will prove you wrong.

I always felt like I was mentally tougher than the other kids.

To build an empire - or win seven Tour de Frances in a row - you must have a Lone Star-size ego and a dash of megalomania.

Once I set my mind towards something, it's going to happen. By hook or by crook.

More leaders have been made by accident, circumstance, sheer grit, or will than have been made by all the leadership courses put together.

When you meditate, you focus to clear the mind and to bring the willpower together. But then, toward the end of the session let go, just become eternity.

Every path but your own is the path of fate. Keep on your own track, then.

Trusting God is not a matter of my feelings but of my will.

Oh, my." Charlotte was already huffing and puffing after a quarter of an hour. "I don't know that I can keep up for much longer." "Come, Miss Holmes. Think of it as staving off the arrival of Maximum Tolerable Chins. After you exercise, you can indulge your appetite more freely." Charlotte panted. "Well, in that case, I might find some additional willpower.

Miss Holmes eyed a third slice of Madeira cake, but did not reach for it—possibly because she was approaching Maximum Tolerable Chins, the point at which she began regulating further helpings of cakes and puddings.

Charlotte exhaled—and wished that she had Bernadine's distaste for cake. Not always, of course, but for brief and intense spells that made it easier to give up extra servings in times of impending Maximum Tolerable Chins.

The future of Japan's economic growth depends on us having the willpower and the courage to sail without hesitation onto the rough seas of global competition.

Self-control is not a problem in the future. It's only a problem now when the chocolate is next to us.

Discipline is the first step towards perseverance.

God grant ... that he may learn to understand in time, that who so is minded to do as he himself wills will soon enough see the day when he will find he has done that which he had never willed.

Help me, Gunnulf," begged Kristin. She was white to the very edge of her lips. "I don't know my own will." "Then say: Thy will be done," replied the priest softly.

Per quanto infinita potesse essere la notte che mi circondava da tutti i lati, io ero e restavo l'unico capitano della mia anima. E la mia anima era libera perché io lo volevo.

I'm exempt from anything I damned will feel like on the grounds that I'll kick anyone's ass who says otherwise.

with a whim of iron.

The length of the distance will be determined by your attitude."

Conquer thyself, till thou has done this, thou art but a slave for it is almost as well to be subjected to another's appetite as to thine own.