Quotes About Willpower

There never will exist anything permanently noble and excellent in the character which is a stranger to resolute self-denial.

I had no destination, just the will to go, and I went fast.

Subdue your passion or it will subdue you.

A boy's will is the wind's will, and the thought's of youth are long, long thoughhts

Kissing power is stronger than will power: Girls need to "prove their love" like a moose needs a hat rack.

Dilige et quod vis fac. (Love and then what you will, do.)

I love those who do not first seek a reason beyond the stars for going down and being sacrifices, but sacrifice themselves to the earth, that the earth of the Superman may hereafter arrive.

I love him who liveth in order to know, and seeketh to know in order that the Superman may hereafter live. Thus seeketh he his own down-going.

When we would say, 'No way,' he would say, 'My way.

Sin wants you, but you must rule over it.

There are some griefs so loud They could bring down the sky, And there are griefs so still None knows how deep they lie, Endured, never expended. There are old griefs so proud They never speak a word; They never can be mended. And these nourish the will And keep it iron-hard.

Ain't nothin' to it, but to do it.

Pero el corazón no siempre hacía caso y esta era una de las cosas sobre las que podría no tener control alguno.

Somewhere along the line I'd lost the will not to eat.

The only magic that's left in the world right now is the magic that we make ourselves, deliberately. You're not going to stumble over enchantment by chance. You have to be open to it, looking for it, and when you first think you might have glimpsed it, you have to will it into your life with every machination available to you.

I CAN DO ANYTHING I WANT!

Anyone can act if he has the will to do so, and anyone who says he wants to but doesn't have the knack for it suffers from a lack of will, not a lack of talent.

But whatever fate may be mine, I shall not simply say yes to whatever it sends! she vowed stubbornly. If it is not to my liking … then it is not my fate.

The willpower to do anything would come, the songs and writings said, if the motive was pure.

If you want it bad enough, you'll pass.

When we give up, we know our destiny. When we keep going, we earn the right to choose our fate.

heredity, but personal response is the final determining factor in our lives. And herein lies our area

Do not I know if women have a will They'll do 'gainst all the watches o'the world? (2. 7. 8-9)

Cowardice is always with us, and bravery, the thing that provokes the poets to make their songs about us, is merely the will to overcome the fear.