Quotes About Willpower

The pro keeps coming on. He beats Resistance at its own game by being even more resolute and even more implacable than it is.

In other words, any act that rejects immediate gratification in favor of long-term growth, health, or integrity. Or, expressed another way, any act that derives from our higher nature instead of our lower. Any of these will elicit Resistance.

The only items you get to keep are love for the work, will to finish, and passion to serve the ethical, creative Muse.

Resistance, his all-encompassing term for what Freud called the Death Wish — that destructive force inside human nature that rises whenever we consider a tough, long-term course of action that might do for us or others something that's actually good.

The enemy is our chattering brain, which, if we give it so much as a nanosecond, will start producing excuses, alibis, transparent self-justifications, and a million reasons why we can't/shouldn't/won't do what we know we need to do.

Do it or don't do it.

NO MYSTERY There's no mystery to turning pro. It's a decision brought about by an act of will. We make up our minds to view ourselves as pros and we do it. Simple as that.

any act that derives from our higher nature instead of our lower. Any of these acts will elicit Resistance.

There's no mystery to turning pro. It's a decision brought about by an act of will. We make up our minds to view ourselves as pros and we do it. Simple as that.

Life is action, Junah. Even choosing not to act, we act. We cannot do otherwise. Therefore act with vigor!

What will keep us from stopping? Plain old stubbornness.

The will to fight, the passion to be great, is an indispensable element of the Warrior Ethos. It is also a primary quality of leadership, because it inspires men and fires their hearts with ambition and the passion to go beyond their own limits.

You have asked, Itanes, if I feel fear. I answer, I may not. The soldier in the line is permitted to feel terror; the commander never. Too much depends upon him - the lives of his mates, the fate of the action. He cannot allow himself the luxury of fear. I eat mine, as a lion devours a kid. I consume it by my will to glory and my obligation to the corps.

the ordeal had been rendered tolerable, now that I could tell myself it was my own idea.

There's no mystery to turning pro. It's a decision brought about by an act of will. We make up our mind to view ourselves as pros and we do it. Simple as that.

BOOK TWO COMBATING RESISTANCE

If you cave in today you're 2x as likely to cave tomorrow. If you so much say hello, you're finished. Don't even pick up the phone.

También aprendí que no debía intentar imponer mi propia voluntad sobre mi hijo durante la oración.

14) Use the mind-intent, do not use muscular force. ? ?) ? ? ? ? ?; Shi si) Yong yi bu yong li. 15)

I was determined to run, but my body thought otherwise. (Kinsey Millhone)

A veces los hombres somos necios y tomamos lo que no queremos porque pensamos que no podemos tener lo que deseamos.

All things pass in the end, even the worst melancholy. I opened my dresser and pulled out the lava box that held my button. My eyes glazed at the sight of it, and this time I felt my spirit rise up to meet my will. I would not give up. I would err on the side of audacity. That was what I'd always done.

In Christian language, this is plain, old-fashioned surrender—giving up our conscious will and striving, and yielding instead to the inner kingdom. The soul-work involved in this internal restructuring is, I believe, the deepest meaning of spiritual becoming.

Energy may be likened to the bending of a crossbow; decision, to the releasing of a trigger.