Quotes About Willpower

Therefore the clever combatant imposes his will on the enemy, but does not allow the enemy's will to be imposed on him.

One need not destroy one's enemy. One need only destroy his willingness to engage.

Many great warriors beat their meat, but only the strongest defeat it.

Therefore the clever combatant imposes his will on the enemy, but does not allow the enemy's will to be imposed on him.

Geist und Tat. Spirit and Action.

We make our own destiny.

The sad part was that everything I said was true but I was going about the healing in entirely the wrong way. As I was to be taught later, you can't heal the sick by force-feeding them with ideas they're not ready to accept; you can't cure people by the simple imposition of your will. It's the power of the Holy Spirit that heals, not the power of a would-be wonder-worker trying to play God.

If I start , I'm not going to stop, he said flatly.

To be successful at something, you have to want it for yourself, not someone else. You have to be willing to do the work. You have to see the benefit in the hours of practice and you have to be willing to fail over and over again. You need determination and an iron will.

Thanks. But I have to do

Fear is worse than pain, I think. Pain is centralized, identifiable, and wanes as you wait. Fear is a heaviness you can't wriggle out from under. You must simply find the will to stand with it and start walking. Fear does not start to fade until you take the step that you think you can't.

Theories that diseases are caused by mental states and can be cured by will power are always an index of how much is not understood about a disease.

Theories that diseases are caused by mental states and can be cured by will power are always an index of how much is not understood about the physical terrain of a disease.

Dzisiaj przysz?a mi do g?owy pewna my?l - tak jasna i oczywista! W pierwszej chwili wyda?a mi si? wr?cz niedorzeczna, wprawi?a mnie w oszo?omienie i wr?cz lekk? histeri? - Mog? zrobi? absolutnie wszystko i poza mn? sam? nie istnieje nic, co by mnie powstrzyma?o.

The most precious thing is vitality—not in any sinister Lawrentian sense, but just the will+energy+appetite to do what one wants to do+not to be 'sunk' by disappointments. Aristotle is right: happiness is not to be aimed at; it is a by-product of activity aimed at.

There were few forces greater than the power of a fourteen-year-old's determination when she wanted something. A teenager would stop at nothing in order to get her way.

I believe in one thing only the power of human will.

I believe in only one thing, the power of human will.

I believe in one thing only, the power of the human will

I only have so much willpower, Helen," he whispered. "And since you apparently sleep in the most ridiculously transparent tank top I've ever seen, I'm going to have to ask you to get under the covers before I do something stupid.

An individual's frame is influenced by their willpower, perseverance, endurance, skill set, emotional maturity, and self assurance. The fact that frame is self-reinforcing is among its most significant features."

At the end of the day, it all comes down to how bad you freakin' want it. That's it."

I deliberately ignored the sight of lean brown body cutting through the aqua water, glistening powerful arms dipping slow and steady in perfect rhythm with the strong kick of his long tanned legs. I was going to have to work on my ignoring technique. - Tim trying to ignore Jack in the swimming pool.

The movement was in me, but it wasn't me. It was another little something, a someone, willfully choosing to flex his flippery future arms, or whatever it was he had by then. It was a choice, but I hadn't made it. It was inside me, and mine, but I did not control it.