Quotes About Willpower

The person who have a highly evolved will they think, they build an image and they focus on that image.

Effort is the key ingredient when the destination appears to far away to reach.

The secret to doing anything is believing that you can do it. Anything that you believe you can do strong enough, you can do. Anything. As long as you believe.

Inside me there's a thin person struggling to get out, but I can usually sedate him with four or five cupcakes.

A failure usually establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough.

A strong will deals with the hard facts of life as a sculptor with his marbles, making them facile and yielding to his purposes, and conquering their stubbornness by a greater stubbornness in himself.

He who conquers others is strong; he who conquers himself is mighty" - Lao-tsu One who can control his thoughts has conquered himself.

Unwinding a habit that you have allowed to entangle you can be difficult. But the power is in you. Do not despair. The Prophet Joseph Smith taught that 'all beings who have bodies have power over those who have not.' You can resist temptation!

Thus, a leader's task is to develop their subordinates' will along with their skill. This begins with realistic training with consistent standards.

Oh, not the kind of courage that makes a soldier go across no-man's land. That's the kind that he summons up because he has to. This kind is- well, it is part of one's will to live, part of one's instinct for self-preservation. Sometimes, we have to kill a little so we can live, when we don't-when women don't, they cry themselves to sleep and have their mothers wash out their hose every day.

If there's something I can't do but want to, I won't relax until I'm able to do it.

In any case, I wrote, I've decided to make myself strong. As far as I can tell, that's all I can do.

True, luck may rule over parts of a person's life and luck may cast patches of shadow across the ground of our being, but where there's a WILL-- much less a strong will to swim thirty laps or run twenty kilometers -- there's a way to overcome most any trouble with whatever stepladders you have around.

No matter how tired the body gets, one must never let the exhaustion enter one's thoughts.

People begin to become successful the minute they decide to be.

Verflucht das Herz, das sich nicht mäß'gen kann!

Il faut choisir son régime et s'y tenir. C'est ce que je vais faire. Dès que j'aurai fini mon petit pain au chocolat.

We can do anything we want to do if we stick to it long enough.

I've always been a fighter. If you tell me I can't, I'll die trying to prove you wrong.

No choice is the wrong choice as long as you make a choice. The only wrong choice is choosing not to make one.

The real key is to live in an environment where the mind feels free to choose the right thing instead of being compelled by habit and inertia to choose the wrong thing.

If Brock Lesnar wants to fight in UFC, Brock Lesnar will fight in UFC. If Brock Lesnar wants to fight in WWE, he will fight in WWE.

Yeah, well, I finally stopped smoking for good.

New Year's resolutions work like this: you think of something you enjoy doing and then resolve to stop doing it.