Quotes About Willpower

Does the brain control you or are you controlling the brain?

He who cannot resist temptation is not a man.

He who cannot resist temptation is not a man. Whoever yields to temptation debases himself with a debasement from which he can never arise.

The cheap drama brings cause and effect, will power and action, once more into relation and gives a man the thrilling conviction that he may yet be master of his fate.

Neither art thou the man to catch the fiend and hold him! [Ger., Du bist noch nicht der Mann den Teufel festzuhalten.

Man doth not yield him to the angels, nor unto death utterly, save only through the weakness of his feeble will.

The man who has the will to undergo all labor may win to any good.

The dignity of man is in free choice.

Great things are accomplished by those who do not feel the impotence of man. This is a precious gift.

Man's greatest victory is over oneself.

It does not matter a feather whether a man be supported by patron or client, if he himself wants courage. [Lat., Animus tamen omnia vincit. Ille etiam vires corpus habere facit.]

A determined man, by his very attitude and the tone of his voice, puts a stop to defeat, and begins to conquer.

If thou wouldst conquer thy weakness, thou must never gratify it. No man is compelled to evil: his consent only makes it his. It is no sin to be tempted, but to be overcome.

I'll forbear; And am fallen out with my more headier will To take the indisposed and sickly fit For the sound man.

A woman flees from temptation, but a man just crawls away from it in the cheerful hope that it may overtake him.

In the supremacy of self-control consists one of the perfections of the ideal man.

The living soul of man, once conscious of its power, cannot be quelled.

Mack Bolan was simply a man who could command himself.

A man can do anything he wants to do in this world, at least if he wants to do it badly enough.

Some men can get results if kindly encouraged, but give me the kind that do things in spite of hell.

If a man should conquer in battle a thousand and a thousand more, and another should conquer himself, his would be the greater victory, because the greatest of victories is the victory over oneself.

The man who has submitted his will and purposes entirely to God, carries God with him in all his works and in all circumstances.

Desire is making people build ships and cities, has made men conquer nations... and it can defeat that nicotine

The man that will nocht quhen he may Sall haif nocht quhen he wald.