Quotes About Willpower

Mental strength is more powerful than physical strength.- STRONG: Powerful Philosophy for Timeless Thoughts by Kailin Gow

Humanity will be gone. No. I won't allow that. I can't allow that. Whatever it takes. Even if it kills me.", FADE by Kailin Gow

My opponent now is myself, my inclination toward laziness.

I was a fighting machine with a will of iron.

If we resist our passions, it is more through their weakness than from our strength

France is delighted at this new opportunity to show the world ... that when one has the will one can succeed in joining peoples who have been brought close by history.

The ideal type of the Communist is a man in whom all individual, emotional, and unconscious elements have been reduced to a minimum and subjected to the control of an iron will, informed by a supple intellect. That intellect is totally at the service of a single and compelling idea, made incarnate in the Communist Party: the concept of History as an inexorable god whose ways are revealed 'scientifically' through the doctrine and method of Marxism-Leninism.

What makes resisting temptation difficult for many people is they don't want to discourage it completely.

I'm not really the sacrificing type.

I believe the present state of our knowledge justifies us in saying that, while individuals differ, biological differences are small. There is no reason to believe that one race is by nature so much more intelligent, endowed with great will power, or emotionally more stable than another that the difference would materially influence its culture.

Ich gebe mir Müh, nichts zu wollen, zu denken.

Las cadenas de la esclavitud sólo atan las manos: es la mente la que hace al hombre libre o esclavo

I have spent all my life resisting the desire to end it.

Il pessimismo non serve a nulla, è la malattia dei parassiti e degli inconcludenti. Abbiamo dalla nostra la volontà, e questo è l'essenziale. Perciò avremo successo.»

Ita fit ut ratio praesit, appetitus obtemperet.

One ought to hold on to one's heart; for if one lets it go, one soon loses control of the head too.

He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how.

Mankind is made great or little by its own will.

He turns all of his injuries into strengths, that which does not kill him makes him stronger, he is superman.

Brandon Sanderson

So if Cobb wanted me to turn, I'd turn. I'd turn until my fingers bled—until I rubbed the flesh from my hands and withered away to a skeleton. A skeleton who could turn really, really well.

See? One step at a time. You can do this. I can do this. Whatever it takes." He nodded by wobbling his drone up and down. "Okay!" he said. "Whatever it takes. My! That feels good. To at least pretend we're in control! I like it. Is this how you feel all the time?

A rifle is elegant. It's an extension of your will. Take aim, squeeze the trigger, make things happen. In the hands of an expert with stillness inside of him, there's nothing more deadly than a good rifle.

Oh," Obliteration continued, "I think that you'll find a man can do many things thought impossible, if he tries hard enough.