Quotes About Willpower

If we can choose, we can change. If we can't change, then choice means nothing.

La cuestión", respondió ella, "no es si amarás, sufrirás, soñarás y morirás. Es qué amarás, por qué sufrirás, cuándo soñarás y cómo morirás. Esas son tus elecciones. No puedes elegir la destinación, solo el camino".

Holding your brain hostage against your own stupidity—that was how to get stuff done.

I will fight untill the end

Why Give Up? Why Give In

La voluntad de dar la cara nos hace cambiar; nos hace un poco más valientes cada vez.

We have agency—we believe

It was the most important art a person could learn: self-control.

La volontà di vivere. Quella forza che ti fa alzare dal letto ogni mattina quando fa giorno. Tutto può essere sostituito. Ma non questo.

the state never intentionally confronts a man's sense, intellectual or moral, but only his body, his senses. It is not armed with superior wit or honesty, but with superior physical strength. I was not born to be forced. I will breathe after my own fashion. Let us see who is the strongest.

But worst of all when you are the slave-driver of yourself

You conquer fate by thought.

Thus the state never intentionally confronts a man's sense, intellectual or moral, but only his body, his senses. It is not armed with superior wit or honesty, but with superior physical strength. I was not born to be forced. I will breathe after my own fashion. Let us see who is the strongest.

Nem arra születtem, hogy kényszert alkalmazzanak velem szemben. Szabadon akarok lélegezni. Hadd lássuk, ki az erÅ'sebb. (…) Engem csak azok kényszeríthetnek valamire, akik valamilyen magasabb törvénynek engedelmeskednek, mint én.

I am resolved that I will not through humility become the devil's attorney.

O que um homem pensa de si, eis o que determina, ou pelo menos indica, o seu destino.

I don't think I pity her. She doesn't strike me as a girl that suggests compassion. I think I envy her... I don't know whether she is a gifted being, but she is a clever girl, with a strong will and a high temper. She has no idea of being bored...Very pretty indeed; but I don't insist upon that. It's her general air of being someone in particular that strikes me.

I don't like it, but I'm a person, thank goodness, who can do what I don't like.

I don't care how I live, nor where I live, said Millicent, so long as I can do as I like.

Åžeytan'? iyi tan?yorsam, Ä°çgüdülerine güvenme, sezgilerinden uzak dur, der o. Bizim insan kalmam?z? ister - hem de insandan fazla insan. DüÅŸüÅŸe geçmiÅŸsen bunu sürdürmen için itici gücünü kullan?r. Uçurumdan aÅŸa?? itmez seni - yaln?zca kenar?na dek getirir. Ve orada art?k onun elindesindir, ne yapaca?? insaf?na kalm?? demektir.

There was nothing I wished to do which I could just as well not do.

Resolve, and thou art free.

A boy's will is the wind's will, And the thoughts of youth are long, long thoughts.

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