Quotes About Willpower

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

Being human means having power; specifically, the power to accomplish whatever we want.

I will take what is mine and keep it for as long as i want

If you want something you have to will it into experience

With strength and determination you can do anything you want in life, as long as you believe in yourself, because if you don't, no one else will.

sooner or later I do what I want to do.

restraint and self-control. We restrain our impulsive desires even as we feel the discomfort of putting off instant gratification and maintaining control of our lives.

he looked forward to the day when all men could free themselves from the "tyrant of spirits," when all appetites would be controlled, all passions subdued, and "mind, all conquering mind," would rule the world.

it is these miracles of execution," Clausewitz writes, "that we should really admire."9 The fact is that in war "things do not happen of their own accord like a well-oiled machine, indeed the machine itself starts to create resistance, and overcoming it demands enormous willpower on the part of the leader."10 In war, "everything is very simple, but the simplest thing is difficult… taking action in war is movement in a resistant medium."11

No man can know what power he can rightly call his own unless he presses a little," he wrote. It was time to press.

plan your work and work your plan" "where there is a will, there is a way

Lindsay's hauling up the Titan sword, holding it up like she has the power.

you can, you should, and if you're brave enough to start, you will.

You willed yourself to where you are today, so will yourself out of it.

No matter whether you believe in luck or chance, the final decision is from yourself.

If you think you can then you can.

When you put your passion into your desire, when it becomes a fire that threatens to consume you unless you have it, then your will is in the right place.

On the other hand, if the future is not the one you chose then you may have to use your willpower to obtain the future of your liking.

To will is to put your emotion into your desire. Simply wanting is not desire, it is merely an undirected thought with no purpose but to pass the time.

Only by maintaining positive thoughts, by dispelling doubt and negativity, will you impress your desires upon the universe, making it bend to your will.

For that thought to be strong, however, it must be free of doubt, for doubt weakens the will, weakens the response of the universe, and slows the manifestation of desire.

Courage of the mind far surpasses that of the body.

If you have given up something many times over then you are strong-willed in having done it so many times over!

Everyone wants wealth to some extent or another, but few have it. The difference between those who have wealth and those who do not is that the former exert their will to turn what they want into a reality.