Quotes About Willpower

People have no idea how strong a pull sex, money, and power have on them until they try to resist their pull.

La mente da órdenes al cuerpo, y este obedece de inmediato. La mente se da órdenes a sí misma, y encuentra resistencia.

All you have to do is make a fist. The bullet does the hitting for you.

Discipline is what you must have to resist the lure of excuses

The most important success principle of all was stated by Elbert Hubbard, one of the most prolific writers in American history, at the beginning of the twentieth century. He said, 'Self-discipline is the ability to do what you should do, when you should do it, whether you feel like it or not.

There are 999 other success principles that I have found in my reading and experience, but without self-discipline, none of them work. With self-discipline, they all work.

the ability to make yourself do what you should do, when you should do it, whether you feel like it or not.

Remember, bad habits are easy to form, but hard to live with; good habits are hard to form, but easy to live with. Your job is to form good habits and make them your masters.

Each act of self-discipline strengthens every other act of self-discipline. Every act of persistence strengthens every other act of persistence. When you discipline yourself to persist, over and over, you like and respect yourself more and more. You become stronger and more confident. Eventually, you become unstoppable.

Self-discipline is the ability to do what you should do, when you should do it, whether you feel like it or not.

decision, discipline, and determination.

Bad habits are easy to form, but hard to live with; good habits are hard to form, but easy to live with.

Whenever you use your willpower and strength of character to return to the values that are most dear to you, you are rewarded with a wonderful feeling of happiness and exhilaration. You feel energized and free. You wonder why you didn't make that decision a long time ago.

La disciplina efectiva es la voluntad de obligarte a pagar el precio, y hacer lo que sabes que debes hacer, cuando debes hacerlo, te apetezca o no.

El fracaso no me sobrecogerá jamás, si mi determinación para alcanzar el éxito es lo suficientemente poderosa.

Every day, and every minute of every day, there is a battle going on inside of you between doing what is right, hard, and necessary (like the angel on one shoulder) or doing what is fun, easy, and of little or no value (like the devil on your other shoulder). Every minute of every day, you must fight and win this battle with the Expediency Factor and resist the pull of the Path of Least Resistance if you truly desire to become everything you are capable of becoming.

Self-discipline can also be defined as self-control. Your ability to control yourself and your actions, control what you say and do, and ensure that your behaviors are consistent with your long-term goals and objectives is the mark of the superior person.

Self-discipline is the ability to make yourself do what you should do, when you should do it, whether you feel like it or not.

Cualquier acción que se repite a menudo se convierte en un hábito; un hábito permitido gana fuerza regularmente. Al principio no es más que una tela de araña, que se rompe fácilmente, pero si resiste, pronto nos atará con cadenas de acero.

La autodisciplina es la clave Elbert Hubbard definía la disciplina como «la capacidad para obligarte a ti mismo a hacer lo que debes hacer, cuando debes hacerlo y tengas o no tengas ganas de hacerlo».

La disciplina efectiva es la voluntad de obligarte a pagar el precio, y hacer lo que sabes que debes hacer, cuando debes hacerlo, te apetezca o no. Esto es crucial para el éxito.

I Shall Never Surrender.

Every morning, and every night, I resolved to start a new life, but I always procrastinated, acquiescing to my ailing willpower. And Saturday at eleven o'clock at night was not the right moment to make important decisions.

Fear is a strong instinctive feeling, though it can be overcome by will-power or strong motives like love, shame or hate, or more usually, by discipline. Even men who have afterwards distinguished themselves by heroic deeds have confessed to having felt something like panic fear, the first time they came under fire.