Quotes About Willpower

It is only through restraint that man can manage not to suppress himself.

Every man is destined to win. Whether he wins or not is determined by whether or not he aligns himself with God's will.

Nobody can make anybody be someone he or she doesn't want to be.

Man is the being who has built controllers for every stubborn element, but he has not been able to build one for his Ego.

There are two kinds of brave men: those who are brave by the grace of nature, and those who are brave by an act of will.

But no earthly foot can step between a man and his destiny.

A boy's will is his life, and he dies when it is broken, as the colt dies in harness, taking a new nature in becoming tame.

Temptations will no more prevail over a contented man, than a dart that is thrown against a brazen wall.

The man who can be compelled knows not how to die.

Man's free agency is not of the mind, for that is bound. There is no freedom there.

Man's last freedom is his freedom to choose how he will react in any given situation

No man is free who is not master of himself... Is freedom anything else than the power of living as we choose?

Man had freedom to choose the good, but this same freedom also allowed him to choose the bad. This is called moral freedom.

Believe me, for certain men at least, not taking what one doesn't desire is the hardest thing in the world.

When a man dies, flesh is frayed and broken in the fire, but not his will.

Training the will in trivial and grave matters increases its strength and flexibility, and enables man to constantly strive and persevere.

Brave men earn the right to shape their own destiny.

It's to me one simple rule. Who imposes his will on the other man?

A man is rational in proportion as his intelligence informs and controls his desires.

A man who can beat the horses can do anything he makes up his mind to do.

There was a little man, and he had a little soul; And he said, Little Soul, let us try, try, try!

Want of will causes paralysis of every faculty. In spiritual things man is utterly unable because resolvedly unwilling.

Were there no desire there would be no virtue, and because one man desires what another does not, who shall say whether the child of his desire be Vice or Virtue?

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