Quotes About Willpower

When Peter sets his mind to a thing," Tanngnost thought, "far be it from reason to stop him.

The demon of drink was as black as the demon of play, and nearly as hard to get rid of -- especially as his kind friends did all they could to second the promptings of his own insatiable cravings.

In the powerful words of the poem "Invictus," I am the master of my fate, I am the captain of my soul.

The walls in front of us are not there to keep us from achieving our desire. They are there to see how bad we want what we desire.

Life's battles don't always go to the stronger or faster man. But sooner or later the man who wins, is the man who thinks he can.

The attitude, "You can win if you want to badly enough," means that the will to win is constant. No amount of punishment, no amount of effort, no condition is too "tough" to take in order to win. Such an attitude can be developed only if winning is closely tied to the practitioner's ideals and dreams.

Having one's own will. — What does self-willed mean? Hell, isn't it knowing above all, that, indeed, one is the captain of one's soul, the master of one's life? Now what causes such realization and, consequently, brings about a change in one's behavior? TO BE REAL, TO ACCEPT RESPONSIBILITY FOR ONESELF.

While we can will a change in behavior, we do not by an act of will change….

The human will is engaged in spiritual warfare, but it is not human willpower that defeats the forces of Satan. Rather it is the supernatural process by which the Spirit makes his will our will by renewing within us a consuming, overwhelming, compelling love of God.

An invincible determination can accomplish almost anything, and in this lies the great distinction between great man and little man. - Thomas Fuller

What do we mean by spiritual development? Surely, the broadening and deepening of the mind till it regards the world in its true perspective, and the strengthening of the character so that the will is a tempered and unerring weapon in the charge of a man's soul. And this end is to be achieved only by the exercise of the mind upon the largest possible manifold of experience, and by the conflict of character with the alien forces of the world.

The greatest victory is not that which is won on the battlefield, but that which is won over oneself.

Our power is in our ability to decide.

There is nothing so disobedient as an undisciplined mind, and there is nothing so obedient as a disciplined mind.

It is a man's own mind, not his enemy or foe, that lures him to evil ways.

this disobeying ourselves, wherein the hardness of obeying God consists.

Besides, argued I, fasting makes the body cave in; hence the spirit caves in; and all thoughts born of a fast must necessarily be half-starved.

What I've dared, I've willed; and what I've willed, I'll do! They think me mad—Starbuck does; but I'm demoniac, I am madness maddened! That wild madness that's only calm to comprehend itself! The prophecy was that I should be dismembered; and—Aye!

What I've dared, I've willed; and what I've willed, I'll do! They think me mad -- Starbuck does; but I'm demoniac, I am madness maddened! - Capt. Ahab.

Deviarmi? Voi non potete deviarmi. La via del mio fermo proposito è segnata da rotaie di ferro per correre sulle quali il mio spirito è scanalato. Su precipizi senza fondo, attraverso i cuori infestati dalle montagne, sotto i letti dei torrenti, io mi precipito infallibilmente. Nessun ostacolo c'è, nessun gomito su questa mia strada di ferro!

Ha de saberse que si se cede a una tentación, muy luego se presenta como el rayo la oportunidad de incurrir en ella.

We are free when we are not the slave of our impulses, but rather their master.

Just because your choice is predetermined does not mean you do not have a free choice before you take it (516)

I'm the world's authority on giving up smoking. I do it constantly.