Quotes About Willpower

Your desire is not up to your decision, your decision is not up to your determination, your determination is not up to your destiny.

If you really want it, then you'll make your dream happen.

if you really want it, then you'll make your dream happen.

Not all new knowledge is beautiful, or even to be desired. Yet there comes a time when, no matter how hard it is to accept what we see, no matter how much we do not want to believe it, our studies will cease and we will learn no more. Though the world may point and criticize, if the truth has been found, sometimes you must shout it from the rooftops in the face of all opposition. The pursuit of knowledge requires an iron will that always looks forward and never falters.

When your desire to give up the bad habit is greater than your need to continue it, you will be amazed to discover that complete freedom is but a step away.

Desire is craving enough to sacrifice for

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I've got quite well-developed willpower when it comes to doing necessary work. I just have very little willpower when it comes to indulging petty resentment:

in the same way you know perfectly well you ought to stop reading and go to bed and you'll feel hideously groggy in the morning if you don't, and yet you keep going.

If you fail to control your own mind, you may be sure you will control nothing else.

He had nothing to start with, except the capacity to know what he wanted, and the determination to stand by that desire until he realized it.

If you must be careless with your possessions, let it be in connection with material things. Your mind is your spiritual estate! Protect and use it with the care to which Divine Royalty is entitled. You were given a WILL-POWER for this purpose.

Mind control is the result of self-discipline and habit. You either control your mind or it controls you. There is no hall-way compromise.

First: I know that I have the ability to achieve the object of my definite purpose, therefore I demand of myself persistent, aggressive and continuous action toward its attainment.

If you do not conquer self, you will be conquered by self

Before you can achieve success in the higher and broader sense you must gain such thorough control over yourself that you will be a person of poise.

Turn on the full powers of your will and take complete control of your own mind. It is your own mind! It was given to you as a servant to carry out your desires. And no one may enter it or influence it in the slightest degree without your consent and cooperation. What a profound fact this is!

Life's battles don't always go To the stronger of faster man, But soon or later the man who wins Is the man who thinks he can!

We are the masters of our fate, we are the captains of our soul, *because* we have the power to control our *thoughts*.

A mind dominated by positive emotions, becomes a favorable abode for the state of mind known as faith. A mind so dominated may, at will, give the subconscious mind instructions, which it will accept and act upon immediately.

Self-discipline begins with the mastery of your thoughts. If you don't control what you think, you can't control what you do. Simply, self-discipline enables you to think first and act afterward.

All physical action, therefore, begins in the form of a thought. To control physical action one has only to control thoughts. The presence of any thought in the mind has a tendency to set up an appropriate physical action in some portion of the body.

5. Lack of self-discipline. Discipline comes through self-control. This means that one must control all negative qualities. Before you can control conditions, you must first control yourself. Self-mastery is the hardest job you will ever tackle. If you do not conquer self, you will be conquered by self. You may see at one and the same time both your best friend and your greatest enemy, by stepping in front of a mirror.

Very well, Broadway, you may whip some, but not me. I'm going to force you to give up.