Quotes About Willpower

It fascinated him that the human will to survive was so strong that despite the complete absence of any quality of life, one still chose to go on, day after day, year after year. Was there any cause for rejoicing left in a life like Anders Nilsson's? Did he ever experience the emotions that made life worth living: joy, anticipation, happiness, elation? Or was everything merely a stop on the way to the next shot of alcohol?

Freedom of will is the ability to do gladly that which I must do.

I don't believe in wishes coming true. But if I do, what would I wish for? Normally I have such willpower. Like a dieter resisting a cookie, I don't even let myself go there. But for the briefest second, I do.

We must fight for what we want or it will be taken from us.

Wrong. You didn't handle demons. You starved them.

Great. She was falling back into stubborn mode. But he didn't mind. She could say anything she wanted, do anything to him. He planned to stick to her like pasties on a stripper. "And

What should I do? he demanded of his demon, abandoning thoughts about "all of you." They'd gotten him nowhere. As Strider would say, the backpack and scroll could suck it. At

When we asked for permission, we were told no, but we did it anyway, because we knew we needed it.

If we blind them to The Adversary —decrease their desire for The Desire— while at the same time encourage them to do anything else they desire with increasing "freedom of choice," then eventually we snuff out desire while leaving demand in tact.

Siempre he procurado imponerme leyes que sólo entren en vigor cuando me sea casi imposible violarlas.

Ganging up on a short-range interest isn't the same thing as killing it.

Few of us have vitality enough to make any of our instincts imperious.

Virtue is insufficient temptation.

I will neither yield to the song of the siren nor the voice of the hyena, the tears of the crocodile nor the howling of the wolf.

Will power is but the unflinching purpose to carry the task you set for yourself to fulfillment.

The strongest principle of growth lies in the human choice.

People must make their own choices, no matter how wrong those choices are. Otherwise they can't be free." A

muster and pushed her blond hair away from her face. "Kate, like when will

Woman wants control, man self-control .

Dora was stunned by this information. She stopped. 'Do you mean' she said, 'that they're completely imprisoned in there?' Mrs. Marks laughed. 'Not imprisoned, my dear,' she said. 'They are there of their own free will. This is not a prison. It is on the contrary a place which it is very hard to get into, and only the strongest achieve it. Like Mary in the parable, they have chosen the better part.

Decide what you want and go for it, Fred, it's just a matter of will power! I remember you saying that to me more than once.' I did not recall saying this nor did it sound like anything which anyone would say more than once, assuming he had ever had the misfortune to say it at all, but I was glad that Freddie had such rosy memories.

Although he longed to see Louise, and to see Aleph, he increasingly lacked the will to go.

I must stay with you, stay near you, do your will, or die.

This thought though, is nowhere near sufficient tae stop us fae daein what ah huv tae dae.