Quotes About Willpower

From the biography of Freud, by Irving Stone, said by Freud's fiance after he teased her for being sweet, Beware of truly sweet people. They have will of iron.

Inside yourself you're strong. That's the place where strength counts. Strength shows not only in how fast you can chop down trees.' -p. 5

He slept that night the sleep of a successfully stubborn man.

Can you fight a force which can make you surrender willingly when it so desires; can make you a faithful servant when it so desires?

los sentimientos se destiñen y el olvido se desliza en las vidas como neblina. Se requiere una voluntad heroica para mantener todo en su sitio.

The path to addiction is straight and well paved;

willpower. He recalled very clearly his years of fear, the torment at school, and the superhuman effort he had made to study a profession that required an evil streak completely missing in him. He

La ley natural del universo es la entropía, todo tiende al desorden, a romperse, a dispersarse, la gente se pierde, miren cuántos se perdieron en La Retirada, los sentimientos se destiñen y el olvido se desliza en las vidas como neblina. Se requiere una voluntad heroica para mantener todo en su sitio.

Se requiere una voluntad heroica para mantener todo en su sitio.

No sabía que ella había visto su propio destino, por eso lo había llamado con el pensamiento y estaba dispuesta a casarse sin amor.

The main challenge is food. I need to zip my mouth and not give in to cravings.

Some people confuse acceptance with apathy, but there's all the difference in the world. Apathy fails to distinguish between what can and what cannot be helped; acceptance makes that distinction. Apathy paralyzes the will-to-action; acceptance frees it by relieving it of impossible burdens.

God asks no man whether he will accept life. This is not the choice. You must take it. The only question is how.

Ask not that events should happen as you will, but let your will be that events should happen as they do, and you shall have peace.

If we cannot do what we will, we must will what we can.

Abstainer: a weak man who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure.

Character is perfectly educated will.

We can do whatever we wish to do provided our wish is strong enough. But the tremendous effort needed- one doesn't always want to make it-does one? ... But what else can be done? What's the alternative? What do you want most to do? That's what I have to keep asking myself, in the face of difficulties.

Perform without fail what you resolve.

Don't ask me to give in to this body of mine. I can't afford it. Between me and my body there must be a struggle until death.

You can't try to do things; you simply must do them.

Your own resolution to success is more important than any other one thing.

The only man who can change his mind is the man who's got one.

The soul of dispatch is decision.