Quotes About Willpower

The moment a question comes to your mind, see yourself mentally taking hold of it and disposing of it. In that moment... you learn to become the decider and not the vacillator. Thus you build character.

I like liquor - its taste and its effects - and that is just the reason why I never drink it.

Drink not the third glass - which thou can'st not tame when once it is within thee.

What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight, but the size of the fight in the dog.

Energy and persistence conquer all things.

Trouble is the thing that strong men grow by. Met in the right way, it is a sure-fire means of putting iron into the victim's will and making him a tougher man to down forever after.

Lack of will power has caused more failures than lack of intelligence or ability.

Most men fail, not through lack of education, but from lack of dogged determination, from lack of dauntless will.

The man who will not execute his resolutions when they are fresh upon him can have no hope from them afterwards; they will be dissipated, lost and perish in the hurry and scurry of the world, or sunk in the slough of indolence.

To think is easy. To act is difficult. To act as one thinks is the most difficult of all.

For purposes of action, nothing is more useful than narrowness of thought combined with energy of will.

Necessity of action takes away the fear of the act.

To seek one's goals and to drive toward it, steeling one's heart, is most uplifting!

Everything's in the mind. That's where it all starts. Knowing what you want is the first step toward getting it.

Fortunate is the person who has developed the self-control to steer a straight course toward his objective in life, without being swayed from his purpose by either commendation or condemnation.

It is in self-limitation that a master first shows himself.

Firmness of purpose is one of the most necessary sinews of character and one of the best instruments of success. Without it, genius wastes its efforts in a maze of inconsistencies.

The chains of habit are too weak to be felt until they are too strong to be broken.

Habit, if not resisted, soon becomes necessity.

There is only one way to happiness, and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.

Do not inflict your will. Just give love. The soul will take that love and put it where it can best be used.

Progress results only from the fact that there are some men and women who refuse to believe that what they know to be right cannot be done.

In the end, the only people who fail are those who do not try.

If you try hard enough, you can bend the spoon; you can shift reality.