Quotes About Willpower

When I'm focused, there is not one single thing, person, anything that can stand in the way of my doing something. There is not. If I want something bad enough, I feel I'm gonna get there.

Love has no resistance. Whatever we do is because we want to do it.

If I can't do what I want to do, then my job is to not do what I want to do. It's not the same thing, but it's the best thing I can do.

I've always been very stubborn, had a very clear will of what I want to do.

Few people want the pleasures they are free to take.

Your most important "want" should be the one you can control!

I do what I please, M. Beauchamp, and it is always well done.

If the mind is willing, the flesh could go on and on without many things.

Victory is a thing of the will.

She wanted to stomp her foot, throw a tantrum, throw a punch.

Lo intentaré. -Lo intentarás.-La voz de Dean sonó cortante. -¿Qué quieres de mí?-gimió ella. El hombre de acero echó hacia delante la mandíbula. -Quiero que seas tan fuerte como das a entender que eres.

Discipline turns the dream into reality.

Imagine it. Use all your strength and imagine it exactly. And it will happen that way.

I don't want my destiny handed to me. I want to choose it.

Because I have willed it. And I am not a fairy tale.

Sometimes if you want something badly enough, you make it happen through sheer force of will.

I don't believe in destiny, although I am sometimes tempted by the freedom implied by inevitability.

And oh, /that's/ when I jumped him. Such willpower I'd had up to that very moment and it all crumbled. I kissed him, and Lord Almighty, he kissed me and we were both crying. "This is going to be hard," he said. "This life we're choosing." "Maybe so," I said, kissing him again, "but I'd prefer hard and wonderful any day over easy and run of the mill." --Dot to Walt on their interracial relationship.

They can pump whatever they want into my arm but it takes more than that to keep a person going once she's lost the will to live.

They hadn't counted on the highly controlled jabberjay having the brains to adapt to the wild, to pass on its genetic code, to thrive in a new form. They hadn't anticipated its will to live.

We could do it, you know.

Better not to give in to it.

The sun persists in rising, so I make myself stand.

But it's not true. A mockingbird is just a songbird. A mockingjay is a creature the Capitol never intended to exist. They hadn't counted on the highly controlled jabberjay having the brains to adapt to the wild, to pass on its genetic codem, to thrive in a new form. They hadn't anticipated its will to live.