Quotes About Willpower

I give up. Stop speaking, responding, refuse food and water. 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.

Ammirare la bellezza non significa non saperle resistere.

Better not to give in to it. It takes ten times as long to put yourself

Swami Chinmayananda

The brain and muscles must develop simultaneously. Iron nerves with an intelligent brain — and the whole world is at your feet.

Why should a Man be Moral? Because this strengthens his will.

When the body is sufficiently controlled, we can attempt the manipulation of the mind.

Awake! Stand up and fight! Die if you must.

To succeed, you must have tremendous perseverance, tremendous will. "I will drink the ocean," says the persevering soul, "at my will mountains will crumble up." Have that sort of energy, that sort of will, work hard, and you will reach the goal. (I.

A man is said to be [illumined] if his will has become firm, if his mind is not disturbed by misery, if he does not desire any happiness, if he is free of all [attachment], of all fear, of all anger

It is the coward and the fool who says, 'This is fate.'" But it is the strong man who stands up and says, "I will make my fate.

Knowing this, stand up and fight!

Then you will become a man of firm will (note 19).

Behaviors are a choice. Feelings are sometimes out of our control. Behavior has to do with choices.

Somewhere deep inside me was the will and determination not only to live, but to be a more present mother for my kids, instead of one who was emotionally unavailable because she was in so much pain, as my own mother was.

It doesn't matter how much it's going to cost me, what I have to do, sooner or later, anyway, I'm going to have what I want.

Every single diet I ever fell off of was because of potatoes and gravy of some sort.

Me, my heart and my soul will always be a fighter. I'm not comfortable with saying, 'I'm done. I quit. I give up.' That's the way I am, and that's the way I always will be. From the day I was born to the day I die, I am a fighter!

The basic thing you have to understand is everything that happens on that spaceship, from the time you crawl into that seat to the time it touches down, is controlled from the ground. There's no one thing that makes a good astronaut. I don't know any person with determination and will that can't go to space.

It is not what a man is capable of doing, but what he chooses to do that is important.

After self-love the second best gift you could ever give yourself is self-discipline.

Those who indulge themselves in sense stimulation throughout their lives often end up exhausted, with an enfeebled will and little capacity to love others.

This is what I will do from now

Love is always by definition a choice