Quotes About Willpower

It is easier to exclude harmful passions than to rule them, and to deny them admittance than to control them after they have been admitted.

Every family should have the right to spend their money, after tax, as they wish, and not as the government dictates. Let us extend choice, extend the will to choose and the chance to choose.

Thought is power, as is desire, but neither is enough unless it is backed by faith, specificity, and the desire to see to it that it becomes.

Regardless of whether luck or coincidence is involved, desires directed in the right way have a tendency to manifest.

The best lesson that I've learned from my mother is that she just never accepted no for an answer and I think that's something that has stayed with me.

It is not in our stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.

There's a storm inside of us, a burning river, a drive. You push yourself further than anyone could think possible. You are never out of the fight.

Discipline is doing what you hate to do, but nonetheless doing it like you love it.

If the mind is intensely eager, everything can be accomplished—mountains can be crumbled into atoms.

First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.

All successes begin with Self-Discipline. It starts with you.

The most difficult thing is the decision to act!

Failure will not overcome me so long as my will to succeed is stronger

The habit of persistence is the habit of victory.

The secret of discipline is motivation. When a man is sufficiently motivated, discipline will take care of itself.

You must have an iron will, if you would cross the ocean. You must be strong enough to pierce mountains.

Whatever you think, that you will be. If you think yourselves weak, weak you will be; if you think yourselves strong, strong you will be.

Mental toughness is to physical as four is to one.

Most people would like to be delivered from temptation but would like it to keep in touch.

The good or ill of a man lies within his own will.

You can do it if you believe you can.

The basis of self-discipline: Don't allow the edges to blur.

The last of the human freedoms — to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way.

In spite of your fear, do what you have to do.