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Quotes About Willpower

You have absolute control over but one thing, and that is your thoughts. This is the most significant and inspiring of all facts known to man! It reflects man's Divine nature. This Divine prerogative is the sole means by which you may control your own destiny. If you fail to control your own mind, you may be sure you will control nothing else.
~ Napoleon Hill
La repetición de órdenes al subconsciente es el único método conocido para intensificar voluntariamente la emoción de la fe.
~ Napoleon Hill
We all have the right to take possession of our own mind and direct it towards all we desire
~ Napoleon Hill
the only thing stopping a man from success is his will to try and believe it possible......... Napoleon Hill
~ Napoleon Hill
estado mental deve ser de crença, não só de esperança ou vontade. A mente aberta é essencial para acreditar. Mentes fechadas não inspiram fé, coragem e crença.
~ Napoleon Hill
Mind control is the result of self-discipline and habit. You either control your mind or it controls you. There is no halfway compromise. The most practical of all methods for controlling the mind is the habit of keeping it busy with a definite purpose, backed by a definite plan.
~ Napoleon Hill
Verily, there is nothing, right or wrong, which belief, plus burning desire, cannot make real.
~ Napoleon Hill
Success begins with a fellow's will- It's all in the state of mind. If you think you are outclassed, you are, You've got to think high to rise, You've got to be sure of yourself before You can ever win a prize.
~ Napoleon Hill
No man is ever whipped, until he quits— in his own mind. This
~ Napoleon Hill
Self-Control must needs be made up of Patience, the ability to keep Still when you feel like Talking right out, and the iron holding down of your own Self for the sake of the Bigger Hours. No man ever won anything without first winning Himself. You are a strong Human bundle of Passion, Red Pepper — and Power. Your Mixing of these things in wise proportion and mastering them will mold you into a sure Success. Try, for — You can Be what you Will, if you Will to Be.
~ Napoleon Hill
Resolve is what makes a man manifest. Not puny resolve; not crude determinations; not errant
~ Napoleon Hill
Life's battles don't always go To the stronger or faster man But soon or late the one who wins Is the one WHO THINKS HE CAN!
~ Napoleon Hill
Self-discipline begins with the mastery of your thoughts. If you don't control what you think, you can't control what you do. Simply, self-discipline enables you to think first and act afterward.
~ Napoleon Hill
If you think you'll lose, you're lost for out of the world we find, Success begins with a fellow's will – It's all in the state of mind. "If you think you are outclassed, you are, you've got to think high to rise, You've got to be sure of yourself before You can ever win a prize.
~ Napoleon Hill
Mind control is the result of self-discipline and habit. You either control your mind or it controls you. There is no hall-way compromise. The most practical of all methods for controlling the mind is the habit of keeping it busy with a definite purpose, backed by a definite plan.
~ Napoleon Hill
Do you resort to liquor, narcotics, or cigarettes to quiet your nerves? If so, why do you not try will-power instead?
~ Napoleon Hill
Since procrastination is a message from our natural willpower via low motivation, the cure is changing the environment, or one's profession, by selecting one in which one does not have to fight one's impulses. Few can grasp the logical consequence that, instead, one should lead a life in which procrastination is good, as a naturalistic-risk-based form of decision making.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Many, like the great Roman statesman Cato the Censor, looked at comfort, almost any form of comfort, as a road to waste.1 He did not like it when we had it too easy, as he worried about the weakening of the will.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Since procrastination is a message from our natural willpower via low motivation, the cure is changing the environment, or one's profession, by selecting one in which one does not have to fight one's impulses.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
You always control what you do; so make this your end.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
She had wanted to cough as soon as it occurred to her that she mustn't, and she passed a long hour trying to swallow away the tickle that perversely constricted her throat.
~ Natalie Babbitt
To persevere with the will to understand in the face of obstacles is the heroism of consciousness.
~ Nathaniel Branden
In the little chaos of Pearl's character there might be seen emerging-and could have been from the very first-the steadfast principles of an unflinching courage-an uncontrollable will-a sturdy pride which might be disciplined into self-respect-and a bitter scorn of many things, which, when examined, might be found to have the taint of falsehood in them.
~ Nathaniel Hawthorne
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~ Neal Asher