Quotes About Willpower

No, nothing can change my world --Ichigo Kurosaki, Black Moon Rising

They must be ignorant. They think this is enough to fill you with despair! They don't know the struggles you've lived through! Show them, Ichigo! That they cannot stop you with despair!

If you love fighting so much…then stop whining for me to kill you. Don't lose and then beg to be killed! Never admit defeat until you're dead! If you lose and you're still alive…then consider it your lucky day. If you had any brains you'd be thinking of ways to stay alive right now! Live…and dedicate yourself to killing the one who left you alive.

Self-control is tightly linked with imagining the future. If you can't imagine the future, there's no reason to exhibit any discipline or self-control.

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Abstinence is perfectly reasonable in theory, Gregory said, It just doesn't work in practice. It's like dieting. You can go a day or two, maybe even a week. But eventually that pizza just smells too good.

the will to live cannot be overestimated as a stimulant to longevity.

About the only time losing is more fun than winning is when you're fighting temptation.

Consapevole del fatto che non si sarebbe fatta vincere, che nessuna forza oscura, nessun potere avrebbe sconfitto la sua volontà di sopravvivere.

Don't nobody have to die if they don't want to. - Pilate

Some folks want to live forever. Some don't. I believe they decide on it anyway. People die when they want to and if they want to.

The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will. —Vince Lombardi, What It Takes to Be Number One

No Viking believed he could change his destiny, ordained as it was by the Norns who wove the fates of gods and men alike (Note 4) but, for all that, the way in which he lived his life was up to him. This sentiment is perfectly expressed by Skirnir in 'Skirnir's Journey': 'Fearlessness is better than a faint heart for any man who puts his nose out of doors. The length of my life and the day of my death were fated long ago.

Mitte keegi ei saa alati oma tahtmist.

When I told one friend that I objected to the idea of "false gods," that I thought it was about "My God is better than your God," he told me that rather than taking the First Commandment literally—"Thou shalt have no other gods before me"—he found it to be a powerful image of his addiction. His false god was alcohol. He lived for that god, he "turned his will and his life over" to that god.

The greatest sin you can commit against your own life is to know what you want and not to act.

Being stubborn isn't a bad thing. Stubbornness could be defined as determination on steroids. As long as it's aimed in a God-honoring direction, being stubborn can be a gift because it gives you stick-to-itiveness.

What did or didn't happen last year is less a product of a lack of discipline and willpower, and more a product of the resources - internal and external - that you are still developing.

The time to quit is before you wish you had.

When I was straight, I had the courage and energy to become an actress. I owe my career to my will to stop using.

Once I decide to do something, I can't have people telling me I can't. If there's a roadblock, you jump over it, walk around it, crawl under it.

The greatest weapon is your body, the greatest weakness is your mind!

You are right; I am not good at moving in society. Be merciful. You do not understand me; I live in the woods by choice--that is my happiness. Here, where I am all alone, it can hurt no one that I am as I am; but when I go among others, I have to use all my will power to be as I should.

There is only one quality that makes humans truly human and that is their will.