Quotes About Willpower

Jupiter will try to practise temperance but can

Tinere?ea nu este o etap? a vie?ii, ci este o stare de spirit. Tinere?ea nu ?ine de obraji îmbujora?i, buze ro?ii ?i genunchi supli. Ea este o chestiune de voin??, un atribut al imagina?iei, o vigoare a emo?iilor.

The trouble with resisting temptation is it may never come your way again.

No that's beside the point. I just decided to take instead of being taken. It's not a question of good or bad, wrong or right. It's just what I want to do. Mitsuko Souma

We cannot be tempted with something we have no desire for.

As the Holy Spirit restores us, He trains our wills to choose thoughts, values and behaviors that bring Him praise.

James: I think people pretty much determine their fates. I think people choose their lives. Lucy: I don't know. I think sometimes things happen to people that are beyond their control. Things that they don't want to happen. James: I know what you're saying. Sometimes random shit happens, but for the most part, people are where they are in life because they chose to be there.

We all have bad things inside us, and we all choose either to give in to those bad things or to fight them.

we] have a mighty dislike of all intentional effort and are addicted to absolute laziness until circumstances prod [us] into action.

As the forces in one man after another become prostrated and can no longer be supported by an effort of this own will, the whole inertia of the mass gradually rests its weight on the will of the commander: by the spark in his breast, by the light of his spirit, the spark of purpose, the light of hope, must be kindled in others: in so far only as he is equal to this, he stands above the masses and continues to be their master.

A male was transformed into a man by the willful expenditure of energy. Above all, a man willed himself to be expendable. Like the sun, a man fed the fire of his honor on his own substance. The magnus animus, the animus virilis, squandered itself in contempt of its own dear life.

what does it mean, our being free to make decisions, if our behavior does nothing but follow the predetermined laws of nature?

You think I'll succumb after a ten second kiss?" The man had an ego of an elephant. She measured the knowing curve of his smile, the infuriating glint in his eyes and knew she could stand anything for ten seconds. All she had to do was clamp her jaw and she'd win. Victory was at hand. "Okay, Masterson. You're on.

Mia, what is the most important thing for a soccer player to have?" With no hesitation, she answered, "Mental toughness.

It's a lot more difficult for me than I thought it would be, but it's what I want to do, so that only makes me more determined. When they tell me I can't, it really gets me going.' Challenge and interest went hand in hand.

In one day I had altered my life; my life, therefore, was alterable. This simple axiom did not call out for exegesis; no, it entered my bloodstream directly, as powerful as heroin. I could feel it pump and surge, the way it brightened my veins to a kind of glass. I had wakened that morning to narrowness and predestination and now I was falling asleep in the storm of my own free will.

There's emptiness in him that can never be filled, emptiness that dresses up well at prep school, where a lack of willpower is called creativity.

So it persists, for many of us, hunger channeled into some internal circuitry of longing, routed this way and that, emerging in a thousand different forms. The diet form, the romance form, the addiction form, the overriding hunger for this purchase or that job, this relationship or that one. Hunger may be insatiable by nature, it may be fathomless, but our will to fill it, our often blind tenacity in the face of it, can be extraordinary.

Intention without discipline is useless.

My favorite machine at the gym is the vending machine.

Happiness takes an effort of will,

You must admit you have self-control before you can use it.

He felt Miss Kristina's presence like something poisonous and something infinitely sweet mixing together in his blood. Inside him, a lack of willpower and a colossal tension battled it out. He felt both weak and furious at the same time. He went around with his fists clenched, ready to fight, yet what he wanted most of all was to hold and be held.

Sometimes it seems that men--yes, and even women too!--if they believe in a thing strongly enough, they get a strength or endurance that they wouldn't have believe possible.