Quotes About Willpower

There is no such thing as destiny. We ourselves shape our lives.

In the end that was the choice you made, and it doesn't matter how hard it was to make it. It matters that you did.

Have the courage of your desire.

Recuso-me a ser escravo de algum apetite.

You can send a man to hell, but you can't make him suffer.

A man is as free as he chooses to make himself, never an atom freer.

It's not easy being drunk all the time. Everyone would do it, if it were easy.

For though despair is often close at hand, it never triumphs, and through all the story runs, a sustaining bond, the primal force which humanity shares with all earthly creatures, the sheer will to live.

A true man does what he will, not what he must.

But what a man can do and what a man will do are two different things, he knew.

Make no choice, and you have chosen. Failure to decide, because you lack the right, is itself a decision, First Councilor. In abstaining, you vote.

No one mocked him in his bedchamber, but he would not live his life in bed.

There has never been a slave who did not choose to be a slave,

So Victarion closed his burned hand into a mighty fist,

Fasting strengthens control over our appetites, thus contributing to self-mastery.

If you are going to win any battle, you have to do one thing. You have to make the mind run the body. Never let the body tell the mind what to do… the body is never tired if the mind is not tired.

I fought in many guises, Many names, but always me. And I see not in my blindness What the objects were I wrought, But as God rules o'er our bickerings It was through His will I fought. So forever in the future, Shall I battle as of yore, Dying to be born a... fighter, But to die again, once more.

To Hell With Compromises

Now if you are going to win any battle you have to do one thing. You have to make the mind run the body. Never let the body tell the mind what to do. The body will always give up. It is always tired morning, noon, and night. But the body is never tired if the mind is not tired. When you were younger, the mind could make you dance all night, and the body was never tired... You've always got to make the mind take over and keep going.

Nothing is more necessary or stronger in us than rebellion.

As soon as one promises not to do something, it becomes the one thing above all others that one most wishes to do.

Resolutions mean willpower, willpower means achievement, achievement means success and failure, and the whole sequence means losing an appreciation of the gift. I have learned two sure things in the struggle between my desire for love and the oppression of my attachments. The first is that God is absolutely trustworthy. The second is that resolutions are absolutely not.

I didn't fight the desire to drink anymore; I just did not drink.

If you really want something you can figure out how to make it happen.