Quotes About Willpower

Why did she always think of the damn cherry Danish in the morning? She wasn't entirely sure the thought of it didn't put an extra pound on her ass.

We bloody well do.

Suicide, I had understood, is an act not of body against itself but of the will against the body

from that moment in June 1973 I decided to accept the total contradiction that everything from the Big Bang to the end of time is preordained in every sense and that we are totally free to do whatever the fuck we want.

To his mind, free will was a privilege, not a right.

He willed his hands to be steady by vowing to saw them off if they embarrassed him.

If I can live through the events," she said, "I can get through the memories." In that moment, staring across the room at her show of will, he felt a tie to her, sure as if a rope had linked the pair of them chest-to-chest.

Il paziente, intanto, fece un bel respiro tutto da solo. Poi un altro. E un altro ancora. Poi quegli inquietanti occhi di diamante si posarono su di lei, e Jane smise di divincolarsi come soggiogata dalla sua forza di volontà. Ci fu un attimo di silenzio. Poi, in tono aspro, l'uomo a cui lei aveva salvato la vita pronunciò quattro parole che cambiarono tutto, cambiarono la sua vita, cambiarono il suo destino: «Lei. Viene. Con. Me.»

La vida es lo que tú decides que sea; independientemente de dónde te coloca el destino, la lógica y el libre albedrío significan que cada persona puede hacer lo que quiera con su vida.

even Chosen had the right to choose

Edgar Allan Poe called it "the imp of the perverse," that willful, self-destructive voice within that impels us to do things or say things that cause our undoing.

In short, the things he did were done because it was easier to do them than not to do them.

With the last remnant of his strength

I chanced the chest and the slow-beating heart. The quick compulsion of my will was rewarded. I no longer had chest nor heart. I was only a mind, a soul, a consciousness—call it what you will—incorporate in a nebulous brain that, while it still centered inside my skull, was expanded, and was continuing to expand, beyond my skull.

I'm not the type of person that is forced.

I think that, anybody with a strong will to tell a story, then that is fantastic. I think it's fantastic. I think sometimes people have what I'll call an ulterior motive with a story.

You decide the things that ultimately you do. You have choices in this world, and that's how I live.

To set a 100-day plan was to will myself into the future, no matter how uncertain it seemed.

When I believe in my ability to do something, there is no such word as no.

Zerbrowski said, "Try not. Do. Or do not. There is no try." It took me a second to realize that he had just quoted Star Wars to me. It made me smile, and in that moment I loved him, just for that.

Therefore the clever combatant imposes his will on the enemy, but does not allow the enemy's will to be imposed on him.

What held the civilized world together was the thinnest tissue of nothing but human will.

Your nafs (soul/desires) is your first battlefield. If you are victorious over it, then you will find the other battlefields easier.

Through discipline comes freedom.