Quotes About Willpower

To succeed, you must have tremendous perseverance, tremendous will. "I will drink the ocean," says the persevering soul, "at my will mountains will crumble up." Have that sort of energy, that sort of will, work hard, and you will reach the goal. (CW 1. 178) Be

The will is stronger than anything else. Everything must go down before the will, for that comes from God: a pure and strong will is omnipotent.

We must cease striving and trust God to provide what He thinks is best and in whatever time He chooses to make it available. But this kind of trusting doesn't come naturally. It's a spiritual crisis of the will in which we must choose to exercise faith.

It will not do, my friend, to grant an easy indulgence to natural appetite and desire, for they ever seek to be our masters.

Sometimes things become possible if we want them bad enough.

What is the meaning of "strength"? It's to have a mind that does not sway, while continuing to move forward and charge.

No man wanted to be told what he could and could not do. And in that lay a well of strength from which one might not otherwise draw.

He might take her life, but he could never take her will, nor break her pride. She was a daughter of Pecht kings; he was naught but a feckless

When she caught herself in such moments, she'd talk back to her deprivation schema, saying, "I'm not depriving you if I don't eat this ice cream.

A real man said, "This is where I am, but I need not stay in the gutter. It is my duty to change what is evil or intolerable in my life. I was given the strength to choose my way, and I will choose it. To do less is to degrade myself by my own will.

Just being a human being, Ive realized that before every big problem you create for yourself, before every huge mess you have to clean up, there was a crucial moment where you couldve just said no.

Knowledge of the future was incompatible with free will. What made it possible for me to exercise freedom of choice also made it impossible for me to know the future.

we can develop willpower skills. It's more about strategy than grit or impulses. While we can't control what we think and feel, we can control what we do—which is where strategy comes into play.

It's easy to slip back. You have to be disciplined.

Sehra, Dont ever lay down and die....for NOTHING at all." ~ Tehmina Durrani

I consider myself very fortunate. I mean, I think there's that old saying, 'Where there's a will, there's a way,' and I just have such a passion for jazz music and playing the piano that I just find a way to make it work, so to speak. Fortunately, I have so far.

Luckily, my father and my mother liked us to talk, so they encouraged us to talk, so that the girls in my house, they're all very powerful speakers and powerful agents of their own will, as is my brother.

The power of man has grown in every sphere, except over himself.

There is nothing more powerful in the world than the human spirit and the human will.

You can kill the body but not the spirit.

Determination gives you the resolve to keep going in spite of the roadblocks that lay before you.

there's no such thing as luck. Nothing ever just happens to anybody. ... nothing can really happen to a person till he lets it happen.

I resolved to take Fate by the throat and shake the living out of her.

To conquer himself is the greatest victory that man can gain.