Quotes About Willpower

Mug your destiny in an alley and punch it until it gives you what you want

But the trouble is, I do want to be surprised. I want to choose. I broke the heart of my fate so that I could choose. I never chose; I only saw a little girl who looked like me standing on a gear at the end of the world and laughing, and that's not choosing, not really. Wouldn't you rather I chose you? Wouldn't you rather I picked our future out of all the others anyone could have?

Stronger than her will to die was her will to endure, especially when she thought she was being tested.

Character is the ability to carry out a good resolution long after the excitement of the moment has passed.

True obedience requires greatness and inward freedom of soul.

There's no credit in not doing what you don't want to do. There's no virtue in not falling, when you're not tempted.

No matter how many strikes are hurled at you, only you decide when you're out.

Mejor estaría con diablos: de siete veces seis no saben lo que ellas mismas quieren.

Anything is possible. A man is what he makes up his mind to be.

It's a disgusting habit, and it causes weak men to make strong excuses.

If I know my Rachel, she will do what she wants to do. And perhaps that is the best.

The more decisions we have to make, the less stamina we have to make the best one for us at that moment.

Don't let the hell in you burn so hard yet you have the option and power to burn it hard.

Man imagines himself to be conducting his own life; and irresistibly his inmost being is drawn to its fate.

Deo snage sam koja vazda zeli da tvori zlo, a uvek dobro sazda.

You have a free will and there is always a choice. Your power resides in that moment of choice.

Dwell not upon thy weariness, thy strength shall be according to the measure of thy desire.

The toughest part of a diet isn't watching what you eat. It's watching what other people eat.

A strong will can accomplish anything... There is no such thing as inspiration, and very little of genius. Dig, blooming under opportunity, results in what appears to be the former, and certainly makes possible the development of what original modicum of the latter one may possess. Dig is a wonderful thing, and will move more mountains than faith ever dreamed of. In fact, Dig should be the legitimate father of all self-faith.

The things you want to do are all up to you— Excuses are sabotage.

This is how it is when Siddhartha has a goal... His goal attracts him, because he doesn't let anything enter his soul which might oppose the goal... This is what fools call magic and of which they think it would be effected by means of the daemons. Nothing is effected by daemons, there are no daemons. Everyone can perform magic, everyone can reach his goals, if he is able to think, if he is able to wait, if he is able to fast.

He must master or be mastered;

Fate did not hand Genghis Khan his destiny; he made it for himself.

To, co se podvolí, není vždycky slabé.