Quotes About Willpower

People who believe that they are strong-willed and the masters of their destiny can only continue to believe this by becoming specialists in self-deception. Their decisions are not really decisions at all—a real decision makes one humble, one knows that it is at the mercy of more things than can be named—but elaborate systems of evasion, of illusion, designed to make themselves and the world appear to be what they and the world are not.

And: the only way anything ever gets done is when you make up your mind to do it.

What you think is going to happen?" "What we make happen," says Joseph—again, with resolution.

There is not any memory with less satisfaction than the memory of some temptation we resisted.

Level 5 leaders embody a paradoxical mix of personal humility and professional will. They are ambitious, to be sure, but ambitious first and foremost for the company, not themselves.

Self-effacing, quiet, reserved, even shy—these leaders are a paradoxical blend of personal humility and professional will. They are more like Lincoln and Socrates than Patton or Caesar.

Compared to high-profile leaders with big personalities who make headlines and become celebrities, the good-to-great leaders seem to have come from Mars. Self-effacing, quiet, reserved, even shy—these leaders are a paradoxical blend of personal humility and professional will. They

Darwin Smith stands as a classic example of what we came to call a Level 5 leader—an individual who blends extreme personal humility with intense professional will.

Discipline is the greatest thing in the world. Where there is no discipline, there is no character. And without character, there is no progress. . . .

Blackthorne, beside the gates, was still turmoiled by his boundless joy at her reprieve and he remembered how his own will had been stretched that night of his near-seppuku, when he had had to get up as a man and walk home as a man unsupported, and became samurai. And he watched her, despising the need for this courage, yet understanding it, even honoring it.

It's amputate or die. Simple. And when it comes down to it, you can't die. Not yet. Once you're born, you are obligated to survive. At all costs.

There's a world we can't see. It exists separately and concurrently with the real world. You enter this world by the offering of prayer and incantation. You live in this world wholly within your mind. You dispel the real world through mental discipline. You rebuff the real world through your enforced mental will. Your interior world will give you what you want and what you need to survive.

I can run fast when I want to run fast, and I've always been good at destroying things.

The only way I'm going out is unconscious. I'm not a quitter.

As a competitor, I try to do everything in my power to control the uncontrollable.

Do not underestimate the determination of a quiet man.

It's just a matter of understanding what's necessary and discipline yourself to do it.

Staying true to your dream by using your mental, emotional and physical strength is discipline in action. You express it through focus, grit, self-control, persistence, perseverance, and willpower.

Discipline is more about self-control through your inner strength and less about restriction.

Anger does not change the fact. The will to take control is everything.

You have absolute control over your thoughts, and guarding your mind is a choice.

Never again!" commanded his will. "Again! Tomorrow!" begged his heart.

I refused to take no for an answer.

I do not know the word 'quit.' Either I never did, or I have abolished it.