Quotes About Willpower

Everything is possible to him who wills only what is true! Rest in Nature, study, know, then dare; dare to will, dare to act and be silent!

If you will it, it is no dream

To conquer oneself is the best and noblest victory; to be vanquished by one's own nature is the worst and most ignoble defeat.

The deepest, the intelligible, part of the nature of man is that part which does not take refuge in causality, but which chooses in freedom the good or the bad.

It is a part of the nature of man to resist compulsion.

The most exhausting effort in my life has been to suppress my own nature in order to make it serve my biggest plans.

Man is born to conquer nature and not to follow it.

Modesty in human beings is praised because it is not a matter of nature, but of will.

Changing your nature is the hardest thing to do. But I discovered that you can be who you choose to be.

Now he found out a new thing--namely, that to promise not to do a thing is the surest way in the world to make a body want to go and do that very thing.

Man's chief merit consists in resisting the impulses of his nature.

Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you've conquered human nature .

its not in my nature to go down without a fight even when things seem insurmountable

When people are determined, they can overcome fate; when the will is unified, it can mobilize energy. Enlightened people do not even let nature put them in a set mold.

Action is within your control, while Emotion is beyond your control!

Anything that can be controlled is Action not emotion!

Desires make slaves out of kings and patience makes kings out of slaves.

Patience is the mother of will.

He who has infinite patience and infinite energy at his back, will alone succeed.

Acquire a firm will and the utmost patience.

He that can have patience can have what he will.

Patience and perseverance are necessary in autosuggestion, as well as in everything else.

Are great things ever done smoothly? Time, patience, and indomitable will must show.

In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience.