Quotes About Willpower

There is nothing impossible in all the world except that the heart of man is wanting in resolution.

There's no doubt that Mexican men and women - full of dignity, willpower and a capacity for work - are doing the work that not even blacks want to do in the United States.

Is any man free except the one who can pass his life as he pleases?

Nothing ever built arose to touch the skies unless some man dreamed that it should, some man believed that it could, and some man willed that it must.

But what a man can do and what a man will do are two different things, he knew.

Only let a man say that he will do something and a whole mechanism goes to work to stop him.

In order to master the unruly torrent of life the learned man meditates, the poet quivers, and the political hero erects the fortress of his will.

When that man wants something, he'll stop at nothing to get it. And I also believed in the good of him.

The men who succeed are the efficient few. They are the few who have the ambition and will power to develop themselves.

A man takes a drink, the drink takes another, and the drink takes the man.

Great men are ordinary men with extra ordinary determination.

A man may well bring a horse to water but he cannot make him drink.

Life becomes the way it is lived; and man may live the way he wants to live when he learns to think what he wants to think.

A man will do more for his stubbornness than for his religion or his country

Man is a masterpiece of creation, if only because no amount of determinism can prevent him from believing that he acts as a free being.

The man of decision cannot be stopped! The man of indecision cannot be started! Take your own choice.

It is a fact that the majority of a man's griefs comes about through lack of self-control.

...most men and women will yield to the strong currents sucking them into the seas of ruin. Only the strongest in mind and spirit will swim against that current.

There were angry men confronting me and I caught the flashing of defiant eyes, but above me and within me, there was a spirit stronger than them all.

No man knows how bad he is till he has tried very hard to be good...Only those who try to resist temptation know how strong it is.

...as man under pressure tends to give in to physical and intellectual weakness, only great strength of will can lead to the objective.

For some men, nothing is Written unless they Write it.

Virtually all men of action incline to Fatality just as most thinkers incline to Providence.

A man, when he wishes, is the master of his fate.