Quotes About Willpower

The last of the human freedoms - to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way.

Be the master of your will and the servant of your conscience

Sé dueño de tu voluntad y siervo de tu conciencia»

For they conquer who believe they can.

But if my forces are not enough, I am hardly the one to relent, I'll plead for the help I need, wherever it may be - if I cannot sway the heavens, I'll wake the powers of hell!

Ingentis animos angusto in pectore versant.

We make our destiny by our choice of the gods.

If I cannot prevail upon heaven, I will stir up hell!

A sort of transaction went on between them, in which she was on one side, and life was on another, and she was always trying to get the better of it, as it was of her.

To let oneself be carried on passively is unthinkable. 'That's your course, world,' one says, 'mine is this.

Untuk menikmati kebebasan kita harus mengendalikan diri sendiri.

The greatest sin is to think yourself weak

His wings were failing, but he refused to fall without a struggle.

He aims at the kind of spontaneous performance which occurs only when the mind is calm and seems at one with the body, which finds its own surprising ways to surpass its own limits again and again. Moreover, while overcoming the common hang-ups of competition, the player of the inner game uncovers a will to win which unlocks all his energy and which is never discouraged by losing. There

I have discovered in life that there are ways of getting almost anywhere you want to go, if you really want to go.

If you understand others you are smart. If you understand yourself you are illuminated. If you overcome others you are powerful. If you overcome yourself you have strength. If you know how to be satisfied you are rich. If you can act with vigor, you have a will. If you don't lose your objectives you can be long-lasting. If you die without loss, you are eternal.

Mastering others is strength. Mastering yourself is true power.

He who conquers others is strong; He who conquers himself is mighty.

To conquer others is to have power. To conquer yourself is to know the way.

Conquering others takes force, conquering yourself is true strength.

So ask me again why I'll win a battle of wills." "Fine." She jammed her feet under the covers. "Why?" "Because I'm immortal and you're a mere human. I have an eternity to out-stubborn you.

I did successfully kick tobacco at the age of 34. I smoked for like 20 years, from 14 to 34.

Creía que estabas muerto-. dijo -Soy demasiado cabezota como para dejarme matar.

Detesto esa sensación de perder el control. Cuando hago algo, me gusta hacerlo porque quiero, porque lo he decidido yo; no a causa de una influencia externa.