Quotes About Willpower

Leave the bottle on the chimleypiece, and don't ask me to take none, but let me put my lips to it when I am so dispoged.

The most important thing in life is to stop saying 'I wish' and start saying 'I will.' Consider nothing impossible, then treat possiblities as probabilities.

what I want you to be - I don't mean physically but morally: you are very well physically - is a firm fellow, a fine firm fellow, with a will of your own, with resolution. with determination. with strength of character that is not to be influenced except on good reason by anybody, or by anything. That's what I want you to be. That's what your father, & your mother might both have been

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

You might, from your appearance, be the wife of Lucifer," said Miss Pross, in her breathing. "Nevertheless, you shall not get the better of me. I am an Englishwoman.

The power of attention is much greater than the force of self-restraint.

I can be whatever I will to be.

El problema está en que no siempre andamos en el Espíritu. Algunas veces decidimos hacer las cosas a nuestro modo. Estamos tan empeñados en una determinada dirección que, aunque Dios hablara, no podríamos oírle, simplemente porque no estamos sintonizados con l.

More than all, and above all, Washington was master of himself.

We go all wrong, by too strenuous a resolution to go all right.

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.

If wishes would prevail with me, My purpose should not fail with me...

ABSTAINER, n. A weak person who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure.

It is easy to quit; I have quit at least a hundred times.

went right to the spot, and would save putting up much else. Hannah shut her lips and tried to make the line of them look pleasant, but

And this secret life itself spoke to me: "Behold," it said, "I am that which must always overcome itself." Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra[1] Only someone who has overcome himself is truly able to overcome. Jean Gebser, The Ever-Present Origin[2]

How can you move faster than possible," the other man asked, "fight longer than possible, if not from the most powerful impulse of the spirit? The fear of death. The will to survive.

Do you mean, that will be enough to satisfy you – or do you intend making a conscious decision to be satisfied?" She

He couldn't control what he felt, but he could certainly control what he DID.

Free will again, Cathy said. Or free wont, Peterson said mildly.

Are bombs the only way of setting fire to the spirit of a people? Is the human will as inert as the past two world-wide wars would indicate?

No one controls your destiny. Even at the very worst - there is always choice.

No one can quit smoking for you, or make you want to change your life. No one can make you do anything that you don't want to do.

Imagine willpower as a closed fist and longing as an open hand. Try closing your fist. How long do you think you can hold that pose? A closed fist requires a lot of attention and energy, and so does willpower. Longing is effortless; it's just there, like an open hand.