Quotes About Willpower

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We don't need flashy cars, impressive titles, uniforms, or other status symbols. We rely on our strength and our will!

When you try to bring about behavioral change by an effort of will, you actually do violence to yourself, and the chances are very good that you will not succeed. This is so universally true that you can actually make money from it.

It is not possible to educate the will and the healthy soul that underlies it unless we develop insights that awaken energetic impulses in the soul and will.

A woman set on anything will walk right through the moral crockery without wincing.

It is a woman's reason to say I will do such a thing because I will.

The happiness of man is: I will. The happiness of woman is: he wills.

The best belongs to me and mine; and if we are not given it, we take it: the best food, the purest sky, the most robust thoughts, the fairest women!

Women have, commonly, a very positive moral sense; that which they will, is right; that which they reject, is wrong; and their will, in most cases, ends by settling the moral.

You have to do what you have to do.

Here I stand, hobbled in a sack of doom, determined to tear out of it, knowing that I will.

Nothing is irresistible. There is no feeling that is irresistible.

Woman wants control, man self-control .

To be a femme fatale you don't have to be slinky and sensuous and disastrously beautiful, you just have to have the will to disturb.

The part of you that's like Gob is the part that makes a choice. That says, I choose to. or, I choose not to. That's what's sacred.

Even the broken will fight

A bird does not fly because of the wind around it, but because of the strength within it.

You can't be tempted, unless you want what is tempting you.

Failures of nerve and energy are not permitted. That's what it means to be an object.

I'll starve to death before I'll cook for myself.

That may be the ultimate definition of toughness inside the squared circle - having the will to overcome a serious injury to return to elite status as a main eventer.

Americans - in general, we are very steadfast people: we know what we want; we get what we want.

You've got to have steel in you somewhere.

If you're presented with choices that steer you toward your worst instincts, that's what you'll choose. If I'm presented with Snickers bars, I won't necessarily seek out kale.