Quotes About Willpower

When I step in the ring, I bring everything I have.

What man's mind can create, man's character can control.

Don't let your will roar when your power only whispers.

An invincible determination can accomplish almost anything and in this lies the great distinction between great men and little men.

Let not thy will roar, when thy power can but whisper.

our impulses are too strong for our judgement sometimes

After a sharp inward struggle, he concluded to stay and see it out. He should despise himself, more than he cared to face, if he gave in now.

Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not it is the first lesson that ought to be learned and however early a man's training begins, it is probably the last lesson that he learns thoroughly.

Within the strictures of commonsense reality and personal ability, we can choose to do anything we like in this world … with one exception: We cannot choose what any of our choices will be.

If you are not in control of your thoughts then you are not in control of yourself. Without self-control, you have no real power, regardless of whatever else you accomplish. If you are not aware of the thoughts that you are thinking in each moment, then you are the rider with no reins, with no power over where you are going. You cannot control what you are not aware of. Awareness must come first.

If you are not in control of your thoughts, then you are not in control of yourself. Without self-control, you have no real power,

Human reason needs only to will more strongly than fate, and she is fate.

I know she hates me, yet cannot choose but love her: No matter, if but to vex her, I'll haunt her still; Though I get nothing else, I'll have my will.

I choose my life to this free. I choose my life to be this way

I meant you can pick." "If

Desire will in due time externalize itself as concrete fact.

Our repeated failure to fully act as we would wish must not discourage us. It is the sincere intention that is the essential thing, and this will in time release us from the bondage of habits which at present seem almost insuperable.

We pray, 'lead us not into temptation'. Do we then lead ourselves into temptation?

I was in uniform for four years, and I know that heroism doesn't occur from taking orders, but rather from people who through their own willpower and strength are willing to sacrifice their lives for an idea.

They even found themselves able to die if they wanted to.

The masses of people are carried along, obedient to environment; the wills and desires of others stronger than themselves; heredity; suggestion; and other outward causes moving them about like pawns on the Chessboard of Life. But the Masters, rising to the plane above, dominate their moods, characters, qualities, and powers, as well as the environment surrounding them, and become Movers instead of pawns.

The Master does this consciously, and by the use of his Will, and attains a degree of Poise and Mental Firmness almost impossible of belief on the part of the masses who are swung backward and forward like a pendulum.

Self-control is the chief element in self-respect, and self-respect is the chief element in courage.

Because even bigger than her sadness was her determination.