Quotes About Willpower

Make yourself do unpleasant things so as to gain the upper hand of your soul.

By thought, the thing you want is brought to you; by action you receive it.

There is no reason for worry about financial affairs. Every person who wills to do so may rise above his want, have all he needs, and become rich.

Alto: "She's a pistol and has the strongest will of any kid I've ever met. It's like payback.

Jobs's obstinacy lasted for nine months after his October 2003 diagnosis. Part of it was the product of the dark side of his reality distortion field. "I think Steve has such a strong desire for the world to be a certain way that he wills it to be that way," Levinson speculated. "Sometimes it doesn't work. Reality is unforgiving.

A man can do as he wills, but not will as he wills

The Übermensch at any rate cannot be dissociated from the conception of Überwindung, of overcoming. "Man is something that should be overcome"—and the man who has overcome himself has become an overman.

The chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken.

does a firm persuasion that a thing is so, make it so? He replied, 'All poets believe that it does. And in ages of imagination, this firm persuasion removed mountains; But many are not capable of a firm persuasion of anything.'" — from The Marriage of Heaven and Hell by William Blake

practice self-control.

Mastering others requires force; mastering the self needs strength.

If he wanted to drink himself to death it was nobody's affair but his own; his life was his life to throw away, if that's what he wanted; but—was that what he wanted? If so, why did he suffer remorse? Obviously there was the will in him to destroy himself; part of him was bent on self-destruction—he'd be the last to deny it. But obviously, too, part was not; part held back and expressed its disapproval in remorse and shame.

How often he had been dumbfounded—at first incredulous, then contemptuous—to hear someone say, after a night of drinking, "God, take it away, I don't want to smell it, I don't want to see it even, take it out of my sight!"—this at the very moment when he wanted and needed it most.

Stop!" said the Irishwoman. "I have one more word for you both; for you will both see me again before all is over. Those that wish to be clean, clean they will be; and those that wish to be foul, foul they will be. Remember.

If you grit your teeth and show real determination, you'll always have a chance.

While her emotions were very real and they gnawed at her with a raw sincerity, she was listening to something deeper. She was listening to her will, not letting what she felt dictate what she would do. Didn't let it dictate her life.

Yes, but that was the way she wanted to do it. And furthermore she didn't want him going out there with her now. Three exclamation marks appeared over Norwood's head. No, her mind was made up.

To appreciate a new and difficult style, as I have said, takes an act of will, a decision to experience it again.

Never go backward. Attempt, and do it with all your might. Determination is power.

Three things at least they [good politicians] must require; the first is back-bone; the second is back-bone; and the third is back-bone.

This is what I say: I've got good news and bad news. The good news is, you don't have to worry, you can't change the past. The bad news is, you don't have to worry, no matter how hard you try, you can't change the past. The universe just doesn't put up with that. We aren't important enough. No one is. Even in our own lives. We're not strong enough, willful enough, skilled enough in chronodiegetic manipulation to be able to just accidentally change the entire course of anything, even ourselves.

Insisten?a e calea spre a ob?ine ce vrei.

There was a reason these boys were still alive, though. Something made them stronger than the other kids, the ones who had died in the early days, who had simply lain down and given up, unable to cope with the terrible things that were happening in the world. These boys were survivors. The will to live was stronger than any other feelings.

I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will, which I now exert to leave you.