Quotes About Willpower

The writer who possesses the creative gift owns something of which he is not always master- something that at time strangely wills and works for itself.

There is no allurement or enticement, actual or imaginary, which a well-disciplined mind may not surmount. The wish to resist more than half accomplishes the object.

Ele disse que, com o poder de imaginação que tenho e minha rotina de inventar histórias, uma debilidade dos nervos como a minha só pode resultar em fantasias, e que devo usar minha força de vontade e meu bom senso para controlar essa propensão

Ele disse que, com o poder de imaginação que tenho e meu hábito de inventar histórias, uma debilidade dos nervos como a minha só pode resultar em fantasias exaltadas, e que devo usar minha força de vontade e meu bom senso para controlar essa propensão.

Getting where you want to be has everything to do with awareness, and nothing to do with willpower.

Without temptation, there was no virtue in resistance.

slices to the very heart of the hiker's volition,

quitting. But now, only ten days out, I was done. I wanted

So much of being able to hike the PCT depended upon mind control: the stout decision to move forward, regardless.

The power of the mind is your power. Use it. Don't let it use you.

You can find inspiration from others but determination is solely your responsibility.

Some people succeed because they are destined to, but most people succeed because they are determined to.

The two most empowering words in the English language are: I choose.

Most Scorpios don't know how to say no to a second drink.

With self-discipline most anything is possible.

You can't control how you feel. But you can always choose how you act.

Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of human freedoms – to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way.

Decisions that lead to no action, like a decision to start a new diet tomorrow, are no decisions at all. That's why is so easy to make New Year's resolutions.

Nobody wants to work. Not even the breath wants to work.

Man was predestined to have free will.

People may claim to be "free," yet they cannot control themselves from gluttony in the presence of food or from illicit sexual relations when the opportunity presents itself. Such a notion of freedom is devoid of substance.

If it Will it Will

Darf man einen Wolf zwingen, Gras zu fressen, wenn er keinen Appetit darauf hat?

Choice is nothing in itself; everything depends on what one is able to choose.