Quotes About Willpower

My aunt always says that if you put your mind to it, you can do absolutely anything," Jake said. "Is that true?" "No," I said. "It's nonsense.

She was stronger than Stew Mitchum, or maybe she just wanted something more than he did.

The moral of the story is that if you tell yourself you can do something, then you can actually do it, a moral easily disproved if you tell yourself that you can eat nine pints of ice cream in a single sitting, or that you can shipwreck yourself on a distant island simply by setting off in a rented canoe with holes sawed in it.

Control yourself. You'll spurt.

The best way to break a bad habit is to drop it.

Temptations can come also from the deep-seated forces within us which we call passions, passions that often are rebellious and imperfectly controlled as a result of original sin. But from whatever source the temptation may come, we know that we can conquer it if we have the will to do so.

You say: I am not free. But I have raised and lowered my arm. Everyone understands that this illogical answer is an irrefutable proof of freedom.

A battle is won by him who is firmly resolved to win it.

There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.

Epictetus (55 ? 135 A.D.) said, There is only one way to happiness and that is to stop worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.

The fact that you are possessed by a demon does not mean you must become evil. Being evil is a choice, just as being good is a choice. If you let the demon take over, it's because you choose to.

I am very strong. Nothing ever fatigues me, but doing what I do not like.

What! Would I be turned back from doing a thing that I had determined to do, and that I knew to be right, by the airs and interference of such a person, or any person I may say? No, I have no idea of being so easily persuaded. When I have made up my mind, I have made it.

She was without any power, because she was without any desire of command over herself.

I am tired of submitting my will to the caprices of others—of resigning my own judgement in deference to those to whom I owe no duty, and for whom I feel no respect.

There is a stubbornness about me that never can bear to be frightened at the will of others.

I will be mistress of myself.

Babe," Ranger said, "you need to make some decisions." "I made decisions. I'm just having a hard time sticking to them.

No one can eat just one French fry." "I bet supermodels eat just one French fry.

I was getting nowhere fast on all this stuff, but as Yoda says, "Do or do not. There is no try." So, I was all about the do today.

We as a species have unlimited power of our mind. We can make anything happen.

Nothing is over until you quit.

I've inherited a kind of... willfulness, a kind of quiet willfulness that I'll just hang in there with something until it happens.

If you can't do it, give up!