Quotes About Willpower

Writing is this odd act, right? To sit and type, or write by hand, or whatever people do. And it requires a real discipline because it is really a sheer act of will that you're creating something, and you're doing it by yourself.

Even if someone offers me junk food, I won't eat it.

Like some high official, you have to tell your brain: 'Do it. Come on. I have to do it.'

Look at bread, and see it as a Dairy Milk Cadbury's chocolate bar, and say to yourself, 'OK, you don't need that.' Bread is bad.

It doesn't matter how old you are, with determination you can make your life what you want it to be.

I just have to stop biting my nails. I've been on and off that bandwagon so many times. I feel like it's going to be a lifelong struggle.

It is one thing to mortify curiosity, another to conquer it.

You have to really have the will to hang onto the first note as it is being played, and then really stay with it and take the flight, as it were, you know, for the duration of the piece.

The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it... I can resist everything but temptation.

Cada impulso que intentamos aniquilar germina en la mente y nos envenena

The only way to get rid of temptation is to yeild to it.

I can resist anything but temptation

I can resist everything except temptation.

El único modo de librarnos de la tentación es ceder a ella.

We are punished for our refusals. Every impulse that we strive to strangle broods in the mind and poisons us.

The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. Resist it, and your soul grows sick with longing for the things it has forbidden to itself.

The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.

I can resist anything except temptation - Oscar Wilde (Lady Windermere's Fan, 1892)

El único camino para deshacerse de la tentación es ceder a ella

Aliudque cupido, mens aliud suadet: video meliora proboque,deteriora sequor!

But no earthly foot can step between a man and his destiny.

I believe there is little you cannot do once you set your mind to it.

It is true of course, that I have a will of iron, but it can be switched off if the circumstances seem to demand it.

A man thinks he is being chilled steel – or adamant, if you prefer the expression – and suddenly the mists clear away and he finds that he has allowed a girl to talk him into something frightful. Samson had the same experience with Delilah.