Quotes About Willpower

No, I will finish what I started, here, at Glimpa's Arch. The act belongs to me, the consequence, pleasing or not, belongs to the gods.

You do what you have to do. That's who you seem to be to me, anyway. You're one who does what he has to do.

I am in the pitiable situation of feeling all the force of temptation without having the strength to succumb to it.

At 20 years of age the will reigns at 30 the wit at 40 the judgment.

Anger is like A full hot horse, who being allowed his way, Self-mettle tires him.

Practice restraint over the following: appetite, first, as well as sleep, lust, and anger.

Take the selfishness out of anger and you're left with determination.

After you have said "thy will be done," what more can be said? And where do you find the strength to pray "thy will be done" after you see what it means?

that would be too much like running away, and that, she would not do. She does not run—they cannot make her—she walks.

I can resist everything but temptation.

After the lapse of a minute, I roused my manhood, and opened the door.

Those who control their passions do so because their passions are weak enough to be controlled.

Sooner strangle an infant in its cradle than nurse unacted desires.

Those who restrain desire, do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained; and the restrainer or reason usurps its place & governs the unwilling. And being restrain'd it by degrees becomes passive till it is only the shadow of desire.

I will not cease from mental fight Nor shall my sword sleep in my hand.

She was the captain of her soul

Freedom comes with the decision: it does not wait for the act.

I love, I will accept no substitute; ...; if happy I can be I will, if suffer I must I can.

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The more details of our daily life we can hand over to the effortless custody of automatism, the more our higher powers of mind will be set free for their own proper work. There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision, and for whom the lighting of every cigar, the drinking of every cup, the time of rising and going to bed every day, and the beginning of every bit of work, are subjects of express volitional deliberation.

he was as good as his word, for he became a teetotaler, a nonsmoker and a vegetarian to boot

But without Adolf Hitler, who was possessed of a demonic personality, a granite will, uncanny instincts, a cold ruthlessness, a remarkable

Adolf Hitler, who was possessed of a demonic personality, a granite will, uncanny instincts, a cold ruthlessness, a remarkable intellect, a soaring imagination and—until toward the end, when, drunk with power and success, he overreached himself—an amazing capacity to size up people

Great souls have wills; feeble ones have only wishes