Quotes About Willpower

A dog in desperation will leap over a wall

Why did they quit so easily? The answer may surprise you: They ran out of self-control.

The more instinctive a behavior becomes, the less self-control from the Rider it requires, and thus the more sustainable it becomes.

Self-control is an exhaustible resource

If Jindan wants something badly enough, she can make it happen. She believes this completely.

The cakes and pies and casseroles beckoned like gastronomic sirens, and there was no one to lash me to the mast.

Lack of discipline is an invader, constantly searching for ways into your life, testing your defenses at every turn. It is a time-traveling bandit that steals from the pockets of the future you and tosses a fraction of that future reward to your present self while keeping the rest.

You are what you allow the Lord to make you.

Every person in the AA program who's successful is living proof that he or she does have power over addictive drugs and alcohol- the power to stop.

The sparks are getting hungrier every day, but controlling appetites is what separates man from beast. I shall wait until

Life becomes the way it is lived; and man may live the way he wants to live when he learns to think what he wants to think.

When you permit an outside agency to control your feelings and emotions at frequent intervals for a prolonged period, your system will soon get into the habit of submitting to the control of this outside agency, and will not respond any longer to any effort that the will may make to regain its original power of control.

A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough.

Moderators are able to enjoy a small bowl of ice cream and leave it at that. Abstainers find that one bowl of ice cream inevitably leads to finishing off the carton, and one cookie is never enough. Abstainers tend to do best when they abstain from all sugar for five or six days per week, leaving a day or two for eating whatever they want. Are you a moderator or an abstainer?

The essence of everything you will learn in these pages comes down to this: To live an easy life, you have to align with the Divine part of yourself. In fact, you have to let it lead your life. This is not the same as waiting for some kind of Divine force outside of you to come swooping in to rescue you from your life. That's not how it works. You have to make an effort to make changes. But when you align your personal will with Divine will, then you can move mountains. Much

The most important qualities a human can possess are an iron will and a persevering spirit," Mamey

The most important qualities a human can possess are an iron will and a persevering spirit,

The most important qualities a human can possess are an iron will and a persevering spirit," Mamey says.

Le tumulte et le désordre de notre esprit diminuent notre libre arbitre, le rendent esclave de nos émotions, c'est-à-dire des circonstances.

ci sono errori che fin dall'inizio sai di dover commettere, di voler commettere, a dispetto di cosa ti dica la coscienza, la logica o la paura

Odysseus doesn't overcome the lure of the siren's song through virtue and discipline; he orders his sailors to bind him to the mast.

As long as we think we can save ourselves by our own will power, we will only make the evil in us stronger than ever.

Lo cierto es que me obsesionaba una sola idea: la determinación de vivir, de sobrevivir a toda costa.

Confidence is the master of fate.