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Quotes About Willpower

We can do anything we want to if we stick to it long enough.
~ Helen Keller
I've done it before. I can do it again" is the mantra of this pressure solution.
~ Hendrie Weisinger
He fell back. He had cried out so loud that even if there had been no breach in the wall, I should have heard him in my room. He voiced his whole dream, he threw it out passionately. This sincerity, which was indifferent to everything, had a definite significance which bruised my heart. "Forgive me. Forgive me. It is almost a blasphemy. I could not help it." He stopped. You felt his will-power making his face calm, his soul compelling him to silence, but his eyes seem to mourn.
~ Henri Barbusse
When you're out of willpower, you can call on stubbornness.
~ Henri Matisse
A boy's will is his life, and he dies when it is broken, as the colt dies in harness, taking a new nature in becoming tame.
~ Henry Adams
Women have, commonly, a very positive moral sense; that which they will, is right; that which they reject, is wrong; and their will, in most cases, ends by settling the moral.
~ Henry Adams
The words "Thy will be done," written in the heart, are the window to revelation.
~ Henry B. Eyring
With your call comes the promise that answers will come. But that guidance will come only when the Lord is sure you will obey. To know His will you must be committed to do it. The words "Thy will be done," written in the heart, are the window to revelation.
~ Henry B. Eyring
I was not designed to be forced. I will breathe after my own fashion. Let us see who is the strongest.
~ Henry David Thoreau
I was not born to be forced. I will breathe after my own fashion. Let us see who is the strongest.
~ Henry David Thoreau
El poder de la voluntad no transforma al hombre. El Amor, sí.
~ Henry Drummond
Enthusiasm is the yeast that makes your hopes shine to the stars. Enthusiasm is the sparkle in your eyes, the swing in your gait. The grip of your hand, the irresistible surge of will and energy to execute your ideas.
~ Henry Ford
Faith without action is delusion. Faith does not wait for miracles but produces them. If you think you can or if you think you can't, you are right.
~ Henry Ford
We can make our own choices. We get to choose how we react to all that happens to us.
~ Henry Marsh
I will not die. I will not break. I will not move. Face it. You'll go to your grave knowing you never had what it took to stop me.
~ Henry Rollins
You're going to do what you're going to do and that's all there is. That's all you got and that's that.
~ Henry Rollins
Some succeed because they are destined to, but most succeed because they are determined to.
~ Henry Van Dyke
A boy's will is the wind's will,And the thoughts of youth are long, long thoughts.
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one comes from a strong will, and the other from a strong won't.
~ Henry Ward Beecher
To array a man's will against his sickness is the supreme art of medicine.
~ Henry Ward Beecher
The wisest man is the man who is most in sympathy with nature; who follows most closely in her footsteps; yields most readily to her intimations; catches quickest her whispers; sets up least his own will, or prejudices, or notions, against her instructions.
~ HENRY WHITNEY BELLOWS
What energy!' I thought. 'Man has conquered everything, and destroyed millions of plants, yet this one won't submit.
~ Leo Tolstoy
The shore was God, the stream was tradition, and the oars were the free will given to me to make it to the shore where I would be joined with God. Thus the force of life was renewed within me, and I began to live once again.
~ Leo Tolstoy
If a man has the will he can learn anything.
~ Leo Tolstoy