Quotes About Willpower

How can he talk like that?" thought Pierre. He considered his friend a model of perfection because Prince Andrew possessed in the highest degree just the very qualities Pierre lacked, and which might be best described as strength of will.

There never has been and cannot be a good life without self-control. Apart from self-control no good life is imaginable.

It was as if a surplus of something so overflowed her being that it expressed itself beyond her will, now in the brightness of her glance, now in her smile. She deliberately extinguished the light in her eyes, but it shone against her will in a barely noticeable smile.

La energía se basa en el amor y no es posible adquirir amor a la fuerza.

A man can do all things if he but wills them.

Los que titubean ante el esfuerzo, es porque tienen adormecida el alma

I try not to diet because it never really works for me, if I tell myself I can't eat something then I tend to want to eat everything in sight.

It is easier to resist at the beginning than at the end.

tra il gruppo dei «ragazzi di via Panisperna» e lui, c'era una differenza profonda: che Fermi e «i ragazzi» cercavano, mentre lui semplicemente trovava. Per quelli la scienza era un fatto di volontà, per lui di natura.

Man has six organs to serve him and he is master only of three. He cannot control his eye, ear or nose, but he can his mouth, hand and foot.

A free spirit myself, I secretly admired a freer one. To deny his right to chose his own path, was to deny myself that right, too.

You mean to make me beg for it?" "Not at all, my lord. I mean to keep it

But I am clinically depressed and have an anxiety disorder, which interferes with things like studying and learning and breathing and living. He thinks it's something I can just turn off and on with willpower.

Every morning he woke up it seemed impossible that he could ever consume another drop of alcohol, but that conviction had always evaporated by 5 o'clock in the afternoon.

Every morning when he woke up it seemed impossible that he could ever consume another drop of alcohol, but that conviction had always evaporated by five o'clock in the afternoon.

A silly idea is current that good people do not know what temptation means. This is an obvious lie. Only those who try to resist temptation know how strong it is.... A man who gives in to temptation after five minutes simply does not know what it would have been like an hour later. That is why bad people, in one sense, know very little about badness. They have lived a sheltered life by always giving in.

But one of the worst results of being a slave and being forced to do things is that when there is no one to force you any more you find you have almost lost the power of forcing yourself.

I never used to believe in fate. I used to think you make your own life, and then you call it fate.

She had a hard time to keep from running.

Ilman itsekuria mistään ei tule mitään.

through gritted teeth, "is to look through

When it comes to this kind of thing we can all hold out helping hands to each other, doctors can supply some very helpful medications, but in the end, each of us has to have the will to swim to shore on our own. No one can carry another person. Not for long, at any rate.

No one can turn a man into a hero, just as no one can turn him into a coward. A man has to do either one all by himself.

Threats are a waste of everyone's time. They leave room for doubt. They encourage an opponent to test your willpower or your strength.