Quotes About Willpower

Determination was a superpower, but like any power, it could be used for bad ends.

When such single minded strength of will and purpose is directed to reach its goal, no boundary can resist.

The test is not just something hard to do, the test is knowing you can do it.

There is no reality exception in action.

Say die and I will die. Say die and watch me die.

Destiny is a worrying concept. I don't want to be fated, I want to choose.

To be driven by our appetites alone is slavery, while to obey a law that we have imposed on ourselves is freedom.

The worst education is to leave him floating between his will and yours, and to dispute endlessly between you and him as to which of the two will be the master.

Cuando hay que hacer lo contrario de mi voluntad, no lo hago, ocurra lo que ocurra; tampoco hago mi voluntad, porque soy débil. Me abstengo de actuar: dado que toda mi debilidad es para la acción, toda mi fuerza es negativa, y todos mis pecados son de omisión, raramente de comisión.

Nikdy jsem nemyslil, že svoboda ?lovÄ›ka by záležela v tom, aby dÄ›lal, co chce, nýbrž spíÅ¡, aby nikdy nedÄ›lal, co nechce, a to je svoboda, jíž jsem se vždy dovolával, ?asto ji zachovával a pro kterou jsem byl nejvíce svým vrstevník?m k pohorÅ¡ení

He is no longer himself, but has become an automaton who has ceased to be guided by his will.

You know, if it's humanly possible, I'll get it for you. And if it ain't humanly possible, I'l die trying.

You know, if it's humanly possible, I'll get it for you. And if it ain't humanly possible, I'll die trying.

Man is what he wills himself to be.

I can always choose, but I ought to know that if I do not choose, I am still choosing.

Je n'ai pas rêvé cet héroïsme. Je l'ai choisi. On est ce qu'on veut.

Din clipa în care libertatea a f?cut explozie în sufletul unui om, zeii nu mai pot face nimic împotriva lui. Asta-i o treab? omeneasc?, ÅŸi numai ceilalÅ£i oameni - numai ei - au c?derea s?-l lase în libertate sau s?-l strîngâ de gît.

Man is condemned to be free.

We, performers, work on willpower. This willpower works in a short term, not durational.

Mind control won't work on those who are really hardheaded. You know… Creatures like you.

I feel self-repressed again. The old fall disease. Where is my willpower? The idea of a life gets in the way of my life...I dream too much, work too little.

A man must drive his energy, not be driven by it.

Not only don't diets work, they're actually designed to fail. It's not you or your lack of will power that's the problem. It's that diets by their very nature simply don't work.

When you think you can't do any more repetitions, do two more.