Quotes About Willpower

Before, I was always trying to make my relationships work by means of willpower and forced affability. This time I didn't have to strive for anything. A quality of ease spread over us.

Willpower isn't just a skill. It's a muscle, like the muscles in your arms or legs, and it gets tired as it works harder, so there's less power left over for other things.

If you want to do something that requires willpower - like going for a run after work - you have to conserve your willpower muscle during the day.

Okay then. The destiny didn't work with the Chosen One. So I'll do it instead.

I work with patience, which is almost power.

Self-control is completely necessary for increasing and raising your attention level. One of the places you practice that is at work.

Along with my will power, it was my parents who stood by me like a pillar of strength in my most challenging phase of life.

Defiance in itself is a sign of strength, and strength is a light side of human nature - when at all present, that is.

And when a woman's will is as strong as the man's who wants to govern her, half her strength must be concealment.

It's that strength of the human spirit, the strength of what's deep down in you, that's really going to get you anywhere and everywhere.

If I had not some strength of will I would make a first class drunkard.

Enthusiasm will steady the heart and strengthen the will; it will give force to the thought and nerve to the hand until what was only a possibility becomes a reality.

I don't think my determination has ever put me into trouble because of this, in fact, I think it is one of my main strengths and makes me the player that I am - without it I wouldn't be the same.

The will to challenge myself is strong, but I think that's growing, the desire to stretch myself and make it hard.

There are good days when I am disciplined and I follow my diet plan strictly and there are lazy days when I eat chocolates, doughnuts and ice creams.

Passion and strife bow down the mind.

Give me power of soul, so that I may actually effect by its will that which I strive for.

The difference between men is in energy, in the strong will, in the settled purpose and in the invincible determination.

You have to be very strong and headstrong to make your place. You have to know how to say no. Patience is very important.

The mind is a very strong thing.

When I need motivation, I just think I can do everything if I maintain a strong sense of will.

I think I was born strong-willed. That's not the kind of thing you can learn. The advantage is, you stick to what you believe in and rarely get pushed out of what you want to do.

If you're doing gags, I think it's important to have characters who are as strong-willed and impactful as possible.

There's no controlling Billie - she's an authentic person. She's strong-willed and speaks her own mind, but she also listens to reason.