Quotes About Willpower

Man may act according to that principle or inclination which for the present happens to be strongest, and yet act in a way disproportionate to, and violate his real proper nature.

People in football love to talk about mental strength. Well, I'm the strongest dude you're ever going to meet.

I struggle with control.

I've really been sick with this cold, but I think I might have kept the columns going anyhow except I was just so low in spirit, I didn't have the will to struggle against them when my deadline was so close and I felt so lousy.

I've struggled with depression before. For me, music was always a very positive way to will myself out of that situation.

We know what we are supposed to do and we don't want to do it, so we do the exact opposite anyway. And, it never goes well for us when we do that.

Losing is not an option for me.

I don't really take no for an answer. Giving up isn't an option.

To be a hero or a heroine, one must give an order to oneself.

Let men decide firmly what they will not do, and they will be free to do vigorously what they ought to do.

In the last analysis, our only freedom is the freedom to discipline ourselves.

It's no good in a scene to have one actor lie down because the scene says it's the other actor's moment. Each actor has to believe that with extra will, the outcome of a scene can be different. An actor can win the scene if he exerts the most powerful will in that moment.

Sometimes the times were dark and the outlook was lonesome, but where there is a will, there is a way. I pitched in and dug at my work until now I am where I am.

No one is free who does not lord over himself.

Mind over mattress.

If you tell me I can't eat something, I'll obsess over it and end up overeating!

If you want something, and you find an obstacle, you need to get over it. By any means necessary.

He who overcomes himself is divine. Most see their ruin before their eyes; but they go on into it.

There are moments when the human body can overcome things you would never expect.

They who overcome their desires once can overcome them always.

I've got a bad leg; I'm a little overweight, so I can't run fast, but I will fight.

Once you learn to quit it becomes a habit.

Evil, as considered in these cases, is a lack of choice.

The fates lead her who will; who won't they drag.