Quotes About Willpower

About the only time losing is more fun than winning is when you're fighting temptation.

The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in determination.

The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a person's determination.

The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a man's determination.

In short, we each have one reservoir of will and discipline, and it is depleted by any act of conscious self-regulation—whether that's resisting a cookie, solving a puzzle, or doing anything else that requires effort. "The

You can close your mind to things if something is important enough. It works very well. You make yourself very small, shut your eyes tight and say a big word over and over again until you're save.

It's not going to be over until we say so.

It's not going to be over," Kate said firmly, "until we say so.

Kate seemed to have doubled in size. She had drawn back her broad shoulders and set her jaw, and something in the stance called to mind the contained ferocity of a lioness. But it was the fierceness in Kate's bright blue eyes that had the most striking effect. The sort of look that made you thankful she wasn't your enemy. "It's not going to be over," Kate said firmly "Until we say so.

Some days you maybe full of life, while other days you may want to be through with life. Even though the odds are not in your favor, you still have to find the strength to keep on going. Where there is a will, there is always a way. So do not be fooled into believing that you are not good enough. By the grace of God, your time will come, and you will seize the moment.

Any act often repeated soon forms a habit and habit allowed, steady gains in strength, At first it may be but as a spider's web, easily broken through, but if not resisted it soon binds us with chains of steel.

staring at the rankings as if they could reshape them with the sheer force of their eyeballs.

NOTHING TO DO WITH HER DREAM LAST NIGHT. NO. She WOULD NOT STAND FOR IT.

Hungry Only: The Bulldozer

To paint and nothing more. And to paint seeking a new expression, divested of useless realism, with a method linked only to my thought—without enslaving myself or associating myself with objective reality. Neither the good nor the true; neither the useful nor the useless. It is my will that takes form outside of all extrinsic schemes, without considering what the public or the critics will say.

i wish means: would it be nice if.. i want means: if i want it enough i will get it.

Sometimes we achieve the impossible sooner than we expect. Knowing that can stiffen our resolve. But it can also tempt us to place too much emphasis on outcomes; it can cause us to become unduly impatient, brittle, setback easily breaking our will. A deeper, more farseeing hope, by contrast, combines realism with resilience, acknowledging terror and suffering without giving in to them.

Why not?" "Because I'm not a broken branch. Dead things go downstream. That's a funeral procession on that creek. If we surrender to the current, we're doomed." He pointed his finger stump in the direction of the coast. "Everything tends that way. But we've got to fight it, because down there is death.

And yet never had she felt herself more totally committed to a will which was not her own, more totally a slave, and more content to be so. When

You have two choices, to control your mind or to let your mind control you.

If you conquer yourself, then you conquer the world

It was all a matter of control. And Choice. Nothing more, nothing less

The only power you have on this planet is the power of your decisions.

But no one can lose sight of what he desires. Even if there are moments when he believes the world and the others are stronger. The secret is this: do not surrender.