Quotes About Willpower

Reason should direct and appetite obey.

But it's not enough to know right from wrong. You need the strength to do what's right, even when what you want most in the world is the wrong thing.

You need the strength to do what's right, even when what you want most in the world is the wrong thing.

He wasn't proud or arrogant, but there was a self-confidence about him that said he knew what he wanted and he was going to get it, and you'd better not get in his way.

Makahan waktu itu nasibku adalah untuk menaklukkan, bukan untuk ditaklukkan.

Bahkan seekor cacing pun kalau terluka, akan menggeliat-geliat dan melawan.

The surest test of discipline is it's absence.

In spite of sheer concentration and every effort of will power, Byrd could not avoid the terrible evenness and loneliness of silence.

Pesimista con la razón, optimista con la voluntad.

Everything that ever was always will be and is always present to discover if you have the will to look beyond surface appearances.

Choice is a matter of selection. Decision is a matter of direction.

Freedom is not the greatest thing; how we decide to use our freedom is the greatest thing.

Self-discipline keeps you doing your job. Without it, you lose your pride and you forget the importance of self-respect in the eyes of your fellow men. Pride keeps you going on. This is what I feared I would lose—the loss of the will to measure up to my men.

I am perfectly well aware that May has not a will that overcomes mine, but an inner mechanism superior to my own, a whirling driving-power that is never slowed down by thoughts. She has taught me that one can dine without being hungry, talk without saying anything, laugh from sheer force of habit, drink out of human respect and live with a man in a state of complete servility while maintaining all the appearances of frantic independence.

Evil, he had come to believe, was controllable as long as man had the strength of will to believe in himself.

WÅ'aÅ›ciwie, to ja jestem Jerzy MichaÅ', ale ?e Å›wiÄ™ty Jerzy smoka tylko roztratowaÅ', a Å›wiÄ™ty MichaÅ' caÅ'emu komunikowi niebieskiemu przewodzi i tyle ju? nad piekielnymi chorÄ…gwiami odniósÅ' wiktoryj, przeto jego wolÄ™ mie? za patrona.

To fight with desire is hard: whatever it wishes, it buys at the price of soul.

To fight with desire is hard: whatever it wishes it buys at the price of a soul.

Es difícil luchar contra el ánimo de uno, pues aquello que se desea le cuesta a uno el alma

A diet is a plan, generally hopeless, for reducing your weight, which tests your will power but does little for your waistline.

The habit of persistence is the habit of victory.

I would prefer not to.

Perhaps this book will help my fellow countrymen remember that it is through the sum of daring individual actions that this nation has risen above all others and that our greatness comes only from the free interplay of singular wills.

The destiny of man is in his own soul.