Quotes About Willpower

There's a feeling of power in reserve, a power that drives right through the bone, like the shiver you sense in the shaft of an axe when you take it into your hand. You can strike, or you can not strike, and if you choose to hold back the blow, you can still feel inside you the resonance of the omitted thing.

And I ask you—a woman, weak in body, weak in will—can she rule, with all the frailty of her sex?

we don't have trouble overcoming procrastination because we're weak, but because it is duplicitous.

We'll stop it, even if my body crumbles to bits I'll stop it with my soul!

You must be strong enough to strike and strike and strike again without tiring. The first lesson is to make yourself that strong.

That's the problem with temptation. It's so damn tempting.

You said you were allowed to lose it,' some part of her reminded herself. 'Not yet, not yet.

Remember, all you really get to control is yourself.

With dawn of the new year on the horizon, I resolved to exert my will on the world.

But if you don't want to go with them, you're going to have to lash yourself to the bed like sailors who lashed themselves to masts to avoid jumping into the sea with Sirens.

Since I never intended to quit, it's nice to have someone making all this effort to get me to do something I would have done anyway.

I shatter every obstacle.

"Temptations can be got rid of." "How?" "By yielding to them."

Unele fiin?e sunt ca ni?te zerouri, le trebuie o cifr? înainte, ?i numai atunci nimicnicia lor dobânde?te o valoare neb?nuit?. Eu nu pot dobândi valoare decât printr-o alian?? cu o voin?? puternic?, neînduplecat?.

Leonardo da Vinci: "Obstacles cannot crush me; every obstacle yields to stern resolve.

a quote from Leonardo da Vinci: "Obstacles cannot crush me; every obstacle yields to stern resolve.

Obstacles cannot crush me; every obstacle yields to stern resolve." Good one, Leonardo. But the more I think about it, the more I think that maybe I wouldn't say anything motivational at all. It's quite possible that I might briskly slap my hands against my knees and say, "Sounds like it's time you gave up.

every obstacle yields to stern resolve.

Love is a decision.' 'Love is a decision?' 'That's right. A decision. Not a feeling.

Oh, Pandora. Where's your willpower? You were told not to open that box, you snoopy girl, you typical woman with your insatiable curiosity; now look what you've gone and done. When for one thing it was a jar, not a box, and for another—how many times does she have to say it?—nobody said a word about not opening it!

And then, everyone's like, Oh, Pandora. Where's your willpower? You were told not to open that box, you snoopy girl, you typical woman with your insatiable curiosity, now look what you've gone and done. When for one thing it was a jar, not a box, and for another, how many times does she have to say it, nobody said a word about not opening it!

And then everyone's like, Oh, Pandora. Where's your willpower? You were told not to open that box, you snoopy girl, you typical woman with your insatiable curiosity; now look what you've gone and done.

What if evil doesn't really exist? What if evil is something dreamed up by man, and there is nothing to struggle against except out own limitations? The constant battle between our will, our desires, and our choices?

What if evil doesn't really exist? What if evil is something dreamed up by man, and there is nothing to struggle against except out own limitations? The constant battle between our will, our desires, and our choices?