Quotes About Willpower

Only the weak compromise.

The brain's gonna do what the brain's gonna do," I told them, "but you don't have to let it push you around.

To assert a belief in free will is to accept responsibility for our actions and to recognize the mind as "more or less a first cause, an unmoved mover," as the theorist Thomas Clark says: it is to hold the view that "we could have willed otherwise in the radical sense that the will is not the explicable or predictable result of any set of conditions that held at the moment of choice.

The question is whether such a technique can really make a man good. Greatness comes from within, 6655321. Goodness is something chosen. When a man cannot choose he ceases to be a man.

Carried to its logical limits, a system in which no one has a choice about what action to take is unworkable.

In other words, what Libet was saying is that you really can't decide or determine what will initially grab your attention—your brain does. However, his research also indicated that once your initial attention is grabbed, you can determine whether you keep your attention focused on that object (and act on it) or veto it based on the principle of Free Won't.

So often, we pretend we've made a decision, when what we've really done is signed up to try until it gets too uncomfortable.

But she was determined to do it, independent of all the circumstances and obstacles; she was this kind of person. Once she decided something, she was determined to do it and she did it.

Kad es ko gribu un nevaru dab?t, es k??stu p?rgalv?gs.

Winning requires an act of will. There are moments when my exercise of will is strong, and this business is all about will.

self-control is not control by oneself through one's own willpower but rather control of oneself through the power of the Holy Spirit.

i chose not to run

Of all mammals, only a human being can say 'no.

I realised that if I did what I wanted to do, it would work.

I didn't expect it was going to be easy. But hard work is a lot easier to tolerate when it's something you want to do instead of something you have no choice about.

Do you give up?" Shezmu bellowed. "No!" I yelled. "No, we don't give up. We will name you. Just . . . Gosh, you're quite well muscled, arn't you? Do you work out?

Work, ah! that talisman to guard one against one's self.

If brute force doesn't work, you aren't using enough

Faith without action is delusion. Faith does not wait for miracles but produces them. If you think you can or if you think you can't, you are right.

If you want it enough, you find strength to work for its achievement.

Sometimes we just have to suck it up and do what we have to do, until we are able to do what we want to do.

It's hard to beat a person who never gives up.

Without strength can we work?

It is not enough to hope for something to happen and throw it into the universe. You, too, must also work to make it happen.