Quotes About Willpower

From the gut comes the strut, and where hunger reigns, strength abstains.

I'm stubborn; I know what I want. I'll dedicate all my efforts to achieving it.

Being stubborn has helped, being selfish is not a bad thing.

Sometimes I'm more stubborn than I am smart.

I'm very stubborn. I feel like I'm going to play this season.

I've always been stubborn.

I'm really incredibly stubborn - you can ask my ex-husband. I think when you tell me 'no', if it's something I really want, I'm just going to push harder.

I'm stubborn, which is not necessarily admirable.

I do what I want to do instead of what other people think I should do, and I'm kind of stubborn that way.

I've always been a stubborn kid.

I'm very stubborn and I don't like to lose.

I am not particularly disciplined, but I am stubborn like few.

My stubbornness helped me for the first half of my career; I had that real determination to do it my way - I know the best way. That helped me from a 14-year-old to 25 in getting me to where I got to.

I make myself have energy. It's stubbornness in the face of cancer.

There's a fine line between stubbornness and the positive side of that, which is dogged determination.

Ambition should be made of sterner stuff.

I can have incredible self-discipline. But see, I think it's obviously a form of stupidity.

It is my own firm belief that the strength of the soul grows in proportion as you subdue the flesh.

I know I can be great. I don't really worry about that word 'star' too much though, 'cause I feel like that's very subjective to the audience. But I know I can be great. I have the will, the want-to. I feel like God has blessed me with the physicals, I feel like for me it's all mental.

Nobody's going to force me to do something against my will. What do I owe anybody that I should submit my will to them?

Anyone, if he has a will and basic knowledge, can create something substantial.

I mean to make myself a man, and if I succeed in that, I shall succeed in everything else.

When you feel so strongly about something and other people feel equally strongly, you have to feel stronger about it in order to succeed.

Where there is a will there is a way. And this must be the way not of compulsion but of cooperation... No government and no plan can succeed without it.