Quotes About Willpower

Nothing can withstand the power of the human will if it is willing to stake its very existence to the extent of its purpose.

Free will is to mind what chance is to matter.

If you grit your teeth and show real determination, you'll always have a chance.

se había engañado a sí misma al dejarse convencer, por un momento, de que los seres humanos no se dividen en exterminadores y exterminados, y que los exterminadores tienden a colocarse en la situación dominante en cuanto pueden. La fuerza de voluntad es inútil si no se va a algún lado.

Will-power is useless without a sense of direction.

La pelea es como la guerra en pequeño, pero con la diferencia de que la guerra se desata entre personas ficticias, los estados, de tal manera que las personas físicas de carne y hueso solo son utilizadas como medios; en cambio, en la simple pelea, los que pelean son los dueños de su propia voluntad y no súbditos de la persona ficticia a la que obedecen cuando hay guerra.

I learned during the three weeks after my surgery that when you are in rehab, willpower and determination are key.

Saint Thomas Aquinas says, wisely, that the only way to drive out a bad passion is by a stronger good passion. The same is true of thoughts as of passions. When your mind wanders, like a child, your will must bring it back, like a mother. [. . .] The will-parent must discipline the mind-child, avoiding both the opposite extremes commonly made in disciplining either children or thoughts: tyranny or permissiveness.

We too can love with the will even when we do not have loving emotions or feelings. We make this distinction toward ourselves quite easily, so we should be able to do it toward others too when necessary.

Ai xu?ng h?a ng?c ??u có th? hát lên: Tôi Ä'ã s?ng theo ý tôi.

God's Spirit is most powerfully at work in us during emotional troughs, the "dry" times, not the "high" times. All the saints teach that. When the aid of feelings is removed, we can move forward only by heroic effort of our will. This

Tempting is not forcing.

Love is supposed to bring us out of the dark prison of the "my will be done" ego into the joys of "thy will be done", both horizontally and vertically, toward both the human and the divine Other.

Stubborness is also determination. It's simply a matter of shifting from won't power to will power.

We can only control the end by making a choice at each step.

It's a fact. I can't get faith or enthusiasm by willing it. Deciding to.

When you choose one way out of many, all the ways you don't take are snuffed out like candles, as if they'd never existed. At that moment all Will's choices existed at once. But to keep them all in existence meant doing nothing. He had to choose, after all.

Hepimiz kadere tabiyiz, ama hepimiz sanki deÄŸilmiÅŸiz gibi hareket etmeliyiz. dedi Cad?. Yoksa umutsuzluktan ölürüz.

She felt half inclined to lie down and die. But her body wanted food and drink, and she took this as a sign that her body at least wanted to go on living.

Tutti siamo soggetti al fato. Però tutti dobbiamo agire come se non lo fossimo. O morire di disperazione.

I'll get them there, she kept saying to herself. I come here to get 'em and I'll bloody get 'em.

And Lord Asriel has a way special to himself of bringing about what he wants, he just has to call for something and—

Your will, not mine, O Lord.

We should not only refrain from thinking about gratifying our desires but also avoid focusing on not gratifying our desires. The way to deal with temptation is not to grit our teeth and make up our minds that we will not do a certain thing. The key is to fill our minds with other things.