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Quotes About Willpower

Don't take 'no' for an answer.
~ Abdullah II of Jordan
Tout pouvoir humain est un composé de patience et de temps.
~ Honore de Balzac
we often subject ourselves to sentiments by our own volition, — deliberately bind ourselves, and create our own fate; chance has not as much to do with it as we believe.
~ Honore de Balzac
There is no such thing as a great talent without great will power.
~ Honore de Balzac
Pour un pauvre être écrasé par les différents despotismes qui, peu ou prou, pèsent sur toutes les jeunesses, le premier usage du libre arbitre, exercé même sur des riens, apportait à Tâme je ne sais quel épanouissement.
~ Honore de Balzac
A man may and ought to pride himself more on his will than on his talent
~ Honore de Balzac
And he woke up the next morning light-hearted and eager; so fine a medicine was the will to action.
~ Unknown
Let us not be content to wait and see what will happen, but give us the determination to make the right things happen
~ Horace Mann
Eu nu sunt ceea ce ascund, eu sunt ceea ce devin prin voin??
~ Unknown
Indeed, Nietzsche believed that the only possibility for existence was for each of us to become gods ourselves.
~ Unknown
The enemy ate away at their will so they could not resist, their bodies not only craving, but needing the very poison that ground them into that pitiable state of being; the mind diseased and crippled by the enemy it was obsessed with and the obsession and terrible physical need corrupting the soul until the actions were less than those of an animal, less than those of a wounded animal, less than those of anything and everything they did not want to be.
~ Unknown
an event of such prodigious proportions and importance that it infused her with a new will to live and materialized a dream that brightened her days and soothed her lonely nights.
~ Unknown
Quand j'étais petit, je me suis aperçu que je n'avais pas de ligne de chance, alors avec le rasoir de mon pére... zac, je m'en suis fait une comme je voulais.
~ Hugo Pratt
Quando ero bambino mi accorsi che non avevo la linea della fortuna sulla mano e allora presi il rasoio di mio padre e zac... Me ne feci una come volevo.
~ Hugo Pratt
The heart is a muscle that pumps blood, not sentimentality! I'll do what I please!
~ Hugo Pratt
Apenas naquilo que o homem faz, segue fazendo, naquilo em que persevera, ele mostra caráter.
~ Hugo von Hofmannsthal
There is no chance, no fate, no destiny that can circumvent, or hinder, or control the firm resolve of a determined soul.
~ Hyrum Smith
All the soul of man is resolution, which in valiant men falters never, until their last breath.
~ Unknown
Never do it, never make it, too far, too high, too much," and she shouted down to them, "Of course I can, of course I will, watch me, watch me!
~ Unknown
Un lema de la raza humana Dime qué debo hacer; pero tiene que ser lo que quiero que me digas.
~ Idries Shah
Restraint. The original purpose of cultivating restraint is so that eventually one will not need to have restraint.
~ Idries Shah
Si siempre intentas hacer lo que QUIERES, a menudo estarás sacrificando lo que PUEDES hacer.
~ Idries Shah
You don't take away my choices. You are my choice.
~ Colleen Houck
One shall become, whenever One wills it so.
~ Unknown