Quotes About Willpower

Obey, obey, obey, then do what you want.

Get in the habit of following through. Keep the promises you make to yourself.

There you are. A simple commandment. Not ten of them, just one: 'Thou shalt not eat.' (Personally, I wish the very first edict from God hadn't involved dieting, don't you?)

There is a time to struggle to achieve what we want and a time to give up any desire, a time to be strong and a time to surrender one's strength.

If they really wanted us to resist temptation, they shouldn't a made it so damn tempting.

I am who I choose to be. I have always been what I chose, though not always what I pleased.

The will to be stupid is a very powerful force, but there are always alternatives.

The strength of the group is in the will of the leader, and the will is character in action.

The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather in a lack of will.

We have to figure this out, Jackson, so leash the lust." His chin went up as he stared down at her. "Woman, you ask the impossible." "Do it anyway!

Emotionally detach, she ordered herself, no matter that he smells good and has a body you want to lick like an ice cream cone.

There is no truer gauge of a man's character than the way in which he employs his strength, his power.

Nice try?" Butters said. "Mister, where I come from, there is no try.

The real battle for your own soul isn't about falling from a great height; it's about descending, or not, one choice at a time.

You want it. I can see it in you." I gritted my teeth. "The part of me that wants it doesn't get a vote," I said.

The demon trapped in the summoning circle screamed, slamming its crablike pincers against the unseen barrier, hurling its chitinous shoulders from side to side in an effort to escape the confinement. It couldn't. I kept my will on the circle, kept the demon from bursting free. Satisfied, Chauncy? I asked it. The demon straightened its hideous form and said, in a perfect Oxford accent, Quite. You understand, I must observe the formalities.

The best way to keep yourself from doing something grossly self-destructive and stupid is to avoid the temptation to do it. For example, it is far easier to fend off inappropriate amorous desires if one runs screaming from the room every time a pretty girl comes in.

There is no truer gauge of a man's character than the way in which he employs his strength, his power.

dredged up a quote from someone I rarely agreed with about anything. "What's the point of free will, if not to spit in the eye of destiny?

Solution: Winchester.

Raw power doesn't determine all that you can do with magic. Focus matters, too. The better your focus is, the better you are at putting your power in one place at the same time, the more you can get done.

What matters is the success or failure of your will. Your will to overcome human weakness. Your will to work. To learn. I will have no shirkers here, boy.

There had to be something I could do. Had to be. There had to be.

The best way to keep yourself from doing something grossly self-destructive and stupid is to avoid the temptation to do it. For example, it is far easier to fend off inappropriate amorous desires if one runs screaming from the room every time a pretty girl comes in. Which sounds silly, I know, but the same principle applies to everything else.