Quotes About Willpower

Fear is but another name for lack of power to control our minds, or, in other words, to control the kind of thought we think or put out.

Always continue the climb. It is possible for you to do whatever you choose, if you first get to know who you are and are willing to work with a power that is greater than ourselves to do it.

Nothing truly stops you. Nothing truly holds you back. For your own will is always within your control.

We are responsible for what we are, and whatever we wish ourselves to be, we have the power to make ourselves.

Are you struggling with sin? You don't need more will power. You need more of Jesus.

The power of determination will make you unstoppable.

Concentrated attention is the collection of units of power on a chosen point of intention.

In the main it will be found that a power over a man's support [salary] is a power over his will.

Once you realize that will power is just a matter of learning how to control your attention and thoughts, you can really begin to increase it.

This is the real power of habit: the insight that your habits are what you choose them to be.

True freedom is to have power over oneself for everything.

Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings

Our program is simple: we wish to govern Italy. They ask us for programs but there are already too many. It is not programs that are wanting for the salvation of Italy but men and will power.

Tapas is not a penance, it's a mental training to develop will power

A diet is a plan, generally hopeless, for reducing your weight, which tests your will power but does little for your waistline.

Use wisely your power of choice.

Will power is but the unflinching purpose to carry the task you set for yourself to fulfillment.

If somebody's going to tell me I can't do something, I'll break every bone in my body proving them wrong.

Whenever and whatever happened to alter the boy's view of the world so radically, from the moment that it happened, Mackay's story becomes one of subservience to the contrary will within him that he calls God.

Resolution is almost omnipotent. Those little words "try" and "begin" are sometimes great in their results. "I can't" never accomplished anything. "I will try" has achieved wonders.

The problem is that "bad men obey their lusts as servants obey their masters," and because they cannot control their desires, they can never find contentment.4

we have complete control over our character. We are, he says, the only ones who can stop ourselves from attaining goodness and integrity.

What Stoics discover, though, is that willpower is like muscle power: The more they exercise their muscles, the stronger they get, and the more they exercise their will, the stronger it gets. Indeed, by practicing Stoic self-denial techniques over a long period, Stoics can transform themselves into individuals remarkable for their courage and self-control.

And why is self-discipline worth possessing? Because those who possess it have the ability to determine what they do with their life. Those who lack self-discipline will have the path they take through life determined by someone or something else, and as a result, there is a very real danger that they will mislive.