Quotes About Willpower

Remember that there is always a limit to self-indulgence, but none to self-restraint.

The lion who breaks the enemy's ranks is a minor hero compared to the lion who overcomes himself.

One who conquers himself is greater than another who conquers a thousand times a thousand on the battlefield.

One can have no smaller or greater mastery than mastery of oneself.

He who rules his spirit has won a greater victory than the taking of a city.

He that would govern others, first should be the master of himself.

Such power there is in clear-eyed self-restraint.

Self-disciplined begins with the mastery of your thoughts. If you don't control what you think, you can't control what you do. Simply, self-discipline enables you to think first and act afterward.

He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior.

Self-suggestion makes you master of yourself.

He who would be useful, strong, and happy must cease to be a passive receptacle for the negative, beggarly, and impure streams of thought; and as a wise householder commands his servants and invites his guests, so must he learn to command his desires and to say, with authority, what thoughts he shall admit into the mansion of his soul.

Every man stamps his value on himselfman is made great or small by his own will.

The greatest form of power is the power to control one's self not the power to control others.

You will never have a greater or lesser dominion than that over yourself. The height of a mans success is gauged by his self-mastery: the depth of failure by his self-abandonment. He who cannot establish dominion over himself will have no dominion over others.

One of the most essential yet the hardest truths that I have had to learn, is that every person should be his own hardest task-master.

Self-respect takes self-control, self-control takes practice, and practice takes determination.

AA is not for people who need it, its for people who want it.

Don't let fear break your determination.

Nothing can stop you from achieving your dreams if you make your mind and put all your efforts towards achieving it.

You must have control on your desire otherwise they will control you.

Failure can never overtake you if your determination to succeed is strong enough to overcome disappointment.

If you don't make a choice. Choice makes you. Have the ability to make choices when you need to.

If you have the desire, passion and enthusiasm to do something, nothing in the world will stop you.

Don't stop because you're tired. Keep going because you're almost there.