Quotes About Willpower

It's weak and despicable to go on wanting things and not trying to get them.

Once a person is determined to help themselves, there is nothing that can stop them.

COURAGE is not a quality you teach. Courage is the by-product of self-discipline. It is an ATTITUDE.

True will-power and courage are not on the battlefield, but in everyday conquests over our intertia, laziness, boredom.

And all our troubles, all our immense difficulties, now and in the future, can I say, be solved if we have the will, the courage, the boldness to face them, face them square.

We don't move with our legs and arms, but with courage and will power.

Have the courage of your desire.

That cowardice is incorrigible which the love of power cannot overcome.

The test before us as a people is not whether our commitments match our will and our courage; but whether we have the will and courage to match our commitments.

Courage, like so many other things, was not something one did or didn't have; it was a decision, a choice.

Our destinies are our own, if we have the courage to take control of them.

So to feel brave, act as if we were brave, use all our will to that end...and a courage-fit will very likely replace the fit of fear.

Whatever you do you need courage. ... To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires some of the same courage which a soldier needs.

When you have no choice mobilize the spirit of courage.

Is it selfish for me to crave victory or is it brave?

The guts carry the feet not the feet the guts.

I discovered I always have choices and sometimes it's only a choice of attitude.

I once wrote a book on courage and what made people courageous. I found it was a strength of belief matched by a strength of willpower.

My dad has always said to me, "where there is a will there is a way" and this is the type of dedication hockey has taught me. Being dedicated to this sport [hockey] has been my will to play.

Woe and death to all who resist my will!

I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.

Ain't nothin' to it, but to do it. —Maya Angelou

The first and best victory is to conquer self

For a man to conquer himself is the first and noblest of all victories. He was a wise man who invented beer