Quotes About Willpower

The first and greatest victory is to conquer yourself.

The first and greatest victory is to conquer yourself; to be conquered by yourself is of all things most shameful and vile.

For a man to conquer himself is the first and noblest of all victories.

Self conquest is the greatest of victories.

First and best victory is to conquer self. To be conquered By self is, of all things. the most shameful and objectionable.

Menaklukan diri sendiri adalah kemenangan yang paling akbar.

He who is the victim of his passions and the slave of pleasure will of course desire to make his beloved as agreeable to himself as possible.

Self-conquest is the greatest of victories and vice versa

Si es cierto que lo agradable es bueno, no es posible que un hombre, sabiendo que puede hacer cosas mejores que las que hace, y conociendo que puede hacerlas, haga sin embargo las malas y deje las buenas, estando en su voluntad el poder escoger. Ser inferior a sí mismo no es otra cosa que estar en la ignorancia; y ser superior a sí mismo no es otra cosa que poseer la ciencia.

After all, a man is only what he has decided to do, or not to do.

Zsoronga, Sorweel was beginning to realize, possessed the enviable ability to yoke his conviction to his need — to believe, absolutely, whatever his heart required. For Sorweel, belief and want always seemed like ropes too short to bind together, forcing him to play the knot as a result.

Amelie seemed to focus on her again. For a few seconds she regarded her, frowning, and then smiled just a little. So I recall, she said. Not all wars are waged with bullets and swords, indeed. Some are wars of wills and ideas. It's good we both remember that. The smile faded. But not all ideas win the war, and not all wills are strong enough. Darkness can descend so easily.

I don't know if she has any choice.' 'There's always a choice.'... 'Unless your choice is to lie down and die.

Have we fallen into a mesmerized state that makes us accept as inevitable that which is inferior or detrimental, as though having lost the will or the vision to demand that which is good?

Her spirit could not be bent, yet her rage found little purchase . . .

Since this is a hard and sad truth for the telling; those whom nature has sacrificed to her ends--her mysterious ends that often lie hidden--are sometimes endowed with a vast will to loving, with an endless capacity for suffering also, which must go hand in hand with their love. p 146

You do what you have to do. That's who you seem to be to me, anyway. You're one who does what he has to do.

your life is yours to shape as you wish with free will...

When a good woman knows an important thing needs to be done, she won't let death prevent her from doing it.

Life offers infinite possible roads. Sometimes your head chooses the route, sometimes your heart. And sometimes, for better or worse, neither head nor heart can resist the stubborn pull of fate.

The greatest gift we were given is our free will, and we keep misusing it.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Once she had her mind set on something she became an unstoppable force, forging ahead.

giving up smoking was difficult.