Quotes About Willpower

December 16 Meet the Man Who Turns Down Cookies What man in his right mind turns down warm-from-the-oven chocolate-chip cookies? Ebenezer does.

Like it or not, you need to know how to do this. Your future depends on it. You give up on this, you will give up on the next difficult thing, and you are too smart and too strong to start giving up.

when people think or write about happiness, self-control is rarely stressed. … Yet happiness is impossible without self-control. In fact, everything we want is impossible without self-control. Ask anyone who has achieved what you particularly desire to achieve, and you will find a profoundly self-disciplined individual.

While a pure mind may be a saintly ideal, for the rest of us mortals controlling our behavior is an enormous enough achievement.

You have to do what you gotta do in this life in order to do what you wanna do...

All right you bloody Scottish bastard, lets see how stubborn you really are.

What would I do if he forbade me to go? Alternatives raced through my mind, everything from planting the ivory letter-opener between his ribs to burning down the house with him in it. The only idea I rejected absolutely was that of giving in.

thinking I meant to snatch this treat for myself, but I pushed

It wasn't digitalin, but his purpose that sustained him now, lighting him with a glow as though a candle burned behind the waxy skin of his face. I had seen that a few times before, too; the man—or woman—whose will was strong enough to override for a time the imperatives of the body.

But if a man's bound to go to the devil, he'll find a way to do it, no matter where ye set him down.

I said I don't propose to die," William assured him. "And I don't need help.

I tried to give up drugs by drinking.

I have the strength to endure it all.

I like to enforce myself in the run game. It's something I have control over.

The important thing is to be honest with yourself. And to have the will and determination. My emotions are not me, but mine. My memories are not me, they're mine. I am the master of my emotions and my memories. So now, all you have to do is make up your mind firmly to leave those things behind without attachment or regret, and go through with it.

Because everyone has a natural yearning for completion, we are able to change and re-create ourselves endlessly. I believe that we all have an internal guidance system that gives us constant motivation to move toward completion. Because we have s sense of completion with us, and because we have the will and desire to reach that state of completion, human beings have the potential for greatness and can become greater at any time.

The important thing is to be honest with yourself and to have the will and the determination.I am the master of my emotions and my memories. All you have to do is to make up your mind firmly to leave those things behind.

When you choose, it will happen.

Bebe —lo animó con un mohín gracioso de la boca. Él la miró desconcertado. —¿Pretendes emborracharme? No están las cosas para diversiones. —Bebe

This Army of Light was mine. I had summoned it. I had DRAWN it. Could I have stopped it? I don't know. The truth is, I didn't want to.

YaÅŸayacak bir niçin'i bulunan, hemen her nas?la dayanabilir.

It's hard to make something that's interesting. It's really, really hard. It's like a law of nature, a law of aerodynamics, that anything that's written or anything that's created wants to be mediocre. The natural state of all writing is mediocrity... So what it takes to make anything more than mediocre is such an act of will...

Gil: "I doubt if [Eve] allows herself to be driven in a direction she doesn't want to go." Logan: "But it's possible to block out every other path so she's forced to take the only one left.

Successful people who wish to maintain their successes must make the decision to do so.