Quotes About Willpower

Emotional self-control-- delaying gratification and stifling impulsiveness- underlies accomplishment of every sort

There is perhaps no psychological skill more fundamental than resisting impulse.

goal-directed self-imposed delay of gratification" is perhaps the essence of emotional self-regulation: the ability to deny impulse in the service of a goal, whether it be building a business, solving an algebraic equation, or pursuing the Stanley Cup. His finding underscores the role of emotional intelligence as a meta-ability, determining how well or how poorly people are able to use their other mental capacities.

Ferlazzo makes a distinction between "irritation" and "agitation." Irritation, he says, is "challenging people to do something that we want them to do." By contrast, "agitation is challenging them to do something that they want to do.

Campbell. « Et puis, je me suis dit, c'est ridicule, il faut le faire 

if you have had to force yourself to do something, you are less willing or less able to exert self-control when the next challenge comes around. The phenomenon has been named ego depletion.

Football is a violent, competitive game. That's the way it was always meant to be played. You are supposed to play with an edge. You are actually supposed to impose your will on the other person to win.

Anything that controls my state of mind I never really want to do because I always want to be under control. That might be part of me being a Virgo. I never want to do something that stops me from being in control of who I am and my actions.

The ordeal of virtue is to resist all temptation to evil.

Virtue is insufficient temptation.

When people tell me I can't do something, I have a visceral reflex to say, 'Yes, I can.'

stimulus and response in order to choose his freedom.

Gentlemen, if I truly want something, you do not have it within your power to stop me from obtaining it.

Your diseases cannot stand in front of your determination.

A girl with eyes like hers has a will and is not ruled by anyone but a lover.

How many times have we said, "I won't ever do that again!"? Then, before the day is up, we have the piece of cake, smoke the cigarettes, say hateful things to the ones we love, and so on. Then we compound the whole problem by angrily saying to ourselves, "Oh, you have no willpower, no discipline. You're just weak." This only adds to the load of guilt we already carry.

You are in control of your mind.

To remain conscious and continent was her new goal.

Patience. Patience. With patience comes choice, and with choice comes power.

With patience comes choice, and with choice comes power.

We choose our thoughts. We choose our perceptions. We choose our attitudes. We may not think so. We may not believe it, but we do. I absolutely know we do. I've seen enough evidence, time after time, tragedy after tragedy. Triumph after triumph. It's about choice.

With patience comes choice, and with choice comes power." The words

May the merciful gods, if indeed there be such, guard those hours when no power of the will, or drug that the cunning of man devises, can keep me from the chasm of sleep. Death is merciful, for there is no return therefrom, but with him who has come back out of the nethermost chambers of night, haggard and knowing, peace rests nevermore.

a pigeon would die of hunger next to a dish filled with choice meats and a cat next to a heap of fruit or grain, though either of them could get nourishment from the foods it disdains if only it had thought of trying them. This is why dissolute men give themselves over to the excesses that bring on fevers and death, because the mind perverts the senses and the will continues to speak when nature falls silent …