Quotes About Willpower

The discipline of desire is the background of character.

The only thing required of you is to allow all your raging desires to relax into preferences. Then everything will be done through you and for you, not by you.

The will to prepare, the guts to risk, and the desire to be the best. These are trademarks of champions.

Habit is stronger than desire.

What we insistently desire, over time, is what we become.

Liberty consists in doing what one desires.

Verily, there is nothing, right or wrong, which belief, plus burning desire, cannot make real.

Our feelings are energy, so when you find the energy you want you can attach it to a desire.

Perseverance is an active principle, and cannot continue to operate but under the influence of desire.

My Nafs screams out for what it desires. But my will to be free screams louder.

It is a sin when I place myself deliberately in the place of temptation… either because I enjoy the prospect or because I'm not determined enough in my desire to overcome it.

Anyone can desire anything, but if you're not going to commit, you're not getting it.

Within every desire is the mechanics of its fulfillment.

Nothing is impossible that one desires with an indomitable will.

Those things that I must do I shall desire to do.

Those who restrain desire, do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained.

Altruism is for those who cannot endure their desires.

Desire and force between them are responsible for all our actions; desire causes our voluntary acts, force our involuntary.

Reason has not tamed desire: it is as strong as ever.

Thought, backed by strong desire, has a tendency to transmute itself into its physical equivalent.

Inherent in every intention and desire are the mechanics for its fulfillment.

My will to live completely overcame my desire to win

I must keep my head and not give in to desire, for desire is what causes women to drown.

The day effort ceased, I also ceased. Because you cannot exist without effort, and you cannot exist without desire, and you cannot exist without striving.