Quotes About Willpower

But what was the desire of the flesh beside the desire of the mind?

The subconscious acts first on the dominating desires.

It is easier to suppress the first desire than to satisfy all that follow it.

We may think there is willpower involved, but more likely...change is due to want power. Wanting the new addiction more than the old one. Wanting the new me in preference to the person I am now.

You will become as small as your controlling desire as great as you dominant aspiration.

Every man gotta right to decide his own destiny.

The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.

With your hands carve out your own destiny.

It's choice - not chance - that determines your destiny.

There is no chance, no destiny, no fate, that can circumvent or hinder or control the firm resolve of a determined soul.

Through readiness and discipline, we are the masters of our fate.

If you have a strong mind and plant in it a firm resolve, you can change your destiny.

How rash to assert that man shapes his own destiny. All he can do is determine his inner responses.

Every moment I shape my destiny with a chisel - I am the carpenter of my own soul.

Our destiny changes with our thought; we shall become what we wish to become, do what we wish to do, when our habitual thought corresponds with our desire.

What is the point of having free will if one cannot occasionally spit in the eye of destiny?

Your destiny is determined by your decisions.

You make yourself what you are. You have control of your own destiny.

Which brings me to my conclusion upon Free Will and Predestination, namely - let the reader mark it - that they are identical.

If there is something more powerful than destiny, this must be the human being who bears destiny unshaken.

Does the walker choose the path, or the path the walker?

Choice, not chance, determines destiny.

Our destiny hides among our free choices, disguised as the free-est of all.

Our acts of voluntary attending, as brief and fitful as they are, are nevertheless momentous and critical, determining us, as they do, to higher or lower destinies.