Quotes About Willpower

You can magically alter your life if you believe hard enough and then take actual physical action in the world outside your brain to make it happen.

If you want to do something and make up your mind about it, you do take out the time.

she knew that if anyone wanted to turn her out now, they were going to have to use extreme and violent magic to do it.

She made her resolution. In for a penny, in for a pound.

If they took all the drugs, nicotine, alcohol and caffeine off the market for six days, they'd have to bring out the tanks to control you.

But we little know until tried how much of the uncontrollable there is in us, urging across glaciers and torrents, and up dangerous heights, let the judgement forbid as it may.

When I met couples whose marriages were thriving after thirty and forty years, none of them were riding an emotional roller coaster of passion and then resentment. Instead, they loved each other as an act of their conscious will. They were more in control of their love than their "love" was in control of them.

We don't like to admit it, but the idea of losing control is one that fascinates controlled people such as ourselves more than almost anything. All truly civilized people – the ancients no less than us – have civilized themselves through the wilful repression of the old, animal self.

The problem (as I'd learned, repeatedly) was that thirty-six hours in, with your body in full revolt, and the remainder of your un-opiated life stretching out bleakly ahead of you like a prison corridor, you needed some fairly compelling reason to keep moving forward into darkness, rather than falling straight back into the gorgeous feather mattress you'd so foolishly abandoned.

What if I brought you éclairs?" Herb's anger subsided a tiny bit. "Did you bring éclairs?" "No. Because I know you don't have the will power to fight your diabetes on your own." The anger returned. "I don't have diabetes." "That's the diabetes talking. I can smell your blood sugar from here. Smells like Butterfingers." The

It is a true saying of good Archbishop Leighton: 'The way of sin is down hill; a man cannot stop when he would.

Depend on it; there is no surer road to unhappiness than always having our own way. To have our wills checked and denied is a blessed thing for us; it makes us value enjoyments when they come. To be indulged perpetually is the way to be made selfish, and selfish people and spoiled children are seldom happy.

Influence is one thing; determination is another.

There's always a choice," she said, opening her eyes again and meeting Flyn's with a somber gaze of her own. "You have to be willing to make it.

My mind tells me to give up but my heart won't let me. –Jennifer Tyler

Though one may conquer a thousand times a thousand men in battle, he who conquers himself is the greatest warrior.

The first key to leadership is self-control.

Never do anything you don't want to do," he said, very slowly. "Never. You understand me?

The second day of a diet is always easier than the first. By the second day, you're off it.

hung at the back of the line, determined to be last. When she

There is a fine line between determination and sturbborness; the only difference lies in your power.

Our fate is shaped from within ourselves outward, never from without inward.

Incredible things can be done simply because we are committed that we want it to happen, that's all.

No choice is the wrong choice as long as you make a choice, the only wrong choice is choosing not to make one