Quotes About Willpower

Success follows doing what you want to do. There is no other way to be successful.

I have resisted temptation for two and a half minutes at least: my redemption is sure.

Unless subjected to constant discipline the mental processes of the common sign types are apt to be scattered or non-eventuating. There is a distinct tendency to carry along unfinished business and to procrastinate in decision. If left to its own disorder, the mind may deteriorate into a tumbling ground for whimsies.

The common signs do not bestow either a hardy constitution or any unusual measure of will power. The vitality not being great, there is insufficient energy to sustain ambition or the urge to power.

I am ready to make plenty of sacrifices to reach my goals, and no one's going to stop me.

Depend not on another, rather lean Upon thyself; trust to thine own exertions: Subjection to another?s will gives pain; True happiness consists in self-reliance.

not being able to govern events, I govern myself." ~ Michel de Montaigne

La fuerza no está en tu cuerpo, sino en tu mente.

I am pleased to note on Page 72 that Captain Kirk finally prevails because he is a good kisser. Physical prowess, intellect, will-power -- all these are of no avail when compared with the strength of Captain Kirk's bee-stung lips. With lips such as his, one could win the universe. And lose a series.

On those days when you get up in the morning and you don't feel like praying or don't have the energy to love your neighbor, isn't it wonderful to know that these are the times that you can truly prove your for love God, because it is precisely at these times that your love arises from your will alone without the support of emotion.

Quando procuramos no infinitamente grande um ponto infinitamente pequeno, uma fonte de luz por mais afastada que seja, quando esperamos a chegada de um som vindo do fundo do universo há apenas uma coisa de que temos a certeza absoluta: a nossa vontade de descobrir.

Your future depends on your choices, on your will. It belongs to you.

Desiring a will was not enough. I would have needed precisely what I could not have without willpower: a will.

He beguiled me almost by surprise into doing wrong, then he got me accustomed to having bad thoughts which I had no will to resist—willpower being the only force capable of driving them back to the infernal darkness from which they emerged.

But since the facts which I should then have recalled would have been prompted only by an exercise of the will, by my intellectual memory, and since the pictures which that kind of memory shews us of the past preserve nothing of the past itself, I should never have had any wish to ponder over this residue of Combray.

If there is a will there is an A.

Quality is never an accident. It is always the result of intelligent effort. There must be the will to produce a superior thing.

You actually don't need to go out to the porn sites.

the one who has conquered himself is a far greater hero than he who has defeated a thousand times a thousand men." But

To determine to go and to say it was to be halfway there

I have no choice of living or dying, you see, sir, but I do have a choice of how I do it.

It is easy to find a logical and virtuous reason for not doing what you don't want to do.

We still go where we want, even if we got to crawl for the right.' - Tom Joad (Jr.)

It ain't kin we? It's will we?