Quotes About Willpower

It's impossible to pick up a basset hound that doesn't want to be picked up, just as it's impossible to make one keep walking if it doesn't want to walk anymore. It'll just lie down and refuse to budge.

There is no such thing as freedom of choice unless there is freedom to refuse.

To accomplish anything extraordinary you must blend desire for the goal with the will to take action to achieve it. This is how you commit to making yourself do what's right, whether you feel like it or not. The key is self-control.

I'll NEVER be beaten!

God gave me both a brain and a body, and I shall use them both.

You become stronger only when you become weaker. When you surrender your will to God, you discover the resources to do what God requires.

Our tendency is to be strong, self-sufficient, and dependent on our own willpower, but rather than try harder, we should reach out to the God who is all-powerful.

I pray God that I may never find my will again. Oh, that Christ would subject my will to His, and trample it under His feet.

The battle is lost or won in the secret places of the will before God, never first in the external world.

God will not make you do something you don't want to do - He will just make you wish you had.

If God had wanted me to lose weight he would have made sure there was creamed spinach for dessert.

We can only learn to know ourselves and do what we can - namely, surrender our will and fulfill God's will in us.

The full acting out of the self's surrender to God therefore demands pain: this action, to be perfect, must be done from the pure will to obey, in the absence, or in the teeth, of inclination

Why doesn't God just force us to do the things he knows to be right? It is because that would lose precisely that which he has intended in our creation: freely chosen character.

Pray till prayer makes you forget your own wish, and leave it or merge it in God's will.

Summoned or not, the god will come.

God gave me the stubbornness of a mule and a fairly keen scent.

It is wonderful what miracles God works in wills that are utterly surrendered to Him.

The will is stronger than anything else. Everything must go down before the will, for it comes from God. A pure and strong will is omnipotent.

God's will! my liege, would you and I alone, Without more help, could fight this royal battle!

The US-led forces have the money, weapons and huge numbers, but these things are not going to weaken our will because God is with us.

I believe God gives people the right to say no, to resist, to refuse, to reject, to cling to their sins, to cling to their version of their story.

What matters most is a good and ready will to obey God.

Go on, my dear, " urges the snake. "Take one. Hear it? 'Pluck me, ' it's saying. That big, shiny red one. 'Pluck me, pluck me now and pluck me hard.' You know you wan