Quotes About Willpower

I say to you, without pleasure, that this son of ours will be a great man, because -- well -- because he is not very intelligent. He can see only one desire at a time. I said he tested his dreams; he will murder every dream with the implacable arrows of his will. This boy will win to every goal of his aiming; for he can realize no thought, no reason, but his own. And I am sorry for his coming greatness...

I can do anything when my will is clean and straight. Anything.

For I truly believe that people call their lives to them the way you'd whistle up a dog. I seem to thrive in small frustrations and make them up when I don't have them. This is not abnormal. In fact it is very supernormal.

Ä°ÅŸ 'yapabilir miyiz'e dayan?rsa, hiçbir ÅŸey yapamay?z. Ama iÅŸ 'yapar?z'a gelirse, o zaman istediÄŸimiz ÅŸeyi yapar?z.

It is not because men's desires are strong that they act ill; it is because their consciences are weak.

There is a choice you have to make in everything you do. So keep in mind that in the end, the choice you make, makes you.

The human will to believe is inexhaustible

Choice not chance determines your destiny [my family motto...credited to Aristotle]

Repentance is but a denying of our will, and an opposition of our fantasies.

... where I walked, the frost shaped itself to my will, dancing in the air like music over water.

Only what you choose is what makes you.

These words you want to remember: if you do not learn to control the power within you, it will consume more than just your enemy.

Get off that damn chair and pull yourself together. You're supposed to be an ageless creature of chaos and all I'm getting right now is sulking city boy.

I learned discipline from my father. Not in terms of corporal punishment, but being determined in whatever you do, and sticking with it.

My father taught me that only through self-discipline can you achieve freedom. Pour water in a cup and you can drink; without the cup, the water would splash all over. The cup is discipline.

Like my father before me, I'm a very passionate person, with boundless energy and tremedous willpower.

Fear is nothing but idleness of the will.

None deserve praise for being good who have not the spirit to be bad: goodness, for the most part, is nothing but indolence or weakness of will.

I just have this thing inside me that wants to eat and conquer. Maybe it's egotistical, but I have it in me. I don't want to be a tycoon. I just want to conquer people and their souls.

Fear is a way of not allowing yourself to choose freely what you will do next; a way of letting your body's reflexes, not the needs of your mind, choose for you.

I try never to be governed by fear; that's how I choose things.

it's not about being fearless, it's about acting in spite of fear

The heart set to do the Father's will, need never fear defeat.

He who has conquered his own coward spirit has conquered the whole outward world.