Quotes About Willpower

The universe will never force a mindset on you. You have complete free agency to choose fear and suffer unnecessarily if you want to.

Refuse to lose, Refuse to be defeated, Refuse to have regrets.

If you want it bad enough, you'll find a way to make it happen.

It is a hard matter, my fellow citizens, to argue with the belly, since it has no ears.

My food demons are Chinese food, sugar, butter.

How silly people were to eat. They thought they needed food for energy, but they didn't. Energy came from will, from self-control.

At the end of every diet the path curves back toward the trough.

Love is a choice. Total forgiveness is a choice. It is not a feeling-at least at first-but is rather an act of the will. It is the choice to tear up the record of wrongs we have been keeping.

Forgiveness is not an emotion; it is an act of the will.

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

Real freedom is not merely doing what you like, but also NOT doing what you like.

Without discipline, there can be no freedom.

Between stimulus and response is the freedom to choose.

Thou canst not touch the freedom of my mind.

Our freedom to discipline ourselves is a freedom we can lose if we don't use it.

What you call freedom is still nothing but choosing how to steer straight into the heart of what chooses you.

Remember, freedom is always taken, never given.

Remember you always have freedom of choice.

Indeterminism does not confer freedom on us: I would feel that my freedom was impaired if I thought that a quantum mechanical trigger in my brain might cause me to leap into the garden and eat a slug

To become pure is not difficult. Make the choices that will lead you to freedom and liberation - not enslavement to the wills, actions and desires of others.

Resolve and thou art free.

The creation of freedom for oneself and a sacred "No" even to duty -- for that, my brothers, the lion is needed.

A man is as free as he chooses to make himself, never an atom freer.

We are more determined than ever to live our lives in freedom.