Quotes About Willpower

A powerful person is not he who out-wrestles others. A powerful person is he who can control himself when angry.

The development of willpower and self-discipline will certainly improve your life and give you more control.

Self-respect is the fruit of discipline; the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself.

A person who's going through it, knows pain. Don't talk to them about being down. Show them strength and willpower, they may not know that.

A man has to learn that he cannot command things, but that he can command himself; that he cannot coerce the wills of others, but that he can mold and master his own will: and things serve him who serves Truth; people seek guidance of him who is master of himself.

You say: I am not free. But I have raised and lowered my arm. Everyone understands that this illogical answer is an irrefutable proof of freedom.

If freedom is short of weapons, we must compensate with willpower.

No man is free who is a slave to the flesh

Liberty is the right to choose. Freedom is the result of the right choice.

To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves.

Everything can be taken from a man but one thing; the last of the human freedoms - to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way

Freedom is not procured by a full enjoyment of what is desired, but by controlling the desire.

Freedom is not something that anybody can be given; Freedom is something that people take and people are as free as they want to be.

Man is free at the moment he wishes to be.

You have a choice. Live or die. Every breath is a choice. Every minute is a choice. To be or not to be.

Here in the bathroom with me are razor blades. Here is iodine to drink. Here are sleeping pills to swallow. You have a choice. Live or die. Every breath is a choice. Every minute is a choice. To be or not to be. Every time you dont throw yourself down the stairs, thats a choice. Every time you dont crash your car, you reenlist.

Inside me theres a thin person struggling to get out, but I can usually sedate him with four or five cupcakes

Always remember that I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me.

to know reality (or things as they are than to have not to know and to have few illusions as possible— train my will now

The brother of my grandfather was the patriarch of the Orthodox Church and revered as a saint. So everything in my childhood is about total sacrifice, whether to religion or to communism. This is what is engraved on me. This is why I have this insane willpower. My body is now beginning to be falling apart, but I will do it to the end. I don't care. With me it is about whatever it takes.

Coyote stopped and turned to face me, his wrinkled eyes smoldering with feral determination. "Vato, have faith. Otherwise lie in the dirt like a turd and wait to be stepped on. Jolie

Cuando trabajamos para actuar en base no a nuestras emociones sino a nuestras elecciones, es cuando actuamos en Libertad

Cuando trabajamos para actuar en base no a nuestras emociones dijo a nuestras elecciones, es cuando actuamos en Libertad

En el envidioso existe una voluntad, una actitud de esfuerzo o, en el peor de los casos, de capricho, que indirectamente lo hace culto, laborioso, incansable. La envidia es el único vicio que se alimenta de virtudes, que vive gracias a ellas.