Quotes About Willpower

Reconozco que ésa era la preocupación que tenía cuando estaba vivo: hasta dónde podría aguantar. Porque cuando uno está vivo, quiere seguir viviendo, y eso es siempre una tentación peligrosa. En cambio, la tentación se acaba cuando uno sabe que está muerto.

Will you walk the road to your destiny, or must the Gods drag you to it unwilling?

Sometimes the purpose of prayer is to get us out of circumstances, but more often than not, the purpose of prayer is to get us through them. I'm certainly not suggesting we shouldn't pray deliverance prayers, but there are times we need to pray prevailing prayers. We need to ask God to give us the grace to sustain, the strength to stand firm, and the willpower to keep on keeping on.

Galadriel gives each of the companions a gift before they leave Lothlorien, but it may be that her greatest and most perilous gift was given upon their first meeting. Temptation, succesfully overcome, strengthens the will, but succumbing to temptation, even in thought, leads to evil

We therefore tend to rely on willpower alone. This never works because the ideal sequence above is opposed by a stronger and more primitive one: Stimulus – Reaction. Without the right structures to keep it under control, Stimulus – Reaction will always tend to overwhelm Thought – Decision – Action.

We ordinary people might lack your great speed or your X-Ray vision, Superman, but never underestimate the power of the human mind. We carry the most dangerous weapon on Earth inside these thick skulls of ours.

And why is strength so important? THE ODIN BROTHERHOOD: Because it is only by becoming stronger that a man can realize his divinity. AUTHOR: In other words, through strength a man can become godlike? THE ODIN BROTHERHOOD: Yes. And a godlike man—a man who is pure force, inaccessible to any compromise—is called a hero.

In the Boston of my childhood, willpower was all-important. If you wanted something badly enough, you could have it. This maxim included curing yourself of paralysis.

I deal with temptation by yielding to it

It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.

Giving up smoking is the easiest thing in the world. I know because I've done it thousands of times.

I was warned to stop smoking, which I did, for two or three days, but it was too lonesome, and I have resumed — in a modified way — 4 smokes a day instead of 40. This will have a good effect. On the bank balance.

Quitting smoking is easy, I've done it hundreds of times.

To cease smoking is the easiset thing I ever did. I ought to know, I've done it a thousand times.

When you're out of will power you call on stubbornness, that's the trick.

We all know smoking is bad. I know I'm going to quit someday, if I thought I wasn't I'd quit now.

110, 111 whatever it takes!"Michael Keaton character in Mr. Mom

Our future and our fate lie in our wills more than in our hands, for our hands are but the instruments of our wills.

The future of Japan's economic growth depends on us having the willpower and the courage to sail without hesitation onto the rough seas of global competition.

Whoever would undertake some atrocious enterprise should act as if it were already accomplished should impose upon himself a future as irrevocable as the past.

The ultimate goal of discipline is to teach self discipline.

This quality of self-denial in pursuit of a longer-term goal and, indeed, the willpower to maintain the denial, is excellent training for the boardroom.

If I set for myself a task, be it so trifling, I shall see it through. How else shall I have confidence in myself to do important things?

At twenty years of age, the will reigns; at thirty, the wife; and at forty, the judgment.