Quotes About Willpower

Men must be decided on what they will not do, and then they are able to act with vigor in what they ought to do.

The only way to do it is to do it.

To me, it was just a matter of, if you want to do something, the only thing that's going to keep you from doing it is giving up," Leary says. "Because we were proof of that. If you just don't quit, you will succeed—that is the bottom line.

If you want a happy ending you have to go out and take it.

The slave is held most securely when he is held by the chains of his own will and of his own fears, and when he is locked down by his own slavish desires for a comfortable life.

it is how a person goes about quenching his desires or living with them unrequited that the readers get a glimpse of his true character.

Good. You realize what temptation can do to even the strongest virtue?

Remember that obedience is the great fast.

What I've started I must finish. I've gone too far to turn back. Regardless of what may happen, I have to go forward.

To will is to select a goal, determine a course of action that will bring one to that goal, and then hold to that action till the goal is reached. The key is action.

I'm glad I don't have a drinking problem,' I confided, 'because I don't think I'd ever be able to quit.

Chúng ta là nô l? c?a sá»± ham mu?n và khát khao c?a chính mình

If you quit ONCE it becomes a habit.Never quit!!!

For the vast majority of people, dieting just doesn't work. It fails because of our physiology; the body plays a game of sabotage by lowering its metabolism or otherwise undercutting our efforts. It fails because life intervenes, with layoffs or new babies or sick parents. It fails because no amount of willpower can be sustained forever.

Mastering others is force. Mastering yourself is true power.

The thing about the heart was that you could not coax it or force it, as you could any other disease. Will power meant nothing.

George Bernard Shaw once said, "Take care to get what you like or you will be forced to like what you get.

But there was only so much temptation a man could resist without losing all respect for himself.

Once a person gives up, it becomes surprisingly easy to die.

Exhausted though he might be, he's got to keep going, show strength, willpower, normalcy—that's his prescription

Wherever your life ends, it is all there. The advantage of living is not measured by length, but by use; some men have lived long, and lived little; attend to it while you are in it. It lies in your will, not in the number of years, for you to have lived enough.

The mere will to live was clearly no match for the pains and aggravations that punctuate the life of the average Western man.

Moving closer to the edge, I peered down. The water was glassy green, extraordinarily clear. I experienced the feeling I sometimes get when I'm on a bridge or a railway platform. Rationally, you know that you've no intention of stepping off the bridge or the platform - or this ice floe - but you're aware that you could, and that the only thing stopping you is your will.

You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make him drink it.