Quotes About Willpower

The guts carry the feet not the feet the guts.

He… got the better of himself, and that's the best kind of victory one can wish for.

I will not resign from life; I must be dismissed.

Não, não basta estar vivo. Depende de como se está vivo. Não se encontra só o que se encontra, mas também o que se procura. Nós não somos folhas levadas pelo vento, não somos animais à deriva. Somos seres humanos, com uma vontade própria.

vencereís pero no convencereís

Control over consciousness is not simply a cognitive skill. At least as much as intelligence, it requires the commitment of emotions and will. It is not enough to know how to do it; one must do it, consistently, in the same way as athletes or musicians who must keep practicing what they know in theory.

The rules themselves are clear enough, and within everyone's reach. But many forces, both within ourselves and in the environment, stand in the way. It is a little like trying to lose weight: everyone knows what it takes, everyone wants to do it, yet it is next to impossible for so many.

The mark of a person who is in control of consciousness is the ability to focus attention at will, to be oblivious to distractions, to concentrate for as long as it takes to achieve a goal, and not longer.

To be distracted against one's will is the surest sign that one is not in control.

Only through freely chosen discipline can life be enjoyed, and still kept within the bounds of reason. If a person learns to control his instinctual desires, not because he has to, but because he wants to, he can enjoy himself without becoming addicted. A

Few things are sadder than encountering a person who knows exactly what he should do, yet cannot muster enough energy to do it. "He who desires but acts not," wrote Blake with his accustomed vigor, "breeds pestilence.

If you win these battles enough, that battle against yourself, at least for a moment, it becomes easier to win the battles in the world.

The important thing is that the energy is under their own control

La persona que no puede resistirse a la comida o al alcohol, o cuya mente está siempre pensando en el sexo, no es libre para dirigir su energía psíquica.

By learning to concentrate, a person acquires control over psychic energy, the basic fuel upon which all thinking depends.

Few things are sadder than encountering a person who knows exactly what he should do, yet cannot muster enough energy to do it. "He who desires but acts not," wrote Blake with his accustomed vigor, "Breeds pestilence.

Few things are sadder than encountering a person who knows exactly what he should do, yet cannot muster enough energy to do it.

I resist my temptations in order to feel i am free.

Resolve is never stronger than in the morning after the night it was never weaker.

had cooled into determination and begun to assume

A vontade não é de cada um e em cada dia?

MAN is a slave only to his own mental lethargy.

I can't for the life of me not eat something that I want to eat.

I can't for the life of me not eat something that I want to eat. You know how if you turned on a faucet in your sink to wash your hands, the idea of leaving the bathroom without turning it off is insane? That's how I am about ignoring delicious food