Quotes About Willpower

fuck fate. We make our own destinies.

The only conquests that are permanent and leave no regrets are our conquests over ourselves.

The truest wisdom is a resolute determination.

To do all that one is able to do, is to be a man to do all that one would like to do, is to be a god.

It's the unconquerable soul of man, and not the nature of the weapon he uses, that ensures victory

Victory is always possible for the person who refuses to stop fighting.

Jump in, no excuses. Exert the force of your life. Persevere under all circumstances.

It was her stunning blend of confidence and competence that inspired them, her indomitable will, her ability to bend a harsh landscape to her own ends, to do what needed to be done to provide for herself and her family every day, without fail.

A man don't always have to eat what he's standing life. If he wants, a man can fix a meal of his own choosing.

We go all wrong by too strenuous a resolution to go right.

Do anything, save to lie down and die!

What we insistently desire, over time, is what we become.

As you submit your wills to God, you are giving Him the only thing you can actually give Him that is really yours to give. Don't wait too long to find the altar or to begin to place the gift of your wills upon it! No need to wait for a receipt; the Lord has His own special ways of acknowledging.

Here is the most important thing to understand about cravings: They are not caused by weak will or gluttony. Cravings are triggered by biological properties of the foods themselves. That is, certain foods have chemical makeups that cause us to crave them in very much the same way that drugs, alcohol, and tobacco have addictive components.

The only reason I am alive is because I could not die.

I mean, if you give in when you're eighteen and a half, you'll give in for the rest of your life, don't you think?

Once a person is determined to help themselves, there is nothing that can stop them.

There are few misfortunes in this world that you cannot turn into a personal trimuph if you have the iron will and the neccessary skill.

Actually, you are destined to reach the point where you realise that through your own desire you can consciously create your successive destinies

The twelve disciples represent the twelve qualities of mind which can be controlled and disciplined by man. If disciplined they will at all times obey the command of the one who has disciplined them.

What we must work for is not the development of the will, but the education of the imagination and the steadying of attention.

when will and imagination are in conflict, imagination invariably wins.

To realise your desire, an action must start in your imagination, apart from the evidence of the senses, involving movement of self and implying fulfillment of your desire. Whenever it is the action which the outer self takes to appease desire, that desire will be realised.

Cuando débilmente desea algo, difícilmente lo consigue.