Quotes About Willpower

Everything can be taken away 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.

One should become the master of one's mind rather than let one's mind master him.

Nicholas Alahverdian said, It's going to take willpower, energy and effective management to provide for the overhaul of the Rhode Island Department of Children, Youth, and Families

This was for her path, for her freedom, for her life and family. To make her dead da proud. She was strong. She was royal. She would set her will. She would do this.

People could not be made to change. It had taken her a long time to learn that. People had to want to change themselves.

To be an aristocrat is to not believe that everything depends on the will.

La volonté est ce qui lâche en dernier, bien après le cœur.

Nothing is easy to the unwilling.

In this world, people always find a way of doing what they want

I see the kind of determination you only recognize if you've felt it yourself. Determination born of desperation transformed into purpose.

I have my own strength.

Anything is possible. Everything is gettable. You just have to want it badly enough.

We choose our reality, you see, just as we choose our god.

they would have all the same stressors still in place, and they would have no means of lessening them, because, their will, if they had amassed any in their time away, was still weak and always a quick casualty. No match for the horrors of lost chances.

Reduce the effort whenever possible. The use of force is the opposite of awareness; learning does not take place when we are straining. The principle should not be no pain, no gain. Rather, it should be if strain, no gain. Feldenkrais thought the use of willpower (of which he obviously had plenty) was not helpful in developing awareness.

What the mind can conceive and believe, and the heart desire, you can achieve.

Trebuie s? po?i începe ?i sfâr?i când vrei - sau trebuie s?-?i faci rost de o voin??. Voin?a e întotdeauna ra?ional? - ?i puternic?. Dac? vrei, atrunci po?i. Dar n-ai o voin?? ferm?, sau n-ai deloc, dac? e?ti ?i ac?ionezi nera?ional - dac? nu începi ?i nu încvhizi cartea când e bine ?i-n?elept s-o faci.

I do what I can,' I said. 'When I can do more, I will. You know that.

We do what we do, Lilith.

My brother isn't very smart, but he makes up for it in pure stubbornness.

Weak is he who permits his thoughts to control his actions; strong is he who forces his actions to control his thoughts.

Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough.

Self-discipline implies some unpleasant things to me, including staying away from chocolate and keeping my hands out of women's pants.

That's too much. You can't want all those things,' he said. 'Oh yes I can! And I'm the one to define what I can want,' I shouted furiously