logo

Quotes About Willpower

Czyli nie da si? zawróci? kobiety z samoniszcz?cej drogi choroby umys?owej? (...) - U m??czyzny silna wola pomo?e zwalczy? niektóre pokusy szale?stwa, lecz kobiety s? jej prawie zupe?nie pozbawione i nie maj? ?adnego or??a do walki.
~ Olga Tokarczuk
Hard is the stone but harder still, the delicate performing will which guided by a dream alone subdues and molds the hardest stone....
~ Unknown
Regardless of what barriers confront you, it is in your power to free yourselves; you have only to want to.
~ Olympe de Gouges
It is up to African leaders to show their will and political courage in order to assure that this new pan-African institution becomes an efficient instrument and not a place for endless discussions.
~ Omar Bongo
Suzuki Shosan writes in his Roankyo the following passages, some of which have been quoted before: In training in Zen in recent years many people seem to have forgotten that Zen includes a great spirit of bravery and great strength. Therefore, those who train in Zen become tender-hearted, admirable-looking, desireless, and good-natured, but somehow they become divested of the will to respond to any unfavorable stimuli angrily enough to say, "Damn it!
~ Unknown
If a man wants you, nothing can keep him away. If he doesn't want you, nothing can make him stay.
~ Oprah Winfrey
Man becomes a slave to his constantly repeated acts. What he at first chooses, at last compels.
~ Orison Swett Marden
A will finds a way.
~ Orison Swett Marden
Our destiny changes with our thought we shall become what we wish to become, do what we wish to do, when our habitual thought corresponds with our desire.
~ Orison Swett Marden
The greatest trouble with most of us is that our demands upon ourselves are so feeble, the call upon the great within of us so weak and intermittent that it makes no impression upon the creative energies; it lacks the force that transmutes desires into realities.
~ Orison Swett Marden
Most obstacles melt away when we make up our minds to walk boldly through them.
~ Orison Swett Marden
Our destiny changes with our thought; we shall become what we wish to become, do what we wish to do, when our habitual thought corresponds with our desires
~ Orison Swett Marden
More powerful than the will to win is the courage to begin.
~ Orrin Woodward
One person with commitment accomplishes more than a thousand with an opinion.
~ Orrin Woodward
It's not about what you're capable of, it's about what you are willing to endure.
~ Orrin Woodward
Weakness of skills can be overcome with strength of will.
~ Orrin Woodward
Discipline is a given; the choice is whether it is applied internally or externally.
~ Orrin Woodward
A partir de entonces entendí de que la llamada sociedad era el individuo. Y con esta idea, fui capaz de comportarme más de acuerdo con mi propia voluntad.
~ Osamu Dazai
Güçlü kuvvetli olmak istiyordum, kaba saba de?il.
~ Osamu Dazai
Determination is something to consider, for it leads somewhere.
~ Unknown
Self-discipline is hard, and the more projects you have on your plate, the more your willpower will have to stretch.
~ Unknown
Sometimes it takes courage to give into temptation.
~ Oscar Wilde
Our battles are first won or lost in the secret places of our will in God's presence, never in full view of the world.
~ Oswald Chambers
Our battles are first won or lost in the secret places of our will in God's presence, never in full view of the world. The Spirit of God seizes me and I am compelled to get alone with God and fight the battle before Him. Until I do this, I will lose every time. The battle may take one minute or one year, but that will depend on me, not God. However long it takes, I
~ Oswald Chambers