Quotes About Willpower

Once I press myself into action, I immediately begin to live. Anything less is merely existing. The moments I truly live are the moments when I act with my entire will.

Are you ready to be poured out as an offering? It is an act of your will, not your emotions.

Have you deliberately committed your will to Jesus Christ? It is a transaction of the will, not of emotion; any positive emotion that results is simply a superficial blessing arising out of the transaction.

El ser se extingue cuando se extingue la voluntad de lucha

Woman is soulless and possesses neither ego nor individuality, personality nor freedom, character nor will.

even though I may think like a compulsive overeater, I don't have to act like one.

I see and approve better things, but follow worse.

The old, defiant chant rose in her mind: If I want, I will learn. If I want, I will fight. If I want, I will live. And I want. And I will. This was going to be fun.

But I found it wasn't so easy to just turn off a crush when I wanted to. I vaguely remembered some quote I'd read in English class about the flesh being willing, even when the spirit wasn't.

Mind is everything. Muscle — pieces of rubber. All that I am, I am because of my mind.

Hay que contraponer, al pesimismo de la inteligencia, el optimismo de la voluntad (Gramsci).

No one bestowed courage or freedom or self-determination - one simply decided to take it.

And I'll do what I damned well please.

Tutkijoiden mukaan paras tapa laihtua ja olla lihomatta on tarkkailla itseään huolellisesti - pitämällä esimerkiksi ruokapäiväkirjaa ja punnitsemalla itsensä päivittäin. On myös todettu, että ihmisellä on enemmän tahdonvoimaa, kun hän ei täysin kiellä itseltään tiettyjä ruokia vaan päättää syödä niitä myöhemmin (kuten ilmeisesti viikonloppuna).

There is no fate but what we make

With the power of conviction, there is no sacrifice.

Don't let other people tell you what you want.

Trying is always enough.

My will broke at the sound of his voice, and my head turned with as much inevitability as a sunflower turning its face to the sun.

He can stop me in my tracks, but he can't make me do someting I don't want to

I'd have thought that persuading people to do what they wanted to do would have been easier.

As the old saying goes, "The person who masters himself masters the world.

Focus instead on what is possible. Focus instead on the fact that if you choose to impose your personal will on your personal reality today, things can happen. That's what confidence can do for you. This

The boy who refused to lose his soul.