Quotes About Willpower

Your stomach isn't the boss of you,' Mel says evenly. 'Oh,' Jared says, realizing. 'Sorry-' Mel shakes her head, brushing it off. 'Not what I meant. Your heart isn't the boss of you other. Thinks it is. Isn't. You can always choose. Always.' 'You can't choose not to feel,' Henna says. 'But you can choose how to act.

If you are going to impose your will on the world, you must have control over what you believe.

Existe una forma específica de pensar llamada Alar —explicó Wilem—. Crees en algo con tanta fuerza que sucede

The point of all of this is control. First you must have control of yourself. Then you can gain control of your surroundings. Then you gain control of whoever stands against you. This is the Lethani.

My alar is like the ocean in storm.

Por qué no lo haces y punto, en lugar de hacer todo lo posible por intentarlo?

Si pretendes imponerle tu voluntad al mundo, debes controlar tu capacidad de creer.

but sympathy is not an art for the weak willed

Still, it was sulk or sail.

The point of all of this is control. First you must have control of yourself. Then you can gain control of your surroundings. Then you gain control of whoever stands against you.

being able to do something and wanting to do it were two very different things indeed

Sintió como la sangre caliente volvía a darle vida y como se apoderaba de él la voluntad de llevar a cabo lo que se había propuesto, incluso con más fuerza que antes, porque ahora la voluntad no tenía su origen en un simple anhelo, sino que había surgido de una decisión meditada… Poseía para ello una personalidad demasiado tenaz, un temperamento demasiado retorcido y un espíritu demasiado refinado.

He decided in favor of life out of sheer spite and sheer malice.

He decided in favor of life out of sheer spite and malice.

I had to learn, really, how to rein in my energies and discipline myself. And I found it very very useful. I rebelled against it at first, but it's a good thing to have.

When it can't be done, do it. If you don't do it, it doesn't exist.

Just think it, and chances are it will happen.

Una cosa scompare e se aspetti troppo prima di ripensarla non c'è sforzo che possa farla riapparire. Dopo tutto, la memoria non è un atto di volontà. È qualcosa che accade tuo malgrado, e quando i cambiamenti sono troppo frequenti, la mente è destinata a vacillare e le cose destinate a eclissarsi in essa.

There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision, and for whom the lighting of every cigar, the drinking of every cup, the time of rising and going to bed every day, and the beginning of every bit of work, are subjects of express volitional deliberation.

Roy Baumeister and his colleagues. They posit that mental effort (or self-control, willpower, or grit) actually is a lot like a muscle. Like a muscle, it can work for only so long before it gets tired; like a muscle, it can be strengthened through exercise.

Baumeister and John Tierney called Willpower. One piece of advice they offer is that one should be careful not to use up one's willpower on unnecessary tasks. You wouldn't tire out a muscle before a weight-lifting competition, would you?

He who does not rouse himself when it is time to rise; who, though young and strong, is full of sloth; whose will and thoughts are weak; that lazy and idle man will never find the way to enlightenment.

Self-control is a fruit of his work.

Being strong-willed is not enough, however. You also have to be hard on yourself. Someone who was strong-willed but self-indulgent would not be called determined. Determination implies your willfulness is balanced by discipline.