Quotes About Willpower

There is not any memory with less satisfaction than the memory of some temptation we resisted.

You can keep your willpower, Frog. I am going home to bake a cake.

Call'd to the temple of impure delight He that abstains, and he alone, does right. If a wish wander that way, call it home; He cannot long be safe whose wishes roam.

When the will defies fear, when duty throws the gauntlet down to fate, when honor scorns to compromise with death - that is heroism.

We were taught never to give up, never to passively accept fate, but to exhaust every last ounce of will and hope in the face of any challenge.

No one can ask honestly or hopefully to be delivered from temptation unless he has himself honestly and firmly determined to do the best he can to keep out of it.

Mere hope isn't enough to change destiny. One must act.

I think it's pointless asking questions like "Will humanity survive?" It's purely up to people - if they want to, they can, if they don't want to, they won't.

The one and only thing over which you have complete and total control is how you focus your own mind. Luckily, this determines everything else.

He wanted one drink, and understood precisely why he wasn't going to have one. One drink ended up arriving in a dozen glasses.

If they really wanted us to resist temptation, they shouldn't a made it so damn tempting.

. . . I still wouldn't be able to control myself around him, and I'm math geek enough to know that equation doesn't work out.

When the imagination and will power are in conflict, are antagonistic, it is always the imagination which wins, without any exception.

One siupreme fact which I have discovered is that it is not willpower, but fantasy and imagination that ceates. Imagination is the creative force. Imagination creates reality.

The higher the artist, the fewer the gestures. The fewer the tools, the greater the imagination. The greater the will, the greater the secret failure.

We learn to curb our will and keep our overt actions within the bounds of humanity, long before we can subdue our sentiments and imaginations to the same mild tone.

Your imagination is ten times more potent than your willpower. Unleashed, it provides a sense of certainty and tenacious vision that goes far beyond any limitation of the past.

What man wants is simply independent choice, whatever that independence may cost and wherever it may lead.

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.

True independence of character empowers us to act rather than be acted upon.

I am anchored on a resolve you cannot shake. My heart, my conscience shall dispose of my hand - they only. Know this at last.

I'll never Be such a gosling to obey instinct, but stand As is a man were author of himself And knew no other kin.

I'll walk where my own nature would be leading. It vexes me to choose another guide.

If you really want to do something, you'll find a way. If you don't, you'll find an excuse.