Quotes About Willpower

If there's any girl in the world more determined than you, I've yet to meet her.

To the determined mind, nothing is impossible

God gave us free will so that we might choose our own destinies. He left it up to us to achieve them.

While appearing weak is okay, giving in to weakness is definitely not.

Thinking is easy, acting difficult, and to put one's thoughts into actions the most difficult thing in the world.

No one can take the power within you.

There is a force more powerful than steam and electricity: the will.

The greatest power we have in life is not external, but internal.

A man of courage is in command of himself.

Your will to success supersedes all other wills.

The more you resist, the stronger you get.

Everyday can be extraordinaryAnd ripe, Like a flower burst, If the will is there.

I have converted the machinery of my fate into the servant of my will.

There is no chance, no fate, no destiny that can circumvent, or hinder, or control the firm resolve of a determined soul.

Every time someone tells me I can't do something the more I want to do it, not to prove them wrong but because I always knew I could do it.

He who rules his spirit, shall conquer himself.

As Gates had told the pastor that day in his house. "I can do anything I put my mind to".

Self-discipline is never simple.

To roughly paraphrase Paul, why do I do what I don't want to do and don't do what I want to do?

Loving can be hard. Sometimes we don't feel loving, but it isn't all about feeling. Very often it is about will. Practice that if you can.

The lessons of great men are lost unless they reinforce upon our minds the highest demands which we make upon ourselves ... they are lost unless they drive our sluggish wills forward in the direction of their highest ideals.

The thing I want to know is, if you tell your brain not to do stuff... and it keeps doing it anyway, does that mean your mind has a mind of its own? And if it does, then who's in charge here, anyway?

Spock stared hard at his tricorder, as if by sheer will he might force it to tell him the answer to his questions.

[Y]ou can do it, even if you can't. Just keep can'ting until eventually you can.