Quotes About Willpower

What we do repeatedly hardens into habits. The longer you carry on, the tougher it is to change. All your best intentions about doing the right thing "later" are no match for the power of habits.

All those chores you don't have the will to complete after slugging it out with the highway collect into one mean list due on Saturday. By the time you've taken out the trash, picked up the dry cleaning, gone to the hardware store, and paid your bills, half the weekend is gone.

Todo el mundo obliga a todo el mundo, no tanto a hacer lo que no quiere, sino más bien lo que no sabe si quiere, porque casi nadie sabe lo que no quiere, y menos aún, lo que quiere

No hay nada mejor que creer que se ha perdido la voluntad, que está uno a merced del oleaje y del vaivén, que puede mecerse y abandonarse; o sí, todavía es mejor creer que la voluntad se ha entregado a otro, a quien ahora corresponderá decidir qué va a pasar.

Only you can control your future.

The dark side is about survival. It's about unleashing your inner power. It glorifies the strength of the individual.

True strength comes from the mind and spirit.

If you really want to be a witch, nothing you have to do will seem like too much. If you don't really want to be a witch, everything will seem like too much.

What characterizes an addiction? Quite simply this: you no longer feel that you have the choice to stop. It

Mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.

Noble self-restraint must have something to restrain.

There's nothing in this world within arm's-length of possibility that can not be done, when a man must.

Will-power, he saw, was not a thing one could suddenly decree oneself to possess. It must be built up imperceptibly and laboriously out of a succession of small efforts to meet definite objects, out of the facing of daily difficulties instead of cleverly eluding them, or shifting their burden on others.

a stony road, hard on the feet. I would beg for us to sit down but you discouraged it, knowing that sitting was fatal, because of the willpower required to get up again.

It is just to say that, for the addict, slavery with the object of desire is sometimes preferable to freedom without it.

Selfcontrol is the skill of saying "no" to sinful desires, even when it hurts.

As a way to practice saying "no," consider small fasts. You could give up food, desserts, computer games, or other activities important to you. This is not a way to punish yourself for what you have done. It is simply a way to have more practice at self-control. Remember that self-control is a skill that develops with practice.

There is no strength higher than overcoming carnal desire.

The most important thing you do everyday you live is deciding not to kill yourself.

Believe me, for certain men at least, not taking what one doesn't desire is the hardest thing in the world.

Man must cease attributing his problems to his environment, and learn again to exercise his will - his personal responsibility.

Thus there is an Absolute, in the matters of Intelligence and of Faith. The Supreme Reason has not left the gleams of the human understanding to vacillate by hazard. There is an incontestable verity, there is an infallible method of knowing this verity, and by the knowledge of it, those who accept it as a rule may give their will a sovereign power that will make them masters of inferior things and of all errant spirits that is to say, will make them the Arbiters and Kings of the World.

Man must cease attributing his problems to his environment, and learn again to exercise his will - his personal responsibility in the realm of faith and morals.

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