Quotes About Willpower

Resolve to take fate by the throat and shake a living out of her.

The most valuable of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it has to be done, whether you like it or not.

A man's worst difficulties begin when he is able to do as he likes.

For pure will, unassuaged of purpose, delivered from the lust of result, is every way perfect.

The occultist G. I. Gurdjieff (1877–1949) demanded that a student, who was an inveterate smoker, quit smoking, and until he quit, Gurdjieff forbade any visit from him. The student fought for four years against the habit. When the student managed to overcome his habit, he very proudly presented himself in front of the teacher: "So! I quit smoking!" Gurdjieff responded, "Now, smoke!

A strong desire derives a person straight through the hardest rock.

A real ninja doesn't leave things in the hands of fate and destiny. They create their own destiny.

Toughness is in the soul and spirit, not in muscles.

She saw. But she went her own way just the same.

Though they had been for years with Jesus, there was still much more of the old Jewish man than of the new Christian man in them. If they had been left to the freedom of their own will, they would probably have avoided the Samaritan territory altogether, and, like the rest of their countrymen, taken a roundabout way to Jerusalem by crossing to the eastward of the Jordan.

What this power is, I cannot say. All I know is that it exists...and it becomes available only when you are in that state of mind in which you know exactly what you want...and are fully determined not to quit until you get it.

What this power is I cannot say all I know is that it exists and it becomes available only when a man is in that state of mind in which he knows exactly what he wants and is fully determined not to quit until he finds it.

In the main it will be found that a power over a man's support (salary) is a power over his will.

The ruling passion, be it what it will, the ruling passion conquers reason still.

People forget that the greatest conqueror is he who conquers himself.

Though much is taken, much abides; and though We are not now that strength which in old days Moved earth and heaven, that which we are, we are; One equal temper of heroic hearts, Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.

It is essential to resist our natural tendencies to allow emotions to control actions.

I would fight till I'm dead. This is why I am here. I am put on Earth to fight. I feel it deep in my waters.

One way to boost our will power and focus is to manage our distractions instead of letting them manage us.

The surest way to fail is not to determine to succeed.

Freedom is what everyone wants - to be able to act and live with freedom. But the only way to get to a place of freedom is through discipline.

Nothing is impossible; there are ways that lead to everything, and if we had sufficient will we should always have sufficient means. It is often merely for an excuse that we say things are impossible.

Many people think they want things, but they don't really have the strength, the discipline. They are weak. I believe that you get what you want if you want it badly enough.

Every action is either strong or weak, and when every action is strong we are successful.