Quotes About Willpower

Insomniacs tend to fall into two general categories - those who give up and those who don't. I don't. I refuse to admit defeat by turning on the light. I will not try to read or watch a movie, thank you. Productivity is a crutch of the weak.

Let's face it: the present self is present. It's in control. It's in power right now. It has these strong, heroic arms that can lift doughnuts into your mouth. And the future self is not even around. It's off in the future. It's weak. It doesn't even have a lawyer present.

I believe in finishing what I start; not being able to do that makes me feel weak.

I don't think I've the luxury of being weak. Being strong is my only option.

Whatever I can do to win, I'll do it, even if I have to get hit by a pitch, whatever it takes.

I never, ever deviate from my plans.

I remember some stories had a very big impact on me, like 'The Little Train That Could,' which is about the importance of not giving up, and 'Little Toot,' about a playful tugboat in the New York harbor.

I take the no-doughnut pledge, and then I break it.

It is a long story how we finally ended up with the title simply being 'The Legend of Korra,' but in a poetic way, I think Korra's big Type A personality willed it to happen!

In their rules there was only one clause: Do what you will.

But I still think it's mind over matter in the sense that if you're strong, you can combat anything.

Those who can command themselves command others.

Every day I think, 'Can I commit?' I think I can and that I will.

Take it from someone who's never managed to keep a New Year's resolution: making commitments is easy. Keeping them is what is hard.

I'm not afraid to say I'm competitive.

If you have a sense of style and purpose and will you don't want to compromise.

It's all about concentration when you're tired.

For they conquer who believe they can.

I can see now that I should have been strong enough to conquer myself.

You can never conquer us, we will die first.

I think I could survive a week without eating.

I wish I didn't like sweets as much as I do. I wish I didn't get carried away sometimes.

There are some disheartening days where I don't get to eat my favourite sweets, but my diet has to be followed.

True strength of will is calm; in calmness it is persevering so that it does not become discouraged by momentary lack of success or by any wounds received. No one is conquered until he has given up the struggle. And he who works for the Lord puts his confidence in God and not in himself.982