Quotes About Willpower

The determined fixing of our will upon God, and pressing toward him steadily and without deflection; this is the very center and the art of prayer.

Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men! Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Prayer is not conquering God's reluctance, but taking hold of God's willingness.

Prayer is an effort of will.

Action is the normal completion of the act of will which begins as prayer. That action is not always external, but it is always some kind of effective energy.

Prayer should be done regularly, persistently, resolutely, and tenaciously at least daily, whether we feel like it or not.

My prayer is: I will be what I will be, I will do what I will do.

If the desires are not controlled now, later they will control you.

at last I realized that God would never ask of me that which I know to be psychologically impossible; that the love which He asked was in my will and not meant to be felt as emotion. No. Not at all. He was asking that I act with love; that I do unto others; and that I should do it unto those who repelled me, I believe, was a greater act of love than any other.

To perseverIn obstinate condolement is a courseOf impious stubbornness; 'tis unmanly grief:It shows a will most incorrect to heaven,A heart unfortified, a mind impatient.

Macbeth: If we should fail—Lady Macbeth: We fail!But screw your courage to the sticking-place,And we'll not fail.

'Tis in ourselves that we are thus or thus. Our bodies are our gardens to which our wills are gardeners.

Our bodies are our gardens, to the which our wills are gardeners.

Bell, book, and candle shall not drive me back.

We would, and we would not.

You are one of those that will not serve God if the devil bid you.

Anger is a great force. If you control it, it can be transmuted into a power which can move the whole world.

The stubbornness of his character stood him now in good stead. He refused to consider himself defeated.

Liberty, in so far as it is of any value, always means self-control in both the senses of that term: in the sense that we are only controlled by ourselves, and also in the sense that by ourselves we are controlled, and that every part of our nature is subservient to the purpose to which our whole nature is given.

Being stubborn can be a good thing. Being stubborn can be a bad thing. It just depends on how you use it.

You know inside whether it's right. But you still have to choose to do it.

when you drank, you lost control of your spirit. You had no power and no connection to Power.

La capacidad de dirigir el pensamiento a voluntad te proporciona un gran poder, porque te ayuda a evitar las emociones negativas cuando aparecen».

The power of man has grown in every sphere, except over himself.

I have never accepted what many people have kindly said ó namely that I inspired the nation. Their will was resolute and remorseless, and as it proved, unconquerable.It fell to me to express it.