Quotes About Willpower

Dreams are achieved by blood, sweat, tears, and an iron-will!

Nothing moves unless you are determined to push

Remember, It doesn't matter what you can do, what really matters is what you will do.

The power within is strength of the spirit.

Nothing can hold you back if your determination is strong enough.

Control your thoughts and everything will be under your control.

When you have your conscious mind, you have everything you need to succeed.

Boxing is a contest of character and ingenuity. The boxer with more will, determination, desire, and intelligence is always the one who comes out the victor.

lack of will power leads to more failure than lack of intelligence or ability.

Yoga is about the will, working with intelligence and self-reflexive consciousness, can free us from the inevitability of the wavering mind and outwardly directed senses.

One who does not rouse themself when it is time to rise, who, though capable, is full of sloth, whose will and thought are weak, that lazy and idle person will never find their way to true knowledge.

Schopenhauer says, 'a man can do what he will, but not will as he will.

The great Vince Lombardi said, "Discipline and mental toughness are many things and rather difficult to explain. Its qualities are sacrifice and self-denial, and most importantly, it's combined with a perfectly disciplined will that refuses to give in.

When clients think they are helpless, that some strange mysterious force is at work overpowering them, and they say that I Corinthians 10:13 does not apply to their case, the truth may be that they are not serious about wanting to do the Lord's will. They may be talking out of both sides of their mouths. They may deceive others or even themselves, in part, about the sincerity of their desire to obey God.

ISABELLE Je viendrai... Je viendrai... Mais je n'ai pas le sentiment que je serai particulièrement forte et volontaire, une fois disparue. Je sens très bien au contraire que ce qui me plaira dans la mort, c'est la paresses de la mort, c'est cette fluidité un peu dense te engourdie de la mort, que fait qu'en somme, il n'y a pas des morts, mais uniquement des noyés...

It is choice--not chance--that determines your destiny.

If you just want a thing hard enough and keep on trying, you do get it in the end.

I believe absolutely in my own free will and my own power to accomplish - and that is the belief that moves mountains.

Je la sentais entre mes mains, ivre, décoiffée, volontaire, et je devinais une sorte d'effort de son visage pour ne pas disparaître, ne pas s'effacer dans la nuit.

Will is underrated as a therapeutic agent, an instrument of transformation and self-determination – sometimes the only tool a person can call upon in extremis. There is nothing natural or spontaneous about it. To make a blessing out of a curse is a genuine triumph of will, and transforming shame into pride a rare form of alchemy.

Once you'd resolved to go, there was nothing to it at all.

Man can will nothing unless he has first understood that he must count on no one but himself; that he is alone, abandoned on earth in the midst of his infinite responsibilities, without help, with no other aim than the one he sets himself, with no other destiny than the one he forges for himself on this earth.

There's a fine line between stubbornness and the positive side of that, which is dogged determination.

If something needs doing, there will come a time when I feel like doing it. If that time doesn't come, it doesn't get done and didn't need doing.