Quotes About Willpower

It is not always convenient or comfortable, and sometimes worship is a sheer act of the will--a willing sacrifice.

You always have a choice, she spat. You fight until you see you're beaten, and then you keep on fighting.

I never do anything I don't want to. Nor does anyone, but in my case I know it.

you are not in my debt. You can't be. Impossible—because I never do anything I don't want to do. Nor does anyone, but in my case I am always aware of it.

There's a divinity that shapes our ends, rough-hew them how we will." Free will and predestination in one sentence and both true.

Anything which is physically possible can be made financially possible, if the people of a state desire it.

It's a shock to have it proved to you that you can't resist seducing yourself.

But that would have left no choice. This was contradiction; at cusp, choice is. By choice, spirit grows.

The shrewdest of the great generals in China's history once said that perfection in war lay in so sapping the opponent's will that he surrenders without fighting.

Never try to outstubborn a cat

This world demands the qualities of youth; not a time of life but a state of mind, a temper of the will, a quality of the imagination, a predominance of courage over timidity, of the appetite for adventure over the life of ease.

Thinking of it, and doing it… they're not the same.

Never quit, Rikki. No one can beat you if you don't quit.

we tend to think of our behavior as largely conscious and willed. To imagine that we are not always in control of what we do is a frightening thought, but in fact it is the reality.

Do not be afraid to exaggerate the role of willpower. It is an exaggeration with a purpose. It leads to a positive self-fulfilling dynamic, and that is all you care about. See this shaping of your attitude as your most important creation in life, and never leave it to chance.

One can have no smaller or greater mastery than mastery of oneself. —LEONARDO DA VINCI In

No more thoughts about his mouth and which of her body parts would fit inside. No. None of that. He'd think about something completely different. Like her mouth and which of his body parts would fit inside.

He that complies against his will is of his own opinion still.

A stubborn ass needs a stubborn driver

Rachel candy.

One acts, and thus finds out what one has decided to do.

The mind must have the final say and sway over the body and not the other way round

Go tae your hands again…let me give it tae you. Lachlain MacRieve

Take it out, then.