Quotes About Willpower

If she could do it, there was no reason she shouldn't." -The inheritance games

Wo ein Wille ist, da ist auch ein Weg

I meant what I said to Embryo about drugs. We don't mix. What it comes down to for me is I have a hard enough time keeping control over my brain without something else getting in the way.

If you wonder why you choose to worship other gods rather than wholeheartedly devote yourself to the Lord you love, examine the thought and desires that captivate your heart. That's where you'll fin the answer to every sin and failure in your life. Don't be deceived into thinking that you need to develop more willpower. We need to develop godly thoughts and desires.

Ne doutez pas de moi, laissez-moi la force de me vaincre.

Forget your anger, for she's hard to guide any way but her own.

I'll walk where my own nature would be leading: It vexes me to choose another guide.

Como nem a desgraça, nem a degradação, nem a morte, nem coisa alguma que Deus ou Satanás pudesse infligir-nos conseguiria separar-nos, você, movida pela sua própria vontade, acabou nos separando.

I'll not do anything, though you should swear your tongue out, except what I please!

It's called mind over matter. If we don't mind, it doesn't matter.

Nie mo?esz pozwoli? by fakt, ?e kto? chce twojej ?mierci, uniemo?liwi? ci wypicie twojej herbaty.

Koboi before, and I will do it again. This determination was fuelled by sadness.

No person is free who is not master of himself.

Man, what are you talking about? Me in chains? You may fetter my leg but my will, not even Zeus himself can overpower.

Above all, remember that the door stands open. Be not more fearful than children; but as they, when they weary of the game, cry, I will play no more, even so, when thou art in the like case, cry, I will play no more and depart. But if thou stayest, make no lamentation.

Restrict yourself to choice and refusal; and exercise them carefully, with discipline and detachment.

Freedom is not procured by a full enjoyment of what is desired, but by controlling the desire.

Disease is an impediment to the body, but not to the will, unless the will itself chooses. Lameness is an impediment to the leg, but not to the will. And add this reflection on the occasion of everything that happens; for you will find it an impediment to something else, but not to yourself.

Disease is an impediment to the body, but not to the will, unless the will itself chooses. Lameness is an impediment to the leg, but not to the will. And add this reflection on the occasion of everything that happens; for you will find it an impediment to something else, but not to yourself. X

Control thy passions lest they take vengeance on thee.

the good of man, and likewise his ill, lies in how he exercises his choice, while everything else is nothing to us

You can be invincible, if you enter into no contest in which it is not in your power to conquer.

Freedom is not attained through the satisfaction of desires, but through the suppression of desires.

But until he succeeds in suppressing his lust and anxiety, how is he really free?