Quotes About Willpower

The individual act of will is the strongest, most transcendent part of us. To look upon something with our deepest overriding passions, whether it be rage, grief, hope or love, and yet recognise a greater need or goal, and to say, "I will do this" or "I will not do that", no matter what the personal cost, is a triumph of the spirit. The exercise of the will is the art of humans in the state of being.' --

Beat on the doors until you get what you want. Beat on the walls until your fists bleed.

Whoever John Stoner is, he is no magician. He could not have made you into a hero if you had not already possessed the raw material." -Concordia Glade to Ambrose Wills.

Abstainer. A weak man who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure.

What could a mortal say to the merciless Fate? I forced myself to my feet. A'le-Ahnleh was the traditional end to a prayer. By the will of Fate. " A'le-la, " I whispered defiantly. By my will.

Do not acept whatever comes. Do not accept whatever goes. You have infinite power. Exercise your choice.

There is in fact no way of correcting wrongdoing in those who think that the height of virtue consists in the execution of their will.

She had not wanted him to but had let him have his way because ever since she was a child she had generally yielded before anyone with strong willpower, especially if it was a man, not because she was naturally submissive, but because strong male willpower gave her a feeling of safety and trust, together with acceptance and a desire to give in.

There would be no intimacy unless Ace willed it to be, and getting his asshole destroyed by the crisp-moving, slow-talking military man would have simply been a way for Jackson to be all he could be.

Is there aught that thou canst not do if thou hast but the will?

I don't think your ability to fight has anything to do with how big you are. It's to do with how much anger is in you.

The will to live, gives you the strength to surpass your own to achieve life

Strength of the mind is more powerful than strength of the muscles.

An education which does not cultivate the will is an education that depraves the mind.

Good habits result from resisting temptation.

Man proposes and dispose. He and he alone can determine whether he is completely master of himself, that is, whether he maintains the body of his desires, daily more formidable, in a state of anarchy.

I keep begging myself to stop, and I keep playing, and this gap, this contradiction between what I want to do and what I actually do, feels like the core of my life

Weak legs command, Gil says. Strong legs obey.

But my eyelids are heavy. I fight to keep them open, fight as always the loss of control, which feels like the ultimate loss of choice.

As for courage and will - we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead.

All that counts in life is intention.

Sometimes we know the best thing to do, but fail to do it. New year's resolutions are often like that. We make resolutions because we know it would be better for us to lose weight, or get fit, or spend more time with our children. The problem is that a resolution is generally easier to break than it is to keep.

I'm adapting quite well to English football with the same will I've always had.

It is more difficult to designate this form of conation on its practical side by a satisfactory name.