Quotes About Willpower

I was about eight when I started tap dancing - against my own will. My mom wanted me to do it. She thought I would love it, and I didn't believe her. I turned out to be obsessed with it.

Singaporeans generally feel more secure these days. One of our tasks is to remind them that this, a result of a continuing act of will and an appropriate sense of insecurity, is very helpful.

I am a bull. I am Taurus. My will is awful. If I like something, there is nothing else. I was a pain in the neck. I still am a pain in the neck.

I think all the great ones have it. They just have a will they can put on their teammates. Refuse to lose mentality. When you step in the huddle with any of those guys, you're so calm that he knows what the heck he's doing and he can get the job done.

Success Is A Choice

Thought gives rise to desire.

Whenever you make an agreement with yourself, you have to stick to it.

Il corpo faccia quello che vuole, io sono la mente.

Lead me not into temptation; I can find the way myself.

First we form habits, then they form us. Conquer your bad habits or they will conquer you.

The stars incline, but do not impel.

It is easier to resist at the beginning than at the end. —LEONARDO DA VINCI

A wise business executive once said that in order to "grow as a leader" a person must feel "a strong will to modify the environment to make it better, then create challenging situations that (he or she) can't get out of except by changing.

Be the master of your fate, be the captain of your soul, but do not hesitate, should the chance befall you, to be the slave of your heart.

Though the barriers of life seem formidable, we find when we challenge them that they have no will.

'Tis not what man does which exalts him, but what man would do!

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. We are subject to forces from deep within us that drive our behavior and that operate below the level of our awareness.

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

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Power requires self-discipline.

What makes your mind stronger, and more able to control your emotions, is internal discipline and toughness.

A person who has something to prove will move mountains for you.

Some men […] choose to seek greatness, while others are forced to it. It is always better to choose than to be forced. A man who is forced is never completely his own master. He must dance on the strings of those who forced him.

Anything can be a weapon, if the man or woman who holds it has the nerve and will to make it so.