Quotes About Willpower

I surrender to it, and by surrendering, I control it.

A man is the easiest animal to put on a leash, and the hardest to keep leashed. Even when he chooses it himself.

Callandor shone in his fist until it seemed he carried the sun. Dimly within him, fluttering like a candle flame in a storm, was the surety that holding Callandor, he could do anything. Anything.

The woman never wanted much. Just her own way. Like just about every other woman he had ever known.

For him to be in this condition almost robbed Rand of what courage he had managed to gather. But he had to keep on. That was all that kept him moving. He had to.

Choice, not circumstances, determines your success.

Like trying to keep a fatman out of the refrigerator. 'Lila

Willpower is more than just a metaphor; self-control is a finite resource. Frontal neurons are expensive cells, and expensive cells are vulnerable cells. Consistent

If you're working to restrict your food intake, a milkshake just makes you want another one.

willpower takes metabolic power, thanks to the glucose demands of the frontal cortex. This was the finding that when people are hungry, they become less generous in economic games.

Willpower is more than just a metaphor; self-control is a finite resource.

the frontal cortex makes you do the harder thing when it's the right thing to do

I can!" Marvin said. "And by the Christo malherido, I'm going to!

People who lack internal fortitude often become victims of those who have self-discipline.

El espíritu humano es muy, muy poderoso. Él sabe que puede lograr cualquier cosa.

2.?Make daily choices: the power of choice

shvatio sam da je borba kona?ni test volje i obuke. Nema drugog mjesta, a pobjednik je onaj koji je najspremniji. Promijenio sam svoj stav i sada sam razmišljao ovako: Borba nije rizi?na. Rizi?na je nepripremljenost. Shvatio sam da poduzetništvo nije rizi?no. Rizi?na je nepripremljenost.

the individual lacks internal control and discipline.

When we have to do a thing...we can do it.

Anne always said that Esme Dalley had an iron will under all her sweetness and the doctor had a great deal of respect for the intuition of his wife.

It's all very well to say resist temptation, but it's ever so much easier to resist it if you can't get the key.

Gus knew himself. He knew how he wanted to be, and he had chosen in the critical hour not to accept being less.

Louis told himself he only wanted to know if he could get pills. His addiction wasn't broken unless he had a choice to lapse.

only knows that the important part is to decide to stay. Again and again. And, on the days you can't, to resist deciding anything else.