Quotes About Willpower

man the master of his own destiny and the creator of his own desires,

The Latin root of decide means "to cut off all possibility." So a person who actually made a true decision to accomplish something would have no alternative but to do what they decided.

Comment pourrait-on faire sentir l'intensité de cette honte à ceux qui ne l'ont jamais vécue ? Et la force des motivations engendrées par la volonté d'en sortir ? (p. 47)

To follow Jesus means self-renunciation and absolute adherence to him, and therefore a will dominated by lust can never be allowed to do what it likes.

A ?ovek umire jedino kad mora i kad ne?e.

Is it easy? She sang to herself. No it ain't can I fix it? No I can't

You don't need it but

In the words of Oscar Wilde, 'I can resist everything but temptation.

They got the absolute freedom to choose what we want them to.

Satan can only tempt you with what you already have.

You're a big boy," Ana observes, staring blankly into her cup. "You could have said no." "I stand with Oscar Wilde on the subject of temptation.

Life never forgives weaknesses.

It is easier to prevent bad habits than to break them.

If you face life without confidence in your own powers, you succumb too easily to setbacks and adversity; you lack the will to persevere.

People who believe that they are strong-willed and the masters of their destiny can only continue to believe this by becoming specialists in self-deception.

Emotions are wild horses. It is not explanations that carry us forward, but our will to go on.

Life has a way of getting what it wants when it really knows what it wants.

If you can't control what you think, you will not be able to control what you do.

Don't say I gotta do anything in life. There is nothing you gotta do. But I want to.

Who is strong? He that can conquer his bad habits.

The bird is powered by its own life and by its motivation.

We kiss until my lips are numb, stopping ourselves on the very edge of Someday, saying not yet, not here, even though it takes willpower I didn't know I had. My mind is spinning with him and with the unexpected Almost of today.

My mind tells me to give up, but my heart won't let me.

Never say no when you really want to say yes.