Quotes About Willpower

If I had not some strength of will I would make a first class drunkard.

The most spiritual activity you will engage in today is making choices.

The warrior is not formed by what has been done and what can't be done; the heart of the warrior is formed by what must be done.

I've solved a problem that was thought to be unsolvable. . . . And I learned that only a small part of it is talent. The rest is determination. . . . The will is everything.

What stands in your way is that you have a much too willful will. You think that what you do not do yourself does not happen.

The hand that stretches the bow must open like a child's hand opens. What sometimes hinders the precision of the shot is the archer's over-active will. He thinks: What I fail to do will not be done, and that's not quite how things work. Man should always act, but he must also let other forces of the universe act in their own due time.

I've learned that you never win a battle of wills with a crazy person because they don't even know there's a battle.

Without all this self-control, do you think I could have done all I've done?33

Though he was eighteen months younger than Joseph, Napoleon was always stronger-willed.)

If you have a mind that you can't control, you're never going to be a king.

Your mind must be stronger than your feelings.

incontinence".

Yo, si algo deseo, no sueño, sino que actúo. Y siempre consigo aquello que deseo

Stories like that are made by poor simpletons, who can't even dream of fulfilling their wishes and desires themselves. I'm pleased you're not one of them, Geralt of Rivia. It makes you closer in spirit to me. If I want something, I don't dream of it — I act. And I always get what I want. - Yennefer

It is not enough to recognize what is right and true. One must control the impulse to do what is wrong and easy.

Self discipline is the ability to make yourself do something you don't necessarily want to do, to get a result you would really like to have.

And success in any endeavor where self-discipline is involved boils down to this question: can you make yourself do something you don't particularly want to do in order to get a result you would like to have?

He did, however, put in me the ability to make a decision and then make it right.

Always remember that you have been created with a will that is stronger than your emotions. You can choose how you act, despite how you feel.

When people are ready to, they change. They never do it before then, and sometimes they die before they get around to it. You can't make them change if they don't want to, just like when they do want to, you can't stop them.

When people are ready to, they change. They never do it before then, and sometimes they die before they get around to it. You can't make them change if they don't want to, just like when they do want to, you can't stop them.

But there wasn't the merest whiff about of the kind of magic that comes when the theatre darkens, the bottom of the curtain glows, the punters settle down, you take a deep breath... none of the person-to-person magic we put together with spit and glue and willpower.

After all, it was easy enough to be virtuous if there was no temptation.

An act has no ethical quality whatever unless it be chosen out of several all equally possible.