Quotes About Willpower

The disciplined are free.

I wish I were more disciplined.

I've always been pretty disciplined.

I'm not a disciplined person.

You have to be disciplined to resist what can lead you down a dark path.

I'm determined to be a diva.

Agency is a divine gift to you. You are free to choose what you will be and what you will do.

It's clear that the only thing that is inhibiting us from doing further human exploration of space is money and the will to do it.

He resolved, having done it once, never to move his eyeballs again.

It ain't the technique, it ain't the speed, it ain't the power. It's who wants it the most.

When I fight, I don't think about being tired, I don't think about technique. I just try to break their will.

We have the resources and technology to produce more energy than we consume and break our long-standing dependence on foreign sources of oil. All we need is the will. In fact, there's a path to follow, one that North Dakota blazed over the last decade by building a comprehensive energy plan we called Empower North Dakota.

If you tell me I can't do something, it just makes me want to do it more.

If there is one constant to my life, it is that you cannot tell me 'no.'

We clearly see in God's Word that anything He tells us to do, He will give us the ability to do it. But do we really believe it? Do we want to believe it? It's easier to come up with excuses for why we can't do things that are hard or that we really don't want to do.

Something happens to me when someone says, 'You can't.' I'm generally not very competitive; unless someone tells me I can't do something that should be done.

I have a fierce temper. I've mastered it over the years, but when I'm angry, no one can force me to do anything I don't want to.

When I lose my temper it's because I decide to. If I do something it's because I want to do it.

Something must be done when you find an opposing set of desires of this kind well to the fore in your category of strong desires. You must set in operation a process of competition, from which one must emerge a victor and the other set be defeated.

But I know you. You'll hem and haw for a bit, but in the end, you'll go because you hate to lose—at anything.

Thomas Aquinas was asked, "What must I do to be a saint?" and he said, "Will it." Be a saint, and you'll unleash the power of grace and holiness.

There is always a way, if the desire be coupled with courage," answered the Cimmerian

This world demands the qualities of youth: not a time of life but a state of mind, a temper of the will, a quality of the imagination, a predominance of courage over timidity, of the appetite for adventure over the love of ease.

The future will be shaped by those willing to commit their minds and their bodies to the task.