Quotes About Willpower

In the creative process you do not make choices about what you do not want. You make choices about what you do want.

I count him braver who overcomes his desires, than him who conquers his enemies, for the hardest victory is the victory over self. ARISTOTLE

When the will defies fear, when duty throws the gauntlet down to fate, when honor scorns to compromise with death - that is heroism.

Enough, he told his tired, hyperactive brain. Enough. And by the same power of will that in the army had enabled him to fall instantly asleep on bare concrete, on rocky ground, on lumpy camp beds that squeaked rusty complaints about his bulk whenever he moved, he slid smoothly into sleep like a warship sliding out on dark water.

Flying is only a figure for something else. If you cannot succeed here at this, then you will fail elsewhere at other things. You must strengthen your will, for you do not need a master. In truth, you have too many masters. It is being said that everyone is your master.

For to tempt and to be tempted are things very nearly allied.

You are not a mere spectator at a contest between cancer cells and killer drugs. Your attitude is important. Your will to get healthy. People give up; sometimes it seems easier to die than hang in there, go the distance... You've got to be your own hero. People need to find things inside themselves they never knew were there.

His will was weakening; he recognised the signs.

I had some time ago decided that the money-makers on the grand scale are monomaniacs and fanatics and self-willed.

As he chooses, he is.

At Crisis the protagonist's willpower is most severely tested. As we know from life, decisions are far more difficult to make than actions are to take. We often put off doing something for as long as possible, then as we finally make the decision and step into the action, we're surprised by its relative ease. We're left to wonder why we dreaded doing it until we realize that most of life's actions are within our reach, but decisions take willpower.

Most of life's actions are within our reach, but decisions take willpower.

Brez discipline in volje, si izgubljen kot pomorš?ak brez kompasa, ki na koncu potone z ladjo vred.

Without will-power, you become a victim to the evils of procrastination, laziness and sloth.

Sure I am that this day we are masters of our fate, that the task which has been set before us is not above our strengths; that its pangs and toils are not beyond my endurance. As long as we have faith in our own cause and an unconquerable will to win, victory will not be denied us. Winston Churchill

As long as we have faith in our own cause and an unconquerable will to win, victory will not be denied us.

La frase pertenecía a Winston Churchill y evidenciaba qué clase de hombre era Julián: «Estoy convencido de que en este día somos dueños de nuestro destino, que la tarea que se nos ha impuesto no es superior a nuestras fuerzas; que sus acometidas no están por encima de lo que soy capaz de soportar. Mientras tengamos fe en nuestra causa y una indeclinable voluntad de vencer, la victoria estará a nuestro alcance».

Sure I am that this day we are masters of our fate, that the task which has been set before us is not above our strength; that its pangs and toils are not beyond my endurance. As long as we have faith in our own cause and an unconquerable will to win, victory will not be denied us.

willpower weakens once it gets tired. Scientists call the condition 'ego depletion.

self-control is more indispensable than gunpowder.

The single best way to build your willpower is to voluntarily put yourself into conditions of discomfort.

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Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not.

Mess lowers your self-control as well as steals your cognitive bandwidth.