Quotes About Willpower

La voluntad es la reina de los poderes mentales. Cuando dominas tu mente dominas tu vida. Para dominar la mente hay que empezar siendo capaz de controlar todos y cada uno de los pensamientos.

The garden keeps me focused on inspiring thoughts, the lighthouse reminds me that the purpose of life is a life of purpose, the sumo wrestler keeps me centered on continuous self-discovery, while the pink wire cable links me to the wonders of willpower.

You must push your talents hard ... Past your comfort zone. Only then will they grow. Always remember this: The time you least feel like doing something is the best time to do it ... because when you enlarge your willpower muscle in one important area, your self-discipline in every other area rises with you.

Basically, by keeping silent for a day, you are conditioning your will to do as you command it to do. Each time the urge to speak arises, you actively curb this impulse and remain quiet. You see, your will does not have a mind of its own. It waits for you to give it instructions that will spur it into action. The more control you exert over it, the more powerful it will become. The problem is that most people don't use their willpower.

No man is free who is not a master of himself.

When spider webs unite, they tie up a lion.' When you liberate your willpower, you become the master of your personal world.

Siddhartha considered the ways of the demon, and in that moment he struck.

He had a great general's ability to focus on his goals and brush aside obstacles as petty distractions. "You can abuse me, you can strike me," Rockefeller said, "so long as you let me have my own way.

With granite will, he began to mold Pierpont, instructing him to associate with those of his grammar-school classmates "as are of the right stamp & whose influence over you will be good.

A person either runs or he fights. It's a binary choice, and I'm a fighter.

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Quitting eating was one thing. Coffee was a whole different thing entirely.

My people don't need any encouraging. They don't need much leading. They need guidance, and they need discipline, but don't let that fool you. I'm not coercing anybody. Don't make the mistake of underestimating their will. Don't ignore their desire for a change for the better.

Aquel pueblo avanzaba con una decisión que arrastraba consigo todas las simpatías del mundo civilizado. La joven Israel se alzaba como un faro para la humanidad, demostrando cuánto se podía conseguir con fuerza de voluntad y amor.

You will never have a greater or lesser dominion than that over yourself...the height of a man's success is gauged by his self-mastery; the depth of his failure by his self-abandonment. ...And this law is the expression of eternal justice. He who cannot establish dominion over himself will have no dominion over others.

Obstacles cannot crush me; every obstacle yields to stern resolve.

You can have no dominion greater or less than that over yourself.

Uno non può possedere capacità più grande o più piccola della padronanza di se stesso.

under the most painful conditions, where it would seem that there remains no room for hope or life—a human being, a being of the highest order, possessing a mind and a will, finds both hope and life.

I know the difference between what I can't do and what I refuse to do.

When my alarm jangled in the morning, I awoke feeling small and terrified. I couldn't find myself in my own life—there was no memory of me that I could grasp. There was no place outside of me where I belonged. So every morning I willed myself back into existence.

You are what you are because that is what you really want to be! We make decisions and those decisions make us who were are! You can judge anything in the world by this. God builds up and the Devil tears down.

I shan't ever understand your willingness to lie down and die, Felicity bars. If you won't at least try to fight, I have no sympathy for you.

No, you're right. I shan't ever understand your willingness to lie down and die, Felicity barks. If you won't at least try to fight, I have no sympathy for you.