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Quotes About Willpower

Corro porque puedo, porque debo. Porque quiero ver hasta dónde puedo llegar antes de tener que parar.
~ Libba Bray
Lily remembered Sandra saying that Caleb's mind couldn't be changed by a blast of dynamite once he'd made it up on a subject, and she had a hunch both women were right. Caleb was the most hardheaded man on earth.
~ Linda Lael Miller
Courage, like so many other things, was not something one did or didn't have; it was a decision, a choice.
~ Linda Lael Miller
The hero's will is not that of his ancestors nor of his society, but his own. This will to be oneself is heroism.
~ Jose Ortega y Gasset
Fighting is not physical, fighting is spiritual. It's the determination and the will in the guy.
~ Mike Tyson
Man is free at the instant he wants to be.
~ Voltaire
To make the mind obey you is a spiritual discipline.
~ Sivananda
The lash may force men to physical labor, it cannot force them to spiritual creativity.
~ Sholem Asch
The essence of spiritual life is simply to use our free will properly.
~ Radhanath Swami
There's always a way - if you're committed.
~ Tony Robbins
Self-control means wanting to be effective at some random point in the infinite radiations of my spiritual existence.
~ Franz Kafka
She knew full well the enormity of her offense, but because her desires were stronger than the code she was breaking, she persisted in breaking it.
~ Harper Lee
All that spirits desire, spirits attain.
~ Khalil Gibran
What keeps us playing our parts and going round and round the three lower worlds is not a Divine dictate, but ourselves, our own will-to-live, which comes from within ourselves.
~ Nilakanta Sri Ram
What we call "willing" is often but an inflation of ourselves, attended by a hardening.
~ Nilakanta Sri Ram
One who conquers others is great, one who conquers the world is mighty, but one who conquers himself is divine.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
Determination Determines Your Destination
~ Qwana Reynolds-Frasier
My heart is set. All goodly sport For my comfort Who shall me let?
~ Henry VIII of England
I don't stop when I'm tired. I stop when I'm done
~ David Goggins
The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a man's determination.
~ Tommy Lasorda
Mind is everything. Muscle - pieces of rubber. All that I am, I am because of my mind.
~ Paavo Nurmi
I learned that if you want to make it bad enough, no matter how bad it is, you can make it.
~ Gale Sayers
Never underestimate the heart of a champion.
~ Rudy Tomjanovich
Mental will is a muscle that needs exercise, just like the muscles of the body.
~ Lynn Jennings