Quotes About Willpower

Without self-discipline, success is impossible, period.

It's hard to beat a person that never gives up.

What you feel doesn't matter in the end; it's what you do that makes you brave.

The hardest victory is the victory over self.

When you step onto that field, you cannot concede a thing.

Effort is a measure of a Man.

Athletes have a certain stubbornness that carries us through and makes us do things that people say we can't do.

This ability to conquer oneself is no doubt the most precious of all things sports bestows.

If you want to do something, anything, with all your heart, you will find a way.

Gandhi, the greatest political genius of our time, has pointed the way. He was shown of what sacrifices people are capable once they have found the right way. His work for the liberation of India is a living testimony to the fact that a will governed by firm conviction is stronger than a seemingly invincible material power.

Schopenhauer's saying, that "a man can do as he will, but not will as he will," has been an inspiration to me since my

Schopenhauer's saying, that "a man can do as he will, but not will as he will

Gustavo Solivellas dice: Hay una fuerza motriz más poderosa que el vapor, la electricidad y la energía atómica: la voluntad (Albert Einstein)

There is a driving force more powerful than steam, electricity and nuclear power: the will.

The unruliest of men bend before the leader that has the sense to see and the will to do.

Je me rendis compte que personne - pas même mon père, assis à quelques pas de moi - ne pouvait pénétrer mon espace de lecture, distinguer ce que le livre m'expliquait avec impudeur, et que rien, sinon ma propre volonté, ne pouvait en donner à quiconque la possibilité.

I used to think I had no will to power. Now I perceive that I vented it on thoughts, rather than people. Conquering an unknown province of knowledge. Getting the better of a problem. Forcing ideas to associate or come apart. Bullying recalcitrant words to assume a certain pattern. All the fun of being a dictator without any risks and responsibilities.

Pully, hauly, tug with a will; the gods wiggle waggle, but the sky stands still.

the good that I would,'" he quoted, "'I do not; and the evil that I would not, that I do.

For the good that I would,'" he quoted, "'I do not; and the evil that I would not, that I do.'" "Who said that?" "The man who invented Christianity—St. Paul.

The harder we try with the conscious will to do something, the less we shall succeed.

The harder we try with the conscious will to do something, the less we shall succeed. Proficiency and results come only to those who have learned the paradoxical art of doing and not doing, or combining relaxation with activity.

But the disciplining of the will must have as its accompaniment a no less thorough disciplining of the consciousness. There has to be a conversion, sudden or otherwise, not merely of the heart, but also of the senses and of the perceiving mind.

in the absence of will power, the most complete collection of virtues and talents is wholly worthless.