Quotes About Willpower

It's not women's fault that diets don't work. It's not perversity of lack of willpower. God did this — in Her great wisdom.

What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight - it's the size of the fight in the dog.

The history of free men is never really written by chance but by choice their choice!

A lot of my life is about will - having the will to prove what my body can do.

The line between life or death is determined by what we are willing to do.

Self conquest is the greatest of victories.

There are moments in business and in life when you have to say, "Failure is not an option."

I think you can find yourself in life perhaps not really being the master of your own life and it is within your own will and tenacity whether you switch the roles or not.

He decided in favor of life out of sheer spite and malice.

Self-respect is the fruit of discipline.

Will power is human electricity. You have enough of this electricity generated in you to achieve the greatest things in life if you will keep the current on.

The weak have no place here, in this life or any other life. Weakness leads to slavery. Weakness leads to all kinds of misery, physical and mental. Weakness is death.

Fretting springs from a determination to get our own way.

Who wills, Can. Who tries, Does. Who loves, Lives.

They say the chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken. The chains you put around yourself now have enormous consequences as you go through life.

If we each get on a treadmill right now, one of two things is going to happen... either you're going to get off first or I am going to die. Period.

Life is a compromise between fate and free will.

If I hadn't been a determined person I wouldn't have succeeded in life.

Do it or don't. It's amazing how many things in life are that easy.

I would like to live. . . open to time and death painlessly, noticing everything, remembering nothing, choosing the given with a fierce and pointed will.

If you fail to gain absolute self-control, you have failed in the greatest victory of life.

The discipline that is needed in our lives is the discipline that comes from within.

Along with filters on computers and a lock on affections, remember that the only real control in life is self-control.

While tenderness of feeling and susceptibility to generous emotions are accidents of temperament, goodness is an achievement of the will and a quality of the life.