Quotes About Willpower

Every time I say 'no' to a small temptation, I strengthen my will to say 'no' to a greater one.

The experiments show quite clearly that, as you resist more and more temptation, you're actually more and more likely to fail.

I can't resist temptation of any kind.

The body doesn't accept the lack of food, and it suffers from the temptation of food and from other aspects which gnaw at it perpetually. The body fights back sure enough, but at the end of the day, everything returns to the primary consideration - that is, the mind.

Why resist temptation? There will always be more.

'Honey, I'm Good' is a song about temptation, and we wanted to show what is possible if you can beat it.

My parents taught me to react quickly when temptation comes and to say 'No!' instantly and emphatically. I recommend that same counsel to you. Avoid temptations.

If I have anything, it's tenacity.

I am very determined but I also have a tendency to be very stubborn. If I'm ever told I can't do something I put my mind to or that I won't be able to accomplish, I automatically think of it is a dare that I won't do it and it makes me that much more determined to get it accomplished.

With tennis, no one's going to give it to you. You have to be determined.

I don't like this terminology that you have no choice. You always have a choice.

Temptation to behave is terrible.

I'm terrible with decisions. And I can't make myself do something I don't like. I can't knuckle under.

Terrible is the fight put up by the senses. Fight bravely! Conquer them you must.

I may be kindly, I am ordinarily gentle, but in my line of business I am obliged to will terribly what I will at all.

India is content with itself, and driven by the will to sit on the high table of prosperity. It will not be deflected in its mission by noxious practitioners of terror.

The surest test of discipline is its absence.

Strength of will is the test of a young man's possibilities. Can he will strong enough and hold whatever he undertakes with an iron grip?

I love the sport of wrestling because it's a testament of your will and what you're capable of as a man.

It is easy enough to hold an opinion, but rather more testing to act on it.

In the end, however, the intangible played as great a part as organization or system in keeping the army going. The army's will to survive and to fight on short rations, its willingness to suffer, to sacrifice, made the inadequate adequate and rendered the failures of others of little importance. The army overcame the worst in itself and in others. It was indomitable.

Most people would like to be delivered from temptation but would like it to keep in touch.

Many of us have experienced the difficulty in successfully 'giving up' doing something; too often, trying to give it up seems only to keep one focused on the forbidden object or enterprise — enhancing the desire rather than taming it…

Genetics, not lack of willpower, is the major reason why people differ in BMI. Success and failure, credit and blame, in overcoming problems should be calibrated relative to genetic strengths and weaknesses.