Quotes About Willpower

Ignoro de qué sustancia extraordinaria está confeccionada la identidad, pero es un tejido discontinuo que zurcimos a fuerza de voluntad y de memoria.

La sostenía una voluntad de hierro, un gusto maníaco por la perfección y una increíble testarudez»

Eu son libre, nada pode conter a marcha dos meus pensamentos, e eles son a lei que rexe o meu destino

If you doubt you can accomplish something, then you can't accomplish it. You have to have confidence in your ability, and then be tough enough to follow through.

I have my own matches and sulphur, and I'll make my own hell.

If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew To serve your turn long after they are gone, And hold on when there's nothing in you Except the Will which says to them: Hold on!

If you can make one heap of all your winnings And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss, And lose, and start again at your beginnings And never breathe a word about your loss; If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew To serve your turn long after they are gone, And so hold on when there is nothing in you Except the Will which says to them: 'Hold on!

And so hold on when there is nothing in you, Except the Will which says to them: 'Hold on!

El éxito comienza en la voluntad

Now you gird yourself and take yourself where you want to go … but one day another will gird you and take you where you do not want to go.

Please, body, hold fast until I can complete my final task.- Sango

Oh Thou that givest both the beginning and the completion, give Thou victory in the day of need so that what neither a man's burning wish nor his determined resolution may attain to, may be granted unto him in the sorrowing of repentance: to will only one thing.

In every generation that man is a rarity who exercises such a power over himself that he can will what is not pleasant to him, that he can hold fast that truth which does not please him, hold that it is the truth although it does not please him, hold that it is the truth precisely because it does not please him, and then nevertheless, in spite of the fact that it does not please him, can commit himself to it. pp 151-2

The highest of all is not to understand the highest but to act upon it.

And I take with joy whatever Now besets me, pain or fear, And with a strong will I sever All the ties which bind me here.

There's always another way. But we can only see as we are. And no power on earth, nor above or below it, not even yours, Dr Freud, can deflect the human will when it has its sights set on one direction.

DüÅŸünce fazlas?yla ac? vermeye baÅŸlad???nda eylem en güzel devad?r.

Su vida había sido una sucesión de actos de voluntad, pero a veces flaqueaba y se hundía

Als je in de twintigste eeuw leeft, valt het niet moeilijk in hen die wanhopiger zijn dan jijzelf en die proberen het leven naar hun wil te modelleren, jezelf te ontmoeten.

Prejudice, mostly,' Allie said, lying curled around Gibreel beneath parachute silk. 'They can't quantify the will, so they leave it out of their calculations. But it's will that gets you up Everest, will and anger, and it can bend any law of nature you care to mention, at least in the short term, gravity not excluded. If you don't push your luck, anyway.

My choices matter—and there are paths towards making wiser ones—but I cannot choose what I choose. And if it ever appears that I do—for instance, after going back between two options—I do not choose to choose what I choose. There is a regress here that always ends in darkness.

Why didn't I decide to drink a glass of juice? The thought never occurred to me. Am I free to do that which does not occur to me to do? Of course not.

Decisions, intentions, efforts, goals, willpower, etc., are causal states of the brain, leading to specific behaviors, and behaviors lead to outcomes in the world. Human choice, therefore, is as important as fanciers of free will believe. But the next choice you make will come out of the darkness of prior causes that you, the conscious witness of your experience, did not bring into being.

You don't choose to choose what you choose in life!