Quotes About Willpower

The biggest battle in life is with yourself

You get what you order in life.

I have based my life on being strong enough to do anything.

If you ever lit a cigarette in your life, you have very little will to live.

Though the barriers of life seem formidable, we find when we challenge them that they have no will.

Even if we don't have the power to choose where we come from, we can still choose where we go from there.

What one great idea resonates deeper in the soul than any other...that we are free to choose. Next to life itself, the power to choose is your greatest gift.

Life is malleable and the hammer is desire.

John Stuart MillBy a mighty effort of willOvercame his natural bonhomieAnd wrote Principles of Political Economy.

We can't know or say what other people do. You have to think what you want to do to get the situation where you want it to be.

Don't take no for an answer.

Failure or success seem to have been allotted to men by their stars. But they retain the power of wriggling, of fighting with their star or against it, and in the whole universe the only really interesting movement is this wriggle.

Your capacity to say 'No' determines your capacity to say 'Yes' to greater things.

Things difficult - almost to impossibility - can always be accomplished. Write that upon your tablets, for it is a valuable truth.

A força explosiva da mais pequena mortificação. Todo o desejo vencido nos torna poderosos. Quanto mais nos afastamos dele, e a ele deixamos de aderir, melhor dominamos este mundo. A renúncia confere um poder infinito.

You can when you mean to,' said Maurice gently. 'You can do anything once you know what it is.

everything comes if a man would only wait. I have brought myself, by long meditation, to the conviction that a human being with a settled purpose, must accomplish it and that nothing can resist a will that will stake even existence for its fulfillment".

the power to carry out God's will must come from the inspiration and energy that are found in the emotion, love-love that embraces God and humankind. We serve and appreciate both.

I intend to put up with nothing that I can put down.

Then--in correcting the entity--do not ever break the entity's will! Reason with the entity, for the mental ability and aspects will incline to make the entity become stubborn, if there is the attempt to force or to cause the entity to act in any direction or manner "just because." Tell [the entity] why!

A man will do more for his stubbornness than for his religion or his country.

The best way to stop smoking is to just stop — no ifs, ands or butts.

I'd stop drinking coffee, but I'm no quitter.

The good that I would I do not: but the evil which I would not, that I do.