Quotes About Willpower

Determination keeps us going when the going gets tough.

What should you do if you know what you should do but you just don't want to do it?

Self-discipline is the most important quality in any life. Do you know what self-discipline is? It is keeping ourselves going in the right direction without someone making us do so.

She wept with shame for her lack of will and with fear for a love she couldn't control.

Every man has the natural and inherent power to think what he wants to think, but it requires far more effort to do so than it does to think the thoughts which are suggested by appearances. To think according to appearance is easy; to think truth regardless of appearances is laborious, and requires the expenditure of more power than any other work man is called upon to perform. There

The Principle of Power gives us just what we ask of it; if we only undertake little things, it only gives us power for little things; but if we try to do great things in a great way it gives us all the power there is.

You direct the will upon the mind, and use it in determining what you shall believe, what you shall think, and to what you shall give your attention.

You'll do what you think you want to do, or what you think you ought to do. If you're very lucky, luckier than anybody I know, the two will coincide.

One may conquer millions in battle, but he who conquers himself, only one, is the greatest of conquerors.

Man has to fight for what he wants, any way he can.

From this hour I ordain myself loos'd of limits and imaginary lines, Going where I list, my own master total and absolute, Listening to others, considering well what they say, Pausing, searching, receiving, contemplating, Gently, but with undeniable will, divesting myself of the holds that would hold me.

God grant you the strength to fight off the temptations of surrender.

It is good to be without vices, but it is not good to be without temptations.

It was not the Soviet government or the NKVD versus Walter Ciszek. It was God versus Walter Ciszek. God was testing me by this experience, like gold in the furnace, to see how much of self remained after all my prayers and professions of faith in his will.

Wenn es sein muss, trete ich auch Zwerge!

Great minds have purposes, others have wishes. Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; but great minds rise above them.

I think I can. I think I can. I think I can.

Little Engine That Could - "I think I can. I think I can. I think I can. I know I can.

If the mind's not strong, the body acts weak, even if it's not. If the mind says it's too cold or too rainy or too windy to run, the body will be more than happy to agree. If the mind says it would be better to rest or recover or cut practice, the body will be glad to oblige.

They have a set pattern, and they follow it. They are not making decisions. Here's the very happy implication: the worst, most effortful run will be that first one. Or the second, perhaps. But effort doesn't last (in fact, if it does, you're doing it wrong). Habits will form and take the effort off your hands.

Self-control is simple when you understand that it involves putting yourself in the right situations to develop the right habits.

Lack of ability doesn't stop you from competing, but lack of will will make you fail.

How a person masters his fate is more important than what his fate is.

all variants of voluntary effort—cognitive, emotional, or physical—draw at least partly on a shared pool of mental energy.