Quotes About Willpower

I am too much of a control freak to be a drinker.

If my body is enslaved, still my mind is free.

You are free to choose what you want to make of your life. It's called free agency or free will, and it's your birthright.

You don't have free will when you have lung cancer.

What you really want to do is sit down and eat everything in the house. You can never do it, you've got to be disciplined, but in the back of your head, you're sitting there and thinking: 'what's in the press, what's in the fridge?'

Once I've decided to do something, I do usually try to carry it through to fruition.

You can control any situation if you first control yourself.

Make an affirmation immediately upon waking. For example: Thy will be done this day! Today is a day of completion, I give thanks for this perfect day, miracle shall follow miracle and wonders shall never cease. Make this a habit, and one will see wonders and miracles come into his life.

What distinguished man from the brutes was his freedom. When

She is hungrier than I am, she said to herself. She's starving. But her hand trembled when she put down the fourth bun. I'm not starving, she said—and she put down the fifth.

I am going to, answered

M? tôi v?n b?o có hai Ä'i?u t?i t? có th? ??n vá»›i má»™t ??a tr?, Ä'ó là không bao gi? ???c làm theo Ä'i?u mình mu?n, ho?c là luôn luôn ???c làm v?y.

Although he's slight, he has that wiry strength that seems to come more from will than muscle.

If I cannot move heaven, I will raise hell (Virgil, Aeneid).

Né e pazzi né e savi non possono finalmente resistere a quello che ha a essere: però io non lessi mai cosa che mi paressi meglio detta che quella che disse colui: Ducunt volentes fata, nolentes trahunt.

How can intemperate minds be free when they're slaves to their own passions?

The Fremen were supreme in that quality the ancients called spannungsbogen -- which is the self-imposed delay between desire for a thing and the act of reaching out to grasp that thing.

What was it St. Augustine said? The mind commands the body and it obeys. The mind orders itself and meets resistance.

He understood terrible purposes. They drove against all odds. They were their own necessity. Paul felt that he had been infected with terrible purpose. He did not know yet what the terrible purpose was.

More fool he to let himself become an addict to anything, even to living.

To die before coming to the end of willpower, was that not an aristocrat's choice? He

The mind commands the body and it obeys. The mind orders itself and meets resistance

The mind commands the body and it obeys. The mind orders itself and meets resistance." Yes—I am meeting more resistance lately. I could use a quiet retreat by myself. A

La mente gobierna al cuerpo, y éste obedece. La mente se ordena a sí misma, y encuentra resistencia.