Quotes About Willpower

What was it St. Augustine said? she asked herself. "The mind commands the body and it obeys. The mind orders itself and meets resistance." Yes—I am meeting more resistance lately.

spannungsbogen"—which is the self-imposed delay between desire for a thing and the act of reaching out to grasp that thing. —

to be conscious by choice

I'll make it. I won't die. I've got too much I have to do to let myself die.

Frank Miller

I am not well; I could have built the Pyramids with the effort it takes me to cling on to life and reason.

Logic may indeed be unshakeable, but it cannot withstand a man who is determined to live.

Self-control is something for which I do not strive. Self-control means wanting to be effective at some random point in the infinite radiations of my spiritual existence.

You too have weapons.

Logic is of course unshakeable, but it cannot hold out against a man who wants to live.

There is nothing impossible to him who will try.

Your heaviest artillery will be your will to live. Keep that big gun going.

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 which will stake even existence upon its fulfillment.

I will not be triumphed over.

Will power is to the mind like a strong blind man who carries on his shoulders a lame man who can see.

When you know what you want, and want it bad enough, you will find a way to get it.

Will Smith played Chris Gardner better than Chris Gardner ever did.

If you are determined enough and willing to pay the price, you can get it done.

I'm always willing to do whatever it takes.

I just know what I want, and I'm willing to butt heads with folks to get it.

Having a superpower has nothing to do with the ability to fly or jump, or superhuman strength. The truest superpowers are the ones we all possess: willpower, integrity, and most importantly, courage.

We should all expect to be able to die with comfort, dignity and love. Our society does not lack the wealth to realise this aspiration, but the willpower.

If your goal is to lose 10 pounds, you may wake up each day with failure in mind because the goal is hard to reach, and you are progressing only by small amounts. It takes up all your willpower. I recommend that instead of a goal, you have a system.

It's hard to tell if I've had writer's block because it seems to me that it's when nothing comes, but, you know, every day you stare at that computer screen, and I think, 'It's never going to happen today. How can I write three pages?' And the hours pass, and they haven't shown up, and then at the very end it always happens, so it's willpower.