Quotes About Willpower

The skeleton of success is self-discipline

Are you willing to self -sacrifice to achieve your goals?

The key to success is our will power full with confidence.

Weakness of skills can be overcome with strength of will.

Determination is a treasure of positive energy and secret of success.

The secret of success in life is the persistent practice of making choices.

Success comes only through strong will, determination and effort.

Your success is dependent upon what you do when you do not want to.

Discipline is one of the basic and primary requirements for success in life.

When thinking won't cure fear action will.

The strongest principle of growth lies in the human choice.

There are no incurable diseases — only the lack of will. There are no worthless herbs — only the lack of knowledge.

Remember this well from now on: 'I want' and 'I don't want' aren't reasons, they can only be defined as self-indulgence.

Remember this well from now on: 'I want' and 'I don't want' aren't reasons, they can only be defined as self-indulgence.

Resiliency, like a cartwheel, requires core strength and a disregard for gravity. Only one of which can be willed.

I have a choice. That's why I'm still here.

It was not the only disappointment my mother felt in me. In the years that followed, I failed her so many times, each time asserting my own will, my right to fall short of expectations. I didn't get straight As. I didn't become class president. I didn't get into Stanford. I dropped out of college. For unlike my mother, I did not believe I could be anything I wanted to be. I could only be me.

One goes to the magician, as one goes to the analyst, or any quack—to reaffirm one's own secret volitions. Not to be cured, not to be warned, not to be saved, but to become what one wants to be.

Cve?e, istina je, ne hrani ?oveka, — govorila je ona — ali ono unosi radost u život. Ako biste od lepih mirisnih bašta napravili vrtove, nema sumnje da biste mi dali da jedem, ali biste u isti mah ubijali volju za život.

What you feel doesn't matter in the end; it's what you do that makes you brave.

This sacrifice, which saved his life, reminded him again that the evil of this world could be put to rout by the will of a single human being.

On my twenty-fifth birthday, when I had lived one quarter of a century, I was nearly dead, almost catatonic, without the will to live. By my twenty-sixth birthday, I wanted more than anything to live. I was one year old, an infant born out of a corpse, still with the smell of death on her, but hating death.

Your will be done": Let these be the most profound and most exalted words of your life, in daily submission to the will of God.

Perhaps depression can best be described as emotional pain that forces itself on us against our will, and then breaks free of its externals.