Quotes About Willpower

But I can do it," she said, sitting down on the carpet again. "It's just that I'm heavier after breakfast.

She had willed her heart to stay small and contained, but it wouldn't be. Oh, well.

But certain souls cohere. It's rare but possible. But it takes two powerful wills to make it so.

You are not in control of your mind—because you, as a conscious agent, are only part of your mind, living at the mercy of other parts.15 You can do what you decide to do—but you cannot decide what you will decide to do.

To say that someone freely chose to squander his life's savings at the poker tabile is to say that he had every opportunity to do otherwise and that nothing about what he did was inadvertent

You can do what you decide to do-but you cannot decide what you will decide to do.

Whoever submits himself to a super-discipline can expect great triumphs.

Wickedness is always easier than virtue; for it takes the short cut to everything.

Abstinence is as easy to me as temperance would be difficult.

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The fate of your heart is your choice and no one else gets a vote

What you do in your dreams is never your choice.

The only person you can be sure to control, always, is yourself.

Do we always, always to the point of misery, do a thing?

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

The surest way to identify those who won't succeed at weight loss is that they tend to say things like "My goal is to lose ten pounds." Weight targets often work in the short run. But if you need willpower to keep the weight off, you're doomed in the long run. The only way to succeed in the long run is by using a system that bypasses your need for willpower.

The only way to succeed in the long run is by using a system that bypasses your need for willpower.

In the long run, any system that depends on your willpower will fail.

If eating a healthy diet feels unpleasant, you're doing it wrong. And you're wasting your limited stockpile of willpower.

To be fair to Nietzsche, he probably meant the word 'stronger' to include anything that makes you more capable. I'd ask him to clarify, but ironically he ran out of things that didn't kill him.

What we could never become by strength, stamina, and a will of steel—which we lack anyway—we become by the grace of God.

Man muss immer tun, was man nicht lassen kann.

Onu bu kadar s?k görmemeye kim bilir kaç kez karar verdim. Katlanabilir miyim hiç buna? Her yeni gün beni ba?tan ç?kar?yor, önceki gün ona gitmeyece?ime ne kadar yemin etsem bo?una; çünkü gün gelip çat?nca, yine kar?? konulmaz bir neden buluyorum ve bir bak?yorum ki yan?nday?m.

And I mock at my heart - and then do what it demands.