Quotes about willpower

Three things at least they [good politicians] must require the first is back-bone the second is back-bone and the third is back-bone.

Do not wait for someone to Motivate you Consider it as a self service and do it yourself.

Desire lies dormant in our hearts slowly it keeps getting stronger and ignites the will to succeed.

At the most one could say that his chi or ... personal god was good. But the Ibo people have a proverb that when a man says yes his chi says yes also. Okonkwo said yes very strongly so his chi agreed.

The free-will of man cannot impune the sovereignty of God, and conversely the sovereignty of God would not impune the free-will of men".

It’s your willingness and commitment which can set everything right for you more than anything else.

To resist a compulsion with willpower alone is to hold back an avalanche by melting the snow with a candle. It just keeps coming and coming and coming.

There is always an inertia to be overcome in striking out a new line of conduct – not more in ourselves, it seems, than in circumscribing events, which appear as if leagued together to allow no novelties in the way of amelioration.

My body really, really wanted to reproduce when I was 15. It took a lot of civilization, socialization, willpower and some emulsion polymerization technology for me not to reproduce at 15.

The biggest enemies of willpower: temptation, self-criticism, and stress. (...) these three skills —self-awareness, self-care, and remembering what matter most— are the foundation for self-control.

He (Kris Medlin) has a communication with a force in pitching that most of us can’t talk to. It’s an awareness; it’s a sixth sense. When he steps in and stares in to that catcher, that little man on his shoulder’s going to take over and tell him what to do. And he’s done it well.

Kill if you will, but command me nothing!’ the gunslinger roared. ‘You have forgotten the faces of those who made you!

We are leashed by societal norms, defined by our willingness to conform, but limited only by our imagination.

The is a secret for greater self-control, the science points to one thing: the power of paying attention.

Hope. It is the most important thing in the world. I believe that now more than ever. Hope is what saved my life, hope is what gave me the courage and the strength to carry on. Hope – that unshakable, golden belief that things can get better.

The will is your most important asset. If you lose it, you have lost everything.

You try moving things with nothing but willpower. It's about as easy as trying to lasso a bull with a licorice

I won't die. I won't give those ghouls the pleasure. I'll live and grow strong. I'll escape, then hunt them down and make them suffer.

Do whatever you have determined to do.

It's nice when you can ride the inspirational wave, but as a writer, you'll also find how fast you can lose that wave. You must persevere.

Even our behavior and emotions seem to have been shaped by a prankster. Why do we crave the very foods that are bad for us but have less desire for pure grains and vegetables? Why do we keep eating when we know we are too fat? And why is our willpower so weak in its attempts to restrain our desires? Why are male and female sexual responses so uncoordinated, instead of being shaped for maximum mutual satisfaction? Why are so many of us constantly anxious, spending our lives, as Mark Twain said, "

Where there's a will, there's a potential for murder

Maybe I'd die. Maybe I'd burn to ash in wind, or blacken like the pines. Charred skeletons, I'd add one to the count. I didn't feel scared. I didn't think to panic. The trail wasn't burning. I was raw, ripe for loving. I wasn't stopping.

Be ruthless in one important area: Yourself. Be ruthless about your commitment to Christ. Be ruthless about your intellectual growth. Be ruthless about finishing well. One of the biggest areas we should be ruthless about is our time. How much time do you spend complaining about your problems to people who can't help you solve them? How much time do you talk when you should be doing? When it comes to others, be gracious. But when it comes to you and your time, be ruthless.

Willpower survives.

I’d been kissed before. Many times. There were awkward and sloppy kisses, those tension-fraught moments of fumbling intensity as a teenager. There were more skilled kisses, passionate and intentional. There were kisses that stole my breath, kisses that merged seamlessly with the shedding of clothes and the joining of bodies. But never, before this moment, had there ever been a kiss that stole my will to pull away, that devoured my capacity for thought, that removed my ability to resist, to feel

It takes more to abstain than to err, more to avoid mistakes than to make mistakes; but the good thing is that it gets better with practice.

Will without Power is incomplete and power without will is dangerous when will and will power both are present, implementation is easy!!!!

Good and evil both increase at compound interest. That is why the little decisions you and I make every day are of such infinite importance. The smallest good act today is the capture of a strategic point from which, a few months later, you may be able to go on to victories you never dreamed of. An apparently trivial indulgence in lust or anger today is the loss of a ridge or railway line or bridgehead from which the enemy may launch an attack otherwise impossible.

Obligation is a more effective weapon against the Will than any penalty, threat or act of force.

When people have a willpower failure, it's because they haven't anticipated a situation that's going to come along.

When you start something, make sure that you're willing to take the time to finish it right because, honey, the work you put into it will be more than worth it in the end. The best things always are.

I start trying to stay unconscious. The problem with this is that no amount of willpower can change the reality.

Most of life's actions are within our reach, but decisions take willpower.

Neuroscientists have discovered that when you ask the brain to meditate, it gets better not just at meditating, but at a wide range of self-control skills, including attention, focus, stress management, impulse control, and self-awareness.

He hated this feeling of free-floating, just drifting from place to place, thought to thought, without any sense of anchor or root.

I am the kind of person who, if my feelings are unrequited, can completely detach from someone emotionally if I simply put my mind to it.

There can be no doubt that the chief fault we have developed, through the long course of human evolution, is a certain basic passivity. When provoked by challenges, human beings are magnificent. When life is quiet and even, we take the path of least resistance, and then wonder why we feel bored. A man who is determined and active doesn't pay much attention to 'luck'. If things go badly, he takes a deep breath and redoubles his effort. And he quickly discovers that his moments of deepest happines

We may think there is willpower involved, but more likely...change is due to want power. Wanting the new addiction more than the old one. Wanting the new me in preference to the person I am now.

Without the will or desire to achieve one is like flotsam on the oceans of time.

Exercising will builds esteem from within through action on one's own behalf; it disproves the premise that only another person can provide it. The result, long in coming and always worth the effort, is the experience of authentic agency in your own life, a sense of self that cannot be destroyed because it is not dependent on anyone else.

When some give you advice, say 'thank you'. Then, you must seek the quietness of your spirit for a reflection and direction.

There is nothing to lose in life. Be courageous!

I think the hardest part of being a teenage, or any age really, is the misconception that you're alone. You're not alone. You're not the only one going through what you're going through, and life does get better if you want it to.

Where there's a will, there's a way. Perhaps tomorrow, if not today.

Sometimes, we feel conscious but unable to move our body. The first thing to do is focus in a prayer, then start to wink frequently.By this way, slowly but sure our body can be moved totally by our persistent willpower.

There's no guarantee of disaster-free in any world religion,but love, faith and knowledge give men hope and willpower.

We can't change by fancy methods. We can't change by mere willpower. But God's Spirit working in us can help us to "will and to act according to his good purpose" (Philippians 2:13).

If freedom is short of weapons, we must compensate with willpower.

If you can't run, you crawl. If you can't crawl-- you find someone to carry you.

What is now proved was once only imagined.

The measure of a man is his state of mind.

Wisdom warns against desire, but there is power in wanting, power that can fuel the will and keep lit that precious torch, hope.

Even if things aren't going the way we want right now, we will always get through it.

Stand like a beaten anvil.It is the part of a good athlete to be bruised and to prevail.

Do not give your haters the gratification, It means you will never let yourself down.

Willpower, though important in its own way, is never enough. In order for you to be truly powerful, you must open up and trust in something beyond yourself—something you cannot prove for certain.

Stronger your reasons, stronger the will power

Self confidence is the greatest courage for any success.

Stay focus on the goal.

Faith is not mere belief but is that state you attain when you send your will, words, thoughts, beliefs, and actions into orbit around a chosen goal

It is not because of setbacks that most entrepreneurs do not reach the finishing line, but because of a lack of willpower and motivation.

Willpower and determination have their limits. A compelling life purpose, one you believe God created you for, will help you push beyond those limits

Tis in ourselves that we are thus or thus. Our bodies are our gardens to the which our wills are gardeners.

Forget about willpower. It's time for why-power. Your choices are only meaningful when you connect them to your desires and dreams. The wisest and most motivating choices are the ones aligned with that which you identify as your purpose, your core self, and your highest values. You've got to want something, and know why you want it, or you'll end up giving up too easily.

People are not born with any entirety. With the time we take to achieve it. For it requires concentration and willpower.

I could see her will leaving and death seeping through her skin to skewer her soul.

The inspired words, which flush my mind, come from a higher power!

Freedom is willpower to act for a change.

In a condition of struggle and of failure we must be able to say "I must try harder" or "I must try differently." Both views are essential . . . A change in either makes for a change in outcome. When we say "I must try harder" we mean that the most relevant variable is something within us - intention, will, determination, "meaning it" . . When we say "I must try differently" we mean that the most relevant variable lies in the situation within which intention is being exerted, that we should look

Once you are clear with the process of input-output and its consequence, you become more careful with every choice and decisions with your life.

Life is like the wind on the ocean; if it is against you, it doesn’t really matter what direction it comes from or what direction it blows. It also doesn’t matter what you do or fail to do. So you are better off doing whatever you want.

You will succeed at the sacred time.

The war we must must win is fought within.

You were not born to make only a living but to live life.

We must serve while we have strength.

If there are ten thousand medieval peasants who create vampires by believing them real, there may be one–probably a child–who will imagine the stake necessary to kill it. But a stake is only stupid wood; the mind is the mallet which drives it home.

Events may be horrible or inescapable. Men have always a choice - if not whether, then how, they may endure.

It's not just the body that must survive a jail term: the spirit and the will and the heart have to make it through as well. If any one of them is broken or destroyed, the man whose living body walks through the gate, at the end of his sentence, can't be said to have survived it.

Yet she also longed for moments when she might be weak, when she need not prove anything to anyone.

Never adjust your goals, amplify your might.

Be bold as a lion.

Be firm. Be bold.

Courage is a strong will.

Boldly and confidently, reach out to your dreams.

I dare play the game of life.

If you know the golden treasures of adversity, you will bravely embrace it.

An open mind, is the best weapon, in the fight between light and darkness

True endurance, I think, comes from the inside. It comes from motivation and belief in what you're doing.

I had been able to break the curse myself. I'd had to have reason enough, love enough to do it, to find the will and the strength.

The next time the world tells you “Stop”, “Don’t”, or “You can’t do this”, the next time the world beats the living daylight out of you, hit it back with a knock just as strong and say, “No, I want to do this.

For fanaticism is the only form of willpower that even the weak and insecure can be brought to attain.

Freedom is free will.

Stand firm as surefooted as deer.

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

Be curious, confident and courageous.

Though I am faced with many adversities, my heart will not faint.

I want to live. I want to live life with all it's emotions, all it's experiences, I don't want to miss anyhting. But I feel like I will.

Fate, up against your