Willpower Quotes

In oratory the will must predominate.

There is no such thing as a great talent without great will power.

Happiness is secured through virtue; it is a good attained by man's own will.

Right discipline consists, not in external compulsion, but in the habits of mind which lead spontaneously to desirable rather than undesirable activities.

Where there is a will there is a lawsuit.

Design your life to minimize reliance on willpower.

He who is firm in will molds the world to himself.

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

... self-control is not control by oneself through one's own willpower but rather control of oneself through the power of the Holy Spirit.

Getting where you want to be has everything to do with awareness, and nothing to do with willpower.

He who cannot establish dominion over himself will have no dominion over others.

It's a good thing that dumplings are small because Lee Anne's goodies will make your willpower vanish as you reach for 'just one more'.

Willpower is a muscle that can be strengthened.

I have willpower and determination. I am very resilient, like rock.

Will localizes us, thought universalizes us.

Our #‎ imagination is ten times more potent than our #‎ willpower .

When you're out of will power you call on stubbornness, that's the trick.

In the absence of willpower the most complete collection of virtues and talents is wholly worthless.

It's easy to just give everything up, but it takes a lot of strength and a lot of willpower to just make yourself stay on it and get up and do something different. And I had to do that.

Willpower is essential to the accomplishment of anything worthwhile.

Willpower is a concentration of force. You gather up all your energy and make a massive thrust forward.

You surrender to love; you do not accomplish love by willpower.

Willpower is not about resisting, forcing, or controlling--it's about choosing.

The will of man is his happiness.

My heart's been torn wide open, just like I feared it would be, and I have no willpower to close it back up.

Willpower is nothing but willingness to do.

Those that are firm in their will mold the world to themselves.

Willpower is trying very hard not to do something you want to do very much.

Willpower and desire, when properly combined, make an irresistible pair.

Willpower is steam for life's locomotion.

Gifts count for nothing; will alone is great; All things give way before it, soon or late.

Willpower is concrete, not ethereal. When you do something, you demonstrate your willpower, and it becomes all the easier to have the same power of will the next time.

In the beginning [Hitler] was genial and pleasant. He would have extraordinary willpower and unheard-of influence on people.

As people strengthened their willpower muscles in one part of their lives—in the gym, or a money management program—that strength spilled over into what they ate or how hard they worked. Once willpower became stronger, it touched everything.

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

No action will be considered blameless, unless the will was so, for by the will the act was dictated.

Will cannot be quenched against its will.

All things must; man is the only creature that wills.

Vision creates faith and faith creates willpower.

Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity.

I think about willpower almost never. I realize for myself, trying to be more disciplined is pretty nebulous and it's often a slippery target. For me, I've just thought about incentives.

I think willpower is very valuable.

We, performers, work on willpower. This willpower works in a short term, not durational.

Willpower is breath and heartbeat of life; Life blooms in the girdle of taut willpower.

The start of the day is often the best time to get things done. This is somewhat related to willpower.

Sugar and caffeine. My willpower crumbled.

Willpower is that thing CEOs and professional athletes tell us they used to make it to the top.

Will, without reason, is a blind man's motion; will, against reason, is a madman's motion.

We touched base at several strategic locations down our bodies, and it took all my willpower to break away.

If you find you require willpower, you aren't ready to lose weight.