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In oratory the will must predominate.
David Hare
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There is no such thing as a great talent without great will power.
Honore de Balzac
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Happiness is secured through virtue; it is a good attained by man's own will.
Thomas Aquinas
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Right discipline consists, not in external compulsion, but in the habits of mind which lead spontaneously to desirable rather than undesirable activities.
Bertrand Russell
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Design your life to minimize reliance on willpower.
B. J. Fogg
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If freedom is short of weapons, we must compensate with willpower.
Adolf Hitler
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... self-control is not control by oneself through one's own willpower but rather control of oneself through the power of the Holy Spirit.
Jerry Bridges
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Getting where you want to be has everything to do with awareness, and nothing to do with willpower.
Cheri Huber
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He who cannot establish dominion over himself will have no dominion over others.
Leonardo da Vinci
12.
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'.
Roger Mooking
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I have willpower and determination. I am very resilient, like rock.
Carnie Wilson
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Our #‎ imagination is ten times more potent than our #‎ willpower .
Tony Robbins
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When you're out of will power you call on stubbornness, that's the trick.
Henri Matisse
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In the absence of willpower the most complete collection of virtues and talents is wholly worthless.
Aleister Crowley
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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.
Brandy Norwood
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Willpower is essential to the accomplishment of anything worthwhile.
Brian Tracy
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Willpower is a concentration of force. You gather up all your energy and make a massive thrust forward.
Steve Pavlina
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You surrender to love; you do not accomplish love by willpower.
Richard Rohr
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My heart's been torn wide open, just like I feared it would be, and I have no willpower to close it back up.
Marie Lu
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Willpower is not about resisting, forcing, or controlling--it's about choosing.
Penney Peirce
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Willpower is trying very hard not to do something you want to do very much.
John Ortberg
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Willpower and desire, when properly combined, make an irresistible pair.
Napoleon Hill
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In the beginning [Hitler] was genial and pleasant. He would have extraordinary willpower and unheard-of influence on people.
Hermann Goring
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Gifts count for nothing; will alone is great; All things give way before it, soon or late.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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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.
B.K.S. Iyengar
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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.
Charles Duhigg
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When people have a willpower failure, it's because they haven't anticipated a situation that's going to come along.
Charles Duhigg
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No action will be considered blameless, unless the will was so, for by the will the act was dictated.
Seneca the Younger
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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.
Tim Ferriss
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The start of the day is often the best time to get things done. This is somewhat related to willpower.
Tim Ferriss
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We, performers, work on willpower. This willpower works in a short term, not durational.
Marina Abramovic
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Willpower is breath and heartbeat of life; Life blooms in the girdle of taut willpower.
Praveen Kumar
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Next to courage, willpower is the most important thing in politics.
Paul Johnson
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Will, without reason, is a blind man's motion; will, against reason, is a madman's motion.
Benjamin Whichcote