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Willpower Quotes

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In oratory the will must predominate.
David Hare

Authors on Willpower Quotes: Mehmet Murat Ildan Charles Duhigg Tim Ferriss Friedrich Schiller B.K.S. Iyengar Praveen Kumar George Eliot Yann Martel Carnie Wilson Joyce Meyer Jean Chatzky Roy Baumeister Brian Tracy Frederick Lenz Richard Rohr Benjamin Whichcote Marie Lu Will Self Becca Fitzpatrick Junot Diaz Napoleon Hill Aleister Crowley Paul Johnson Jerry Bridges Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Rick Riordan Marina Abramovic Thomas Aquinas Addison Mizner Neil Clark Warren Arnold Schwarzenegger Penney Peirce Johann Gottlieb Fichte
2.
There is no such thing as a great talent without great will power.
Honore de Balzac

3.
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

5.
Where there is a will there is a lawsuit.
Addison Mizner

6.
Design your life to minimize reliance on willpower.
B. J. Fogg

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

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

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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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... 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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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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Willpower is a muscle that can be strengthened.
Roy Baumeister

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

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Will localizes us, thought universalizes us.
Henri Frederic Amiel

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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

21.
You surrender to love; you do not accomplish love by willpower.
Richard Rohr

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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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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

25.
The will of man is his happiness.
Friedrich Schiller

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Willpower is nothing but willingness to do.
B.K.S. Iyengar

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Those that are firm in their will mold the world to themselves.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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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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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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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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Willpower is steam for life's locomotion.
Praveen Kumar

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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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Will cannot be quenched against its will.
Dante Alighieri

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Vision creates faith and faith creates willpower.
Arnold Schwarzenegger

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

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Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity.
Arthur Schopenhauer

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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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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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I think willpower is very valuable.
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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Sugar and caffeine. My willpower crumbled.
Rick Riordan

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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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If you want to do something that requires willpower - like going for a run after work - you have to conserve your willpower muscle during the day.
Charles Duhigg

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If they offer giving you a willpower or a thousand ways, choose the willpower, because with it, you can create a million ways!
Mehmet Murat Ildan

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The higher life begins for us ... when we renounce our own will to bow before a Divine law.
George Eliot

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When willpower is not guided, it's terrible. Hitler had a lot of will. But he used it for destructive purposes because he lacked wisdom.
Frederick Lenz