Willpower Quotes

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

A procrastinators willpower lies in the fact that he keeps work pending because he strongly feels he wants to do the same – keep it pending.

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.

Is it raining? That doesn't matter. Am I tired? That doesn't matter, either. Then willpower will be no problem.

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

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

When your only regret is if anyone thinks you regret anything - that is the definition of conviction.

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.

Willpower can produce short-term change, but it creates constant internal stress because you haven't dealt with the root cause.

Willpower is not some mythical force that we either have or don't have. Willpower is our decision to use higher mind thinking instead of lazing around in the clutches of our primal mind.

In writing, habit seems to be a much stronger force than either willpower or inspiration.

Indeed, the best way to think of willpower is not as some shapeless behavioral trait but as a sort of psychic muscle, one that can atrophy or grow stronger depending on how it's used.

Vision creates faith and faith creates willpower.

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

Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity.

You need a good support system when you're trying to make positive lifestyle changes. If everyone is eating burgers and fries while you're having fish and salad, it's easy to lose your willpower.

Will cannot be quenched against its will.

Your imagination is ten times more potent than your willpower. Unleashed, it provides a sense of certainty and tenacious vision that goes far beyond any limitation of the past.

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.

Willpower is so common among highly successful people that many see its characteristics as synonymous with success.

Between being able to and actually doing something lies an ocean, and on its bottom rests all too often the wreck of willpower.

All athletic accomplishments begin with volition; that is, the desire and willpower necessary to succeed. Volition affects more than thoughts and feelings - it affects physical performance.

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.

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

I feel self-repressed again. The old fall disease. Where is my willpower? The idea of a life gets in the way of my life...I dream too much, work too little.

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

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

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

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.

You must be sure - and I mean absolutely positive - that you have the willpower to pay off those credit cards and not use them again.

Soloing is the most beautiful way of climbing; no material constrains, just you and the rock, the sun, nature; a kind of school for courage, willpower and self-confidence.

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

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

Often girls feel deeply cared about as small children but then find as we develop willpower and independent thought that the world stops affirming us, that we are seen as unlovable.

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

Talent is the discipline, commitment, and willpower to practice/train/study often, long, and hard. Discover your passion and pay the price.

If you feel stronger and good when the weather is sunny and weaker and bad when the weather is cloudy, then it means your willpower is not powerful yet!

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

Will without power is like children playing at soldiers.

It's amazing how willpower can build walls.

Get your friends involved. Let your shopping buddies know that you're on a tight budget, and they can help you out when your willpower starts to weaken at the mall.

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

Therapy can get you only so far with exorcising your childhood nightmares; after that it's willpower, and you, and people you can trust to hold your hand along the way.

The concept of fate is an open insult against man's willpower!

The life of the professional writer - like that of any freelance, whether she be a plumber or a podiatrist - is predicated on willpower. Without it there simply wouldn't be any remuneration, period.

Things have to be made to happen in a way you want them to happen. Without management, without the intervention of organized willpower the desired result simply cannot be obtained.

Marriage doesn't just happen! It takes a solid set of decisions, a huge amount of skill and enormous willpower.