Willpower Quotes

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

~ Nora Roberts

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.

~ Kelly Mcgonigal

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.

~ Mindy Kaling

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.

~ Charles Sumner

As important as it is to possess the willpower to become successful, it's even more important to have the drive to maintain it after you achieve it.

~ Hafiz

Success is not a game of luck, it is a game of willpower.

~ Hafiz

No success was won without self- determination and self-discipline.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

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.

~ Chinua Achebe

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.

~ Kelly Mcgonigal

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

~ Stephen King

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

~ Michael Holbrook

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

~ Kelly Mcgonigal

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.

~ Don Sutton

If you plan to build walls around me, know this—I will walk through them.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

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.

~ Darren Shan

Do whatever you have determined to do.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

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

~ Dele Ayo Bankole

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.

~ Alexander Gordon Smith

There are tomorrows on their way worth the struggles of today. Never give up.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

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.

~ Charles Lee

Willpower survives.

~ Toba Beta

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 anything but the kiss.

~ Jasinda Wilder

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, suffering from tragedies that never occur? Finally, why do we find happiness so elusive, with the achievement of each long-pursued goal yielding not contentment, but only a new desire for something still less attainable? The design of our bodies is simultaneously extraordinarily precise and unbelievably slipshod. It is as if the best engineers in the universe took every seventh day off and turned the work over to bumbling amateurs.

~ Randolph M. Nesse

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.

~ Innocent Mwatsikesimbe

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.

~ Aspen Matis

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.

~ Phil Cooke

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

~ Brahms Lewis

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

~ Harrish Sairaman

Arise and pursue your dreams.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

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.

~ R. Alan Woods

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.

~ David Adam

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.

~ Thomas Hardy

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

~ Vishal Ostwal

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.

~ C.s. Lewis

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

~ Ashim Shanker

Sometimes, situation may be uncomfortable but must endure.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

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

~ Charles Duhigg

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.

~ Penn Jillette