Quotes about Focused Willpower

It's the Only Thing To Do," he said, obviously speaking in capital letters.

I can calm myself by an intense will, and also by the simple ability to focus in the most dangerous situation on breath and nothing else.

They looked as if they were trying to threaten their own destination into appearing.

If you really want to be a witch, nothing you have to do will seem like too much. If you don't really want to be a witch, everything will seem like too much.

Intention is power. Intention is ownership. Intention is commitment. Intention is magic.

In centering prayer, the sacred word is not the object of the attention but rather the expression of the intention of the will.

impulse control is critical if we are to cultivate the habits of success.

One acts, and thus finds out what one has decided to do.

Self-control means wanting to be effective at some random point in the infinite radiations of my spiritual existence.

Will is a skill.

Never mind, you know the word must ; with that word one does many things.

You can do what you will, but in any given moment of your life you can will only one definite thing and absolutely nothing other than that one thing.

That righteous anger quickly sharpens into determination. Determination, of course, being nothing more than anger with brakes and a steering wheel.

Go beyond wishing, and hoping, and decide.

Will gives us the ability to take an idea hold that idea and zero right in on something

Ich gebe mir Müh, nichts zu wollen, zu denken.

Focused will is incredible. If you have a dream and you don't give up no matter what obstacles come up, then life's problems will fall away and you will get what you want. It happens. It works.

Only super-efforts count.

First: I know that I have the ability to achieve the object of my definite purpose, therefore I demand of myself persistent, aggressive and continuous action toward its attainment.

The power of attention is much greater than the force of self-restraint.

greatness is first and foremost a matter of conscious choice and discipline.

Great things are not something accidental, they must be distinctly willed.

The mark of a person who is in control of consciousness is the ability to focus attention at will, to be oblivious to distractions, to concentrate for as long as it takes to achieve a goal, and not longer.