Quotes About Willpower

I understand by 'freedom of spirit' something quite definite - the unconditional will to say No, where it is dangerous to say No.

Life only demands from the strength you possess. Only one feat is possible - not to have run away.

It's so hard when I have to, and so easy when I want to.

Everyone has his superstitions. One of mine has always been when I started to go anywhere, or to do anything, never to turn back or to stop until the thing intended was accomplished.

There is something in me-I just can't stand to admit defeat.

Obstacles cannot crush me, every obstacle yields to stern resolve.

I try. I am trying. I was trying. I will try. I shall in the meantime try. I sometimes have tried. I shall still by that time be trying.

Jesus taught that perseverance is the essential element of prayer. Men must be in earnest when they kneel at God's footstool. Too often we get faint-hearted and quit praying at the point when we ought to begin. We let go at the very point where we should hold on strongest. Our prayers are weak because they are not impassioned by an unfailing and resistless will.

If we resist our passions, it is more due to their weakness than to our strength.

The ruling passion, be it what it will, The ruling passion conquers reason still.

Give me that man That is not passion's slave.

Jesus taught that perseverance is the essential element of prayer. Men must be in earnest when they kneel at God's footstool. Too often we get faint-hearted and quit praying at the point where we ought to begin. We let go at the very point where we should hold on strongest. Our prayers are weak because they are not impassioned by an unfailing and resistless will.

To spur a willing horse.

When people don't want to come, nothing will stop them.

The man who is master of his passions is Reason's slave.

Human reason needs only to will more strongly than fate, and she is fate.

I want to do it because I want to do it.

Do what thy manhood bids thee do.

There is no memory with less satisfaction than the memory of some temptation we resisted.

Lack of discipline leads to frustration and self-loathing.

The man who masters his own soul will forever be called conqueror of conquerors.

There is little that can withstand a man who can conquer himself.

Most powerful is he who has himself in his own power.

He who conquers others is strong; he who conquers himself is mighty.