Quotes About Being Strong Willed

#1. Being strong-willed is not enough, however. You also have to be hard on yourself. Someone who was strong-willed but self-indulgent would not be called determined. Determination implies your willfulness is balanced by discipline.

Paul Graham

#2. Taking time to live is taking time to appreciate simple silence as better than any kind of talk, or watching a flower, or watching a guy wash the windows on a skyscraper and wondering what he is thinking.

Douchan Gersi

#3. To venture into space we must be strong-willed and determined. We must be fully committed to its exploration and discovery; space permits no half measures and is unforgiving of mistakes.

Henry Joy McCracken

#4. How can you lay siege to a whole country? Who is really under siege now? Baghdad cannot be besieged.

Mohammed Saeed Al-Sahaf

#5. I'm unapologetic not because I'm strong-willed or overconfident, I'm unapologetic because this is it; this is my life. There is nothing I can do, no one I can please. I am a person with a strong sense of being, that's all.

Jean Seberg

#6. People speak with enormous pomposity and arrogance about music.

Elvis Costello

#7. No man ever properly calculates from time to time what it is his duty to avoid.

Horace

#8. Passion for books is the most important thing in being an editor/translator. Work with love.

Listiana Srisanti

#9. Progress is the mother of all problems.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

#10. The Society slides in everywhere, snakes in a crack, water dripping against a rock until even the stone has no choice but to hollow and change shape.

Ally Condie

#11. My child, everything in life is holy.

Neale Donald Walsch

#12. God and the Soldier all men adore, In time of trouble and no more, For when war is over And all thing righted, God is neglected, And the Old Soldier slighted.

Jan Morris

#13. By morning she was dead. She had not died of starvation or committed suicide by any conventional means. She had simply willed herself to die, and being a strong-willed woman, she had succeeded. She had missed dying on her birthday by two days.

John Berendt

#14. You're better equipped for this world than I am," she said. "I'm always trying to change the world. You know how to live in it.

Tom Robbins

#15. Putting the potential for damage into someone else's hands is scary. I have to have control, even if it is the power to self-destruct.

Samantha Schutz

#16. I loved every place I lived and traveled. London, Paris, Rome, Venice. I fell hard for Central America and Mexico. In each country, I had fantasies that I could live there.

Frances Mayes

#17. Whatever the intellectual quality of the education given our children, it is vital that it include elements of love and compassion, for nothing guarantees that knowledge alone will be truly useful to human beings.

Dalai Lama

#18. Sugar is responsible for a lot of deaths. Arguably more than crack cocaine.

Guy Ritchie