Top 76 Quotes About No Willpower
#1. I never had to try as a kid to stay in shape. In a way, there was no willpower involved.
Jamie Bamber
#2. My heart's been torn wide open, just like I feared it would be, and I have no willpower to close it back up.
Marie Lu
#3. Quite simply, the key to being a happy non-smoker is to remove the desire to smoke. With no desire to smoke, it takes no Willpower not to do so.
Allen Carr
#4. When you see a thing clearly in your mind, your creative "success mechanism" within you takes over and does the job much better than you could do it by conscious effort or "willpower.
Maxwell Maltz
#5. 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!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#6. Successful weight loss takes programming, not willpower.
Phil McGraw
#7. A brilliant idea doesn't guarantee a successful invention. Real magic comes from a brilliant idea combined with willpower, tenacity, and a willingness to make mistakes.
Lori Greiner
#8. That is what marks out a warrior: the knowledge that willpower and courage are not the same thing. Courage can attract fear and adulation, but willpower requires patience and commitment.
Paulo Coelho
#9. But I am clinically depressed and have an anxiety disorder, which interferes with things like studying and learning and breathing and living. He thinks it's something I can just turn off and on with willpower.
Leslie Stella
#10. There's no doubt that Mexican men and women full of dignity, willpower and a capacity for work are doing the work that not even blacks want to do in the United States.
Vicente Fox
#11. We touched base at several strategic locations down our bodies, and it took all my willpower to break away.
Becca Fitzpatrick
#12. I don't possess the willpower for long-term grudges.
R.S. Grey
#13. When you start something, make sure that you're willing to take the time to finish it right because, honey, the work you put into it will be more than worth it in the end. The best things always are.
C.M. Stunich
#15. Our # imagination is ten times more potent than our # willpower .
Tony Robbins
#16. Do not give your haters the gratification, It means you will never let yourself down.
Mohith Agadi
#17. Not everything you're going to do in volleyball - or in life, for that matter - is exciting or fully functional, but if you have the willpower to make each minute count, you'll benefit in some way. And it will make you a better player and a better person in the long run.
Karch Kiraly
#19. Willpower is essential to the accomplishment of anything worthwhile.
Brian Tracy
#20. The essence of Ananda is both personal and sociological. Personally for people who seek truth or identities of God, it helps to be with other people who share those ideals. Environment is stronger than willpower, and when you are with people who have high ideals, it helps you to grow in your ideals.
Goswami Kriyananda
#21. There is no such thing as a great talent without great willpower.
Honore De Balzac
#22. There's no guarantee of disaster-free in any world religion,
but love, faith and knowledge give men hope and willpower.
Toba Beta
#23. People always look down their noses at hookers. Never give you a chance because they think you took the easy way out, when no one would imagine the willpower it took to do what we do, walking the streets night after night, taking the hits and still getting back up.
Aileen Wuornos
#24. There is nothing in this world that you cannot do. Every goal is achievable. You just need to focus on your objectives, be persistent in your efforts and work hard to make it happen. There can be no hurdle uncrossable, no obstacle invincible and no stumbling block insurmountable.
Roopleen
#25. No action will be considered blameless, unless the will was so, for by the will the act was dictated.
Seneca The Younger
#26. Vision creates faith and faith creates willpower. With faith there is no anxiety and no doubt - just absolute confidence in yourself.
Arnold Schwarzenegger
#27. And somehow I had always resisted driving very slowly back and forth in front of his house. Willpower? No. I figured his front gate was equipped with security cameras and I would just be embarrassing myself. And this street was definitely not on the bus line.
Jennifer Echols
#28. No success was won without self- determination and self-discipline.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#29. I used to run ten miles every other day and eat very little. I was living in London on my own for the first time and no one was checking on me. I wasn't anorexic but lost three stone. I weighed around seven. It lasted six months until I ran out of willpower.
Honeysuckle Weeks
#30. The next time the world tells you "Stop", "Don't", or "You can't do this", the next time the world beats the living daylight out of you, hit it back with a knock just as strong and say, "No, I want to do this.
Joud Tabaza
#32. Human potential is the same for all. Your feeling, "I am of no value", is wrong. Absolutely wrong. You are deceiving yourself. We all have the power of thought- so what are you lacking? If you have willpower, then you can change anything. It is usually said that you are your own master.
Dalai Lama
#33. But trying to use willpower to overcome the apathetic sort of sadness that accompanies depression is like a person with no arms trying to punch themselves until their hands grow back. A fundamental component of the plan is missing and it isn't going to work.
Allie Brosh
#34. 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.
Alain Robert
#36. When a person trains once, nothing happens. When a person forces himself to do a thing a hundred or a thousand times, then he certainly has developed in more ways than physical. Is it raining? That doesn't matter. Am I tired? That doesn't matter either. Then willpower will be no problem.
Emil Zatopek
#37. He beguiled me almost by surprise into doing wrong, then he got me accustomed to having bad thoughts which I had no will to resist - willpower being the only force capable of driving them back to the infernal darkness from which they emerged.
Marcel Proust
#38. I start trying to stay unconscious. The problem with this is that no amount of willpower can change the reality.
Lauren DeStefano
#40. Imagine willpower as a closed fist and longing as an open hand. Try closing your fist. How long do you think you can hold that pose? A closed fist requires a lot of attention and energy, and so does willpower. Longing is effortless; it's just there, like an open hand.
Gudjon Bergmann
#41. It's not what one is, it's what one does with it.
Mary Renault
#42. Sugar and caffeine. My willpower crumbled.
Rick Riordan
#43. If you know the golden treasures of adversity, you will bravely embrace it.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#44. Addiction is a brain disease. This is not a moral failing. This is not about bad people who are choosing to continue to use drugs because they lack willpower.
Michael Botticelli
#45. Willpower is the fuel that runs human life; Like a driver in a computer application, Or Operating System in cyber programme, Willpower works life to performances; Life is deadwood; life, robust carrion, Without willpower in bright flame within.
Praveen Kumar
#47. Will, without reason, is a blind man's motion; will, against reason, is a madman's motion.
Benjamin Whichcote
#48. Between being able to and actually doing something lies an ocean, and on its bottom rests all too often the wreck of willpower.
Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach
#49. Don Marquis came down after a month on the wagon, ambled over to the bar, and announced, 'I've conquered that goddamn willpower of mine. Gimme a double Scotch.
E.B. White
#50. It's amazing how willpower can build walls.
Yann Martel
#51. Mastery of impulse is achieved through taking pauses during life's contrasting situations. Mastery of impulse is about developing strong willpower that can be used to redirect the flow of energy in any situation. Mastery of impulse is about responding to the world with a sense of reason and peace.
Alaric Hutchinson
#53. 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
#54. Sexual overindulgence may not only destroy reason and willpower, but it may also lead to either temporary or permanent mental dysfunction.
Napoleon Hill
#55. To turn your dreams into reality, all your resources, efforts and concentration should be aligned in the same direction.
Roopleen
#56. Getting where you want to be has everything to do with awareness, and nothing to do with willpower.
Cheri Huber
#58. Grace, not willpower, is what ultimately empowers us to live loving lives. Creativity, both in what spawns within the artist and the artifact, can be a vital source of that grace.
Ronald Rolheiser
#59. Unlike motivation, willpower can be strengthened like a muscle.
Stephen Guise
#60. We saw what happened the last time you made a solemn vow."
"That wasn't my fault. You beguiled me. You stripped me of my strength. You cast a spell on me that whisked away my willpower so you could have your way with me.
Nicole Williams
#62. Willpower is the key to success. Successful people strive no matter what they feel by applying their will to overcome apathy, doubt or fear.
Dan Millman
#63. The development of willpower -I will, I won't and I want- may define what it means to be human.
Kelly McGonigal
#64. You cannot wish for happiness but you can work towards your life goals and create lasting happiness.
Roopleen
#65. Sometimes, we feel conscious but unable to move our body.
The first thing to do is focus in a prayer, then start to wink frequently.
By this way, slowly but sure our body can be moved totally by our persistent willpower.
Toba Beta
#66. Gifts count for nothing; will alone is great; All things give way before it, soon or late.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
#67. When some give you advice, say 'thank you'. Then, you must seek the quietness of your spirit for a reflection and direction.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#68. Steps can then be taken to slow down the natural progression before it gets started. It doesn't work to allow all the preliminary intimacies and then hope to stop the progression just short of intercourse. Very few people have the willpower to do that.
James C. Dobson
#69. I could see her will leaving and death seeping through her skin to skewer her soul.
J.D. Stroube
#70. Acting is a skill that not only requires talent, but a determination: The willpower to shake off reality and plunge yourself into yourself into a character than you have to act on.
Low Kay Hwa
#71. I once wrote a book on courage and what made people courageous. I found it was a strength of belief matched by a strength of willpower.
Gordon Brown
#72. To be able to live each day with honor, respect and dignity is the greatest achievement of all.
Roopleen
#73. You have the capacity to do the work.
Find the willpower to begin work.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#74. A very fine artist can take something quite ordinary and, through sheer artistry and willpower, turn it into a work of art.
Truman Capote
#75. A stony road, hard on the feet. I would beg for us to sit down but you discouraged it, knowing that sitting was fatal, because of the willpower required to get up again.
Edna O'Brien
#76. If your goal is to lose 10 pounds, you may wake up each day with failure in mind because the goal is hard to reach, and you are progressing only by small amounts. It takes up all your willpower. I recommend that instead of a goal, you have a system.
Scott Adams