Top 100 Quotes About Willpower
#1. I feel self-repressed again. The old fall disease. Where is my willpower? The idea of a life gets in the way of my life ... I dream too much, work too little.
Sylvia Plath
#2. The inferior man lived only in his fantasies, because he lacked willpower and imagination. The superior man made his fantasies a reality. (Martin Darius)
Phillip Margolin
#3. Next to courage, willpower is the most important thing in politics.
Paul Johnson
#4. Sit in front of an object of concentration with the eyes open. Focus on a candle flame, or a yantra, a little dot, something small. Just look at it. Focus on it until there is nothing else in your mind. This develops willpower.
Frederick Lenz
#5. Sometimes willpower alone cannot make things happen.
Nick Bantock
#6. The trick to overwriting a habit is to look for the pressure point - your reaction to a cue. The only place you need to apply willpower is to change your reaction to the cue.
Barbara Oakley
#7. Feel that the energy of your willpower can easily deflect tension-causing feelings and frustrations that are directed towards you from the outside world.
Frederick Lenz
#8. We made a rule," I whispered.
"Unlike you, I don't follow rules." He didn't give me a chance to respond. His lips met mine and stole my willpower.
Kasie West
#10. When you find yourself dwelling on something negative, consciously use your willpower to remove your mind from that which is negative. Move your mind into the flow of something positive.
Frederick Lenz
#11. The willpower to do anything would come, the songs and writings said, if the motive was pure.
Mercedes Lackey
#13. When you abuse willpower you waste it. There really is not an infinite supply of it at your disposal. There is an infinite supply of it in the universe.
Frederick Lenz
#14. If they offer giving you a willpower or a thousand ways, choose the willpower, because with it, you can create a million ways!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#15. Daily toll on your willpower reserves can be reduced by setting clear and specific goals, making decisions in advance (every decision costs willpower), minimizing distraction and anticipating problems (and how to deal with them).
William D. Edwards
#16. The number one reason the Bulletproof Diet is so effective and easy to maintain is that it gives you back your willpower instead of sapping
Anonymous
#17. There's not enough said about winter runing. Running in the winter is like not giving up when the road gets hard. It's about willpower and perseverance and being faithful to your sport.
Vanessa Runs
#18. Establishing good habits means that you use your willpower reserves for the truly important stuff.
Carrie Willard
#19. Only your Willpower can fight the bad influences around you.
Mohith Agadi
#20. We pray to you, O God ... for strength, determination, and willpower, to do instead of just to pray, to become instead of merely to wish.
Harold S. Kushner
#21. Use all the willpower at your disposal to make yourself happy. Construct the right stories about yourself - and believe them!
Richard Koch
#22. Every enticing item you pass in the window and don't buy is a crushed impulse, slowly whittling away at your reserve of willpower - making it much more likely that later in the day you will fall for temptation.
Dan Ariely
#23. Let's recognize that success in life is a reflection not only of enterprise and willpower but also of chance and early upbringing, and that compassion isn't a sign of weakness but a mark of civilization.
Nicholas D. Kristof
#24. The vending machine lacked the willpower of the Western elevator, and it dutifully spat out several chocolate bars and a packet of salt and vinegar chips. I gave you more money than that, thought William, and the vending machine gave him some more.
Kit Abbey
#25. He does seem to have a lot of willpower." "That is an understatement," I agreed. "Tall, blond, and stubborn.
Chloe Neill
#26. When you meditate, you focus to clear the mind and to bring the willpower together. But then, toward the end of the session let go, just become eternity.
Frederick Lenz
#27. As people strengthened their willpower muscles in one part of their lives - in the gym, or a money management program - that strength spilled over into what they ate or how hard they worked. Once willpower became stronger, it touched everything.
Charles Duhigg
#29. Willpower works for a few weeks, or maybe a month or two at best.
Rick Warren
#30. I learned during the three weeks after my surgery that when you are in rehab, willpower and determination are key.
Peter Kavanagh
#31. 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
#32. The first two months were painful and they really tested my manhood because there were times I didn't want to get up because I was in pain. That willpower has to kick in.
Adrian Peterson
#33. He was gleaming with sweat. It would have taken inhuman willpower not to drink in every inch of his muscled, tatted up body.
And I was human. Oh Lord, was I human.
R.K. Lilley
#35. With but few exceptions, it is always the underdog who wins through sheer willpower.
Johnny Weissmuller
#36. I have willpower and determination. I am very resilient, like rock.
Carnie Wilson
#37. Whatever you are aiming at in life, willpower is one of your most important resources.
Frank Martela
#38. Willpower is breath and heartbeat of life; Life blooms in the girdle of taut willpower.
Praveen Kumar
#39. we can develop willpower skills. It's more about strategy than grit or impulses. While we can't control what we think and feel, we can control what we do - which is where strategy comes into play.
Ted Spiker
#40. In writing, habit seems to be a much stronger force than either willpower or inspiration.
John Steinbeck
#41. Willpower and dedication are good words' Roland remarked 'There's a bad one, though, that means the same thing. That one is obsession
Stephen King
#42. What stress really does, though, is deplete willpower, which diminishes your ability to control those emotions.
Roy F. Baumeister
#43. Your imagination is ten times more potent than your willpower. Unleashed, it provides a sense of certainty and tenacious vision that goes far beyond any limitation of the past.
Tony Robbins
#44. Did you notice the phrase by his power in that last Bible verse? This is what makes The Daniel Plan different from other approaches. It is built on trusting in God's power to help you change, not merely your own willpower.
Rick Warren
#45. Vision creates faith and faith creates willpower. With faith there is no anxiety and no doubt - just absolute confidence in yourself.
Arnold Schwarzenegger
#46. Desiring a will was not enough. I would have needed precisely what I could not have without willpower: a will.
Marcel Proust
#47. 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
#48. Willpower can produce short-term change, but it creates constant internal stress because you haven't dealt with the root cause.
Rick Warren
#49. One part of love is sweet and easy, something we fall into and are swept away by. But the other part is hard: it requires discipline, willpower, and opening your heart again and again to someone with whom you are angry, can't stand, and do not like.
Sam Keen
#50. It takes vast willpower, luck, and skill to be the first. But it takes a gigantic heart to be number two.
Johan Harstad
#51. History teaches us that humans do not change their civilisation after deliberation, or by their own willpower, but in the wake of chaos that they themselves have provoked.
Guillaume Faye
#52. The answer to New Orleans's levee woes is painfully obvious: money and willpower.
Douglas Brinkley
#53. Things have to be made to happen in a way you want them to happen. Without management, without the intervention of organized willpower the desired result simply cannot be obtained.
Robert Heller
#54. Willpower doesn't change everything. We can't be just anything we want to be. My mother couldn't will herself to be like she was when she was thirty or forty. She couldn't choose to be normal - her muscles were degenerating.
Darcy Leech
#56. It's not that some people have willpower and some don't ... It's that some people are ready to change and others are not.
James Gordon
#57. I think the whole point about self-control, the whole point about willpower, is to help people understand that there are endless self-nudge techniques that can be enormously helpful and are very simple.
Walter Mischel
#58. Technique and ability alone do not get you to the top; it is the willpower that is the most important. This willpower you cannot buy with money or be given by othersit rises from your heart.
Junko Tabei
#59. We seek immortality in mortal things. Even the strongest of our desires is bound to die after sometime. What should remain in the end is only the willpower.
Sarita Singh
#60. It is good to preserve the name, wealth, and honors you inherit, but it is better in every way if you yourself create a position and a name. The first requires good sense, but the second demands willpower and great virtue.
Roman Baldorioty De Castro
#61. Black! Black! Black! I am proud of being a Negro. Nor have I ever tried to beg tolerance from anyone. Superiority is not proved by color, but by the brain, by education, by willpower, by moral courage.
Jose Celso Barbosa
#62. If freedom is short of weapons, we must compensate with willpower.
Adolf Hitler
#63. I forced myself not to write to him or call him; it took so much willpower to cling on to the last bit of my self-respect when all I wanted to do was beg him to come and see me,..
Jenny Blackhurst
#64. So in the path of love - rather than pulling our willpower together, using our discrimination, or working - we just cry inwardly.
Frederick Lenz
#65. It does not matter when you begin and end the journey.
What matters is your willpower to begin and ability to complete the sacred journey.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#66. The smile is civilization's finest adornment. It signifies the willpower and duty to fashion mankind's coexistence as quietly and agreeably as possible so that it will always appear friendly. For it is all a matter of appearance. The smile is culture's diploma: it is the diplomat's badge.
Iwan Goll
#67. Willpower will never succeed in dealing with the deeply ingrained habits of sin. Emmet
Richard J. Foster
#68. Learning to desire God's will is not something we can accomplish by resolve and willpower. It occurs only when we live so close to God's heart that the rhythm of our own heartbeat comes to reflect the divine pulse
David G. Benner
#69. If you find you require willpower, you aren't ready to lose weight.
Augusten Burroughs
#70. Most of life's actions are within our reach, but decisions take willpower.
Robert McKee
#71. All athletic accomplishments begin with volition; that is, the desire and willpower necessary to succeed. Volition affects more than thoughts and feelings - it affects physical performance.
Charles Garfield
#72. Remember that becoming people of integrity and honesty is not simply a matter of more personal determination, more grit, and more willpower; rather, it is accomplished through the enabling power of the Atonement of the Lord Jesus Christ.
David A. Bednar
#73. Stuff like looking me over as if you wanna lick every square inch of me and then blushing about it. It's taking every bit of willpower I have and then some not to come over there and kiss you.
M. Leighton
#74. Willpower is real, but it needs the right conditions to thrive.
Lindy West
#75. Getting things down to routines and habits takes willpower at first but in the long run conserves willpower," says Baumeister.
Laura Vanderkam
#76. The Girauds' child was looking more and more like a problem.
Luke pressed his lips into a thin line. When she'd leaned in the stagecoach blazing with fervor over what was in the arcane books, it had taken all his willpower not to throw a bolt of magic to stop her heart.
Ann Gimpel
#77. Where God guides, he provides. What he calls you to do, he equips you to do. He doesn't need your strength and willpower, but he does need your commitment. He wants you to live an abundant life that includes a vibrant faith, a vibrant body, and a vibrant mind.
Rick Warren
#78. I only have so much willpower, Helen," he whispered. "And since you apparently sleep in the most ridiculously transparent tank top I've ever seen, I'm going to have to ask you to get under the covers before I do something stupid.
Josephine Angelini
#79. There is a huge difference between failing and failure. Failing is trying something that you learn doesn't work. Failure is throwing in the towel and giving up. True success comes from failing repeatedly and as quickly as possible, before your cash or your willpower runs out.
Jay Samit
#80. To die before coming to the end of willpower, was that not an aristocrat's choice? He
Frank Herbert
#81. I was in uniform for four years, and I know that heroism doesn't occur from taking orders, but rather from people who through their own willpower and strength are willing to sacrifice their lives for an idea.
Thor Heyerdahl
#82. A heart full of love and compassion is the main source of inner strength, willpower, happiness, and mental tranquility
Dalai Lama
#83. You give anybody a billion dollars, and of course they are passionate. Passion is one of those things like willpower in that there's 'magical thinking' about it. You've got to be careful about 'magical thinking.'
Scott Adams
#84. You only need willpower to get what you don't want or you only want to want. By want to want, I mean, something you wish you wanted. But don't really. If
Augusten Burroughs
#85. Many men and women in the world demonstrate great willpower and self-discipline in overcoming bad habits and the weaknesses of the flesh.
Ezra Taft Benson
#90. he willingness to work-hard and indomitable willpower are vital for any accomplishment.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#91. Willpower is misunderstood. The very word suggests that wanting something badly enough bequeaths that necessary strength to achieve or overcome something. If that were the case, I'd be Michael Fassbender's missus by now.
Annmarie O'Connor
#92. You have to believe in a placebo or it won't work, but if it works, it's obviously working in some indirect way, through feedback in the immune system, let us say, or in the willpower of the patient to take a more strenuous exercise in their own therapy.
Charles Jencks
#93. Indeed, the best way to think of willpower is not as some shapeless behavioral trait but as a sort of psychic muscle, one that can atrophy or grow stronger depending on how it's used.
Jeffrey Kluger
#94. What I know is that if you're going to play half-court, you'd better have the greatest executioners of half-court basketball. If you run, you test the stamina and willpower of the other team. That's what I learned as a player.
Tom Heinsohn
#95. In other words, our willpower works like a muscle and it weakens throughout the day, since it's used constantly. We all have a limit to our willpower, and once we've reached the limit, it becomes very difficult to focus.
S.J. Scott
#96. Not branded dresses, expensive perfumes, studded sandals, glamorous accessories, the true beauty of a woman is her smile, willpower, confidence, intelligence and her ability to survive and rule with pride in a man's world.
Happy Woman's Day !
Harshada Pathare
#97. When you're out of willpower you call on stubbornness, that's the trick.
Henri Matisse
#98. There is no such thing as a great talent without great willpower.
Honore De Balzac
#99. He said that he felt as though he was in a life-or-death war with these urges, and that they were winning because they were so much stronger than his willpower.
Jennifer Gregg
#100. If you want to do something that requires willpower - like going for a run after work - you have to conserve your willpower muscle during the day,
Charles Duhigg
