Top 100 Quotes About Willpower
#1. 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
#3. Getting where you want to be has everything to do with awareness, and nothing to do with willpower.
Cheri Huber
#4. 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
#5. To turn your dreams into reality, all your resources, efforts and concentration should be aligned in the same direction.
Roopleen
#6. Sexual overindulgence may not only destroy reason and willpower, but it may also lead to either temporary or permanent mental dysfunction.
Napoleon Hill
#7. 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
#9. 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
#10. 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
#11. 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
#12. 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
#13. Will, without reason, is a blind man's motion; will, against reason, is a madman's motion.
Benjamin Whichcote
#15. 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
#16. 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
#17. If you know the golden treasures of adversity, you will bravely embrace it.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#18. Sugar and caffeine. My willpower crumbled.
Rick Riordan
#19. It's not what one is, it's what one does with it.
Mary Renault
#20. It's amazing how willpower can build walls.
Yann Martel
#21. 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
#22. 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
#23. A very fine artist can take something quite ordinary and, through sheer artistry and willpower, turn it into a work of art.
Truman Capote
#24. You have the capacity to do the work.
Find the willpower to begin work.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#25. To be able to live each day with honor, respect and dignity is the greatest achievement of all.
Roopleen
#26. 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
#27. 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
#28. I could see her will leaving and death seeping through her skin to skewer her soul.
J.D. Stroube
#29. Unlike motivation, willpower can be strengthened like a muscle.
Stephen Guise
#30. 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
#31. Gifts count for nothing; will alone is great; All things give way before it, soon or late.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
#32. 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
#33. You cannot wish for happiness but you can work towards your life goals and create lasting happiness.
Roopleen
#34. The development of willpower -I will, I won't and I want- may define what it means to be human.
Kelly McGonigal
#35. 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
#37. 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
#38. 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
#39. 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
#40. 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
#41. Willpower is essential to the accomplishment of anything worthwhile.
Brian Tracy
#43. 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
#44. Do not give your haters the gratification, It means you will never let yourself down.
Mohith Agadi
#45. Our # imagination is ten times more potent than our # willpower .
Tony Robbins
#46. I never had to try as a kid to stay in shape. In a way, there was no willpower involved.
Jamie Bamber
#48. 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
#49. I don't possess the willpower for long-term grudges.
R.S. Grey
#50. We touched base at several strategic locations down our bodies, and it took all my willpower to break away.
Becca Fitzpatrick
#51. 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
#52. 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
#53. 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
#54. 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
#55. Successful weight loss takes programming, not willpower.
Phil McGraw
#56. 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
#58. This is how willpower becomes a habit: by choosing a certain behavior ahead of time, and then following that routine when an inflection point arrives.
Charles Duhigg
#59. So-called intellectuals have ego-power; Fools have willpower.
Saurabh Sharma
#60. Love like this wasn't what he'd planned or wanted or expected, surely it was indeed a trap, for even when you tried to run away, it followed you through the grass and lay down beside you, it overtook common sense and willpower.
Alice Hoffman
#61. Willpower is not some mythical force that we either have or don't have. Willpower is our decision to use higher mind thinking instead of lazing around in the clutches of our primal mind.
A. Curtiss
#62. You try moving things with nothing but willpower. It's about as easy as trying to lasso a bull with a licorice whip."
- from "Phantom's Veil
Richelle E. Goodrich
#63. Every morning, and every night, I resolved to start a new life, but I always procrastinated, acquiescing to my ailing willpower. And Saturday at eleven o'clock at night was not the right moment to make important decisions.
Cesar Aira
#64. Think about this: What positive changes in your life could happen if you relied on God's unlimited power instead of your limited willpower.
Rick Warren
#65. Willpower determines success in business, interpersonal relationships, health, whatever it is. All the activities in your life, success and failure in them, are dependent upon your ability to manifest will.
Frederick Lenz
#66. It had taken all Harry's willpower to uproot himself from the spot and run, leaving the eyeless dementors to glide amongst the Muggles who might not be able to see them, but would assuredly feel the despair they cast wherever they went.
J.K. Rowling
#67. We exhausted ourselves in all the love we felt and we held off the shadows by sheer willpower until there was nothing left.
Jennifer L. Armentrout
#68. Willpower is a learnable skill, something that can be taught the same way kids learn to do math and say thank you.
Charles Duhigg
#69. Is anything truly impossible? Or is it that the path to our goals appears too unclear to follow? It seems to me that if you seek hard enough, pray hard enough, you usually stumble across a scattering of breadcrumbs that marks the trail leading to the goal you once considered beyond your reach.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#70. This is your world
You're the creator
Find freedom on this canvas
Believe, that you can do it,
'Cuz you can do it.
You can do it.
Bob Ross
#71. Just deciding to forgive isn't enough because willpower alone won't work - we need divine strength from God. As He gives us the strength, we need to pray for our enemies and bless them. Praying for those who have hurt us is vital to successfully forgiving them.
Joyce Meyer
#72. We could go to monasteries. I could show you people who are very wise and they have great willpower, but they're not happy. They lack balance. They take it all too seriously.
Frederick Lenz
#73. You can keep your willpower, Frog. I am going home to bake a cake.
Arnold Lobel
#74. Human beings actually have quite a bit of willpower. They don't know too much about it, but they have quite a bit.
Frederick Lenz
#75. Willpower is so common among highly successful people that many see its characteristics as synonymous with success.
Peter Senge
#76. We can use decision-making to choose the habits we want to form, use willpower to get the habit started, then - and this is the best part - we can allow the extraordinary power of habit to take over. At that point, we're free from the need to decide and the need to use willpower.
Gretchen Rubin
#78. Luthiel: I cannot change what will happen. I can only change how I act in the face of it.
Robert Fanney
#79. The achievements of willpower are almost beyond computation. Scarcely anything seems impossible to the man who can will strongly enough and long enough.
Orison Swett Marden
#80. A recent study suggests that 75 per cent of the weight-loss response in obesity is predicted by insulin levels.29 Not willpower. Not caloric intake. Not peer support or peer pressure. Not exercise. Just insulin.
Jason Fung
#81. Before, I was always trying to make my relationships work by means of willpower and forced affability. This time I didn't have to strive for anything. A quality of ease spread over us.
Charles Baxter
#82. Proper visualization by the exercise of concentration and willpower enables us to materialize thoughts, not only as dreams or visions in the mental realm, but also as experiences in the material realm.
Paramahansa Yogananda
#83. Faith is not mere belief but is that state you attain when you send your will, words, thoughts, beliefs, and actions into orbit around a chosen goal
Agona Apell
#84. Extra miles, extensive preparation and exhaustive efforts usually show astonishing results.
Roopleen
#85. I start trying to stay unconscious. The problem with this is that no amount of willpower can change the reality.
Lauren DeStefano
#86. 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
#87. Without the will or desire to achieve one is like flotsam on the oceans of time.
Steven Redhead
#88. Willpower is not about resisting, forcing, or controlling
it's about choosing.
Penney Peirce
#89. In the beginning [Hitler] was genial and pleasant. He would have extraordinary willpower and unheard-of influence on people.
Hermann Goring
#91. And with the deftness of a thief, he was picking the lock of her willpower.
Mary Jo Putney
#92. Yet she also longed for moments when she might be weak, when she need not prove anything to anyone.
Jan-Philipp Sendker
#93. I am the kind of person who, if my feelings are unrequited, can completely detach from someone emotionally if I simply put my mind to it.
Mindy Kaling
#94. Marriage doesn't just happen! It takes a solid set of decisions, a huge amount of skill and enormous willpower.
Neil Clark Warren
#95. Get out of your own way ... What we call 'lack of willpower' is actually just losing an argument with an outdated version of yourself.
Steve Maraboli
#96. Talent is the discipline, commitment, and willpower to practice/train/study often, long, and hard. Discover your passion and pay the price.
Bradford Winters
#97. Celebrating your achievements and applauding your triumphs is a sure way to refuel your enthusiasm and keep yourself motivated for your future endeavours.
Roopleen
#98. To resist a compulsion with willpower alone is to hold back an avalanche by melting the snow with a candle. It just keeps coming and coming and coming.
David Adam
#99. I don't believe in wishes coming true. But if I do, what would I wish for? Normally I have such willpower. Like a dieter resisting a cookie, I don't even let myself go there. But for the briefest second, I do.
Gayle Forman
#100. 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
