willpower quotes

And when a woman’s will is as strong as the man’s who wants to govern her, half her strength must be concealment.

I assess the power of a will by how much resistance, pain, torture it endures and knows how to turn to its advantage.

Do whatever you will, but first be such as are able to will.

I have brought myself, by long meditation, to the conviction that a human being with a settled purpose must accomplish it, and that nothing can resist a will which will stake even existence upon its fulfillment.

The more nobly a man wills and acts, the more avid he becomes for great and sublime aims to pursue. He will no longer be content with family, country, and the remunerative aspect of his work. He will want wider organisations to create, new paths to blaze, causes to uphold, truths to discover, an ideal to cherish and defend.

It’s not ‚can‘; it’s ‚will.‘ You have to will things into fruition.

What is the use of writing plays, what is the use of writing anything, if there is not a will which finally moulds chaos itself into a race of gods.

Our will is always for our own good, but we do not always see what that is.

Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will.

We gain the strength of the temptation we resist.

I report to you that our country is challenged at home and abroad: that it is our will that is being tried and not our strength; our sense of purpose and not our ability to achieve a better America.

Obstinacy is the result of the will forcing itself into the place of the intellect.

Do you really think it is weakness that yields to temptation? I tell you that there are terrible temptations which it requires strength, strength and courage to yield to.

Above all, we must realize that no arsenal, or no weapon in the arsenals of the world, is so formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women. It is a weapon our adversaries in today’s world do not have.

If the leader is filled with high ambition and if he pursues his aims with audacity and strength of will, he will reach them in spite of all obstacles.

Everyone who wills can hear the inner voice. It is within everyone.

Enthusiasm is the yeast that makes your hopes shine to the stars. Enthusiasm is the sparkle in your eyes, the swing in your gait. The grip of your hand, the irresistible surge of will and energy to execute your ideas.

It makes a great deal of difference whether one wills not to sin or has not the knowledge to sin.

It’s easier to resist at the beginning than at the end.

Forgiveness is an act of the will, and the will can function regardless of the temperature of the heart.

There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.

Action seems to follow feeling, but really action and feeling go together; and by regulating the action, which is under the more direct control of the will, we can indirectly regulate the feeling, which is not.

The man who has the will to undergo all labor may win to any good.

There are several good protections against temptation, but the surest is cowardice.

War is not an exercise of the will directed at an inanimate matter.

Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.

It is much easier to suppress a first desire than to satisfy those that follow.

I can resist everything except temptation.

Man must cease attributing his problems to his environment, and learn again to exercise his will – his personal responsibility in the realm of faith and morals.

All the evidence that we have indicates that it is reasonable to assume in practically every human being, and certainly in almost every newborn baby, that there is an active will toward health, an impulse towards growth, or towards the actualization.

What it lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do.