Willpower Quotes

We are leashed by societal norms, defined by our willingness to conform, but limited only by our imagination. — Michael Holbrook

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

Will without power is like children playing at soldiers. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Adversity tests the limit of your strength. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Willpower is real, but it needs the right conditions to thrive. — Lindy West

The development of willpower -I will, I won't and I want- may define what it means to be human. — Kelly McGonigal

The inspired words, which flush my mind, come from a higher power! — Lailah Gifty Akita

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

Getting where you want to be has everything to do with awareness, and nothing to do with willpower. — Cheri Huber

Willpower can produce short-term change, but it creates constant internal stress because you haven't dealt with the root cause. — Rick Warren

Stay focus on the goal. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Willpower is like a muscle. The more you train it, the stronger it becomes. Similarly, the less use it gets, the weaker it gets. — Kerry Gene

Sexual overindulgence may not only destroy reason and willpower, but it may also lead to either temporary or permanent mental dysfunction. — Napoleon Hill

May you find the grace and willpower to fulfil your dream. — Lailah Gifty Akita

A fabulous pair of shoes? I have to have willpower. — Keshia Knight Pulliam

Freedom is will-power to define my path. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Man has will, but woman has her way. — Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

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

If you can't run, you crawl. If you can't crawl
you find someone to carry you. — Joss Whedon

Never adjust your goals, amplify your might. — Lailah Gifty Akita

I shall do everything it becomes me to do. — George Eliot

Dare to travel on your defined path. — Lailah Gifty Akita

For fanaticism is the only form of willpower that even the weak and insecure can be brought to attain. — Friedrich Nietzsche

It's amazing how willpower can build walls. — Yann Martel

If you don't have the willpower to stop eating carbs, you won't have the willpower to do a dissertation. #truth. — Geoffrey Miller

The measure of a man is his state of mind. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Where there's a will, there's a way. Perhaps tomorrow, if not today. — Michele Jennae

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

Determination is the wake-up call to the human will. — Tony Robbins

When your only regret is if anyone thinks you regret anything - that is the definition of conviction. — Criss Jami

Willpower is a learnable skill, something that can be taught the same way kids learn to do math and say thank you. — Charles Duhigg

Gifts count for nothing; will alone is great; All things give way before it, soon or late. — Ella Wheeler Wilcox

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

Those that are firm in their will mold the world to themselves. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

When people have a willpower failure, it's because they haven't anticipated a situation that's going to come along. — Charles Duhigg

In the absence of willpower the most complete collection of virtues and talents is wholly worthless. — Aleister Crowley

It's not what one is, it's what one does with it. — Mary Renault

Our only hope is not for more willpower; it is for a new set of habits. — John Ortberg

Be firm. Be bold. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Believe in yourself. Under-confidence leads to a self-fulfilling prophecy that you are not good enough for your work. — Roopleen

True endurance, I think, comes from the inside. It comes from motivation and belief in what you're doing. — Neil Strauss

Willpower is steam for life's locomotion. — Praveen Kumar

Willpower is trying very hard not to do something you want to do very much. — John Ortberg

No action will be considered blameless, unless the will was so, for by the will the act was dictated. — Seneca The Younger

Whatever you are aiming at in life, willpower is one of your most important resources. — Frank Martela

Courage is a strong will. — Lailah Gifty Akita

With but few exceptions, it is always the underdog who wins through sheer willpower. — Johnny Weissmuller

I learned during the three weeks after my surgery that when you are in rehab, willpower and determination are key. — Peter Kavanagh

If you can't get out of it, get into it. — Patricia Ryan Madson

Willpower works for a few weeks, or maybe a month or two at best. — Rick Warren

Ultimately, self-control lets you relax because it removes stress and enables you to conserve willpower for the important challenges. — Laura Vanderkam

Sometimes willpower alone cannot make things happen. — Nick Bantock

Successful weight loss takes programming, not willpower. — Phil McGraw

It is not important for life to meet your great expectations. What is important is that you hold high expectations of yourself and meet them greatly. — Roopleen

Even if things aren't going the way we want right now, we will always get through it. — Stacey T. Hunt

To die before coming to the end of willpower, was that not an aristocrat's choice? He — Frank Herbert

It is the size of the willpower that determines the size of the life waves we ride above — Keagana 'Thuso'

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

The key to willpower is "want-power". If U want something strongly enough, U will find the discipline necessary to do it. — Douglas Merrill

Self-control is not control by oneself through one's own willpower but rather control of oneself through the power of the Holy Spirit. — Jerry Bridges

If eating a healthy diet feels unpleasant, you're doing it wrong. And you're wasting your limited stockpile of willpower. — Scott Adams

Willpower is nothing but willingness to do. — B.K.S. Iyengar

You have to go head, even if no one goes with you. — Lailah Gifty Akita

We need to develop new strategies overcome every challenge. — Lailah Gifty Akita

You cannot wish for happiness but you can work towards your life goals and create lasting happiness. — Roopleen

Dare to conquer your soul. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Be bold as a lion. — Lailah Gifty Akita

I love to play the game of life. — Lailah Gifty Akita

When you're out of willpower you call on stubbornness, that's the trick. — Henri Matisse

May you the willpower and chase your God-given dreams. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Design your life to minimize reliance on willpower. — B. J. Fogg

You must be willing, determined and persistent to achieve your goals — Lailah Gifty Akita

Like my father before me, I'm a very passionate person, with boundless energy and tremedous willpower. — Raymond Blanc

Next to courage, willpower is the most important thing in politics. — Paul Johnson

Willpower is not about resisting, forcing, or controlling
it's about choosing. — Penney Peirce

The higher life begins for us ... when we renounce our own will to bow before a Divine law. — George Eliot

Only your Willpower can fight the bad influences around you. — Mohith Agadi

The war we must must win is fought within. — Tom Payne

You decide your own level of involvement. — Chuck Palahniuk

Willpower will never succeed in dealing with the deeply ingrained habits of sin. Emmet — Richard J. Foster

You surrender to love; you do not accomplish love by willpower. — Richard Rohr

Willpower is the shortest shortcut to success. — Mehmet Murat Ildan

There is no such thing as a great talent without great willpower. — Honore De Balzac

Freedom is the decision to live and die, doing what you love. — Lailah Gifty Akita

If willpower is required to achieve this goal, that's how you know you don't want it enough on a deep, organic level. Mechanical — Augusten Burroughs

Be bold in mind, in spirit and in faith. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Do not wait for someone to Motivate you; Consider it as a self service and do it yourself. — Mohith Agadi

There is nothing to lose in life. Be courageous! — Lailah Gifty Akita

I could see her will leaving and death seeping through her skin to skewer her soul. — J.D. Stroube

Your Why Power will Ignite your Willpower to help you implement Habits that will enable you to Pursue Your Purpose with PASSION! — Tom Cunningham

What stress really does, though, is deplete willpower, which diminishes your ability to control those emotions. — Roy F. Baumeister

Without the will or desire to achieve one is like flotsam on the oceans of time. — Steven Redhead

It takes more to abstain than to err, more to avoid mistakes than to make mistakes; but the good thing is that it gets better with practice. — Innocent Mwatsikesimbe

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

If you have given up something many times over then you are strong-willed in having done it so many times over! — Stephen Richards

Freedom is free will. — Lailah Gifty Akita

The free-will of man cannot impune the sovereignty of God, and conversely the sovereignty of God would not impune the free-will of men. — R. Alan Woods

Most of life's actions are within our reach, but decisions take willpower. — Robert McKee

To be able to live each day with honor, respect and dignity is the greatest achievement of all. — Roopleen

Your haters gather the most at the sidelines. — Johnnie Dent Jr.