Quotes about Willpower

Without self-discipline a man drifts lower and lower, approximating more and more nearly to the beast, until at last he grovels, a lost creature, in the mire of his own befoulment. By self-discipline a man rises higher and higher, approximating more and more nearly to the divine, until at last he stands erect in his divine dignity, a saved soul, glorified by the radiance of his purity. Let a man discipline himself, and he will live; let a man cease to discipline himself, and he will perish.

So You will be what you will to be; Let failure find its false content In that poor word, 'environment,' But spirit scorns it, and is free.

A man does not live until he begins to discipline himself ; he merely exists.

Renew your resolution daily, and in the hour of temptation do not depart from the right path.

You will be what you will to be; Let failure find its false content In that poor word, environment, But spirit scorns it, and is free.

The will to do springs from the knowledge that we can do.

The will to do springs from the knowledge that we can do. Doubt and worry are the exceptional enemies of understanding, and he who encourages them, who does no longer slay them, thwarts himself at each step.

You will be what you will to be;

You will become as small as your controlling desire; as great as your dominant aspiration:

La Voluntad humana, la fuerza invisible, La descendencia de un alma inmortal, Conquista cualquier meta sin importar, Aunque intervengan muros invencibles.

He only is fitted to command and control who has succeeded in commanding and controlling himself.

only he whose thoughts are controlled and purified, makes the winds and the storms of the soul obey him.