Quotes about Willpower

We pray, 'lead us not into temptation'. Do we then lead ourselves into temptation?

Lusts within are worse than lions without.

You need be defeated only if you are willing to be.

I will persist until I succeed. I was not delivered into this world in defeat, nor does failure course in my veins. I am not a sheep waiting to be prodded by my shepherd. I am a lion and I refuse to talk, to walk, to sleep with the sheep. The slaughterhouse of failure is not my destiny. I will persist until I succeed.

I will persist until I succeed. I was not delivered into this world into defeat, nor does failure course in my veins. I am not a sheep waiting to be prodded by my shepherd. I am a lion and I refuse to talk, to walk, to sleep with the sheep. The slaughterhouse of failure is not my destiny. I will persist until I succeed.

I will form good habits and become their slave.

Thus, the first law I will obey, which precedeth all others is—I will form good habits and become their slave.

I will never consider defeat and I will remove from my vocabulary such words and phrases as quit, cannot, unable, impossible, out of the question, improbable, failure, unworkable, hopeless, and retreat; for they are the words of fools. I

The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it.

If the will be set on virtue, there will be no practice of wickedness.

I knew that courage came with less struggle for some than for others but I believed that anyone who desired it could have it.

While her emotions were very real and they gnawed at her with a raw sincerity, she was listening to something deeper. She was listening to her will, not letting what she felt dictate what she would do. Didn't let it dictate her life.