Quotes about Willpower

With self-discipline most anything is possible.

Chance does not work. Only choice will work. Your choice!

It is one thing to mortify curiosity, another to conquer it.

I can resist anything but temptation

The intention points the way, and then habituated thought and desire must be redirected to support the intention in the moments of action.

Can anyone now seriously believe that if people are only permitted or enabled to do what they want, they will then be happy or more disposed to do what is right?

In people without rock-solid character, feeling is a deadly enemy of self-control and will always subvert it. The mongoose of a disciplined will under God and good is the only match for the cobra of feeling.

Wrong was easy; gravity helped it. Right is difficult and long. In choosing what is difficult we are free, the mind too making its little flight out from the shadow into the clear in time between work and sleep.

After you have said "thy will be done," what more can be said? And where do you find the strength to pray "thy will be done" after you see what it means?

She was the captain of her soul

Freedom comes with the decision: it does not wait for the act.

odor in his clothes and beard and flesh too which I believed was the smell of powder and glory, the elected victorious but know better now: know now to have been only the will to endure, a sardonic and even humorous declining of self-delusion which is not even kin to that optimism which believes that that which is about to happen to us can