Quotes about Willpower
Before you can achieve success in the higher and broader sense you must gain such thorough control over yourself that you will be a person of poise.
— Napoleon Hill
Turn on the full powers of your will and take complete control of your own mind. It is your own mind! It was given to you as a servant to carry out your desires. And no one may enter it or influence it in the slightest degree without your consent and cooperation. What a profound fact this is!
— Napoleon Hill
Life's battles don't always go To the stronger of faster man, But soon or later the man who wins Is the man who thinks he can!
— Napoleon Hill
Anyone who submits to annoyance by things he does not want is not definite. He is a drifter.
— Napoleon Hill
Self-discipline begins with the mastery of your thoughts. If you don't control what you think, you can't control what you do. Simply, self-discipline enables you to think first and act afterward.
— Napoleon Hill
If you think you'll lose, you're lost, For out in the world we find, Success begins with a fellow's will— It's all in the state of mind.
— Napoleon Hill
Nothing is impossible to the person who backs desire with enduring faith.
— Napoleon Hill
Make the urge to continue stronger than the desire to quit.
— Napoleon Hill
God seems to throw Himself on the side of the man who knows exactly what he wants, if he is determined to get JUST THAT!
— Napoleon Hill
It was in this year, too, that the hard crust of my dry soul finally squeezed out all the last traces of religion that had ever been in it. There was no room for any God in that empty temple full of dust and rubbish which I was now so jealously to guard against all intruders, in order to devote it to the worship of my own stupid will.
— Thomas Merton
No man who simply eats and drinks whenever he feels like eating and drinking, who smokes whenever he feels the urge to light a cigarette, who gratifies his curiosity and sensuality whenever they are stimulated, can consider himself a free person. He has renounced his spiritual freedom and become the servant of bodily impulse. Therefore his mind and his will are not fully his own. They are under the power of his appetites.
— Thomas Merton
Discipline is most important, and without it no serious meditation will ever be possible. But it should be one's own discipline, not a routine mechanically imposed from the outside.
— Thomas Merton