Quotes about Willpower

The more often he feels without acting, the less he will be able ever to act, and, in the long run, the less he will be able to feel.

The strongest principle of growth lies in the human choice.

Your own resolution to success is more important than any other one thing.

Fortunate is the person who has developed the self-control to steer a straight course toward his objective in life, without being swayed from his purpose by either commendation or condemnation.

But every time you yield to the temptation, the easier it becomes to yield again and the more difficult it becomes to resist the next time.

Henry Ford has been repeatedly mentioned, because he is an astounding example of what a man with a mind of his own, and a will to control it, can accomplish.

Think, not merely, but ACT the Think. For that is the only sure way to the educated Will. To act with decision, firmness, and promptness when an Emergency arrives is to feed nourishing food hourly to the Will. The weak Will is the starved Will.

To protect yourself against negative influences, whether of your own making, or the result of the activities of negative people around you, recognize that you have a WILLPOWER, and put it into constant use, until it builds a wall of immunity against negative influences in your own mind.

Every human being has the ability to completely control his own mind.

The battle is all over except the shouting when one knows what is wanted and has made up his mind to get it, whatever the price may be.

Resolve is what makes a man manifest. Not puny resolve; not crude determinations; not errant purposes — but that strong and indefatigable will which treads down difficulties and danger, as a boy treads down the heaving frost-lands of winter, which kindles his eye and brain with proud pulse beat toward the unattainable. WILL MAKES MEN GIANTS!

Life, itself, is a great chariot race, and the victory goes only to those who have developed the strength of character and determination and willpower to win.