Quotes about Willpower

Prayer, at its most basic level, was surrender. Like Jesus in the garden, saying, "Not My will, but Yours, be done.

The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will. —Vince Lombardi, What It Takes to Be Number One

We cannot be tempted with something we have no desire for.

As the Holy Spirit restores us, He trains our wills to choose thoughts, values and behaviors that bring Him praise.

Nothing can resist a will which will stake even existence upon its fulfillment.

Freedom is not procured by a full enjoyment of what is desired, but by controlling that desire.

Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one thing.

The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one often comes from a strong will, and the other from a strong won't.

We gain the strength of the temptation we resist.

We are exactly where we have chosen to be.

We must cease striving and trust God to provide what He thinks is best and in whatever time He chooses to make it available. But this kind of trusting doesn't come naturally. It's a spiritual crisis of the will in which we must choose to exercise faith.

You can kill the body but not the spirit.