Quotes about Willpower
Self-discipline can also be defined as self-control. Your ability to control yourself and your actions, control what you say and do, and ensure that your behaviors are consistent with your long-term goals and objectives is the mark of the superior person.
— Brian Tracy
this disobeying ourselves, wherein the hardness of obeying God consists.
— Herman Melville
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other.
— Abraham Lincoln
It's very difficult to regulate yourself, and if you learn to do that, well, it starts to spill over.
— Jordan Peterson
Willpower is trying very hard not to do something you want to do very much.
— John Ortberg
You have within you all the power you need with which to get whatever you want or need in this world.
— Napoleon Hill
And to know how to demand - with all one's might - what one wants
— Paulo Coelho
If my words don't flow out of a heart that rests in God's control, sovereignty, then they come out of the heart that seeks control so I can get what I want.
— Mark Driscoll
Whatever a man wants badly and persistently enough will determine the man's character.
— AW Tozer
Do what you want, do what you will, do what you have to, do what you think you cannot.
— Alice Hoffman
Most of us don't mind doing what we ought to do when it doesn't interfere with what we want to do, but it takes discipline and maturity to do what we ought to do whether we want to or not.
— Joseph Wirthlin
It's the hardest thing in the world - to do what we want. And it takes the greatest kinds of courage.
— Ayn Rand