Quotes about Willpower

Once I press myself into action, I immediately begin to live. Anything less is merely existing. The moments I truly live are the moments when I act with my entire will.

Are you ready to be poured out as an offering? It is an act of your will, not your emotions.

Have you deliberately committed your will to Jesus Christ? It is a transaction of the will, not of emotion; any positive emotion that results is simply a superficial blessing arising out of the transaction.

Self-control is a fruit of his work.

If you imagine someone with 100 percent determination and 100 percent intelligence, you can discard a lot of intelligence before they stop succeeding. But if you start discarding determination, you very quickly get an ineffectual and perpetual grad student.

Get on your feet or die.

Don't allow your mind to tell your heart what to do. The mind gives up easily

Going a little farther, He fell facedown and prayed, “My Father, if it is possible, let this cup pass from Me. Yet not as I will, but as You will.”

A second time He went away and prayed, “My Father, if this cup cannot pass unless I drink it, may Your will be done.”

“Father, if You are willing, take this cup from Me. Yet not My will, but Yours be done.”

For I do not do the good I want to do. Instead, I keep on doing the evil I do not want to do.

But the man who is firmly established in his heart and under no constraint, with control over his will and resolve in his heart not to marry the virgin, he will do well.