Quotes about Willpower
In the main it will be found that a power over a man's support [salary] is a power over his will.
— Alexander Hamilton
Use wisely your power of choice.
— Og Mandino
Those who can command themselves command others.
— William Hazlitt
Of all the beautiful truths pertaining to the soul None is more gladdening or fruitful than to know You can regenerate and make yourself what you will.
— William James
To accomplish anything extraordinary you must blend desire for the goal with the will to take action to achieve it. This is how you commit to making yourself do what's right, whether you feel like it or not. The key is self-control.
— David Jeremiah
Those who forever seek the will of God are overrun by those who do it.
— Reinhard Bonnke
God knows our situation; He will not judge us as if we had no difficulties to overcome. What matters is the sincerity and perseverance of our will to overcome them.
— CS Lewis
I pray God that I may never find my will again. Oh, that Christ would subject my will to His, and trample it under His feet.
— Samuel Rutherford
The battle is lost or won in the secret places of the will before God, never first in the external world.
— Oswald Chambers
The proud person always wants to do the right thing, the great thing. But because he wants to do it in his own strength, he is fighting not with man, but with God.
— Soren Kierkegaard
We can only learn to know ourselves and do what we can - namely, surrender our will and fulfill God's will in us.
— Teresa of Avila
It is wonderful what miracles God works in wills that are utterly surrendered to Him.
— Hannah Whitall Smith