Will Power Quotes

• There is no such thing as a great talent without great will power.

  Honore de Balzac

  Inspirational, Willpower, Talent

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• It's easier to go down a hill than up it but the view is much better at the top.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Motivational, Graduation, Perseverance

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  Failure is only postponed success as long as courage 'coaches' ambition. The habit of persistence is the habit of victory.

  Herbert Kaufman

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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• Continuous, unflagging effort, persistence and determination will win. Let not the man be discouraged who has these.

  James Whitcomb Riley

  Motivational, Determination, Persistence

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• Success is the progressive realization of a worthy goal or ideal.

  Earl Nightingale

  Motivational, Success, Congratulations

  Robert C. Worstell, Earl Nightingale (2015). “How to Completely Change Your Life in 30 Seconds”, p.68, Lulu.com

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• It's all right letting yourself go, as long as you can get yourself back.

  Mick Jagger

  Inspirational, Motivational, Letting Go

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• A man may fulfill the object of his existence by asking a question he cannot answer, and attempting a task he cannot achieve.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

  Love, Change, Dream

  Oliver Wendell Holmes (1896). “Morse, John T.Life and letters of Oliver Wendell Holmes”

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  There is a charm about the forbidden that makes it unspeakably desirable.

  Mark Twain

  Motivational, Forbidden Love, Temptation

  Mark Twain (2014). “Mark Twain on Common Sense: Timeless Advice and Words of Wisdom from America's Most-Revered Humorist”, p.31, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• We must always change, renew, rejuvenate ourselves; otherwise, we harden.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Change, Yoga, New Beginnings

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• Will power is to the mind like a strong blind man who carries on his shoulders a lame man who can see.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Life, Motivational, Being Strong

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• About the only time losing is more fun than winning is when you're fighting temptation.

  Tom Wilson

  Love, Fun, Sunset

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• A silly idea is current that good people do not know what temptation means. This is an obvious lie. Only those who try to resist temptation know how strong it is... A man who gives in to temptation after five minutes simply does not know what it would have been like an hour later. That is why bad people, in one sense, know very little about badness. They have lived a sheltered life by always giving in.

  C. S. Lewis

  Motivational, Strong, Lying

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• Do you really think it is weakness that yields to temptation? I tell you that there are terrible temptations which it requires strength, strength and courage to yield to.

  Oscar Wilde

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Oscar Wilde (2015). “An Ideal Husband”, p.40, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• We may think there is willpower involved, but more likely... change is due to want power. Wanting the new addiction more than the old one. Wanting the new me in preference to the person I am now.

  George A. Sheehan

  Motivational, Recovery, Thinking

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• All men are tempted. There is no man that lives that can't be broken down, provided it is the right temptation, put in the right spot.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Motivational, Men, Broken

  Henry Ward Beecher, William Drysdale (1887). “Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit”

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• Nothing stops the man who desires to achieve. Every obstacle is simply a course to develop his achievement muscle. It's a strengthening of his powers of accomplishment.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Motivational, Strength, Men

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• To err is human, to repent divine; to persist devilish.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Motivational, Mistake, Divine

  Benjamin Franklin (2013). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.88, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• Habit is a cable; we weave a thread of it each day, and at last we cannot break it.

  Horace Mann

  Motivational, Positive, Happiness

  "Graded Selections for Memorizing : Adapted for Use at Home and in School" by John Bradley Peaslee, (p. 104), 1880.

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• There can be no real freedom without the freedom to fail.

  Erich Fromm

  Motivational, Freedom, Real

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• The useless men are those who never change with the years.

  James M. Barrie

  Motivational, Change, Years

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• The first, sickness (vyadhi), is a physical obstacle, but the other eight can be considered mental. These include languor (styana), doubt (samshaya), heedlessness (pramada), sloth (alasya), dissipation (avirati), false vision (bhranti-darshana), nonattainment of yogic states (alabdha-bhumikatva), and instability in these states (anavasthitatva).

  Richard Rosen

  Eight, Vision, Doubt

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• Where love rules, there is no will to power; and where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.

  Carl Jung

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  šber die Psychologie des Unbewussten (On the Psychology of the Unconscious, 1917) in Gesammelte Werke (1964) vol. 7, p. 58

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• Recognizing that the power of will is the supreme court over all other departments of my mind, I will exercise daily when I need the urge to act for any purpose; and I will form habits designed to bring the power of my will into action at least once daily.

  Bruce Lee

  Exercise, Mind, Needs

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• Not using faults does not mean that one does not have them.

  Antonio Porchia

  Motivational, Mean, Doe

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• An element of abstention, of restraint, must enter into all finer joys.

  Vida Dutton Scudder

  Motivational, Joy, Self Control

  Vida Dutton Scudder (1939). “The privilege of age: essays secular and spiritual”

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