Willpower Quotes - Page 6

• A heart full of love and compassion is the main source of inner strength, willpower, happiness, and mental tranquility

  Dalai Lama

  Happiness, Heart, Compassion

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• This fight coming is not a battle of weapons, but a battle of wills.

  Janet Morris

  Loyalty, Fighting, Battle

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• If your determination is fixed, I do not counsel you to despair. Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance.

  Samuel Johnson

  Motivational, Perseverance, Determination

  Samuel Johnson (1834). “The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia: A Tale”, p.14

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• Lack of discipline leads to frustration and self-loathing.

  Marie Chapian

  Women, Frustration, Self

  Marie Chapian (1997). “A Confident, Dynamic You: Ten Keys to Moving from I Can't to I Can”, Vine Books

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• Do not bite at the bait of pleasure, till you know there is no hook beneath it.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Motivational, Truth, Freedom

  Thomas Jefferson, Henry Augustine Washington (1859). “The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence”, p.37

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• It's just a matter of willpower. The day you decide it's over, it's over. You never get over it.

  Junot Diaz

  Over You, Matter, Over It

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• I start trying to stay unconscious. The problem with this is that no amount of willpower can change the reality.

  Lauren DeStefano

  Reality, Trying, Problem

  Lauren DeStefano (2012). “Fever”, p.301, Simon and Schuster

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• My heart's been torn wide open, just like I feared it would be, and I have no willpower to close it back up.

  Marie Lu

  Heart, Would Be, Torn

  Marie Lu (2013). “Champion: A Legend Novel”, p.138, Penguin

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• Determination is the wake-up call to the human will.

  Tony Robbins

  Motivational, Determination, Insperational

  Tony Robbins (2012). “Awaken The Giant Within”, p.318, Simon and Schuster

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• Human potential is the same for all. Your feeling, 'I am of no value', is wrong. Absolutely wrong. You are deceiving yourself. We all have the power of thought — so what are you lacking? If you have will-power , then you can do anything. It is usually said that you are your own master.

  Dalai Lama

  Inspirational, Self Esteem, Believe In Yourself

  "Path To Tranquility".

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• The longer I live, the more I am certain that the great difference between the great and the insignificant, its energy - invincible determination - a purpose once fixed, and then death or victory.

  Sir Fowell Buxton, 1st Baronet

  Determination, Commitment, Differences

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• Black! Black! Black! I am proud of being a Negro. Nor have I ever tried to beg tolerance from anyone. Superiority is not proved by color, but by the brain, by education, by willpower, by moral courage.

  Jose Celso Barbosa

  Education, Color, Justice

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• When a person trains once, nothing happens. When a person forces himself to do a thing a hundred or a thousand times, then he certainly has developed in more ways than physical. Is it raining? That doesn't matter. Am I tired? That doesn't matter either. Then willpower will be no problem.

  Emil Zatopek

  Determination, Rain, Tired

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• Vision creates faith and faith creates willpower. With faith there is no anxiety and no doubt - just absolute confidence in yourself.

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Bodybuilding, Bad Ass, Anxiety

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• He has not learned the first lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear.

  John Dryden

  Fear, Life Lesson, Learning

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• Self-respect is the fruit of discipline; the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself.

  Abraham Joshua Heschel

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Abraham Joshua Heschel (1955). “Insecurity of Freedom”, p.44, Macmillan

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• She chews her lip, staring into my eyes. "Okay... Why did you kiss me in Austin?" I laugh softly and she frowns. "Sorry. That one's too easy." My gaze flicks to her mouth and back. "I'd wanted to kiss you ever since Quinton suggested playing spin the bottle, and by that night in your room, I'd run out of willpower to fight it.

  Tammara Webber

  Running, Sorry, Eye

  Tammara Webber (2014). “Between the Lines: The Complete Series”, p.328, Tammara Webber

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• It's amazing how willpower can build walls.

  Yann Martel

  Wall

  Yann Martel (2009). “Life of Pi”, p.342, Vintage Canada

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• ... self-control is not control by oneself through one's own willpower but rather control of oneself through the power of the Holy Spirit.

  Jerry Bridges

  Self, Spirit, Holy

  Jerry Bridges (2014). “Respectable Sins: Confronting the Sins We Tolerate”, p.57, Tyndale House

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• Will localizes us, thought universalizes us.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  "The Private Journal of Henri Frédéric Amiel". Book by Henri Frédéric Amiel, 1935.

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• The biggest enemies of willpower: temptation, self-criticism, and stress. (...) these three skills —self-awareness, self-care, and remembering what matter most— are the foundation for self-control.

  Kelly McGonigal

  Stress, Skills, What Matters

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• Most of life's actions are within our reach, but decisions take willpower.

  Robert McKee

  Decision, Action

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• You will never have a greater or lesser dominion than that over yourself...the height of a man's success is gauged by his self-mastery; the depth of his failure by his self-abandonment. ...And this law is the expression of eternal justice. He who cannot establish dominion over himself will have no dominion over others.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Men, Self, Expression

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• That is what marks out the warrior: the knowledge that willpower and courage are not the same thing. Courage can attract fear and adulation, but willpower requires patience and commitment. Men and women with immense willpower are generally solitary types and give off a kind of coolness. Many people mistakenly think that (they) are cold (people) when nothing could be further from the truth.

  Paulo Coelho

  Commitment, Warrior, Thinking

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• Every one of our sinful actions has a suicidal power on the faculties that put that action forth. When you sin with the mind, that sin shrivels the rationality. When you sin with the heart or the emotions, that sin shrivels the emotions. When you sin with the will, that sin destroys and dissolves your willpower and your self-control. Sin is the suicidal action of the self against itself. Sin destroys freedom because sin is an enslaving power.

  Timothy Keller

  Heart, Suicidal, Self

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