Willpower Quotes - Page 8

• Before, I was always trying to make my relationships work by means of willpower and forced affability. This time I didn't have to strive for anything. A quality of ease spread over us.

  Charles Baxter

  Mean, Always Trying, Quality

  "The Feast of Love: A Novel". Book by Charles Baxter, May 1, 2001.

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• Sugar and caffeine. My willpower crumbled.

  Rick Riordan

  Sugar, Caffeine

  Rick Riordan (2013). “Percy Jackson: The Complete Series”, p.257, Penguin UK

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• You can keep your willpower, Frog. I am going home to bake a cake.

  Arnold Lobel

  Home, Cake, Frogs

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• We touched base at several strategic locations down our bodies, and it took all my willpower to break away.

  Becca Fitzpatrick

  Body, Location, Break

  Becca Fitzpatrick (2013). “The Complete Hush, Hush Saga: includes Hush, Hush; Crescendo; Silence and Finale”, p.242, Simon and Schuster

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• You’re crowding me. I need— room.”... What I needed were boundaries. I needed willpower. I needed to be caged up, since yet again I was proving I couldn’t be trusted in Patch’s presence. I should have been bolting for the door, and yet … I wasn’t.

  Becca Fitzpatrick

  Doors, Should Have, Needs

  Becca Fitzpatrick (2009). “Hush, Hush”, p.339, Simon and Schuster

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• She had not wanted him to but had let him have his way because ever since she was a child she had generally yielded before anyone with strong willpower, especially if it was a man, not because she was naturally submissive, but because strong male willpower gave her a feeling of safety and trust, together with acceptance and a desire to give in.

  Amos Oz

  Strong, Children, Acceptance

  Amos Oz, Nicholas Robert Michael De Lange (2011). “Scenes from Village Life”, p.146, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• For most of us, the classic test of willpower is resisting temptation, whether the temptress is a doughnut, a cigarette, a clearance sale, or a one-night stand. When people say, "I have no willpower," what they usually mean is, "I have trouble saying no when my mouth, stomach, heart, or (fill in your anatomical part) wants to say yes.

  Kelly McGonigal

  Heart, Mean, Night

  Kelly McGonigal (2011). “The Willpower Instinct: How Self-Control Works, Why It Matters, and What You Can Do to Get More of It”, p.14, Penguin

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• Will it, and set to work briskly.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Work, Literature

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• To deny the freedom of the will is to make morality impossible.

  James Anthony Froude

  Freedom, Ethos, Morality

  James Anthony Froude (1872). “Short Studies on Great Subjects”, p.10

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• A person who is wise does nothing against their will, nothing with sighing or under coercion.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Wise, Doe, Coercion

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• Grace, not willpower, is what ultimately empowers us to live loving lives. Creativity, both in what spawns within the artist and the artifact, can be a vital source of that grace.

  Ronald Rolheiser

  Creativity, Artist, Journey

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• Not only during the ascent, but also during the descent my willpower is dulled. The longer I climb the less important the goal
  seems to me, the more indifferent I become to myself. My attention
  has diminished, my memory is weakened. My mental fatigue is now
  greater than the bodily. It is so pleasant to sit doing nothing - and therefore so dangerous. Death through exhaustion is like death
  through freezing - a pleasant one.

  Reinhold Messner

  Memories, Goal, Important

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• Willpower should be understood to be the strength of the mind, which makes it capable of meeting success or failure with equanimity.  It is not synonymous with certain success.  Why should one's attempts always be attended by success?  Success breeds arrogance and man's spiritual progress is thus arrested.  Failure, on the other hand, is beneficial, inasmuch as it opens his eyes to his limitations and prepares him to surrender himself.  Self surrender is synonymous with eternal happiness.

  Ramana Maharshi

  Spiritual, Eye, Men

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• Willpower isn’t just a skill. It’s a muscle, like the muscles in your arms or legs, and it gets tired as it works harder, so there’s less power left over for other things.

  Charles Duhigg

  Hard Work, Tired, Skills

  Charles Duhigg (2012). “The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do, and How to Change”, p.137, Random House

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• As people strengthened their willpower muscles in one part of their lives—in the gym, or a money management program—that strength spilled over into what they ate or how hard they worked. Once willpower became stronger, it touched everything.

  Charles Duhigg

  People, Stronger, Management

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• If you want to do something that requires willpower - like going for a run after work - you have to conserve your willpower muscle during the day.

  Charles Duhigg

  Running, Want, Muscles

  Charles Duhigg (2012). “The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do, and How to Change”, p.137, Random House

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• The brother of my grandfather was the patriarch of the Orthodox Church and revered as a saint. So everything in my childhood is about total sacrifice, whether to religion or to communism. This is what is engraved on me. This is why I have this insane willpower. My body is now beginning to be falling apart, but I will do it to the end. I don't care. With me it is about whatever it takes.

  Marina Abramovic

  Brother, Fall, Sacrifice

  "Interview: Marina Abramović" by Sean O'Hagan, www.theguardian.com. October 2, 2010.

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• We know what willpower is, but by some misguided conception, many of us believe we have to be a certain type of person, strong, determined, extroverted, to be able to be willful, to exercise willpower. Not so. We all have it and just don't know how to use it.

  Rosemary Altea

  Strong, Believe, Exercise

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• Willpower is concrete, not ethereal. When you do something, you demonstrate your willpower, and it becomes all the easier to have the same power of will the next time.

  B.K.S. Iyengar

  Next, Easier, Will Power

  B.K.S. Iyengar (2006). “Light on Life: The Yoga Journey to Wholeness, Inner Peace, and Ultimate Freedom”, p.56, Rodale

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• Willpower is the fuel that runs human life; Like a driver in a computer application, Or Operating System in cyber programme, Willpower works life to performances; Life is deadwood; life, robust carrion, Without willpower in bright flame within.

  Praveen Kumar

  Running, Flames, Fuel

  Praveen Kumar “Celestial Glow”, AUTHOR

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• Imagine if your success in life is determined only by your guts, your hard work, and your willpower, and not by the wealth of your parents. I think it'll be a much more interesting world. I think this could change the way the planet is run.

  Andrew Ng

  Running, Hard Work, Thinking

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• The life of the professional writer - like that of any freelance, whether she be a plumber or a podiatrist - is predicated on willpower. Without it there simply wouldn't be any remuneration, period.

  Will Self

  Remuneration, Periods, Plumber

  "Willpower by Roy F Baumeister and John Tierney - review" by Will Self, www.theguardian.com. January 18, 2012.

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• All athletic accomplishments begin with volition; that is, the desire and willpower necessary to succeed. Volition affects more than thoughts and feelings - it affects physical performance.

  Charles Garfield

  Basketball, Accomplishment, Athletic

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• It is good to preserve the name, wealth, and honors you inherit, but it is better in every way if you yourself create a position and a name. The first requires good sense, but the second demands willpower and great virtue.

  Roman Baldorioty de Castro

  Names, Honor, Way

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• What I know is that if you're going to play half-court, you'd better have the greatest executioners of half-court basketball. If you run, you test the stamina and willpower of the other team. That's what I learned as a player.

  Tom Heinsohn

  Basketball, Running, Team

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