340 Quotes About Willpower

The world needs gigantic strong wills in front of which even the mountains will be crumbled.

What I want from you comrade, what the world wants from you, O dearest, are the neurons of steel, within which dwells a mind of the same material of which the thunderbolt is made.

The is a secret for greater self-control, the science points to one thing: the power of paying attention.

We need to feel like the person who wants to do the right thing. Moral licensing turns out to be, at its core, an identity crisis. We only reward ourselves for good behavior if we believe that who we really are is the self that wants to be bad. From this point of view, every act of self-control is a punishment, and only self-indulgence is a reward.

Steps can then be taken to slow down the natural progression before it gets started. It doesn't work to allow all the preliminary intimacies and then hope to stop the progression just short of intercourse. Very few people have the willpower to do that.

The next time the world tells you “Stop”, “Don’t”, or “You can’t do this”, the next time the world beats the living daylight out of you, hit it back with a knock just as strong and say, “No, I want to do this.

You ought to find all your might, to climb a higher height.

Stand firm as surefooted as deer.

Resiliency, like a cartwheel, requires core strength and a disregard for gravity. Only one of which can be willed.