Quotes about Willpower

Life's battles don't always go to the stronger or faster man. But sooner or later the man who wins, is the man who thinks he can.

They can conquer who believe they can. He has not learned the first lesson in life who does not every day surmount a fear.

Life only demands from you the strength that you possess. Only one feat is possible; not to run away.

When the stomach is full, it is easy to talk of fasting.

Love is a choice. Total forgiveness is a choice. It is not a feeling-at least at first-but is rather an act of the will. It is the choice to tear up the record of wrongs we have been keeping.

Forgiveness is not an emotion; it is an act of the will.

Between stimulus and response is the freedom to choose.

Behind real freedom, there lies discipline.

No man is such a conqueror as the man who has defeated himself.

A disciplined person not only knows how to say 'no' to themselves but 'no' to other people when they need to.

A man has to learn that he cannot command things, but that he can command himself; that he cannot coerce the wills of others, but that he can mold and master his own will: and things serve him who serves Truth; people seek guidance of him who is master of himself.

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.