Quotes about Willpower
He only is fitted to command and control who has succeeded in commanding and controlling himself.
- James Allen
only he whose thoughts are controlled and purified, makes the winds and the storms of the soul obey him.
- James Allen
Nothing happens by itself... it all will come your way, once you understand that you have to make it come your way, by your own exertions.
- Ben Stein
Every man should have the right to choose their destiny.
- Bob Marley
A man without self-restraint is like a barrel without hoops, and tumbles to pieces.
- Henry Ward Beecher
Nothing ever built arose to touch the skies unless some man dreamed that it should, some man believed that it could, and some man willed that it must.
- Charles Kettering
An animal will conquer others. A Spirit-filled man conquers himself - self-discipline , self-control.
- Mark Driscoll
...most men and women will yield to the strong currents sucking them into the seas of ruin. Only the strongest in mind and spirit will swim against that current.
- Ted Dekker
A man is the origin of his action.
- Aristotle
If you set out to seek freedom, then learn above all things to govern your soul and your senses . . . only through discipline may a man learn to be free.
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Man is not fully free unless he is master of himself.
- Epictetus
No man is good for anything who has not some particle of obstinacy to use upon occasion.
- Henry Ward Beecher