Quotes about Willpower

Most important, he realized that, no matter what happened, he retained the freedom to choose how to respond to his suffering.

sufficient proof that everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms—to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way.

man's inner strength may raise him above his outward fate.

Whoever has a why to live can bear almost any how," as the German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche declared.

everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms—to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way.

Frank! would have argued that we are never left with nothing as long as we retain the freedom to choose how we will respond.

man is ultimately self-determining. Man does not simply exist but always decides what his existence will be, what he will become in the next moment.

proof that everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms—to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way.

inner strength in the camp had first to succeed in showing him some future goal. Nietzsche's words, "He who has a why to live for can bear with almost any how," could be the guiding mott

what I want you to be - I don't mean physically but morally: you are very well physically - is a firm fellow, a fine firm fellow, with a will of your own, with resolution. with determination. with strength of character that is not to be influenced except on good reason by anybody, or by anything. That's what I want you to be. That's what your father, & your mother might both have been

Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you've conquered human natur.

The bird that can sing and won't sing, must be made to sing, they say,' grumbled Tackleton.