Quotes about Willpower
If the will be set on virtue, there will be no practice of wickedness.
- Confucius
I knew that courage came with less struggle for some than for others but I believed that anyone who desired it could have it.
- Cormac McCarthy
While her emotions were very real and they gnawed at her with a raw sincerity, she was listening to something deeper. She was listening to her will, not letting what she felt dictate what she would do. Didn't let it dictate her life.
- Charles Martin
With self-discipline most anything is possible.
- Theodore Roosevelt
Chance does not work. Only choice will work. Your choice!
- Earl Nightingale
It is one thing to mortify curiosity, another to conquer it.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
I can resist anything but temptation
- Oscar Wilde
The intention points the way, and then habituated thought and desire must be redirected to support the intention in the moments of action.
- Dallas Willard
Can anyone now seriously believe that if people are only permitted or enabled to do what they want, they will then be happy or more disposed to do what is right?
- Dallas Willard
In people without rock-solid character, feeling is a deadly enemy of self-control and will always subvert it. The mongoose of a disciplined will under God and good is the only match for the cobra of feeling.
- Dallas Willard
Wrong was easy; gravity helped it. Right is difficult and long. In choosing what is difficult we are free, the mind too making its little flight out from the shadow into the clear in time between work and sleep.
- Wendell Berry
After you have said "thy will be done," what more can be said? And where do you find the strength to pray "thy will be done" after you see what it means?
- Wendell Berry