Quotes about Willpower
Nothing can resist a will which will stake even existence upon its fulfillment.
- Benjamin Disraeli
Freedom is not procured by a full enjoyment of what is desired, but by controlling that desire.
- Epictetus
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one thing.
- Abraham Lincoln
The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one often comes from a strong will, and the other from a strong won't.
- Henry Ward Beecher
We gain the strength of the temptation we resist.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
We are exactly where we have chosen to be.
- Vernon Howard
We must cease striving and trust God to provide what He thinks is best and in whatever time He chooses to make it available. But this kind of trusting doesn't come naturally. It's a spiritual crisis of the will in which we must choose to exercise faith.
- Charles Swindoll
You can kill the body but not the spirit.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
We must master our good fortune or it will master us.
- Publilius Syrus
To conquer himself is the greatest victory that man can gain.
- Ignatius of Loyola
No temptation can gravitate to a man unless there is that is his heart which is capable of responding to it.
- James Allen
The greatness of man lies in his decision to be stronger than his condition.
- Albert Camus