Quotes about Willpower

With moderate physical training, you can control anything in your body. You don't have to be an athlete to do it, and this isn't just about people with disabilities - it's about everyone. You just have to have the willpower, the mindset, and the desire to want to better yourself.

It's very difficult to regulate yourself, and if you learn to do that, well, it starts to spill over.

Willpower is trying very hard not to do something you want to do very much.

You have within you all the power you need with which to get whatever you want or need in this world.

And to know how to demand - with all one's might - what one wants

If my words don't flow out of a heart that rests in God's control, sovereignty, then they come out of the heart that seeks control so I can get what I want.

Whatever a man wants badly and persistently enough will determine the man's character.

Do what you want, do what you will, do what you have to, do what you think you cannot.

Most of us don't mind doing what we ought to do when it doesn't interfere with what we want to do, but it takes discipline and maturity to do what we ought to do whether we want to or not.

It's the hardest thing in the world - to do what we want. And it takes the greatest kinds of courage.

To many, total abstinence is easier than perfect moderation.

He is not guilty who is not guilty of his own free will.