Quotes about Willpower

I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.

When people think or write about happiness, self-control is rarely stressed. … Yet happiness is impossible without self-control. In fact, everything we want is impossible without self-control. Ask anyone who has achieved what you particularly desire to achieve, and you will find a profoundly self-disciplined individual.

While a pure mind may be a saintly ideal, for the rest of us mortals controlling our behavior is an enormous enough achievement.

Do what you have to do, to do what you want to do!

Before we can conquer the world, we must first conquer the self.

Great minds have purposes; others have wishes. Little minds are subdued by misfortunes; but great minds rise above them.

While we don't always get what we want, we always get what we choose.

President Harry Truman said, "In reading the lives of great men, I found that the first victory they won was over themselves. Self-discipline with all of them came first.

My dad drilled into us kids that if we started something, we would have to finish it. He used to say, "When you made the choice to start, you made the choice to finish. It's not two choices; it's one.

A person without discipline is in a prison without bars.

Forgiveness is an act of the will, and the will can function regardless of the temperature of the heart.

I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self.