WILLPOWER QUOTES
quotations about willpower
Willpower is a myth. The problem with trying to use willpower to achieve and sustain a behavioral change is that it is fueled by emotion. And as we all know, our emotions are, at best, fickle. They come and go. When your emotions start running down -- and they will -- even your best-laid plans will fall flat.
PHILLIP C. MCGRAW
Relationship Rescue
Great heart will not be denied.
J. R. R. TOLKIEN
The Return of the King
Willpower is useful at times. I use willpower to get the garbage out on Friday mornings. But there's a price to pay for relying on willpower. Using willpower is the opposite of using your imagination and of losing yourself in an activity. Willpower reduces any activity to the very low status of "chore."
LESLIE GODWIN
From Burned Out to Fired Up
Will, without reason, is a blind man's motion; will, against reason, is a madman's motion.
BENJAMIN WHICHCOTE
Moral and Religious Aphorisms
Willpower does not mean that one is so strong that they can will something into existence. It means that one has the wisdom, discipline and strength to align oneself with the Universal Will to bring a particular thing or matter into manifestation.
DOUGLAS DAVIS
"Willpower", beliefnet, March 17, 2017
To have willpower in life is important because life can be difficult.
ANONYMOUS
"Will: Do You Have It?", VOA News, February 6, 2016
The most important thing in life is to stop saying 'I wish' and start saying 'I will.'
CHARLES DICKENS
David Copperfield
Willpower is the driving force in hopeful thinking.
C. R. SNYDER
Psychology of Hope
Willpower is so common among highly successful people that many see its characteristics as synonymous with success.
PETER M. SENGE
The Fifth Discipline
Willpower is trying very hard not to do something you want to do very much.
JOHN ORTBERG
The Life You've Always Wanted
Willpower is nothing but willingness to do.
B. K. S. IYENGAR
Light on Life
Where there's a will, there's a way.
ENGLISH PROVERB
You are only as lazy or lacking in willpower as you think you are.
KEN CHRISTIAN
Your Own Worst Enemy
There are three kinds of people in the world--the will's, the won'ts and the can'ts. The first accomplish everything; the second oppose everything; the third fail in everything.
ANONYMOUS
Traits of Character Illustrated in Bible Light
The will is the keystone in the arch of human achievement. It is the culmination of our complex mental faculties. It is the power that rules minds, men and nations.
THOMAS PARKER BOYD
The How and Why of the Emmanuel Movement
Willpower is essential to the accomplishment of anything worthwhile.
BRIAN TRACY
Getting Rich Your Own Way
It is our will
That thus enchains us to permitted ill.
We might be otherwise, we might be all
We dream of happy, high, majestical.
Where is the love, beauty and truth we seek,
But in our mind? and if we were not weak,
Should we be less in deed than in desire?
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY
Julian and Maddalo
Willpower is not some mythical force that we either have or don't have. Willpower is our decision to use higher-mind thinking instead of lazing around in the clutches of our primal mind.
A. B. CURTISS
Depression Is a Choice
Most of life's actions are within our reach, but decisions take willpower.
ROBERT MCKEE
Story: Style, Structure, Substance, and the Principles of Screenwriting
Science is showing us that there are neurological (brain) factors that contribute to self-control and willpower, along with learning and upbringing. And when these brain systems are functioning improperly or become damaged, normal levels of self-control and willpower are impossible.
RUSSELL A. BARKLEY
Taking Charge of ADHD