“ The human will, that force unseen,The offspring of a deathless soul,Can hew the way to any goal,Though walls of granite intervene. ”
- James Allen- Copy
“ Self-will seems to be the only virtue that takes no account of man-made laws. ”
- Bruce Lee- Copy
“ Tis in ourselves that we are thus or thus. Our bodies are our gardens to the which our wills are gardeners. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
“ To the healthy man, difficulties should act as a tonic. They should open us to greater exertion. They should strengthen our willpower. ”
- B. C. Forbes- Copy
“ He who wills believes with a fair amount of certainty that will and action are somehow one; he ascribes the success, the carrying out of the willing, to the will itself, and thereby enjoys an increase of the sensation of power which accompanies all success. ”
- Friedrich Nietzsche- Copy
“ Your brain doesn't have a special structure that contains so-called willpower. It's not something that you have a set quantity of and that you can't do anything about. The reason why people believe that they don't have willpower is that they merely don't do what they think they should… ”
- Unknown- Copy
“ A strong will deals with the hard facts of life as a sculptor with his marbles, making them facile and yielding to his purposes, and conquering their stubbornness by a greater stubbornness in himself. ”
- Christian Nestell Bovee- Copy
“ From cradle to grave this problem of running order through chaos, direction through space, discipline through freedom, unity through multiplicity, has always been, and must always be, the task of education, as it is the moral of religion, philosophy, science, art, politics, and economy; but a boy's will is his life, and he dies when it is broken, as the colt dies in harness, taking a new nature in becoming tame. ”
- Henry Adams- Copy
“ For most of us, the seductive and unstated part of "if I had enough time" is the unstated sentence "to hear myself think." In other words, we imagine that if we had time we would quiet our more shallow selves and listen to a deeper flow of inspiration… ”
- Julia Cameron- Copy
“ The first step toward building willpower is to celebrate the fact that you've got it. You've got willpower, just like that muscle in your arm. It might not be a very strong muscle, but you do have that muscle. ”
- Steve Chandler- Copy
“ We tend to think of our selves as the only wholly unique creations in nature, but it is not so. Uniqueness is so commonplace it property of living things that there is really nothing at all unique about it. ”
- Lewis Thomas- Copy
“ You may fetter my leg, but my will not even Zeus himself can overpower. ”
- Epictetus- Copy
“ Gifts count for nothing; will alone is great;All things give way before it, soon or late. ”
- Ella Wheeler Wilcox- Copy
“ Willpower can produce short-term change, but it creates constant internal stress because you haven't dealt with the root cause. ”
- Rick Warren- Copy
“ Will without power is like children playing at soldiers. - quoted by Thomas Babington Macaulay, The Rovers (act IV). ”
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow- Copy
“ There's no doubt that Mexican men and women full of dignity, willpower and a capacity for work are doing the work that not even blacks want to do in the United States. ”
- Vicente Fox- Copy
“ I have discovered in life that there are ways of getting almost anywhere you want to go, if you really want to go. ”
- Langston Hughes- Copy
“ Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will. ”
- Mahatma Gandhi- Copy
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