“If you don't create your own rules, they will twist and bend you to fit theirs” — Elena Levon Copy Share Image
Most of life's actions are within our reach, but decisions take willpower. — Robert McKee Copy Share Image
The development of willpower -I will, I won't and I want- may define what it means to be human. — Kelly McGonigal Copy Share Image
You have a very powerful mind that can make anything happen as long as you keep yourself centered. — Wayne Dyer Copy Share Image
A person who is wise does nothing against their will, nothing with sighing or under coercion. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
We all can fly high in our career only if we unshackle our willpower kept as bird in the cage built with… — Anuj Somany Copy Share Image
When you abuse willpower you waste it. There really is not an infinite supply of it at your disposal. There is an… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
When you find yourself dwelling on something negative, consciously use your willpower to remove your mind from that which is negative. Move… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
We may think there is willpower involved, but more likely... change is due to want power. Wanting the new addiction more than… — George A. Sheehan Copy Share Image
What really distinguishes this generation in all countries from earlier generations ... is its determination to act, its joy in action, the… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
Willpower is the key to success. Successful people strive no matter what they feel by applying their will to overcome apathy, doubt… — Dan Millman Copy Share Image
Each and every one of you has the power, the will and the capacity to make a difference in the world in… — Harry Belafonte Copy Share Image
A brilliant idea doesn't guarantee a successful invention. Real magic comes from a brilliant idea combined with willpower, tenacity, and a willingness… — Lori Greiner Copy Share Image
“Its the things in life that we love that keep us going. The willpower to achieve a goal and the hope of… — Emir Talundzic Copy Share Image
I was in uniform for four years, and I know that heroism doesn't occur from taking orders, but rather from people who… — Thor Heyerdahl Copy Share Image
The difference in sex does not hinder the ability of being strong on the levels of thinking, giving, having a strong willpower… — Mohammad Hussein Fadlallah Copy Share Image
We deify willpower and self-control - and mock its absence. People who achieve through remarkable willpower are 'strong' and 'heroic.' People who… — Marshall Goldsmith Copy Share Image
Wouldn’t that be an incredibly stupid thing to do? To say ‘I never want to smoke again’, then spend the rest of… — Allen Carr Copy Share Image
I don't understand the feeling of, the way people speak of writing as though it were, like, some kind of djinn to… — Matt Fraction Copy Share Image
“I don't believe in wishes coming true. But if I do, what would I wish for? Normally I have such willpower. Like… — Gayle Forman Copy Share Image
Human potential is the same for all. Your feeling, 'I am of no value', is wrong. Absolutely wrong. You are deceiving yourself.… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
“Making these choices, as it turned out, wasn’t about willpower. I always admired people who “willed” themselves to do something, because I… — Liz Murray Copy Share Image
Hitler had the willpower of a demon and he needed it. If he didn't have such a strong willpower he couldn't have… — Hermann Goring Copy Share Image
Willpower should be understood to be the strength of the mind, which makes it capable of meeting success or failure with equanimity.… — Ramana Maharshi Copy Share Image
The poet Muriel Rukeyser said the universe is composed of stories, not of atoms. The physicist Werner Heisenberg declared that the universe… — Rob Brezsny Copy Share Image
“I’d been kissed before. Many times. There were awkward and sloppy kisses, those tension-fraught moments of fumbling intensity as a teenager. There… — Jasinda Wilder Copy Share Image
I might have been tempted to hit him square in the jaw had he not taken me by the shoulders and pinned… — Becca Fitzpatrick Copy Share Image
“We know what it is to get out of bed on a freezing morning in a room without a fire, and how… — William James Copy Share Image
“self-control is not genetic or fixed, but rather a skill one can develop and improve with practice.8 Baumeister suggests many strategies for… — Jocelyn K. Glei Copy Share Image
