Action Quote by Joseph Pilates

When all your muscles are properly developed, you will, as a matter of course, perform your work with minimum effort and maximum pleasure.

— Joseph Pilates

Willpower is a muscle that can be strengthened.

— Roy Baumeister

Action seems to follow feeling, but really action and feeling go together; and by regulating the action, which is under the more direct control…

— William James

Action seems to follow feeling, but really action and feeling go together; and by regulating the action, which is under the more direct control…

— Anonymous

Mental will is a muscle that needs exercise, just like the muscles of the body.

— Lynn Jennings

Desire and force between them are responsible for all our actions; desire causes our voluntary acts, force our involuntary.

— Blaise Pascal

When you have control of muscles through balance, exercises not only streamline your figure, but you acquire a command and grace which contributes to…

— Cyd Charisse

“Willpower isn’t just a skill. It’s a muscle, like the muscles in your arms or legs, and it gets tired as it works harder,”

— Charles Duhigg

The mind, like any muscle, must be exercised.

— Marshall Sylver

Muscle has memory: the body knows things the mind will not admit.

— Louise Doughty

Indeed, the best way to think of willpower is not as some shapeless behavioral trait but as a sort of psychic muscle, one that…

— Jeffrey Kluger

If we develop the force of will, we shall find that we do not need the force of arms.

— Mahatma Gandhi