Cigarette Quote by Kelly McGonigal

Craving for power is not a vice of the body, consequently it knows none of the limitations imposed by a tired or satiated physiology…

— Aldous Huxley

Willpower is nothing but willingness to do.

— B.K.S. Iyengar

“Having ‘no willpower’, actually means you’re connecting and listening to your body when it calls. It means that when your body wants to rebel…

— Melissa Wells

Willpower is a myth. The problem with trying to use willpower to achieve and sustain a behavioral change is that it is fueled by…

— Phil McGraw

“Because self-control requires energy, which means we have less energy available for the next thing we need to do. And that’s why resisting temptation,…

— David Eagleman

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

When you have a limited theory of willpower, you're constantly on alert, constantly monitoring yourself. 'Am I tired? Am I hungry? Do I need…

— Carol S. Dweck

Willpower is not about resisting, forcing, or controlling--it's about choosing.

— Penney Peirce

“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

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…

— A. Curtiss

Willpower is trying very hard not to do something you want to do very much.

— John Ortberg

“Baumeister has repeatedly found that people who exercise their willpower for one thing, say turning down a cookie while hungry, or doing complex math…

— Matt Perryman