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  • You will never have a greater or lesser dominion than that over yourself.

  • Tis in ourselves that we are thus or thus. Our bodies are our gardens to the which our wills are gardeners.

    'Othello' (1602-4) act 1, sc. 3, l. [323]
  • Where there is a will there is a lawsuit.

    Evanell K. Powell Brant, Addison Mizner, Wilson Mizner (1979*). “Debauched Proverbs and Other Miznerisms of Addison Mizner and Wilson Mizner”
  • Business is always a struggle. There are always obstacles and competitors. There is never an open road, except the wide road that leads to failure. Every great success has always been achieved by fight. Every winner has scars.The men who succeed are the efficient few. They are the few who have the ambition and will-power to develop themselves. So choose to be among the few today.

  • We have the pleasures suitable to our lot; let us not usurp those of greatness. Ours are more natural and all the more solid and sure for being humbler. Since we will not do so out of conscience, at least out of ambition let us reject ambition.

    Michel de Montaigne (1976). “The Complete Essays of Montaigne”
  • Every one of our sinful actions has a suicidal power on the faculties that put that action forth. When you sin with the mind, that sin shrivels the rationality. When you sin with the heart or the emotions, that sin shrivels the emotions. When you sin with the will, that sin destroys and dissolves your willpower and your self-control. Sin is the suicidal action of the self against itself. Sin destroys freedom because sin is an enslaving power.

    Heart   Suicidal   Self  
  • It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it.

    Speech at Republican National Convention, Chicago, Ill., 7 July 1952
  • The future of Japan's economic growth depends on us having the willpower and the courage to sail without hesitation onto the rough seas of global competition.

    Japan   Sea   Competition  
    "Japan’s New Leader Takes On Old Order to Jolt Economy" by Martin Fackler, www.nytimes.com. March 6, 2013.
  • For most of us, the classic test of willpower is resisting temptation, whether the temptress is a doughnut, a cigarette, a clearance sale, or a one-night stand. When people say, "I have no willpower," what they usually mean is, "I have trouble saying no when my mouth, stomach, heart, or (fill in your anatomical part) wants to say yes.

    Heart   Mean   Night  
    Kelly McGonigal (2011). “The Willpower Instinct: How Self-Control Works, Why It Matters, and What You Can Do to Get More of It”, p.14, Penguin
  • Proper visualization by the exercise of concentration and willpower enables us to materialize thoughts, not only as dreams or visions in the mental realm, but also as experiences in the material realm.

    Dream   Exercise   Vision  
  • Vision creates faith and faith creates willpower.

    Arnold Schwarzenegger (2012). “The New Encyclopedia of Modern Bodybuilding: The Bible of Bodybuilding, Fully Updated and Revis”, p.413, Simon and Schuster
  • You have a very powerful mind that can make anything happen as long as you keep yourself centered.

    Wayne W. Dyer (2009). “Staying on the Path: Easyread Super Large 18pt Edition”, p.10, ReadHowYouWant.com
  • If you feel stronger and good when the weather is sunny and weaker and bad when the weather is cloudy, then it means your willpower is not powerful yet!

    Powerful   Mean   Weather  
  • Willpower is the shortest shortcut to success.

  • Willpower is concrete, not ethereal. When you do something, you demonstrate your willpower, and it becomes all the easier to have the same power of will the next time.

    Next   Willpower   Easier  
    B.K.S. Iyengar (2006). “Light on Life: The Yoga Journey to Wholeness, Inner Peace, and Ultimate Freedom”, p.56, Rodale
  • 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.

    Strong   Purpose   Facts  
  • Like so many other recovered alcoholics, I am to this day bewildered that it took so long for me to understand that there was no such animal as 'social drinking' for me; that it had nothing to do with my willpower or self-respect or moral fiber, that it was a simple biochemical intolerance to a drug.

    Mercedes McCambridge (1982). “The Quality of Mercy”, Berkley Publishing Group
  • Getting where you want to be has everything to do with awareness, and nothing to do with willpower.

  • The essence of Ananda is both personal and sociological. Personally for people who seek truth or identities of God, it helps to be with other people who share those ideals. Environment is stronger than willpower, and when you are with people who have high ideals, it helps you to grow in your ideals.

    Source: www.lotusguide.com
  • Willpower is breath and heartbeat of life; Life blooms in the girdle of taut willpower.

    Praveen Kumar “Celestial Glow”, AUTHOR
  • You surrender to love; you do not accomplish love by willpower.

  • Leaders aren't born they are made.

  • Run when you can, walk if you have to, crawl if you must; just never give up.

    Dean Karnazes (2006). “Ultramarathon Man: Confessions of an All-Night Runner”, p.197, Penguin
  • Willpower is nothing but willingness to do.

    B.K.S. Iyengar (2006). “Light on Life: The Yoga Journey to Wholeness, Inner Peace, and Ultimate Freedom”, p.56, Rodale
  • With but few exceptions, it is always the underdog who wins through sheer willpower.

  • People do not lack strength; they lack will.

  • Self-respect is the root of discipline

    Self   Roots   Discipline  
  • Man has will, but woman has her way.

    Funny   Women   Humorous  
  • The first two months were painful and they really tested my manhood because there were times I didn’t want to get up because I was in pain. That willpower has to kick in.

    Pain   Two   Want  
  • I think the whole point about self-control, the whole point about willpower, is to help people understand that there are endless self-nudge techniques that can be enormously helpful and are very simple.

    Simple   Thinking   Self  
    Source: www.pbs.org
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