WILLPOWER QUOTES

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Willpower quote

Willpower is a myth. The problem with trying to use willpower to achieve and sustain a behavioral change is that it is fueled by emotion. And as we all know, our emotions are, at best, fickle. They come and go. When your emotions start running down -- and they will -- even your best-laid plans will fall flat.

PHILLIP C. MCGRAW

Relationship Rescue

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Great heart will not be denied.

J. R. R. TOLKIEN

The Return of the King

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Willpower is useful at times. I use willpower to get the garbage out on Friday mornings. But there's a price to pay for relying on willpower. Using willpower is the opposite of using your imagination and of losing yourself in an activity. Willpower reduces any activity to the very low status of "chore."

LESLIE GODWIN

From Burned Out to Fired Up

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Will, without reason, is a blind man's motion; will, against reason, is a madman's motion.

BENJAMIN WHICHCOTE

Moral and Religious Aphorisms

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Willpower does not mean that one is so strong that they can will something into existence. It means that one has the wisdom, discipline and strength to align oneself with the Universal Will to bring a particular thing or matter into manifestation.

DOUGLAS DAVIS

"Willpower", beliefnet, March 17, 2017


To have willpower in life is important because life can be difficult.

ANONYMOUS

"Will: Do You Have It?", VOA News, February 6, 2016


The most important thing in life is to stop saying 'I wish' and start saying 'I will.'

CHARLES DICKENS

David Copperfield

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Willpower is the driving force in hopeful thinking.

C. R. SNYDER

Psychology of Hope


Willpower is so common among highly successful people that many see its characteristics as synonymous with success.

PETER M. SENGE

The Fifth Discipline


Willpower is nothing but willingness to do.

B. K. S. IYENGAR

Light on Life


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

JOHN ORTBERG

The Life You've Always Wanted

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Where there's a will, there's a way.

ENGLISH PROVERB


You are only as lazy or lacking in willpower as you think you are.

KEN CHRISTIAN

Your Own Worst Enemy

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There are three kinds of people in the world--the will's, the won'ts and the can'ts. The first accomplish everything; the second oppose everything; the third fail in everything.

ANONYMOUS

Traits of Character Illustrated in Bible Light


The will is the keystone in the arch of human achievement. It is the culmination of our complex mental faculties. It is the power that rules minds, men and nations.

THOMAS PARKER BOYD

The How and Why of the Emmanuel Movement

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Willpower is essential to the accomplishment of anything worthwhile.

BRIAN TRACY

Getting Rich Your Own Way

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It is our will
That thus enchains us to permitted ill.
We might be otherwise, we might be all
We dream of happy, high, majestical.
Where is the love, beauty and truth we seek,
But in our mind? and if we were not weak,
Should we be less in deed than in desire?

PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY

Julian and Maddalo

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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 lazing around in the clutches of our primal mind.

A. B. CURTISS

Depression Is a Choice

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Most of life's actions are within our reach, but decisions take willpower.

ROBERT MCKEE

Story: Style, Structure, Substance, and the Principles of Screenwriting


Science is showing us that there are neurological (brain) factors that contribute to self-control and willpower, along with learning and upbringing. And when these brain systems are functioning improperly or become damaged, normal levels of self-control and willpower are impossible.

RUSSELL A. BARKLEY

Taking Charge of ADHD

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