Top 212 Willpower Quotes & Sayings

It's amazing how willpower can build walls.

She had not wanted him to but had let him have his way because ever since she was a child she had generally yielded before anyone with strong willpower, especially if it was a man, not because she was naturally submissive, but because strong male willpower gave her a feeling of safety and trust, together with acceptance and a desire to give in.

Willpower is breath and heartbeat of life; Life blooms in the girdle of taut willpower.

For a great willpower, no road has length!

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.

We, performers, work on willpower. This willpower works in a short term, not durational.

Willpower is the shortest shortcut to success.

As people strengthened their willpower muscles in one part of their lives—in the gym, or a money management program—that strength spilled over into what they ate or how hard they worked. Once willpower became stronger, it touched everything.

The development of willpower -I will, I won't and I want- may define what it means to be human.

I learned that I had the willpower and ability to reshape my body and my lifestyle.

Design your life to minimize reliance on willpower.

If they offer giving you a willpower or a thousand ways, choose the willpower, because with it, you can create a million ways!

Successful weight loss takes programming, not willpower.

You must have the willpower to avoid what is bad. It's simple: If you indulge, you will develop a bulge.

With but few exceptions, it is always the underdog who wins through sheer willpower.

We can use decision-making to choose the habits we want to form, use willpower to get the habit started, then - and this is the best part - we can allow the extraordinary power of habit to take over. At that point, we're free from the need to decide and the need to use willpower.

I have willpower and determination. I am very resilient, like rock.

Willpower and desire, when properly combined, make an irresistible pair.

In writing, habit seems to be a much stronger force than either willpower or inspiration.

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 fabulous pair of shoes? I have to have willpower.

Like my father before me, I'm a very passionate person, with boundless energy and tremedous willpower.

The forthputting of willpower is a means of strengthening willpower. The will becomes strong by exercise. To stick to a thing till you are master is a test of intellectual discipline and power.

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.

Technique and ability alone do not get you to the top; it is the willpower that is the most important. This willpower you cannot buy with money or be given by others... it rises from your heart.

Willpower is the fuel that runs human life; Like a driver in a computer application, Or Operating System in cyber programme, Willpower works life to performances; Life is deadwood; life, robust carrion, Without willpower in bright flame within.

Sugar and caffeine. My willpower crumbled.

Writing a book is like rearing children -- willpower has very little to do with it. If you have a little baby crying in the middle of the night, and if you depend only on willpower to get you out of bed to feed the baby, that baby will starve. You do it out of love.

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.

In the beginning [Hitler] was genial and pleasant. He would have extraordinary willpower and unheard-of influence on people.

We can use decision-making to choose the habits we want to form, use willpower to get the habit started, then - and this is the best part - we can allow the extraordinary power of habit to take over. At that point, were free from the need to decide and the need to use willpower.

The problems with willpower are many, but they may hardly be noticed by the person focused narrowly on success. First, there is little economy of means; in systems thinking terms, we act without leverage. We attain our goals, but the effort is enormous and we may find ourselves exhausted and wondering if it was worth it when we have succeeded. Ironically, people hooked on willpower may actually look for obstacles to overcome, dragons to slay, and enemies to vanquish--to remind themselves and others of their own prowess.

The concept of fate is an open insult against man's willpower!

Willpower is a muscle that can be strengthened.

The surest way to identify those who won't succeed at weight loss is that they tend to say things like "My goal is to lose ten pounds." Weight targets often work in the short run. But if you need willpower to keep the weight off, you're doomed in the long run. The only way to succeed in the long run is by using a system that bypasses your need for willpower.

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

Willpower is essential to the accomplishment of anything worthwhile.

If freedom is short of weapons, we must compensate with willpower.

You can keep your willpower, Frog. I am going home to bake a cake.

If you find you require willpower, you aren't ready to lose weight.

When people have a willpower failure, it's because they haven't anticipated a situation that's going to come along.

Willpower is that thing CEOs and professional athletes tell us they used to make it to the top.

In the absence of willpower the most complete collection of virtues and talents is wholly worthless.

If you don't have the willpower to stop eating carbs, you won't have the willpower to do a dissertation. #truth.

That is what marks out the warrior: the knowledge that willpower and courage are not the same thing. Courage can attract fear and adulation, but willpower requires patience and commitment. Men and women with immense willpower are generally solitary types and give off a kind of coolness. Many people mistakenly think that (they) are cold (people) when nothing could be further from the truth.

If you want to do something that requires willpower - like going for a run after work - you have to conserve your willpower muscle during the day.

Willpower is steam for life's locomotion.

Next to courage, willpower is the most important thing in politics.

I think that what London wants are people with ideas and the willpower to get things through.

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.

We want to design interventions to teach people how to harness their considerable willpower.

Getting where you want to be has everything to do with awareness, and nothing to do with willpower.

I think willpower is very valuable.

Willpower is nothing but willingness to do.

I never had to try as a kid to stay in shape. In a way, there was no willpower involved.

We deify willpower and self-control - and mock its absence. People who achieve through remarkable willpower are 'strong' and 'heroic.' People who need help or structure are 'weak.' This is crazy - because few of us can accurately gauge or predict our willpower.

We know what willpower is, but by some misguided conception, many of us believe we have to be a certain type of person, strong, determined, extroverted, to be able to be willful, to exercise willpower. Not so. We all have it and just don't know how to use it.

The answer to New Orleans's levee woes is painfully obvious: money and willpower.

Hitler had the willpower of a demon and he needed it. If he didn't have such a strong willpower he couldn't have achieved anything. Don't forget, if Hitler had not lost the war, if he did not have to fight against the combination of big powers like England, America, and Russia - each one he could have conquered individually - these defendants and these generals would now be saying, 'Heil Hitler,' and would not be so damn critical.

I start trying to stay unconscious. The problem with this is that no amount of willpower can change the reality.