Willpower Quotes - Page 4

• If passion drives you, let reason hold the reins.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Love, Inspirational, Positive

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• There is no such thing as a great talent without great will power.

  Honore de Balzac

  Inspirational, Talent, Will Power

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• He who is firm in will molds the world to himself.

  Johann Gottlieb Fichte

  Mold, World, Firm

  "Hermann und Dorothea". Book by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, October 1797.

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• Leaders aren't born they are made. And they are made just like anything else, through hard work. And that's the price we'll have to pay to achieve that goal, or any goal.

  Vince Lombardi

  Motivational, Leadership, Graduation

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• Your imagination is ten times more potent than your willpower. Unleashed, it provides a sense of certainty and tenacious vision that goes far beyond any limitation of the past.

  Tony Robbins

  Past, Imagination, Vision

  FaceBook post by Tony Robbins from Oct 13, 2014

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• 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.

  Junko Tabei

  Motivational, Perseverance, Nature

  "Protecting the Places We Climb" by Phil Powers, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 22, 2013.

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• When willpower is not guided, it's terrible. Hitler had a lot of will. But he used it for destructive purposes because he lacked wisdom.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Purpose, Used

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• 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.

  Walter Mischel

  Simple, Thinking, Self

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Willpower is a concentration of force. You gather up all your energy and make a massive thrust forward.

  Steve Pavlina

  Energy, Force, Concentration

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• Sit in front of an object of concentration with the eyes open. Focus on a candle flame, or a yantra, a little dot, something small. Just look at it. Focus on it until there is nothing else in your mind. This develops willpower.

  Frederick Lenz

  Eye, Flames, Focus

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• Our future and our fate lie in our wills more than in our hands, for our hands are but the instruments of our wills.

  B. C. Forbes

  Determination, Lying, Fate

  B. C. Forbes (2005). “Keys to Success”, p.88, Lulu.com

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• When you find yourself dwelling on something negative, consciously use your willpower to remove your mind from that which is negative. Move your mind into the flow of something positive.

  Frederick Lenz

  Moving, Buddhism, Dwelling

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• Willpower determines success in business, interpersonal relationships, health, whatever it is. All the activities in your life, success and failure in them, are dependent upon your ability to manifest will.

  Frederick Lenz

  Success, Buddhism, Careers

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• Feel that the energy of your willpower can easily deflect tension-causing feelings and frustrations that are directed towards you from the outside world.

  Frederick Lenz

  Frustration, Feelings, Energy

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• The key to willpower is "want-power". If U want something strongly enough, U will find the discipline necessary to do it.

  Douglas Merrill

  Keys, Want Something, Discipline

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• If I want to be great, I have to win the victory over myself...self-d iscipline.

  Harry S. Truman

  Winning, Self, Victory

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• Talent is the discipline, commitment, and willpower to practice/train/study often, long, and hard. Discover your passion and pay the price.

  Bradford Winters

  Leadership, Passion, Commitment

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• When you're out of will power you call on stubbornness, that's the trick.

  Henri Matisse

  Inspirational, Funny, Tenacity

  "Matisse on art".

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• Willpower is the shortest shortcut to success.

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Success, Shortcuts

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• Is it raining? That doesn't matter. Am I tired? That doesn't matter, either. Then willpower will be no problem.

  Emil Zatopek

  Rain, Tired, Matter

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• So let me put it thus: Hold on to your principles of morality and ethics, use your willpower to the limit, pay great heed to every noble, uplifting desire that is in you; but realize that these things alone are not enough, that they will never bring you to the desired place. We have to realize that all our best is totally inadequate, that a spiritual battle must be fought in a spiritual manner.

  Martyn Lloyd-Jones

  Uplifting, Spiritual, Desire

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• A determined soul will do more with a rusty monkey wrench than a loafer will accomplish with all the tools in a machine shop.

  Robert Hughes

  Motivational, Perseverance, Determination

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• The poet Muriel Rukeyser said the universe is composed of stories, not of atoms. The physicist Werner Heisenberg declared that the universe is made of music, not of matter. And we believe that if you habitually expose yourself to toxic stories and music, you could wind up living in the wrong universe, where it's impossible to become the gorgeous genius you were born to be. That's why we implore you to nourish yourself with delicious, nutritious tales and tunes that inspire you to exercise your willpower for your highest good.

  Rob Brezsny

  Music, Believe, Exercise

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• You wrote this right?” he said. “It tells how to defeat Set.” Thoth unfolded the papyrus pages. “Oh, dear. I hate reading my old work. Look at this sentence. I’d never write it that way now.” He patted his lab coat pockets. “Red pen—does anyone have one?” Isis chafed against my willpower, insisting that we blast some sense into Thoth. One fireball, she pleaded. Just one enormous magical fireball? I couldn’t say I was tempted, but I kept her under control. “Since when does drool make you powerful?

  Rick Riordan

  Powerful, Hate, Reading

  Rick Riordan (2010). “The Kane Chronicles, The, Book One: Red Pyramid”, Hyperion

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• Lately I was near the beehives and some of the bees flew onto my face. I wanted to raise my hand, and brush them off. 'No,' said a peasant to me, 'do not be afraid, and do not touch them. They will not sting you at all, if you touch them they will bite you.' I trusted him; not one bit me. Trust me; do not fear these temptations. Do not touch them; they will not hurt you.

  Saint Francis de Sales

  Hurt, Hands, Temptation

  Saint Francis (de Sales) (1995). “Thy Will be Done: Letters to Persons in the World”, p.216, Sophia Institute Press

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