Willpower Quotes - Page 9

• My fifth mother is Mother Nature - the things I had to learn on my own, the understanding I had to come to and still have to come to as a young woman, as a responsible mother, a responsible granddaughter and child. She teaches me willpower, honesty, and the things we need to heal ourselves from moment to moment.

  Erykah Badu

  Mother, Children, Honesty

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• If ever there's been somebody to hold as an icon of sheer determination and willpower, it's that guy [Stephen Hawking ], let alone any of the things he's done scientifically. I'm sure that's his driving force, but he's a miracle and an aspiration.

  Kate Bush

  Determination, Icons, Miracle

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• Get your friends involved. Let your shopping buddies know that you're on a tight budget, and they can help you out when your willpower starts to weaken at the mall.

  Jean Chatzky

  Shopping, Helping, Malls

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• You must be sure - and I mean absolutely positive - that you have the willpower to pay off those credit cards and not use them again.

  Jean Chatzky

  Mean, Cards, Use

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Fate, Men, Insult

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• Forget about willpower. It's time for why-power. Your choices are only meaningful when you connect them to your desires and dreams. The wisest and most motivating choices are the ones aligned with that which you identify as your purpose, your core self, and your highest values. You've got to want something, and know why you want it, or you'll end up giving up too easily.

  Darren Hardy

  Meaningful, Dream, Giving Up

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• 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.

  Scott Adams

  Running, Loss, Long

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• The brother of my grandfather was the patriarch of the Orthodox Church and revered as a saint. So everything in my childhood is about total sacrifice, whether to religion or to communism. This is what is engraved on me. This is why I have this insane willpower. My body is now beginning to be falling apart, but I will do it to the end. I don't care. With me it is about whatever it takes.

  Marina Abramovic

  Brother, Fall, Sacrifice

  "Interview: Marina Abramović" by Sean O'Hagan, www.theguardian.com. October 2, 2010.

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• 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.

  Amos Oz

  Strong, Children, Acceptance

  Amos Oz, Nicholas Robert Michael De Lange (2011). “Scenes from Village Life”, p.146, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• A person who is wise does nothing against their will, nothing with sighing or under coercion.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Wise, Doe, Coercion

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• To deny the freedom of the will is to make morality impossible.

  James Anthony Froude

  Freedom, Ethos, Morality

  James Anthony Froude (1872). “Short Studies on Great Subjects”, p.10

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• Will it, and set to work briskly.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Work, Literature

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• Imagine if your success in life is determined only by your guts, your hard work, and your willpower, and not by the wealth of your parents. I think it'll be a much more interesting world. I think this could change the way the planet is run.

  Andrew Ng

  Running, Hard Work, Thinking

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• Right discipline consists, not in external compulsion, but in the habits of mind which lead spontaneously to desirable rather than undesirable activities.

  Bertrand Russell

  Discipline, Mind, Habit

  Bertrand Russell (2014). “On Education”, p.26, Routledge

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• All athletic accomplishments begin with volition; that is, the desire and willpower necessary to succeed. Volition affects more than thoughts and feelings - it affects physical performance.

  Charles Garfield

  Basketball, Accomplishment, Athletic

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• The life of the professional writer - like that of any freelance, whether she be a plumber or a podiatrist - is predicated on willpower. Without it there simply wouldn't be any remuneration, period.

  Will Self

  Remuneration, Periods, Plumber

  "Willpower by Roy F Baumeister and John Tierney - review" by Will Self, www.theguardian.com. January 18, 2012.

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• Grace, not willpower, is what ultimately empowers us to live loving lives. Creativity, both in what spawns within the artist and the artifact, can be a vital source of that grace.

  Ronald Rolheiser

  Creativity, Artist, Journey

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• Not only during the ascent, but also during the descent my willpower is dulled. The longer I climb the less important the goal
  seems to me, the more indifferent I become to myself. My attention
  has diminished, my memory is weakened. My mental fatigue is now
  greater than the bodily. It is so pleasant to sit doing nothing - and therefore so dangerous. Death through exhaustion is like death
  through freezing - a pleasant one.

  Reinhold Messner

  Memories, Goal, Important

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• 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.

  Charles Duhigg

  People, Stronger, Management

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• Willpower should be understood to be the strength of the mind, which makes it capable of meeting success or failure with equanimity.  It is not synonymous with certain success.  Why should one's attempts always be attended by success?  Success breeds arrogance and man's spiritual progress is thus arrested.  Failure, on the other hand, is beneficial, inasmuch as it opens his eyes to his limitations and prepares him to surrender himself.  Self surrender is synonymous with eternal happiness.

  Ramana Maharshi

  Spiritual, Eye, Men

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• You’re crowding me. I need— room.”... What I needed were boundaries. I needed willpower. I needed to be caged up, since yet again I was proving I couldn’t be trusted in Patch’s presence. I should have been bolting for the door, and yet … I wasn’t.

  Becca Fitzpatrick

  Doors, Should Have, Needs

  Becca Fitzpatrick (2009). “Hush, Hush”, p.339, Simon and Schuster

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• 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, so there’s less power left over for other things.

  Charles Duhigg

  Hard Work, Tired, Skills

  Charles Duhigg (2012). “The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do, and How to Change”, p.137, Random House

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• Remember that becoming people of integrity and honesty is not simply a matter of more personal determination, more grit, and more willpower; rather, it is accomplished through the enabling power of the Atonement of the Lord Jesus Christ.

  David A. Bednar

  Determination, Jesus, Honesty

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• 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.

  Charles Duhigg

  Running, Want, Muscles

  Charles Duhigg (2012). “The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do, and How to Change”, p.137, Random House

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• Our #‎ imagination is ten times more potent than our #‎ willpower .

  Tony Robbins

  Imagination, Ten

  Tony Robbins (2012). “Awaken The Giant Within”, p.480, Simon and Schuster

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