Willpower Quotes
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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.
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Willpower and desire, when properly combined, make an irresistible pair.
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Willpower is nothing but willingness to do.
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If freedom is short of weapons, we must compensate with willpower.
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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.
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Getting where you want to be has everything to do with awareness, and nothing to do with willpower.
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Willpower is essential to the accomplishment of anything worthwhile.
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Tis in ourselves that we are thus or thus. Our bodies are our gardens to the which our wills are gardeners.
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Gifts count for nothing; will alone is great; All things give way before it, soon or late.
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The start of the day is often the best time to get things done. This is somewhat related to willpower.
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Determination is all very well if you want to jump off a tower. But will power is not enough when it comes to cooking beef and noodles.
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I was totally gassed. I ran out of gas at the 30-yard line. Only willpower kept me going toward the end zone.
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After 15 years of work I have achieved, as a common German soldier and merely with my fanatical willpower, the unity of the German nation, and have freed it from the death sentence of Versailles.
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I think about willpower almost never. I realize for myself, trying to be more disciplined is pretty nebulous and it's often a slippery target. For me, I've just thought about incentives.
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No action will be considered blameless, unless the will was so, for by the will the act was dictated.
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I only have so much willpower, Helen," he whispered. "And since you apparently sleep in the most ridiculously transparent tank top I've ever seen, I'm going to have to ask you to get under the covers before I do something stupid.
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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.
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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.
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If you don't have the willpower to stop eating carbs, you won't have the willpower to do a dissertation. #truth.
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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.
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Before, I was always trying to make my relationships work by means of willpower and forced affability. This time I didn't have to strive for anything. A quality of ease spread over us.
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I think willpower is very valuable.
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Our # imagination is ten times more potent than our willpower .
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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.
