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Quotes about Willpower

Discipline is choosing between what you want now, and what you want most.
— Abraham Lincoln
Self-discipline is the ability to make yourself do something you don't necessarily want to do, to get a result you would really like to have.
— Andy Andrews
Most of us know perfectly well what we ought to do; our trouble is that we do not want to do it.
— Peter Marshall
God sent me on earth. He send me to do something, and nobody can stop me. If God want to stop me, then I stop. Man never can.
— Bob Marley
I will take what is mine and keep it for as long as i want
— Jeff Hardy
A man is the origin of his action.
— Aristotle
When the will loves anything that is below it in dignity, it degrades itself.
— Bishop Fulton J. Sheen
The very freedom which the sinner supposedly exercises in his self-indulgence is only another proof that he is ruled by the tyrant.
— Bishop Fulton J. Sheen
Peace belongs only to those who will to have it.
— Bishop Fulton J. Sheen
Because your own strength is unequal to the task, do not assume that it is beyond the powers of man; but if anything is within the powers and province of man, believe that it is within your own compass also.
— Marcus Aurelius
Many men and women in the world demonstrate great willpower and self-discipline in overcoming bad habits and the weaknesses of the flesh.
— Ezra Taft Benson
I have frequently noticed how circumstances conspire to help a man, or a boy, when he has thoroughly resolved on doing a thing.
— Thomas Bailey Aldrich