Quotes about Willpower

Here's one of my favorite statements: We are never going to enjoy stability, we are never going to enjoy spiritual maturity until we learn how to do what's right when it feels wrong, and every time you do what's right by a decision of your will using discipline and self control to go beyond how you feel, the more painful it is in your flesh, the more you're growing spiritually at that particular moment.

Everytime you feed the flesh, you strenghten it. This is good if you are trying to build a good habit, but detrimental if you are trying to stop a bad habit. The way to kill the flesh is to starve it; to stop feeding it.

You can control yourself if you really want to. I'll tell you how I know you can control yourself. If you were in a full fledged emotional temper tantrum in your house and I knocked on your front door..... Come on! Let me tell you what, you would get control of yourself, and it would only take a few seconds.

Don't wait to "feel" like doing a thing to do it. Live by decision, not emotion.

Fear is not God's will for you.

Mary can't control her actions because she doesn't control her thoughts.

Quitting is not an option for the confident woman. She must decide what she wants or needs to do and make up her mind that she will finish her course.

Trust God more than you trust that thought. Don't try to fight those thoughts with your willpower alone—challenge them with God's Word.

Character is doing what you don't want to do, but know you should do. There's plenty of room and company on the broad road, but it's not easy to walk on that narrow path.

Determination keeps us going when the going gets tough.

There is nothing impossible to him who will try. Alexander the Great

What should you do if you know what you should do but you just don't want to do it?