Vision creates faith and faith creates willpower.
Willpower is that thing CEOs and professional athletes tell us they used to make it to the top.
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.
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.
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.
Happiness is secured through virtue; it is a good attained by man's own will.
The biggest enemies of willpower: temptation, self-criticism, and stress. (. . . ) these three skills —self-awareness, self-care, and remembering what matter most— are the foundation for self-control.
Every one of our sinful actions has a suicidal power on the faculties that put that action forth. When you sin with the mind, that sin shrivels the rationality. When you sin with the heart or the emotions, that sin shrivels the emotions. When you sin with the will, that sin destroys and dissolves your willpower and your self-control. Sin is the suicidal action of the self against itself. Sin destroys freedom because sin is an enslaving power.
You need a good support system when you're trying to make positive lifestyle changes. If everyone is eating burgers and fries while you're having fish and salad, it's easy to lose your willpower.
The start of the day is often the best time to get things done. This is somewhat related to willpower.
Sugar and caffeine. My willpower crumbled.
Things have to be made to happen in a way you want them to happen. Without management, without the intervention of organized willpower the desired result simply cannot be obtained.
Willpower is the shortest shortcut to success.
It's just a matter of willpower. The day you decide it's over, it's over. You never get over it.
In writing, habit seems to be a much stronger force than either willpower or inspiration.
My heart's been torn wide open, just like I feared it would be, and I have no willpower to close it back up.
The higher life begins for us. . . when we renounce our own will to bow before a Divine law.
He who wills believes with a fair amount of certainty that will and action are somehow one; he ascribes the success, the carrying out of the willing, to the will itself, and thereby enjoys an increase of the sensation of power which accompanies all success.
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.
. . . self-control is not control by oneself through one's own willpower but rather control of oneself through the power of the Holy Spirit.
