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Willpower QUOTES

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* I count him braver who overcomes his desires
than him who conquers his enemies;
for the hardest victory is over self.
-- Aristotle

Discipline is remembering what you want.
--David Campbell

"You are only as lazy or lacking in willpower as you think you are."
-- Ken Christian

"To assert your willpower is simply to make up your mind that you want something, and then refuse to be put off."
-- Phillip Cooper

"In the absence of willpower the most complete collection of virtues and talents is wholly worthless."
-- Aleister Crowley

We gain the strength of the temptation we resist.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

If passion drives you, let reason hold the reins.
-- Benjamin Franklin

"It's not that some people have willpower and some don't.
It's that some people are ready to change and others are not."
-- James Gordon

When I am able to resist the temptation to judge others,
I can see them as teachers of forgiveness in my life,
reminding me that I can only have peace of mind when I forgive rather than judge.
-- Gerald Jampolsky

Do not bite at the bait of pleasure
till you know there is no hook beneath it.
-- Thomas Jefferson

"Willpower is the key to success.
Successful people strive no matter what they feel by applying their will to overcome apathy, doubt or fear."
- - Dan Millman

"Willpower is trying very hard not to do something you want to do very much."
-- John Ortberg

Everyone must choose one of two pains: The pain of discipline or the pain of regret.
-- Jim Rohn

* With self-discipline most anything is possible.
-- Theodore Roosevelt

 

"Will power is to the mind like a strong blind man who carries on his shoulders a lame man who can see."
-- Arthur Schopenhauer

"Willpower is essential to the accomplishment of anything worthwhile."
-- Brian Tracy

Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire
is that which he exercises over himself.
-- Elie Wiesel
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