I think willpower is very valuable.
Will it, and set to work briskly.
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 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.
When willpower is not guided, it's terrible. Hitler had a lot of will. But he used it for destructive purposes because he lacked wisdom.
We, performers, work on willpower. This willpower works in a short term, not durational.
The higher life begins for us. . . when we renounce our own will to bow before a Divine law.
The first two months were painful and they really tested my manhood because there were times I didn’t want to get up because I was in pain. That willpower has to kick in.
Willpower is nothing but willingness to do.
Next to courage, willpower is the most important thing in politics.
Gifts count for nothing; will alone is great; All things give way before it, soon or late.
The concept of fate is an open insult against man's willpower!
Willpower is a myth. The problem with trying to use willpower to achieve and sustain a behavioral change is that it is fueled by emotion. And as we all know, our emotions are, at best, fickle. They come and go. When your emotions start running down -- and they will -- even your best-laid plans will fall flat.
Sugar and caffeine. My willpower crumbled.
Will, without reason, is a blind man's motion; will, against reason, is a madman's motion.
Getting where you want to be has everything to do with awareness, and nothing to do with willpower.
It is not just a person's physical constitution, their intellegence, their education, or even their social conditioning that enables them to withstand hardship. Much more significant is their inner development. And while some may be able to survive through sheer willpower, the ones who suffer the least are those who have a high degree of patience and courage in the face of adversity.
This quality of self-denial in pursuit of a longer-term goal and, indeed, the willpower to maintain the denial, is excellent training for the boardroom.
Willpower is that thing CEOs and professional athletes tell us they used to make it to the top.
It's easy to just give everything up, but it takes a lot of strength and a lot of willpower to just make yourself stay on it and get up and do something different. And I had to do that.