QUOTES ON WILLPOWER

JOHN ORTBERG, The Life You've Always Wanted

The will is the keystone in the arch of human achievement. It is the culmination of our complex mental faculties. It is the power that rules minds, men and nations.

THOMAS PARKER BOYD, The How and Why of the Emmanuel Movement

Willpower is essential to the accomplishment of anything worthwhile.

BRIAN TRACY, Getting Rich Your Own Way

Science is showing us that there are neurological (brain) factors that contribute to self-control and willpower, along with learning and upbringing. And when these brain systems are functioning improperly or become damaged, normal levels of self-control and willpower are impossible.

RUSSELL A. BARKLEY, Taking Charge of ADHD

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.

PHILLIP C. MCGRAW, Relationship Rescue

Willpower is not some mythical force that we either have or don't have. Willpower is our decision to use higher-mind thinking instead of lazing around in the clutches of our primal mind.

A.B. CURTISS, Depression Is a Choice

Willpower is useful at times. I use willpower to get the garbage out on Friday mornings. But there's a price to pay for relying on willpower. Using willpower is the opposite of using your imagination and of losing yourself in an activity. Willpower reduces any activity to the very low status of "chore."

LESLIE GODWIN, From Burned Out to Fired Up

Willpower can produce short-term change, but it creates constant internal stress because you haven't dealth with the root cause.

RICK WARREN, The Purpose-Driven Life

You are only as lazy or lacking in willpower as you think you are.

KEN CHRISTIAN, Your Own Worst Enemy

To assert your willpower is simply to make up your mind that you want something, and then refuse to be put off. In short, think about what you want and hold to that thought. Believe in it as a reality, regardless of what may appear to be true. This is willpower in action, and anyone can do it.

PHILLIP COOPER, Secrets of Creative Visualization

Man liveth from hour to hour, and knoweth not what may happen;

Influences circle him on all sides, and yet must he answer for his actions:

For the being that is master of himself, bendeth events to his will,

But a slave to selfish passions is the wavering creature of circumstance.