Willpower
Willpower is trying very hard not to do something you want to do very much
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.
Willpower is essential to the accomplishment of anything worthwhile.
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.
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.
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.
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."
Willpower can produce short-term change, but it creates constant internal stress because you haven't dealth with the root cause.
You are only as lazy or lacking in willpower as you think you are.
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.
When a man's willing and eager the god's join in.
When one is willing and eager, the Gods join in.
A man can do all things if he but wills them
Will localizes us; thought universalizes us.
Happiness is secured through virtue; it is a good attained by man's own will.
When thou standest still from thinking and willing of self, the eternal hearing, seeing, and speaking will be revealed to thee, and so God heareth and seeth through thee. Thine own hearing, willing, and seeing hindereth thee, that thou dost not see nor hear God.
Those convinced against their will are of the same opinion still.
Self-will so ardent and active that it will break a world to pieces to make a stool to sit on.
A person who is wise does nothing against their will, nothing with sighing or under coercion
Free will and determinism are like a game of cards. The hand that is dealt you is determinism. The way you play your hand is free will
Will cannot be quenched against its will
Nothing can withstand the power of the human will if it is willing to stake its very existence to the extent of its purpose.
What you have to do and the way you have to do it is incredibly simple. Whether you are willing to do it, that's another matter.
The education of the will is the object of our existence.
The world is full of willing people, some willing to work, the rest willing to let them
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