W Quotes
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“Willpower and desire, when properly combined, make an irresistible pair.”
Source: Think and Grow Rich: Collector's Edition
“Willpower can produce short-term change, but it creates constant internal stress because you haven't dealt with the root cause.”
Source: The Purpose Driven Life: What on Earth Am I Here For?
“Willpower depletion is accompanied by its own set of downsides. Knowing what drains and recharges you is key.”
“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.”
“Willpower is a concentration of force. You gather up all your energy and make a massive thrust forward.”
“Willpower is a muscle that can be strengthened.”
“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 breath and heartbeat of life; Life blooms in the girdle of taut willpower.”
Source: Celestial Glow
“Willpower is concrete, not ethereal. When you do something, you demonstrate your willpower, and it becomes all the easier to have the same power of will the next time.”
Source: Light on Life: The Yoga Journey to Wholeness, Inner Peace, and Ultimate Freedom
“Willpower is essential to the accomplishment of anything worthwhile.”
Source: Getting Rich Your Own Way: Achieve All Your Financial Goals Faster Than You Ever Thought Possible
“Willpower is just another name for the idea of choosing long-term outcomes rather than short-term ones.”
Source: Descartes' Error: Emotion, Reason and the Human Brain
“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 nothing but willingness to do.”
Source: Light on Life: The Yoga Journey to Wholeness, Inner Peace, and Ultimate Freedom
“Willpower is one of the 2 most important traits needed for success as identified by scientists . It is more important than the second trait . What is the second trait ? Find out in this book”
Source: The Corporate Willpower Book
“Willpower is so common among highly successful people that many see its characteristics as synonymous with success.”
“Willpower is steam for life's locomotion.”
Source: Celestial Glow
“Willpower is that thing CEOs and professional athletes tell us they used to make it to the top.”
“Willpower is the fuel that runs human life; Like a driver in a computer application, Or Operating System in cyber programme, Willpower works life to performances; Life is deadwood; life, robust carrion, Without willpower in bright flame within.”
Source: Celestial Glow
“Willpower is the key to success. Successful people strive no matter what they feel by applying their will to overcome apathy, doubt or fear.”
“Willpower is the resource which allows us to operate under circumstances where there is low desire to act, or the incentive tied to an action is not immediately apparent.”
“Willpower is the shortest shortcut to success.”
“Willpower is trying very hard not to do something you want to do very much.”
Source: The Life You've Always Wanted: Spiritual Disciplines for Ordinary People
“Willpower is what separates us from the animals. It's the capacity to restrain our impulses, resist temptation - do what's right and good for us in the long run, not what we want to do right now. It's central, in fact, to civilisation.”
“Willpower isn’t just a skill. It’s a muscle, like the muscles in your arms or legs, and it gets tired as it works harder, so there’s less power left over for other things.”
Source: The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do, and How to Change
“Willpower should be understood to be the strength of the mind, which makes it capable of meeting success or failure with equanimity. It is not synonymous with certain success. Why should one's attempts always be attended by success? Success breeds arrogance and man's spiritual progress is thus arrested. Failure, on the other hand, is beneficial, inasmuch as it opens his eyes to his limitations and prepares him to surrender himself. Self surrender is synonymous with eternal happiness.”
“Wills aren't really strong or weak; it is the characters that they express and serve that are.”
Source: A Temple of Texts
“Willst du glücklich sein im Leben, sei es!”
“Willy DeVille knows the truth of a city street and the courage in a ghetto love song. And the harsh reality in his voice and phrasing is yesterday, today, and tomorrow - timeless in the same way that loneliness, no money, and troubles find each other and never quit for a minute.”
“Willy Loman: I don't want change, I want Swiss cheese!”
“Willy looks between Randy and me for a few seconds.
“Holy candy canes. You two could almost pass for brothers.”
I lean against the bar.
“Not quite. I'm a couple of inches shorter, and I don't have the muscle your reindeer has.”
“It's the long black hair.” He points at Randy. “I have a thing for long black hair. Hot damn, two hotties like you in Santa's Village at the same time? The elves wouldn't get any work done. They'd be too busy staring and jerk-”
“Enough, elf,” Randy stops him.”
Source: Dylan the Bad Boy Reindeer & His Virtuous Mate
“Willy - red and shining, his spectacles bemisted, voice glutinous, alcohol sweating from every pore - had sung what he called an old English madrigal in his harsh, thick Scots; at the end he had walloped down, like a porpoise stranded by the tide, on the sofa where Mary sat, and given her a succulent porpoiseful kiss on the nape of the neck. It had been a good turn and everybody had laughed.”
Source: Chapman 47-48: Tom Scott / Ann Scott-Moncrieff
“Willy seemed like an inhabitant of some other dimension who could only tenuously communicate with the ordinary world. This would have troubled her less if she had not imagined his other dimension as a place of horror.”
Source: The Nice and the Good
“WILLY [smiling]: Well, I figure, what the hell, life is short, a couple of jokes. [To himself] I joke too much! [The smile goes.]”
Source: Death of a Salesman
“Willy, wishy.”
“Willyoucomedowntodinner?" The Beast finally muttered.
"No. Thank you." Belle replied just as formally and twice as icily.
"YOU CAN'T STAY IN THERE FOREVER!" the Beast bellowed.
"JUST WATCH ME!" Belle spat back.
"FINE! THEN GO AHEAD AND STARVE!"
"I ALREADY PLANNED TO!"
As Old As Time, a Twisted Tale”
“willyoupleasebequiet: are you ready? bluejeanbaby: for what? willyoupleasebequiet: the future willyoupleasebequiet: because i think it just started”
“Will’s eyes met Tessa’s as she came closer, almost tripping again over the torn hem of her gown. For a moment, they were in perfect understanding. Jem was what they could still look each other straight in the eye about. On the topic of Jem, they were both fierce and unyielding. Tessa saw Will’s hand tighten on Jem’s sleeve. “She’s here,” he said. Jem’s eyes opened slowly. Tessa fought to keep the look of shock from her face. His pupils were blown out, his irises a thin ring of silver around the black. “Ni shou shang le ma, quin ai de?” he whispered.”
“Will’s hand looked brown and sunburnt by contrast, their fingers dovetailed together like piano keys.”
“Will’s voice dropped. “Everyone makes mistakes, Jem.” “Yes,” said Jem. “You just make more of them than most people.” “I —” “You hurt everyone,” said Jem. “Everyone whose life you touch.” “Not you,” Will whispered. “I hurt everyone but you. I never meant to hurt you.” Jem put his hands up, pressing his palms against his eyes. “Will —” “You can’t never forgive me,” Will said in disbelief, hearing the panic tinging his own voice. “I’d be —” “Alone?” Jem lowered his hand, but he was smiling now, crookedly. “And whose fault is that?”
“Wilshere looks like he's got the grit between his teeth”
“Wilson has observed, "We are not as gods. We're not yet sentient or intelligent enough to be much of anything." Paul Kingsnorth, a British writer and activist, has put it this way: "we are as gods, but we have failed to get good at it.. We are Loki, killing the beautiful for fun. We are Saturn, devouring our children... Sometimes doing nothing is better than doing something.”
Source: Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future
“Wilson has to leave early. He got the call earlier this morning: there is a bed for his wife in a nearby hospice. If she is going to take it, she must move today. The doctors still don't understand what is wrong with her, only that her self and her strength are ebbing away, and there seems no stopping it. Wilson's afternoon will be spent getting his wife, with whom he's traveled the world, ready for her final journey.”
Source: The Soul of an Octopus: A Surprising Exploration into the Wonder of Consciousness
“Wilson stopped and stood silent. Inattention dies a quick and sure death when a speaker does that.”
Source: The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson
“Wilson was once asked how long it took him to write a speech. He answered, 'That depends. If I am to speak 10 minutes, I need a week for preparation. If 15 minutes, 3 days. If half hour, two days. If an hour, I am ready now.'”
“Wilson was the clay-footed prophet of the British-Scots middle class. He created a flatulent rhetoric of national feeling as an antidote to either true national cosciousness or will. He exploited nationalism and religion in order to pursue class politics.”
Source: The History of Scottish Literature, Volume 3: Nineteenth Century
“Wilt Chamberlain had a great deal to do with the success of the NBA. His dominance, power, demeanor and the rivalry with Bill Russell says it all. He will be sorely missed by myself and everyone in the basketball community. Wilt was a great performer and a great athlete.”
“Wilt Chamberlain lied when he said he had 20,000 women.”
“Wilt thou whip thine own faults in other men?”
Source: Titus Andronicus and Timon of Athens: Two Classical Plays
“Wilt thou, then, my soul, never be good and simple and one and naked, more manifest than the body which surrounds thee?”
Source: Stoic Six Pack: Meditations of Marcus Aurelius, Golden Sayings, Fragments and Discourses of Epictetus, Letters from a Stoic and The Enchiridion
“Wimbledon attracted Bill Clinton to the gallery at Centre Court Tuesday at the All England Club. NBC cameras showed his head turning back and forth with each volley. Even at a tennis match, it looks like he's denying everything.”