(50 quotes found)
“We may think there is willpower involved, but more likely… change is due to want power. Wanting the new addiction more than the old one. Wanting the new me in preference to the person I am now.”
George Sheehan
“Sometimes you have to be a bitch to get things done.”
Madonna
“One supreme fact which I have discovered is that it is not willpower, but fantasy-imagination that creates. Imagination is the creative force. Imagination creates reality.”
Richard Wagner
“Champions aren't made in gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them-a desire, a dream, a vision. They have to have the skill, and the will. But the will must be stronger than the skill.”
Muhammad Ali
“Weight loss is not just about behavior and willpower; it's biological. There is a coordinated mechanism in the body — designed to prevent you from starving to death — that makes weight loss difficult.”
Louis Aronne
“I don't wait for moods. You accomplish nothing if you do that. Your mind must know it has got to get down to work.”
Pearl S. Buck
“Sometimes, we feel conscious but unable to move our body. The first thing to do is focus in a prayer, then start to wink frequently. By this way, slowly but sure our body can be moved totally by our persistent willpower.”
Toba Beta
“The more things you do, the more you can do.”
Lucille Ball
“It's frustrating and demoralizing. When something like that happens, it really tests you. It tests your willpower, your mind and your confidence.”
Chad Pennington
“It gives us willpower to stay together. We don't take each other for granted because we don't get to see each other all the time.”
Jacob Davis
