Arnold Bennett Quotes

I think willpower is very valuable.

Indeed, the best way to think of willpower is not as some shapeless behavioral trait but as a sort of psychic muscle, one that can atrophy or grow stronger depending on how it's used.

My father talked about training as being more about the human spirit than just about your muscles.

SELF-DISCIPLINE, more than any other personal quality I can think of, is the one thing that separates successful people from the unsuccessful. Think of all it encompasses: honoring commitments, promises and deadlines, keeping your life on schedule, being willing to go the extra mile... Self-discipline is essential to success. The alternative is a life ruled by emotions, and none of us can afford that if we're going to fulfill our purpose and realize our potential.

If you want to do something that requires willpower - like going for a run after work - you have to conserve your willpower muscle during the day.

We don't have to be smarter than the rest. We have to be more disciplined than the rest.

I believe in one thing only, the power of human will.

The only discipline that lasts is self-discipline.

If one can stick to the training throughout the many long years, then will power is no longer a problem. It's raining? That doesn't matter. I am tired? That's besides the point. It's simply that I just have to.

There is little that can withstand a man who can conquer himself.

Strength of will is the test of a young man's possibilities. Can he will strong enough and hold whatever he undertakes with an iron grip?

You might not feel good, and you might not want to practice, but you still go out there and practice as hard as you can.

I don't have stamina in exercise... but I have it in life.

Somehow I kept my head above water. I relied on the discipline, character, and strength that I had started to develop as that little girl in her first swimming pool.

Strength of character does not consist solely in having powerful feelings, but in maintaining one’s balance in spite of them

The secret of power is will.

I want to test my will.

I take a freezing cold shower to start every day, and when I can't take it any more, I count 20 Mississippi's. Then I literally walk out of the shower and say, 'Let's go.'

Grit and self-control are related, but they're not the same thing.

I was very disciplined growing up. If I didn't want to run hills, I ran hills; if I didn't want to jog around the block, I jogged around the block.

Self-control is only courage under another form. It may also be regarded as the primary essence of character.

Willpower is that thing CEOs and professional athletes tell us they used to make it to the top.

Willpower is essential to the accomplishment of anything worthwhile.

Will is not unfrequently weakness.

The problems with willpower are many, but they may hardly be noticed by the person focused narrowly on success. First, there is little economy of means; in systems thinking terms, we act without leverage. We attain our goals, but the effort is enormous and we may find ourselves exhausted and wondering if it was worth it when we have succeeded. Ironically, people hooked on willpower may actually look for obstacles to overcome, dragons to slay, and enemies to vanquish--to remind themselves and others of their own prowess.