Honore de Balzac Quotes

The direction and constancy of the will is what really matters, and intellect and feeling are only important insofar as they contribute to that.

I want to test my will.

Will is not unfrequently weakness.

No cowardice, no sin, no crime, no weakness - the rest will come of itself. . .

Disciplining yourself to do what you know is right and important, although difficult, is the highroad to pride, self-esteem, and personal satisfaction.

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

If thou wouldst conquer thy weakness, thou must never gratify it.

Curiosity, rationalization, and laziness are no match against courage, self-control, and mental toughness.

Firmness in enduring and exertion is a character I always wish to possess. I have always despised the whining yelp of complaint and cowardly resolve.

His resolve is not to seem the bravest, but to be.

We gain the strength of the temptation we resist.

Strength instead of being the lusty child of passion, grows by grappling with and subduing them.

Never forget that the key to the situation lies in the will and not in the imagination.

Our ability to handle life's challenges is a measure of our strength of character.

Will power is only the tensile strength of one's own disposition. One cannot increase it by a single ounce.

I've always been proud of the fact that I can hold it together and I rarely break. It's a point of pride for me.

It is a great thing to have a big brain, a fertile imagination, grand ideals, but the man with these, bereft of a good backbone, is sure to serve no useful end.

A lot of things I've done in my life have taken incredible mental fortitude.

My father is a master in karate. He always taught me the philosophy of Karate. When I'm talking about philosophy, I mean respect to willpower, self confidence. Those qualities, I think it's very important, not just for fighting, but for any person.

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

All mental discipline and symmetrical growth are from activity of the mind under the yoke of the will or personal power.

I think it rather fine, this necessity for the tense bracing of the will before anything worth doing can be done. I rather like it myself. I feel it is to be the chief thing that differentiates me from the cat by the fire.

In the supremacy of self-control consists one of the perfections of the ideal man.

The good devout man first makes inner preparation for the actions he has later to perform. His outward actions do not draw him into lust and vice; rather it is he who bends them into the shape of reason and right judgement. Who has a stiffer battle to fight than the man who is striving to conquer himself.

What madness! Yet she would do it, if she could force herself. She'd become, she believed, a stronger person: a willful, resolute. Like the man who adored her, reckless.