Brother Lawrence Quotes

Though perseverance does not come from our power, yet it comes within our power.

I think willpower is very valuable.

Resistance, whether to one's appetites or to the ways of the world, is a chief factor in the shaping of character.

Watch and pray, dear, never get tired of trying, and never think it is impossible to conquer your fault.

The battle for self-discipline may leave you a bit bruised and battered but always a better person. Self-discipline is a rigorous process at best; too many of us want it to be effortless and painless. Should temporary setbacks afflict us, a very significant part of our struggle for self-discipline is the determination and the courage to try again....Eternal life in the kingdom of our Father is your goal, and self-discipline will surely be required if you are to achieve it.

When you're out of will power you call on stubbornness, that's the trick.

The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one comes from a strong will, and the other from a strong won't.

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?

He helps me every day to do my exercises. Siegfried told me once, 'The one who is a hero is the one who can hang on just one minute longer.'

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

The only way to get through the life I had was just to have a big head of steam and determination.

The way to succeed is never quit. Thats it. But really be humble about it.

It's not how hard you hit. It's how hard you get hit... and keep moving forward.

When the morning's freshness has been replaced by the weariness of midday, when the leg muscles give under the strain, the climb seems endless, and suddenly nothing will go quite as you wish it is then that you must not hesitate.

It's a matter of will. If you know that you can keep your head, and that you must keep your head, you probably will keep your head.

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.

Willpower is essential to the accomplishment of anything worthwhile.

Don't give up. You're going to get kicked in the teeth. A lot. Learn to take a hit, then pick yourself up off the floor. Resilience is the true key to success.

Obstacles are merely a call to strengthen your resolve to achieve your worthwhile goals.

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.

First principle: never to let one's self be beaten down by persons or by events.

The only thing we all have in common is that we play tricks in order to force ourselves to abandon the quest. The counter-measure is to persist in spite of all the barriers and disappointments.

Whatever my situation, I'm a strong disciplinarian; I can do what I hate to do but do it like I love it.

I believe that it may happen that one will succeed, and one must not begin to despair, even though defeated here and there; and even though one sometimes feels a kind of decay, though things go differently from the expected, it is necessary to take heart again and new courage. For the great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together. And great things are not something accidental, but must certainly be willed. What is drawing? How does one learn it? It is working through an invisible iron wall that seems to stand between what one feels and what one can do.