Honore de Balzac Quotes

You have two choices: to control your mind or to let your mind control you.

Willpower is essential to the accomplishment of anything worthwhile.

If you consciously say 'I won't do it!' to yourself, then you have a good chance that you won't.

I look at people's lives and you see what's not working in their lives and it usually comes from an undisciplined mind.

Will power is not telling anybody you quit smoking.

Our minds are so undisciplined that our doubts rule our lives and we don't master our imagination - it masters us.

I think willpower is very valuable.

It's just a matter of willpower. The day you decide it's over, it's over. You never get over it.

...most men and women will yield to the strong currents sucking them into the seas of ruin. Only the strongest in mind and spirit will swim against that current.

self-control, in every station and to every individual, is indispensable, if people would retain that equanimity of mind, which, depending on self-respect, is the essential of contentment and happiness.

Willpower is the key to success. Successful people strive no matter what they feel by applying their will to overcome apathy, doubt or fear.

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 give myself strength by staying away from any music.

For a man to conquer himself is the first and noblest of all victories.

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

When I work I am pure as an angel tiger and clear is my eye and hot my brain and silent all the whining grunting piglets of the appetites.

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

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.

Self-control is true power.

Temptations are as thick as the leaves of the forest, and no one can be out of the reach of temptation unless he is dead. The great thing is to make people intelligent enough and strong enough, not to keep away from temptation, but to resist it.

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

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.

If you fail to control your own mind, you may be sure you will control nothing else.

Training the will in trivial and grave matters increases its strength and flexibility, and enables man to constantly strive and persevere.

Weak is he who permits his thoughts to control his actions; strong is he who forces his actions to control his thoughts.