Cesare Pavese Quotes

Will power is to the mind like a strong blind man who carries on his shoulders a lame man who can see.

The forthputting of willpower is a means of strengthening willpower. The will becomes strong by exercise. To stick to a thing till you are master is a test of intellectual discipline and power.

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

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 who conquers others is strong; He who conquers himself is mighty.

The secret of power is will.

Self-control is true power.

In the absence of willpower the most complete collection of virtues and talents is wholly worthless.

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

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.

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

Mastering others is strength. Mastering yourself is true power.

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

He who is firm in will molds the world to himself.

It is a law woven into the nature of man, attested by history, by science, by literature and art, and by dally experience, that strength of mind and force of character are the supreme rulers of human affairs.

If you do not conquer self, you will be conquered by self.

I want to test my will.

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

I have a strong will-power.

Will is not unfrequently weakness.

I cannot give up my will - I must exercise it, putting it into action.

A man who cannot command himself will always be a slave.

I know you think that I have some kind of perfect, unyielding self-control, but that's not actually the case. - Edward Cullen

I think willpower is very valuable.

It's amazing how willpower can build walls.