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What is now proved was once only imagined.
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english-poet
inspirational
willpower
knowledge
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William Blake |
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If you can't run, you crawl. If you can't crawl-- you find someone to carry you.
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television
inspirational
willpower
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Joss Whedon |
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If freedom is short of weapons, we must compensate with willpower.
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freedom
inspirational
willpower
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Adolf Hitler |
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Good and evil both increase at compound interest. That is why the little decisions you and I make every day are of such infinite importance. The smallest good act today is the capture of a strategic point from which, a few months later, you may be able to go on to victories you never dreamed of. An apparently trivial indulgence in lust or anger today is the loss of a ridge or railway line or bridgehead from which the enemy may launch an attack otherwise impossible.
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willpower
charity
consequences
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C.S. Lewis |
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Tis in ourselves that we are thus or thus. Our bodies are our gardens to the which our wills are gardeners.
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motivation
willpower
self-confidence
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William Shakespeare |
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At the most one could say that his chi or ... personal god was good. But the Ibo people have a proverb that when a man says yes his chi says yes also. Okonkwo said yes very strongly; so his chi agreed.
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willpower
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Chinua Achebe |
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I am the kind of person who, if my feelings are unrequited, can completely detach from someone emotionally if I simply put my mind to it.
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feelings
willpower
emotions
will
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Mindy Kaling |
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You decide your own level of involvement.
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tyler-durden
social-activism
willpower
cooperation
self-control
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Chuck Palahniuk |
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There is always an inertia to be overcome in striking out a new line of conduct - not more in ourselves, it seems, than in circumscribing events, which appear as if leagued together to allow no novelties in the way of amelioration.
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influence
change
willpower
inertia
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Thomas Hardy |
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I had been able to break the curse myself. I'd had to have reason enough, love enough to do it, to find the will and the strength.
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reason
strength
love
willpower
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Gail Carson Levine |
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Not only during the ascent, but also during the descent my willpower is dulled. The longer I climb the less important the goal seems to me, the more indifferent I become to myself. My attention has diminished, my memory is weakened. My mental fatigue is now greater than the bodily. It is so pleasant to sit doing nothing - and therefore so dangerous. Death through exhaustion is like death through freezing - a pleasant one.
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death
freezing
willpower
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Reinhold Messner |
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I won't die. I won't give those ghouls the pleasure. I'll live and grow strong. I'll escape, then hunt them down and make them suffer.
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willpower
determination
cool
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Darren Shan |
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There can be no doubt that the chief fault we have developed, through the long course of human evolution, is a certain basic passivity. When provoked by challenges, human beings are magnificent. When life is quiet and even, we take the path of least resistance, and then wonder why we feel bored. A man who is determined and active doesn't pay much attention to 'luck'. If things go badly, he takes a deep breath and redoubles his effort. And he quickly discovers that his moments of deepest happiness often come after such efforts. The man who has become accustomed to a passive existence becomes preoccupied with 'luck'; it may become an obsession. When things go well, he is delighted and good humored; when they go badly, he becomes gloomy and petulant. He is unhappy--or dissatisfied--most of the time, for even when he has no cause for complaint, he feels that gratitude would be premature; things might go wrong at any moment; you can't really trust the world... Gambling is one basic response to this passivity, revealing the obsession with luck, the desire to make things happen. The absurdity about this attitude is that we fail to recognize the active part we play in making life a pleasure. When my will is active, my whole mental and physical being works better, just as my digestion works better if I take exercise between meals. I gain an increasing feeling of control over my life, instead of the feeling of helplessness (what Sartre calls 'contingency') that comes from long periods of passivity. Yet even people who are intelligent enough to recognize this find the habit of passivity so deeply ingrained that they find themselves holding their breath when things go well, hoping fate will continue to be kind.
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fate
willpower
sartre
luck
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Colin Wilson |
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It's not just the body that must survive a jail term: the spirit and the will and the heart have to make it through as well. If any one of them is broken or destroyed, the man whose living body walks through the gate, at the end of his sentence, can't be said to have survived it.
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suffering
spirit
willpower
resilience
survival
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Gregory David Roberts |
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le but que l'on poursuit est toujours voile. Une jeune fille qui a envie de se marier a envie d'une chose qui lui est tout a fait inconnue. Le jeune homme qui court apres la gloire n'a aucune idee de ce qu'est la gloire. Ce qui donne un sens a notre conduite nous est toujours totalement inconnu. (partie III, ch. 10)
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willpower
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Milan Kundera |