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When we’re stubborn and inflexible about getting what we want and need, that’s willfulness. Instead of thinking about what’s possible or realistic, we try to bend reality to our will. And it’s kind of like arm wrestling with the whole universe.
Willingness
When we’re willing, we accept where we’re at right now and what it’s going to take ... See more
Baumeister says that people who succeed don't have more willpower than you: they just develop better daily routines and habits, which after a while become automatic and require less thought — less conscious energy.
Scott Pape • The Barefoot Investor: The Only Money Guide You'll Ever Need
Will is fortitude and wisdom—not
Ryan Holiday • The Obstacle Is the Way: The Timeless Art of Turning Trials into Triumph
It is the will itself, our stubborn and self-defeating willfulness that must be first converted and handed over. It does not surrender easily and usually only when it is demanded of us by partners, parents, children, health, or circumstances.
Richard Rohr • Breathing Under Water : Spirituality and the Twelve Steps
Will is the dynamic of change everywhere and at all levels.
Bennett • Deeper Man (Collected works of J.G. Bennett Book 41)
Yes, you can do what you want—but you cannot account for the fact that your wants are effective in one case and not in another (and you certainly can’t choose your wants in advance).
Sam Harris • Free Will
His will toward initiating action is weak, so he shows poor self-discipline and follow through. But his will to resist action is very strong, so he can endure forever.
Steven Kessler • The 5 Personality Patterns: Your Guide to Understanding Yourself and Others and Developing Emotional Maturity
The point is not to have an iron will, but an adaptable will—a will that makes full use of reason to clarify perception, impulse, and judgment to act effectively for the right purpose.
Ryan Holiday • The Daily Stoic: 366 Meditations on Wisdom, Perseverance, and the Art of Living: Featuring new translations of Seneca, Epictetus, and Marcus Aurelius
I had learned, from years of experience with men, that when a man really DESIRES a thing so deeply that he is willing to stake his entire future on a single turn of the wheel in order to get it, he is sure to win.