"Willpower is a muscle that can be strengthened."

-- Roy Baumeister

#Willpower Quotes #Muscles Quotes

“Go forward confidently, energetically attacking problems, expecting favorable outcomes.”
“Basketball's so much like life: if something's going great, you wait a minute, it will change. If something's going bad, you wait a minute, it will change. So I try to play things on such an even keel, knowing that things are going to change. You take the good with the bad; you don't get too excited, you don't get too down and sometimes that's the hardest thing in the world to do when you're in the midst of it, but that's the best way to handle it.”
“There's nothing particularly dark in my past... I live in the light. My disposition is basically happy. I have a good life.”
“He who thinks and thinks for himself, will always have a claim to thanks; it is no matter whether it be right or wrong, so as it be explicit. If it is right, it will serve as a guide to direct; if wrong, as a beacon to warn.”

Source : Jeremy Bentham (1844). “Benthamiana: Or Select Extracts from the Works of Jeremy Bentham. With an Outline of His Opinions on the Principal Subjects Discussed in His Works”, p.217
“Occupying my mind with complex problems has been my best and most powerful and most reliable defense against my mental illness.”

Source : "A tale of mental illness — from the inside". TED Talk, www.ted.com. June, 2012.
“To say, that Capt. Ingraham violated the rights of Turkey, is nonsense.”

Source : Gerrit Smith (1856). “Speeches of Gerrit Smith in Congress [1853-1854].”, p.18
“It is criminal negligence to leave suckers lying around to tempt honest men.”
“I'm on a mission. And I know the older I get, I may lose a step or two, but it's all up in the medulla oblongata. I've got a lot up there. I've got a lot of knowledge... in this medulla oblongata.”

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