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Stubborness isn't a choice, it's a way of life.
Sometimes willpower alone cannot make things happen.
To resist a compulsion with willpower alone is to hold back an avalanche by melting the snow with a candle. It just keeps coming and coming and coming.
Apathy.
The reason you may wake up one day being not only a 2nd class citizen, but a criminal because of who you are - and then wonder why 'somebody' didn't do something when there was still time?
Stubborness is also determination. It's simply a matter of shifting from "won't power" to "will power.
It is difficult, when faced with a situation you cannot control, to admit you can do nothing.
Achievement requires a strong will, failure, a stubborn won't.
Fear stops a lot of people. Fear of failure, of the unknown, of risk.
And it masks itself as procrastination.
Willing is not enough, one must apply.
Back of ninety-nine out of one-hundred assertions that a thing cannot be done is nothing, but the unwillingness to do it.
We may place blame, give reasons, and even have excuses; but in the end, it is an act of cowardice to not follow your dreams.
We think we want to do something and when it comes to it, we don't. We don't like to commit.
People differ not only in their ability to do but also in their 'will to do'
Sometimes, in periods of oppression and mass insanity, the most decisive form of resistance is simply the decision to not engage.
In the face of an obstacle which is impossible to overcome, stubbornness is stupid.
Between being able to and actually doing something lies an ocean, and on its bottom rests all too often the wreck of willpower.
Obstinacy is the result of the will forcing itself into the place of the intellect.
What you cannot control, you must accept.
Lack of courage often hinders us from accomplishing the positive things that we would like to do.
Discouragement is not the absence of adequacy but the absence of courage.
Addiction, self-sabotage, procrastination, laziness, rage, chronic fatigue, and depression are all ways that we withhold our full participation in the program of life we are offered. When the conscious mind cannot find a reason to say no, the unconscious says no in its own way.
What can stop the determined heart and resolved will of man?
How extraordinary people are, that they get themselves into such situations where they go on doing what they dislike doing, and have no need or obligation to do, simply because it seems to be expected.
You cannot just be stubborn against something, you need to be stubborn for something as well
Willing is not enough, we must do.
Stubbornness is the strength of the weak.
I'm stubborn. I'm hardheaded. I don't do what I don't want to do.
A running theme in my life is my inability to say no to anything.
Not knowing you can't do something, is sometimes all it takes to do it.
My heart cannot accept what my mind rejects.
Weak people can be very stubborn.
Obstinacy is a fault of temperament. Stubbornness and intolerance of contradiction result from a special kind of egotism, which elevates above everything else the pleasure of its autonomous intellect, to which others must bow.
Why is it that most things you might willingly do under other circumstances become distasteful when you have no choice?
A man convinced against his will is not convinced.
When people try to do what they can not do, they wish to give up.
Many people have reasons and excuses for inaction, not the reasons for actions; or they neglect them
Apathy is the acceptance of the unacceptable.
He who asks with timidity invites a refusal.
When people don't understand that being uncomfortable is part of the process of achievement, they use the discomfort as a reason not to do. They don't get what they want. We must learn to tolerate discomfort in order to grow.
There is a decivilizing bug somewhere at work; unconsciously persons of stern worth, by not resenting and resisting the small indignities of the times, are preparing themselves for the eventual acceptance of what they themselves know they don't want.
Indomitable will, purposeful action
Those who restrain desire do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained.
That indolent but agreeable condition of doing nothing.
Defiance through compliance.
Acceptance was not in my nature. Even as a young man it seemed to me that everywhere the world conspired against the heart, and though I knew the heart would lose, I couldn't bear to call it right.
The thing that cowardice fears most is decision
There's a drive in me that won't allow me to do certain things that are easy.
Depression manifests itself in a lack of will.
One can't indefinitely do for somebody what he is reluctant to do for himself.
One reason we resist making deliberate choices is that choice equals change and most of us, feeling the world is unpredictable enough, try to minimise the trauma of change in our personal lives.
Why give give up?
Why give in?
Why in the world would someone say, 'I can't afford it' or 'I can't do it' to something they want? Why would someone deny themselves the things they want? It makes no logical sense.
When men, engaged in unjustifiable pursuits, are aware that obstructions may come from a quarter which bare apprehension of opposition from doing what they would with eagerness rush into if no such external impediments were to be feared.
Fear of the future and longing for the past are major factors which impede appropriate action.
There are family mysteries I cannot solve. There are family mysteries I am unwilling to solve.
One must submit, like a traveller who has to ascend a mountain: if the mountain was not there, the road would be both shorter and pleasanter; but there it is, and he must get over it.
What makes resisting temptation difficult for many people is they don't want to discourage it completely.
Willpower is not about resisting, forcing, or controlling
it's about choosing.
Some people refuse to accept the limits given to them by others.
The refusal to choose is a form of choice; disbelief is a form of belief.
Rationalization is one of the real obstacles to obedience.
Resistance by its very nature demands that we choose choices not offered to us.
There is nothing so easy but that it becomes difficult when you do it with reluctance.
Where there is a disposition to dislike, a motive will never be wanting;
Nothing so stubborn could change until it became more painful to avoid than to confront.
We are limited only by our unwillingness to take action.
COMPULSION, n. The eloquence of power.
For most people, lack of consistent, persistent effort is the biggest obstacle.
Persistence is stubbornness with a purpose.
And if you lose the willingness, what do you have?
It's just ... how do I put this? Maybe it's just hard for me to imagine turning down something that's so much harder for someone like me to find.
Willpower is nothing but willingness to do.
We often feel paralyzed by choice and make no choice. But the thing is, no choice is a choice. If you're not doing something about it, you're doing something about it.
Being unable to say No, can make you exhausted, stressed and irritated.
Inaction and indecision in the present is because of fear of consequences of the future.
Our reluctance for conflict should not be misjudged as a failure of will.
There are some desires that are not desirable.
How can you attain satisfaction if you have more excuses than action?
It is difficult to press forward if we do not know how to obey.
Your will has to be stronger than your excuses. Your will has to be stronger than your fear.
The solution is commitment to whatever is in front of you;
Because
It's not always what you wanna do but the options in front of you
When faced with two equally tough choices, most people choose the third choice: to not choose.
Being. Not being. Giving in. Holding out. No matter what I do, it hurts.
I have lost the will to change
What is allowed us is disagreeable, what is denied us causes intense desire.
Most people, faced with two difficult choices, prefer not to choose at all.
Resistence is a result
of personal frustration and failure.
Guilt is present in the very hesitation, even though the deed be not committed.
Willing sets you free: that is the true doctrine of will and freedom
thus Zarathustra instructs you.
Perpetual pushing and assurance put a difficulty out of countenance and make a seeming difficulty gives way.
I cannot give up my will - I must exercise it, putting it into action.
Discontent is want of self-reliance; it is infirmity of will.
REFUSAL, n. Denial of something desired; Refusals are graded in a descending scale of finality thus: the refusal absolute, the refusal condition, the refusal tentative and the refusal feminine. The last is called by some casuists the refusal assentive.
For Fate/ The willing leads, the unwilling drags along.
Willpower is trying very hard not to do something you want to do very much.
He who begs timidly courts a refusal.
Pettiness of mind, ignorance and presumption are the cause of stubbornness, because stubborn people only want to believe what they themselves can imagine, and they can imagine very few things.
Other people are occupied, I alone am unwilling, like the outcast.
Making excuses as to why you cannot do something based on what you don't have, or what hasn't happened yet, only serves to hold you back even further. WAIT FOR NOTHING & NO-ONE.
Sometimes the things we have to do are objectionable in the eyes of others.