willpower in English

noun

combination of one's determination to accomplish something and one's self-control

Use "willpower" in a sentence

1. Mind over matter, willpower over reality.

2. She was using willpower on us.

3. People lack the willpower, rather than strength.

4. The Holy Ghost: Antidoting the poison of willpower

5. 8 People lack the willpower, rather than strength.

6. I don't have the willpower to diet.

7. It took a lot of willpower to stay calm.

8. Losing weight is largely a matter of willpower.

9. What does Backbone mean? Willpower, courage, determination, etc

10. Beating Binge eating disorder is not about willpower

11. It took all his willpower to remain calm.

12. 13 Stones whet a sword, difficulties strengthen willpower.

13. People lack the willpower,(Sentencedict.com) rather than strength.

14. His success was due to sheer willpower/determination.

15. She managed to stop smoking by sheer willpower.

16. He truly believes he can cure himself by willpower alone.

17. Their willpower and control over their own bodies are undermined.

18. It takes a lot of willpower to give up smoking.

19. Our own willpower and our own good intentions are not enough.

20. His attempts to stop smoking by willpower alone failed.

21. Increasing willpower is seen by some as a solution to Akrasia

22. They, too, had needed to call on reserves of willpower and self-discipline.

23. Abulia is defined as a pathological state of amotivation, apathy, and global absence of willpower

24. THE BOTTOM LINE: HOW STRONG ARE YOUR WILLPOWER AND YOUR STAYING POWER?

25. But a young man who shows strength of willpower and respectful restraint earns respect.

26. In our language, the word " will " denotes strength, willpower, bending someone to your will.

27. It's going to take both horsepower and willpower to even have a chance.

28. After that, it was all willpower and the result was an extraordinary recovery.

29. UPRIGHT: Control, willpower, success, action, determination REVERSED: Self-discipline, opposition, lack of direction Chariot Description

30. If freedom is short of weapons, we must compensate with willpower. Adolf Hitler 

31. More importantly, once we start nibbling naughty things our willpower slides down a very slippery slope.

32. To do that, they needed to break our willpower and have us “confess” to trumped-up charges.

33. She made herself get better by sheer willpower, when everyone else had given up hope.

34. Badger also comes along to people who don’t have much willpower in themselves, offering independence and refreshed resolve

35. As well as the gulag, Mr Solzhenitsyn's titanic willpower triumphed over other adversaries: cancer, censorship and Soviet bureaucratic intimidation.

36. Stubbornness: Individual willpower, the absolute determination to control drinking or drug use, is exactly what keeps the disease going.

37. By mobilizing a strong willpower for practice and training, some disabled persons have achieved more than they could ever have imagined.

38. Encouragement and real results are the essential ingredients required to nurture adequate supplies of willpower and to keep it growing.

39. 19 Stubbornness: Individual willpower, the absolute determination to control drinking or drug use, is exactly what keeps the disease going.

40. Hence, it is not acquired by the exercise of sheer willpower, but results from drawing close to God.

41. His relationship with the king was like that of thought with willpower: it was as close as marriage.

42. But such willpower and self-denial is rare - sad cases like the Rockefellers and Hiltons are more common.

43. Some children may be submissive to this approach while others fight back and will not have their willpower broken.

44. He had to summon all his willpower to pass under a bridge because he would experience a crushing pressure on the skull.

45. I don't start drinking wine until after I have had something to eat in case the alcohol affects my willpower!

46. She won because of her indefatigable energy and willpower, mobilizing women in state after state where the Amendment was contested.

47. He recently kicked a lifetime habit as a chain smoker, a typical example of the famous MacSharry willpower, say observers.

48. Valenzuela was fascinated by Gallardo's willpower, and as their relationship changed Gallardo established a subtle ascendancy over his young captor.

49. Drug addiction cannot be cured if the fear of not consuming drugs is greater than the willpower to quit doing drugs. Dr T.P.Chia 

50. Ashcraft survived 41 days Adrift in the Pacific, subsisting on peanut butter and willpower, before she approached Hilo, Hawaii and was picked up by …