For example, there is a species of butterfly, a night-moth, in which the females are much less common than the males. The moths breed exactly like all animals, the male fertilizes the female and the female lays the eggs. Now, if you take a female night moth----many naturalists have tried this experiment---the male moths will visit this female at night and they will come from hours away. From hours away! Just think! From a distance of several miles all these males sense the only female in the region. One looks for an explanation for this phenomenon but it is not easy. You must assume that they have a sense of smell of some sort like a hunting dog that can pick up and follow a semmingly imperceptible scent. Do you see? Nature abounds with such inexplicable things. But my argument is: if the female moths were as abundant as the males, the latter would not have such a highly developed sense of smell. They've acquired it only because they had to train themseleves to to have it. If a person were to concentrate all his will power on a certain end, then he would achieve it. That's all. And that also answers your question. Examine a person closely enough and you know more about him than he does himself.
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Will power is only the tensile strength of one's own disposition. One cannot increase it by a single ounce.
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One of the satisfactions of a genius is his will-power and obstinacy.
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When the imagination and will power are in conflict, are antagonistic, it is always the imagination which wins, without any exception.
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Stubbornness is also determination. It's simply a matter of shifting from won't power to will power.
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Not only don't diets work, they're actually designed to fail. It's not you or your lack of will power that's the problem. It's that diets by their very nature simply don't work.
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As long as we think we can save ourselves by our own will power, we will only make the evil in us stronger than ever.
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Will power is to the mind like a strong blind man who carries on his shoulders a lame man who can see.
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Lack of will power has caused more failure than lack of intelligence or ability.
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There is no such thing as a great talent without great will power.
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