Sentence examples for only willpower from inspiring English sources

The devil here takes the form not only of the drugs but of injunctions to "Just say no!" Mr. Moyers told a Congressional committee this week that people of good character, like his son, are not immune to the disease of addiction and that beating it demands not only willpower but professional understanding and attention to addiction's physical and social causes.

We don't need more economic fat to do it; we need only willpower and the common sense to realize that pushing for ever more economic growth is the same as pushing the planet to the brink of disaster.

Nor can our "illness" be cured by champions of a new foreign-policy "realism" such as Robert Kagan, who urge us to face challenges of a world where only willpower and force can sustain the liberal order that many Americans take for granted.

But willpower takes a team only so far.

This breakthrough research demonstrated not only that willpower can be learned but also that it seems to be "a protective buffer against the development of all kinds of vulnerabilities later in life," as Mischel concluded, thereby implying that self-control is key to both academic and personal success.

Today's conservatives believe that if you are disadvantaged - poor, sick, elderly, or just down on your luck - you should suck it up because it only takes willpower to become triumphant.

REWARD OFTEN If you use willpower only to deny yourself pleasures, it becomes a grim, thankless form of defense.

Only the sheer willpower of the Blue Army of fans and Leicester Mercury "Stay Up City" car stickers could save them.

But Thorne's point seems to be that only time and willpower can overcome this kind of personal trauma.

In the case of not eating the cookie, using willpower only makes it more likely that we'll eat the cookie.

Brzezinski's apparent conviction that the Israeli-Palestinian conflict could be quickly and tidily ended if Washington only had the willpower seems almost as utopian as the belief that democracy can be implanted everywhere in the Middle East.