Sentence examples for own willpower from inspiring English sources

Partly through his own willpower, partly through the courts, Dr. Viscardi won approval.

I'm weak, and I know it (and I'd rather my future teenage drivers not test their own willpower).

At the age of 40, convinced his own willpower was not enough, he looked for outside help.

Brand exhorts people to find their connection to God or their higher power in order to understand that they are not the centre of the universe and that their self-destructive impulses cannot be beaten through their own willpower; that, on the contrary, it's self-willfulness that leads people into addiction.

These dopamine-driven feedback loops create a cycle of smartphone addiction, with users having no tools to fight back beyond their own willpower.

If you have faith, the sajja can connect you to your own willpower as well as a powerful spiritual force.

"He was so unhappy and confused that he nearly returned home, but friends and family and his own remorseless willpower drove him on," he said.

I decided to use the Pavlok to keep me in line for two weeks, hoping to find out whether or not electronically-induced pain would succeed where my own terrible willpower had not.

External funding can be a catalyst, but the developing world will have to mobilise its own money and willpower to tackle humanity's great scourges".Power in Numbers: UNITAID, Innovative Financing, and the Quest for Massive Good", by Philippe Douste-Blazy and Daniel Altman, Public Affairs, New York, Publication forthcoming.

And in the interim, we need to recognize we are drowning in a flood of calories and labor-saving technology of our own devising, and willpower does not keep people afloat.

Environmental noise calls attention to itself — splits our own attention, regardless of willpower.