Sentence examples for willpower at from inspiring English sources

To quit, I had to go to a hypnotist as I had no willpower at all.

As a tribute to their willpower at the dinner table and their dedication in the gym, the women in town with the lowest percentage of body fat would parade triumphantly through the streets, waving their wafer-thin arms and holding aloft the little water bottles that provide most of their nutrition.

Because people tend to have more willpower at the beginning of the week, cook healthful foods on Sundays for the week ahead.

Getting more and better sleep is important if you want to keep your resolutions, because a shortage of sleep is disastrous for your willpower, says psychologist Kelly McGonigal, who teaches the science of willpower at Stanford University.

Because each of us has only a limited supply of willpower at any given time, and we deplete our store whenever we try to ward off some temptation or persevere in some new virtue.

Even the crowd need a fair degree of willpower as they stare at the empty stretch of water in front of them, awaiting a brief glimpse of the competitors every half hour or so.

It's amazing that we have any willpower left at all.

If you do this first thing (you're going to have to get up earlier!), you are less likely to procrastinate because our willpower is at its best when we are well rested.

You know that when you get up in the morning and you've just had your first meal, your willpower is at the highest point it will be all day.

Belief, willpower and ­executing at the right moment".

But knowing that my editor is relying on me (and I'm relying on my next paycheck), I muster my willpower to stay at my computer and finish the column.