Willpower in a sentence as a noun

Any time you can't do it, your willpower has failed you.

Sorry, I don't have the willpower for this.

I think what people need here is an increase in their willpower to see boring stuff through to the end.

Do you regularly push through problems with sheer willpower?

Every time you force yourself to do something, you're using up a little bit of your willpower.

I have absolutely no willpower to resist buying these, even though I never have time to play them.

With stupendous effort he rose to his feet and then through sheer willpower got his bearings and tried walking on the sidewalk.

If it a matter of lacking willpower, why was I at the damn office trying to work long after everybody else had left?

They're really good at what they do and with some serious willpower and perseverance they can ascend to the tops of their professions.

Something I've yet to see explored is the difference between negative and positive willpower.

Recent findings by Carol Dweck and others challenge the prevalent notion that willpower is an exhaustible AND finite resource.

She found that the subjects who believed that exercising one's willpower strengthens it rather than depletes it actually increased their willpower.

The paradox is that a man of willpower and clarity that can put effort into cleaning up his act can break into the side of the selected and score plenty of vj. Once you understand that, you can see modern-day feminism for the hoax that it is.

There are countless bipolar patients out there who struggle every day with their medications; the costs, the terrible side effects, and who fight a battle of willpower to stay on them despite feeling "cured".

How do you even differentiate between willpower and cognitive processing at a neurological level?

There was another post recently on HN that compared poverty to a rogue background process that drains willpower, and yet another one about how entrepreneurs are disproportionally from well-to-do backgrounds.

Would you have the willpower and perseverance to stay committed and focused?Also, these are cool sites, infused with a lot of creativity and a refined aesthetic sense, but it's not as if she's claimed to have written an OS or compiler in 115 days.

Willpower definitions

noun

the trait of resolutely controlling your own behavior

See also: self-control self-possession possession self-command self-will