20 Inspirational Roy F. Baumeister Quotes (WILLPOWER)

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“Willpower is what separates us from the animals. It’s the capacity to restrain our impulses, resist temptation – do what’s right and good for us in the long run, not what we want to do right now. It’s central, in fact, to civilisation.”
Roy Baumeister

What stress really does, though, is deplete willpower, which diminishes your ability to control those emotions. — What stress really does, though, is deplete willpower, which diminishes your ability to control those **emotions**.

Willpower is a muscle that can be strengthened. — Willpower is a **muscle** that can be strengthened.

For most of us, though, the problem is not a lack of goals but rather too many of them.

Trophies should go to the winners. Self-esteem does not lead to success in life. Self-discipline and self-control do, and sports can help teach those. — Trophies should go to the winners. Self-esteem does not lead to **success** in **life**. **Self-discipline** and self-control do, and sports can help teach those.

“The clear implication was that the best advice for young writers and aspiring professors is: Write every day. Use your self-control to form a daily habit, and you’ll produce more with less effort in the long run.”
Roy Baumeister

The best way to reduce stress in your life is to stop screwing up.

Restraining sexual impulses takes energy, and so does creative work. If you pour energy into your art, you have less available to restrain your libido. — Restraining sexual impulses takes energy, and so does **creative** work. If you pour energy into your art, you have less available to restrain your libido.

We’ve said that willpower is humans’ greatest strength, but the best strategy is not to rely on it in all situations. Save it for emergencies.

“What sets human beings apart from animals is not the pursuit of happiness, which occurs all across the natural world, but the pursuit of meaning, which is unique to humans.”
Roy Baumeister

10 Wise Roy Baumeister Quotes that Will Make You Think (WISDOM)

“However you define success — a happy family, good friends, a satisfying career, robust health, financial security, the freedom to pursue your passions — it tends to be accompanied by a couple of qualities.”
Roy Baumeister

People with high but unstable self-esteem exhibit the greatest hostility.

The societal pursuit of high self-esteem for everyone may literally end up doing considerable harm.

Evil is not likely to result where people firmly believe that ends do not justify the means.

“The ones who wrote about what they had already achieved had higher satisfaction with their current tasks and projects, as compared with the ones who reflected on what they had not yet achieved.”
Roy Baumeister

First I make a list of priorities one, two, three, and so on. Then I cross out everything from three on down. — First I make a list of priorities: one, two, three, and so on. Then I cross out everything from three on down.

“Sleep deprivation has been shown to impair the processing of glucose, which produces immediate consequences for self-control — and, over the long term, a higher risk of diabetes.”
Roy Baumeister

When you pick your battles, look beyond the immediate challenges and put your life in perspective. Are you where you want to be What could be better? — When you pick your battles, look beyond the immediate **challenges** and put your life in perspective. Are you where you want to be? What could be better?

“Napoleon once summarized his idea of strategic military planning: “You engage, and then you wait and see.” By making contact with the enemy and then improvising, he triumphed and made his armies the envy (and the scourge) of Europe.”
Roy Baumeister