Quotes about Self-discipline

The Master was entirely free of four faults: arbitrariness, inflexibility, rigidity, and selfishness.

But it takes character and self-control to be understanding and forgiving.

Learn to say no. It will be of more use to you than to be able to read Latin.

Beware of no man more than of yourself; we carry our worst enemies within us.

I don't try to focus on anything that doesn't affect me personally and how I go out there every single day. I'm just going to continue to work hard and focus on what I can control.

Be a hard master to yourself - and be lenient to everybody else.

Choosing to take responsibility for ourselves and for the consequences our choices create looks like hard work, but it really sets us free.

An aching head and trembling limbs, which are the inevitable effects of drinking, disincline the hands from work.

Self-discipline is a great time-saver; it is the ability to make yourself work on only those things that are most important to you.

I don't try to focus on anything that doesn't affect me personally and how I go out there every single day. I'm just going to continue to work hard and focus on what I can control.

Action seems to follow feeling, but really action and feeling go together; and by regulating the action, which is under the more direct control of the will, we can indirectly regulate the feeling, which is not. "Thus the sovereign voluntary path to cheerfulness, if our cheerfulness be lost, is to sit up cheerfully and to act and speak as if cheerfulness were already there...

Anything done in anger can be done better without it!