Quotes about Self-discipline

if you sufficiently dismember yourself, you will not be able to do any wrong action. This is the logic by which Jesus reduces the righteousness of the scribes and Pharisees to the absurd.

Practice in not speaking can at least give us enough control over what we say that our tongues do not "go off" automatically. This discipline provides us with a certain inner distance that gives us time to consider our words fully and the presence of mind to control what we say and when we say it.

In people without rock-solid character, feeling is a deadly enemy of self-control and will always subvert it. The mongoose of a disciplined will under God and good is the only match for the cobra of feeling.

If our feelings control our actions, it is because we have abdicated our responsibility and empowered them to do so.

It is better to err by excess of mercy than by excess of severity... Wilt thou become a Saint? Be severe to thyself but kind to others.

Imagine your anger to be a kind of wild beast, because it has ferocious teeth and claws, and if you don't tame it, it will devastate all things even corrupting the soul.

Don't lose your temper; use it.

Do not allow your anger to control your reason, but rather your reason to control your anger.

Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody else expects of you, never excuse yourself.

Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anyone else expects of you. Never excuse yourself.

Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody expects of you. Never excuse yourself.

A man that does not know how to be angry does not know how to be good.