Quotes about Self-discipline
Set a high standard for yourself.
— Napoleon Hill
The first and best victory is to conquer self. To be conquered by self is, of all things, the most shameful and vile." Another
— Napoleon Hill
You have absolute control over but one thing, and that is your thoughts. This is the most significant and inspiring of all facts known to man! It reflects man's Divine nature. This Divine prerogative is the sole means by which you may control your own destiny. If you fail to control your own mind, you may be sure you will control nothing else.
— Napoleon Hill
You have absolute control over but one thing, and that is your thoughts. This is the most significant and inspiring of all facts known to man!
— Napoleon Hill
If you do not conquer self, you will be conquered by self. You may see at one and the same time both your best friend and your greatest enemy, by stepping in front of a mirror.
— Napoleon Hill
Every other animal responds to the call of sex only in "season." Man's inclination is to declare "open season.
— Napoleon Hill
Self-discipline begins with the mastery of your thoughts. If you don't control what you think, you can't control what you do. Simply, self-discipline enables you to think first and act afterward.
— Napoleon Hill
I must govern the clock, not be governed by it.
— Golda Meir
Freedom is not procured by a full enjoyment of what is desired, but by controlling that desire.
— Epictetus
When any fit of gloominess, or perversion of mind, lays hold upon you, make it a rule not to publish it by complaints.
— Samuel Johnson
"Worry" is a word that I don't allow myself to use.
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
A leader is a person who has learned to obey a discipline imposed from without, and has then taken on a more rigorous discipline from within. Those who rebel against authority and scorn self-discipline -- who shirk the rigors and turn from the sacrifices -- do not qualify to lead.
— J. Oswald Sanders