Quotes about Self-discipline

When anger enters the mind, wisdom departs.

We must master our good fortune or it will master us.

To conquer himself is the greatest victory that man can gain.

Men are anxious to improve their circumstances, but are unwilling to improve themselves; they therefore remain bound.

As a man thinketh, so is he, and as a man chooseth, so is he.

It would be a good contest amongst Christians, one to labour to give no offence, and the other to labour to take none. The best men are severe to themselves, tender over others.

Men fall in private long before they fall in public.

My life is such a contradiction. My soul yearns for holiness and then runs from the mortification necessary to attain it.

The positive side of willpower is the power to do and to frame all of your I won'ts as being in the service of those higher I wills. Once you do that, you're no longer using your willpower to oppress and disappoint half of yourself. You're using it to create the future self that you really care about. Thus, willpower is really just being as kind as you can to the man you want to become.

The starting point of great success in your life begins, in the simplest terms, when you discipline yourself to think and talk about only the things you want and refuse to think and talk about anything you don't want.

The most important success principle of all was stated by Elbert Hubbard, one of the most prolific writers in American history, at the beginning of the twentieth century. He said, 'Self-discipline is the ability to do what you should do, when you should do it, whether you feel like it or not.

Each act of self-discipline strengthens every other act of self-discipline. Every act of persistence strengthens every other act of persistence. When you discipline yourself to persist, over and over, you like and respect yourself more and more. You become stronger and more confident. Eventually, you become unstoppable.