Quotes about Self-discipline

Have you ever noticed that if there's a hard way and an easy way, you choose the hard way every time? Why do you think that is?

Mr. Shepherd, ye cannot stop a bad thought from coming into your head. But ye need not pull up a chair and bide it sit down. - Mrs. Brown

Humans have between what happens to us and our response to it.

The inside-out approach says that private victories precede public victories, that making and keeping promises to ourselves precedes making and keeping promises to others. It says it is futile to put personality ahead of character, to try to improve relationships with others before improving ourselves

Be Proactive. People are responsible for their own choices and have the freedom to choose based on principles and values rather than

In other words, when we truly love others without condition, without strings, we help them feel secure and safe and validated and affirmed in their essential worth, identity, and integrity. Their natural growth process is encouraged. We make it easier for them to live the laws of life—cooperation, contribution, self-discipline, integrity—and to discover and live true to the highest and best within them.

The power to make and keep commitments to ourselves is the essence of developing the basic habits of effectiveness.

Proactive people subordinate feelings to values.

Private Victory precedes Public Victory. Self-mastery and self-discipline are the foundation of good relationships with others.

if you are an effective manager of yourself, your discipline comes from within; it is a function of your independent will. You are a disciple, a follower, of your own deep values and their source. And you have the will, the integrity, to subordinate your feelings, your impulses, your moods to those values.

I just can't seem to keep a promise I make to myself.

Don't get into a blaming, accusing mode. Work on things you have control over. Work on you. On be