Quotes about Self-discipline

Dienekes says the mind is like a house with many rooms," he said. "There are rooms one must not go into. To anticipate one's death is one of those rooms. We must not allow ourselves even to think it.

Instead of applying self-knowledge, self-discipline, delayed gratification and hard work, we simply consume a product.

The professional is prepared at a deeper level. He is prepared, each day, to confront his own self-sabotage.

While those who will not govern themselves are condemned to find masters to govern over them.

When we drug ourselves to blot out our soul's call, we are being good Americans and exemplary consumers. We're doing exactly what TV commercials and pop materialist culture have been brainwashing us to do from birth. Instead of applying self-knowledge, self-discipline, delayed gratification and hard work, we simply consume a product. Many

any act that derives from our higher nature instead of our lower. Any of these acts will elicit Resistance.

the truly free individual is free only to the extent of his own self-mastery. While those who will not govern themselves are condemned to find masters to govern over them.

Character is doing what you don't want to do but know you should do.

Don't let your feelings be a God to you.

Build a cell inside your mind, from which you can never flee.

Be very sure that you do not deliberately place yourself in a position to be tempted.

If Christians realized that God Himself in the person of the Holy Spirit really dwells within our bodies, we would be far more careful about what we eat, drink, look at, or read. No wonder Paul said, "I beat my body and make it my slave" [1 Corinthians 9:27 NIV]. This should drive us to our knees in confession.