Quotes about Self-discipline

Take excellent care of the front end of your day, and the rest of your day will pretty much take care of itself. Own your morning. Elevate your life.

spiritual exercises whereby to conquer oneself, and order one's life, without being influenced in one's decision by any inordinate affection.

A pharisee is hard on others and easy on himself, but a spiritual man is easy on others and hard on himself.

When you abandon making choices, you enter the vast world of excuses.

When you let go of your attention for a little while, do not think you may recover it whenever you please.

The hardest victory is the victory over self.

But even though disciplining yourself is sometimes diffcult and involves struggle, self-discipline is not self-punishment. It is instead an attempt to do what, prompted by the Spirit, you actually want in your heart to do.

Self-respect is the fruit of discipline.

Must manage your thought life daily and then you can manage your life.

For 24 years of my adult life, by choice I weighed well over 200 lbs. I say by choice because you see I have never accidentally eaten anything.

The discipline that is needed in our lives is the discipline that comes from within.

An interesting question these psychologists tend not to ask is why the muscle metaphor is apt. In other words, why is it that early successes at self-discipline lead to more successes, whereas early lapses lead to more lapses? If self-discipline is really good for the organism, you wouldn't expect natural selection to make it so easy for a few early lapses to destroy self-discipline. Yet there's no denying that a few injections of heroin can be the end of a productive life. Why?