Quotes about Self-discipline

The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions.

When our honor becomes greater than our moods, that is where transformation happens

Peak performance begins with your taking complete responsibility for your life and everything that happens to you.

The virtuous soul that is alone and without a master is like a long lone burning coal; it will grow colder rather than hotter.

Any person capable of angering you becomes your master; he can anger you only when you permit yourself to be disturbed by him.

Nothing can work me damage except myself. The harm that I sustain I carry about with me, and never am a real sufferer but by my own fault.

What we do on some great occasion will probably depend on what we already are; and what we are will be the result of previous years of self-discipline.

Will-power, he saw, was not a thing one could suddenly decree oneself to possess. It must be built up imperceptibly and laboriously out of a succession of small efforts to meet definite objects, out of the facing of daily difficulties instead of cleverly eluding them, or shifting their burden on others.

If you are casual about anger and unprepared, you will lose and so will those around you.

In golf, you're more competing with yourself.

First-half-of-life religion is almost always about various types of purity codes or "thou shalt nots" to keep us up, clear, clean, and together, like good Boy and Girl Scouts. A certain kind of "purity" and self-discipline is also "behovely," at least for a while in the first half of life, as the Jewish Torah brilliantly presents.

That is why the key to long-lasting success is to develop habits — new, positive habits that replace our self-defeating behaviors.