Quotes about Self-discipline

Do your best to rein in your desire. For if you desire something that isn't within your own control, disappointment will surely follow; meanwhile, you will be neglecting the very things that are within your control that are worthy of desire.

So decide now that you are worthy of living as a full-grown man who is making progress, and make everything that seems best be a law that you cannot go against. And if you meet with any hardship or anything pleasant or reputable or disreputable, then remember that the contest is now and the Olympic games are now and you cannot put things off any more and that your progress is made or destroyed by a single day and a single action

I hope death overtakes me when I'm occupied solely with the care of my character, in an effort to make it passionless, free, unrestricted and unrestrained.

When man learns to understand and control his own behavior as well as he is learning to understand and control the behavior of crop plants and domestic animals, he may be justified in believing that he has become civilized.

The devil will let a preacher prepare a sermon if it will keep him from preparing himself.

Most of us know perfectly well what we ought to do; our trouble is that we don't want to do it.

In a democracy, citizens have to be self-disciplined, or the country goes down, defeated from within by moral rot.

How can I be angry and not sin?

Severe against others, he was most severe against himself. He resembled a Hebrew prophet He may be called a Christian Elijah.

First and foremost, the monk should own nothing in this world, but he should have as his possessions solitude of the body, modesty of bearing, a modulated tone of voice, and a well-ordered manner of speech. He should be without anxiety as to his food and drink, and should eat in silence.

A free man, when he fails, blames nobody.

Self-respect is the root of discipline: The sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself.