Quotes about Self-discipline

I came to realize that if people could make me angry they could could control me. Why should I give someone else such power over my life?

Proverbs 16:32, which says that mightier is the man who can control his temper than the man who can conquer a city.

Make no excuses. Rationalize nothing. Blame no one. Humble yourself.

If anyone does not stumble in what he says, he is a mature man who is also able to control his whole body. James 3:2

God desires to change us from the inside out—renewing our minds, starving our self-destructive tendencies, and teaching us to form new habits.

Here's a rule of thumb for the thought life that will be a catalyst for victory in all parts of life: starve the flesh and feed the spirit.

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.