Quotes about Self-discipline

I've just come across this in the Imitation of Christ: Custodi diligenter cellam tuam, et custodiet te ('Take good care of your cell, and it will take care of you'). — May God keep us in faith.

Control your thoughts. Decide about that which you will think and concentrate upon. You are in charge of your life to the degree you take charge of your thoughts.

When you are tough on yourself, life is inevitably easy. When you are easy on yourself, life will be inevitably difficult.

There is only one person responsible for the quality of life you live and that person is you.

When angry, count to four; when very angry, swear.

If you can't control what you think, you will not be able to control what you do.

We all have dreams. But in order to make dreams come into reality, it takes an awful lot of determination, dedication, self-discipline, and effort.

Remember that he who conquers himself is greater than the one who conquers a city.

But, in yourself, you said that you would write about these people ... and for once it would be written by some one who knew what he was writing of. But he would never do it, because each day of not writing, of comfort, of being that which he despised, dulled his ability and softened his will to work so that, finally, he did no work at all.

It is not enough to recognize what is right and true. One must control the impulse to do what is wrong and easy.

Self discipline is the ability to make yourself do something you don't necessarily want to do, to get a result you would really like to have.

First we make a choice. Then our choices make us.