Quotes about Self-discipline
And success in any endeavor where self-discipline is involved boils down to this question: can you make yourself do something you don't particularly want to do in order to get a result you would like to have?
— Andy Andrews
We don't drift in good directions. We discipline and prioritize ourselves there.
— Andy Stanley
If you have a temper, now is the time to learn to control it. The more you do so while you are young, the more easily it will happen.
— Gordon Hinckley
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.
— Robin Sharma
spiritual exercises whereby to conquer oneself, and order one's life, without being influenced in one's decision by any inordinate affection.
— Ignatius of Loyola
A pharisee is hard on others and easy on himself, but a spiritual man is easy on others and hard on himself.
— AW Tozer
When you abandon making choices, you enter the vast world of excuses.
— Wayne Dyer
When you let go of your attention for a little while, do not think you may recover it whenever you please.
— Epictetus
The hardest victory is the victory over self.
— Aristotle
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.
— Donald Whitney
Self-respect is the fruit of discipline.
— Abraham Joshua Heschel
Must manage your thought life daily and then you can manage your life.
— John Maxwell