Quotes about Self-discipline

For 24 years of my adult life, by choice I weighed well over 200 lbs. I say by choice because you see I have never accidentally eaten anything.

The discipline that is needed in our lives is the discipline that comes from within.

An interesting question these psychologists tend not to ask is why the muscle metaphor is apt. In other words, why is it that early successes at self-discipline lead to more successes, whereas early lapses lead to more lapses? If self-discipline is really good for the organism, you wouldn't expect natural selection to make it so easy for a few early lapses to destroy self-discipline. Yet there's no denying that a few injections of heroin can be the end of a productive life. Why?

man who lives under his own supervision, alone in the whole world

You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.

We all have to recognise - no matter how great our strength - that we must deny ourselves the licence to do always as we please.

Rule your feelings; don't let them rule you. When you get your mind going in the right direction, filled with thoughts of hope, faith, and victory, you'll drive away the discouragement, the discontentment.

A man who cannot control his temper is not very likely to control his passions, and no matter what his pretensions in religion, he moves in daily life very close to the animal plane.

Cultivate will power, that massive creative force that God the creator built into you. Do not let it remain flabby but strengthen it by use and exercise.

I'd be more frightened by not using whatever abilities I'd been given. I'd be more frightened by procrastination and laziness.

There is only one thing in life you can control: Your own effort.

Study to be quiet, and to do your own business.