Quotes about Self-discipline
If our feelings control our actions, it is because we have abdicated our responsibility and empowered them to do so.
- Stephen Covey
It is better to err by excess of mercy than by excess of severity... Wilt thou become a Saint? Be severe to thyself but kind to others.
- St. John Chrysostom
Imagine your anger to be a kind of wild beast, because it has ferocious teeth and claws, and if you don't tame it, it will devastate all things even corrupting the soul.
- St. John Chrysostom
Don't lose your temper; use it.
- Dolly Parton
Do not allow your anger to control your reason, but rather your reason to control your anger.
- Nelson Mandela
Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody else expects of you, never excuse yourself.
- Henry Ward Beecher
Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anyone else expects of you. Never excuse yourself.
- Henry Ward Beecher
Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody expects of you. Never excuse yourself.
- Henry Ward Beecher
A man that does not know how to be angry does not know how to be good.
- Henry Ward Beecher
Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody else expects of you. Never excuse yourself. Never pity yourself. Be a hard master to yourself - and be lenient to everybody else.
- Henry Ward Beecher
High Standards for High Achievement.
- Les Brown
You may keep your beauty and your health, unless you destroy them yourself, or discourage them to stay with you, by using them ill.
- William Temple