Quotes about Self-discipline
You have absolute control over but one thing, and that is your thoughts. This is the most significant and inspiring of all facts known to man!
- Napoleon Hill
If you do not conquer self, you will be conquered by self. You may see at one and the same time both your best friend and your greatest enemy, by stepping in front of a mirror.
- Napoleon Hill
Every other animal responds to the call of sex only in "season." Man's inclination is to declare "open season.
- Napoleon Hill
Self-discipline begins with the mastery of your thoughts. If you don't control what you think, you can't control what you do. Simply, self-discipline enables you to think first and act afterward.
- Napoleon Hill
Freedom is not procured by a full enjoyment of what is desired, but by controlling that desire.
- Epictetus
When any fit of gloominess, or perversion of mind, lays hold upon you, make it a rule not to publish it by complaints.
- Samuel Johnson
"Worry" is a word that I don't allow myself to use.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
A leader is a person who has learned to obey a discipline imposed from without, and has then taken on a more rigorous discipline from within. Those who rebel against authority and scorn self-discipline -- who shirk the rigors and turn from the sacrifices -- do not qualify to lead.
- J. Oswald Sanders
When anger enters the mind, wisdom departs.
- Thomas a Kempis
We must master our good fortune or it will master us.
- Publilius Syrus
To conquer himself is the greatest victory that man can gain.
- Ignatius of Loyola
Men are anxious to improve their circumstances, but are unwilling to improve themselves; they therefore remain bound.
- James Allen