Quotes about Self-discipline

One writer I know tells me that he sits down every morning and says to himself nicely, It's not like you don't have a choice, because you do-- you can either type or kill yourself.

Here's a quote from ultramarathoner Dick Collins: Decide before the race the conditions that will cause you to stop and drop out. You don't want to be out there saying, "Well gee, my leg hurts, I'm a little dehydrated, I'm sleepy, I'm tired, and it's cold and windy." And talk yourself into quitting. If you are making a decision based on how you feel at that moment, you will probably make the wrong decision.

Enlightenment demands that you take responsibility for your way of life.

A man vows, and yet will not east away the means of breaking his vow. Is it that he distinctly means to break it? Not at all; but the desires which tend to break it are at work in him dimly, and make their way into his imagination, and relax his muscles in the very moments when he is telling himself over again the reasons for his vow.

Every man naturally persuades himself that he can keep his resolutions, nor is he convinced of his imbecility but by length of time and frequency of experiment.

Our power lies in remaining nonreactive.

An animal will conquer others. A Spirit-filled man conquers himself — self-discipline, self-control.

I have gained this by philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law.

Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to criticize others.

Let not man think he makes any progress in holiness who walks not over the bellies of his lusts.

Let not that man think he makes any progress in holiness who walks not over the bellies of his lusts.

Let [the youth be directed to something better than display, ambition, or self-indulgence. Bring them in contact with truer beauty, with loftier principles, and with nobler lives. Lead them to behold the One "altogether lovely.