Quotes about Self-discipline

Remember that he who conquers himself is greater than the one who conquers a city.

But, in yourself, you said that you would write about these people ... and for once it would be written by some one who knew what he was writing of. But he would never do it, because each day of not writing, of comfort, of being that which he despised, dulled his ability and softened his will to work so that, finally, he did no work at all.

It is not enough to recognize what is right and true. One must control the impulse to do what is wrong and easy.

Self discipline is the ability to make yourself do something you don't necessarily want to do, to get a result you would really like to have.

First we make a choice. Then our choices make us.

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?

We don't drift in good directions. We discipline and prioritize ourselves there.

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.

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.

spiritual exercises whereby to conquer oneself, and order one's life, without being influenced in one's decision by any inordinate affection.

A pharisee is hard on others and easy on himself, but a spiritual man is easy on others and hard on himself.

When you abandon making choices, you enter the vast world of excuses.